This A.P. poll confirms it. America is full of impatient people that cannot wait 5 minutes in the grocery check out line or on hold.
I wonder if this impatience has anything to do with America’s technological advances and the standard of living!

This webpage has got to be the best potential opportunity advertisement I have ever seen on the Internet. Truly remarkable. There’s not much crap, is straight to the point, tells the student that the company has something great going for it, and most importantly, tells a lot about their work culture in very few words.
Which software engineer/developer/architect/designer doesn’t like to spend long hours toiling in front of the computer at the wee hours of the morning? This company offers the promise of that sweet self-inflicted torture along with the benefit …

I just came across this interesting news article on MSNBC that blames textbooks for America’s downtrend in technological and scientific leadership at the global level. The article goes on to say that textbooks in American schools are too thick, archaic, and politically motivated. All sounds good until the article mentions that one of the reasons why India is doing so great in the knowledge and service economy is because of the good textbooks and school systems.
I have studied at Government schools for the most crucial years of my pre-college …

What’s different about this post is that although it is being composed on my laptop, the Internet connectivity is provided by my cellphone. I have to admit, the feeling of being able to surf the Internet wherever your cellphone takes you is very nice. I have actually never used my phone’s GPRS (it doesn’t support the faster EDGE) capabilities to do anything more than use Google Local on it, or periodically check my emails while on the move/highway.
The setup using my Sony Ericsson S710a software was pretty straightforward, and once …

I was reading the latest issue of FirstMonday, when I came across an interesting statistic. Apparently, approximately 60 million Americans use search engines to find information on the Internet every day. Nothing wrong with that, you say. But, how’s this for another statistic; there are about 204 million Internet users in America! This is about 68% of the total population.
So, where do the rest 144 million Americans go for information on the Internet? Now, this statistic could mean a few things:
1. Most Americans don’t use the Internet daily!
2. Most Americans …