Google has recently announced the gmail themes.
I haven’t configured, set, selected any theme, so I guess I received the default.
So, how come the ads are invisible? Bad, bad design Google team.
Daewoo Logistics to lease half of Madagascar
From the Financial Times – In the world race for food crops, Daewoo has secured a 99 year lease of 1.3m hectares of farmland as countries are concerned about long-term supplies.
This is a bit scary, and the report also mentions this make create a “neo-colonial” system. What will happen in Madagascar when they get short in food supplies, when prices will Soar in Africa, but remain relatively low in Korea, thanks to these overseas farms.
Liar's Poker
One of my favorite financial books, or rather financial history book is Liar’s Poker written by Michael Lewis.
He recently wrote an article for Portfolio.com about the current financial crisis:
“n the two decades since then, I had been waiting for the end of Wall Street. The outrageous bonuses, the slender returns to shareholders, the never-ending scandals, the bursting of the internet bubble, the crisis following the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management: Over and over again, the big Wall Street investment banks would be, in some narrow way, discredited. Yet they just kept on growing, along with the sums of money that they doled out to 26-year-olds to perform tasks of no obvious social utility. The rebellion by American youth against the money culture never happened. Why bother to overturn your parents’ world when you can buy it, slice it up into tranches, and sell off the pieces?”
Jerry Yang's usage of lowecase letters
I don’t believe in these things, but found it quite funny:
“Smaller capital letters indicate lower self-confidence in handwriting”
Does it also apply when writing on a computer, what’s next, how strongly I punch the “G”?
Tami Kanazawa and Yuval Admoni performance
Tami Kanazawa and Yuval Admoni will perform this month in Einav Center Tel Aviv. They will perform Liszt pieces on two pianos.
Concert is on the 25th of November, at 20:30.
Poster below:
UQ selects Mformation to support Advanced Mobile WiMAX Service
UQ selected Mformation to provide Device Management activation and provisioning. When considering UQ Communications business plan of being an access provider to several MVNO, this plan and press release make a lot of sense. UQ would like people to buy WiMAX Mobile Subscribers without a contract, and then activate it online.
Their selection of Mformation was probably quite easy, as Mformation are without doubt the market leaders of Mobile WiMAX Device Management.
Was made redundant
Or “let go”, any other term you would like.
The sentences “reducing OPEX” and “I am afraid we have to let you go” are very different, though mean the same.
Looking forward as I have to decide if I want to move to Japan or not… a major decision!
Danger + Opportunity = Crisis
The Japanese Kanji depicting Crisis is made of two characters: Danger + Opportunity.
I have decided to use google trends and see which word is more popular. Turns out that Crisis is by far more popular than opportunity.
It seems people are more focused around the problems and dangers, not the opportunities … not really surprising.
Youtube Jukebox
Had an idea of implementing Youtube Jukebox using Youtube API. The idea is quite simple, based on a tag or a search word, the application will build a playlist and play it.
Alas, someone already implemented it… back to thinking of new innovative ideas.
Link to the JukeTube
Elon More Tours
Elon More is a settlement in the west bank, for more info you may refer to Peace Now website.
While driving yesterday to work, I have noticed a car which has the sign “Elon More Tours” on it, but it looks more like a Brinks secured car.
Do you want to take a trip in this secured car, and look out from these tiny windows?
