Monthly Archive for March, 2009

Tweets for week ending on 2009-03-28

  • @oreoferret Wait a minute, what are you doing in WY? #
  • Just used ChipIn to contribute to the recording of Sinch’s new album. Are there authors using the same model to avoid the publisher system? #
  • I had abstained from listening to music for the past 1+ weeks until today. I have no idea why. No idea how I lasted that long. #
  • @kylerow Stop knocking wawa coffee. It will always be delicious in my mind. Buy wawa coffee online! Yay: http://tinyurl.com/d83sgz #
  • @BenAtSite5 http://tinyurl.com/cxu6ly my response to question about what Site5 did poorly, led me to Dreamhost. in reply to BenAtSite5 #
  • Just noticed http://www.addthis.com/next – can’t wait to hear more about it from my friends at Clearspring/Addthis. #
  • @kylerow That may be your best chance to convince me to move to the suburbs now… #
  • I forgot the keys to the new house. I dragged Shaily to deliver the keys only to find out the repair guys didn’t bring a big enough ladder. #
  • Bollywood: The place where bad rappers go to get featured on songs. #

“The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS” by Elizabeth Pisani

Product DetailsDid not get a chance to finish this as the library called it back, but read the majority of the book from February  2009 till March 2009.

Pisani documents her travels and entrance into the world of “sex and drugs” as she puts it to find out about the spread of HIV through the late 1990s.  The story moves quickly and her writing style is enjoyable.  Her perspective is pragmatic and how she writes about “whipping up” the case for HIV to get funding from the rich countries and the difficulties in getting accurate results in developing countries.  There is lots of content mixed in with great stories about the sex habits in Indonesia, Singapore, among other places.

Enjoyable read considering I know nothing about epidemialogy.  Hope to get it again from the library soon and finish it off.

Read more about it and buy it from here. Find out more from Pisani’s site as well: http://www.wisdomofwhores.com.

A site reborn. rajatarya.com v2 is public

rajatarya website

This website, my website, is finally rebuilt and I’m happy with how it is built now and for the most part with how it looks.  There are always improvements to be made, but I am most happy with how I put this site together – like a software product – which should enable me to make a lot more changes rapidly in the future.  Please let me know what you think about the redesign in the comments.

In this post I will talk about what changes specifically have been made to the site, how it is reborn, and what plans I envision for it in the future.

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Tweets for week ending on 2009-03-21

  • Shaily and I signed closing papers today on our new townhome in the U-District neighborhood of Seattle. Moving in by end of the month, yay! #
  • @kylerow I’m jealous. Drink another for me. #

Reminder of why I love the Internet

boxee

I heart the discussion between Mark Cuban and Avner Ronen regarding the future of television content (see boxee blog » a lively debate with mark cuban).

As far as I can tell, they both are saying similar things, with Mark’s main distinction being that the cable/telcos are smart enough to realize that the ala carte television business will continue to grow – where Avner believes that TV on a schedule is a dying concept.

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Tweets for 2009-03-21

  • @kylerow I’m jealous. Drink another for me. #

Tweets for 2009-03-20

  • Shaily and I signed closing papers today on our new townhome in the U-District neighborhood of Seattle. Moving in by end of the month, yay! #

Tweets for 2009-03-14

  • Enabled duplex and stapled printing on my printer at work. Saving the environment, one printout at a time. #
  • @ahahn247 Depends on what age group the models are modeling for… #