Students Loans: Debt Peonage
Take a look at the following graph from the College Board's Trends site.
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What you'll notice is that the cost of attending a public 4-year college or unversity in 2011 was almost 4 times the cost in 1981--after adjusting for i...
More on why I’m excited about 2012
[This is a follow-up to the post I wrote late last night; thank you very much for your comments, Likes, RTs, +1s and Shares. Active and visible feedback is a great motivator, and helps me learn to write about the right things and in the right ways]. Where was I? Oh yes. Why am I...
A Mammoth Perspective
For the last three days I’ve been skiing at Mammoth Mountain, an 11,059-foot volcano built to its current shape between 110,000 and 57,000 years ago. It is still active. The mountain’s last eruption of rock and lava was about 1200 years ago, essentially in the geologic present. Lethal gasses burp out of fissures, and hot springs...
A Mammoth Perspective
For the last three days I’ve been skiing at Mammoth Mountain, an 11,059-foot volcano built to its current shape between 110,000 and 57,000 years ago. It is still active. Lethal gasses burp out of fissures, and hot springs push steam up through the snow. In 2006, three members of the ski patrol were killed by...
Why I’m excited about 2012
I don’t think I can remember a New Year’s Day when I’ve been more excited about the year to come. Let’s start with the political landscape. You all know about the year we’ve had, the long-standing governments that have tumbled, the despots and terrorists who are no more, the growth in measured nonviolent protest. It’s...
5 Why’s: A Different Take on the Current Economic Malaise
I found myself asking Five Whys about the current economic difficulties in the Euro zone and the world in general. The 4th question is the really hard one and one that I had not seen answered well anywhere. I suggest that even if you disagree with my a...
AT&T Are You Reading Your Own Emails???
When I upgraded to the iPhone 4S the day after Christmas (it was really an Apple Christmas in my household this year), I made the difficult decision to stick with AT&T. My experience with routinely dropped calls has been just as … Continue reading →
Into late 60s – early ’70s music? then try this:
I made this collage up for the previous post. Some of my favourite albums from that time. See how many you can guess without enlarging the photo.
Why customers are fundamentally unpredictable
Born in 1957, raised as part of a liberal and progressive family in Calcutta, schooled by the Jesuits from 1965-66 to 1978-79: there is much in my background to explain why I espouse many of the beliefs of the Sixties. It begins with my family and my faith; it manifests itself in how I’m passionate...
Big Data: It’s Not How Big It Is, It’s How You Use It
If you haven’t heard about Big Data this year, please tell me your secret. Tell me how you managed to avoid hearing about it. I want to know. Really. There are days when I want to be in a place like that. Desperately. For some time now we’ve been hearing about device proliferation. A classic...
Musing about SOPA
There’s a part of me that doesn’t want to write this post. The internet was not, and is not, solely a new distribution mechanism for Hollywood and for pockets of the music industry; but the power of these incumbents is immense in the Western world, and it is therefore possible, perhaps even likely, that bad...
OpenID Connect Implementer’s Draft Review
OpenID Connect is a simple identity layer built on top of OAuth 2.0. It enables clients to verify the identity of and to obtain basic profile information about an end-user. It uses RESTful protocols and JSON data structures to provide a low barrier to entry. The design philosophy behind OpenID Connect is “make simple things...
