July 2005
Tuesday, 26 July 2005
Tragedy of the Airport - Why you get stuck for hours at O’Hare
Calculating the True Price of Software: “For the open source movement, perhaps a better way to position the change that OSS is making is this: we’re converting warrants on future maintenance and enhancements into options, which means that instead of having a sole supplier (warrants), we have created a third-party market (options) of these derivatives.”
Thursday, 21 July 2005
How to learn from your mistakes: “Learning from mistakes requires three things:
- Putting yourself in situations where you can make interesting mistakes
- Having the self-confidence to admit to them
- Being courageous about making changes”
Monday, 11 July 2005
del.icio.us users can now tag bookmarks for my attention using the “for:faisal” tag.
Saturday, 9 July 2005
Calling an end to poverty: “It does seem strange for countries to say that telephone access is a public-policy goal, and then put special or punitive taxes on telecoms operators and users”