On the day before thanksgiving Obama and family gave out food to the needy, and make an impromptu appearance at an elementary school. The amateur videos are here. (Audio is very poor.) More »
Monthly Archive for November, 2008
I do like my smoked salmon. One package that caught my eye was this “responsibly sourced” variety.Can’t go wrong with that, I thought, and bought it. Thinking about it later, the clear implication was that the rest of the packets contained irresponsibly caught fish, More »
If you haven’t seen this interview with Sarah Palin on a turkey farm, it’s worth seeing.
A couple of days ago we visited the site of our new office with our architects. Progress is good, and we are still on course for a February handover. I am really excited. More »
Sundays in Trivandrum are when I like to drop into the houses of our staff. Life here is simpler than in the west, and Sundays are usually spent at home with family and relatives who usually live nearby. I don’t like to give too much notice of my arrival, firstly so that they do not go to the trouble of preparing something special (according to local hospitality) and secondly because I am keen to see everyday life of our staff. Shan is my usual partner in crime, helping me find the houses, not always an easy task even when you have the address.
I have been searching for something to like about this man, but it ain’t easy.
It can’t be the 10th rate, bug-ridden, unsecure software he has unleashed on the world…
Nor can it be the billions he has collected from people including poor third world citizens who have to use Windoze (some of which money he is now handing back as charity, with no sense of irony)…
His looks perhaps? Clearly not…
Yesterday we were invited to the marriage of Shalini, a staff member at River Valley. The ceremony is very brief, and can easily be missed by the guests, which numbered around 1000, typical in Kerala weddings. The huge costs of this brief gathering is on the shoulders of the bride’s family!
A recent trend (I think it is recent) in the US is to use “oftentimes” for “often”. How this happened I don’t know, but is it not enough just to use “often”?
The White House in Washington DC was partly built by black slaves. I hope Barack Obama pays a tribute to them when he moves in there…
