Buy my book. Tom Friedman uses his NYT column to plug his book.

But it does contain a joke I hadn't heard before (and I sure everyone else has already).

B2B, B2C

1999: Business to business, Business to consumer

2001: Back to banking, Back to consulting

2005: Back to Bangalore, Back to China  ¶ 11:29 AM 0 comments

  Careful when you fly... DVT ain't just for "other people" and it can throw a serious wrench in your return flight plans. So drink lots of water, take an aspirin, and get up once in a while on your flights...  ¶ 7:49 PM 0 comments

  Rant at Mr, Softee Some MSFT guy over at Mini-Microsoft has some interesting things to say...  ¶ 6:48 PM 0 comments

  Spam Stocks Just for laughs, I started keeping an online portfolio of all the penny stocks I receive spam touting, with a purchase price of wherever the stock is trading when I get the spam.

As of today, it's down 68%.  ¶ 8:53 PM 1 comments

  I am a sheep By blogging the amusing April 1 self-parody Google Gulp (on Blogger no less) from those clever millionaires in Moutain View, I reveal myself to be a total sheep, mindlessly approving of whatever those super-cool "Don't be evil" guys do. Which is, in a not very subtely meta way, part of the joke.

Wheels within wheels within obviousness.

But I still thought it was kind of funny.   ¶ 2:09 PM 0 comments

  "Justice is Served" --- It's a cookbook! Well, I guess the taxpayers got their $40 worth. I sat in a institutional waiting room all morning, went out for a gyros and some reading material from the used bookstore at lunch, checked my email a couple of times from the public temrinal, had a few calls on my mobile, and got dismissed at 3:45.

Let freedom ring.  ¶ 5:06 PM 0 comments

  From the Halls of Justice -- Brooklyn Style! So I'm on jury duty today, but oddly, there are two public terminals here in the jury duty waiting room, or as it's known, "The Juror's Lounge." I'd like to open a bar with that name someday. Well, not really.

I actually got a "Judicial Court Hearing" subpoena, which gives you another 2 month extension if you want it (after you haul your ass down to the court house at 8:45 AM to prove you're not a total deadbeat, and thus eligible for an arrest warrant for contempt). But since I was here anyway and had already blocked off the whole day, I figured I'd get it over with. Of course, in Brooklyn, it's a two-day, 9-to-5 commitment (it's only one day in Boston, and they let you go after dismissing you from a jury), so here I am. I don't know what the time limit is on this public terminal, but for now, this isn't that different from telecommuting. Just noisier, less convenient, and worse lighting.

More later, if the opportunity presents itself....  ¶ 10:35 AM 0 comments