Apple, like Dell, recalled tons of Sony-manufactured laptop batteries. My G4 Powerbook had one of the lucky numbers. I should be getting a new battery in the mail in a few days. Perfect timing, my old battery was starting to not take a strong charge any more so we’re due for a new one anyhow. And the look of melted laptops from the unexchanged batteries is pretty sobering.
Month: September 2006 (Page 4 of 4)
Negotiation expert Adam Galinsky of the Kellogg School tells the secrets of eBay pricing to sell. Of any two identical items, the one with the lowest required opening bid ends up selling at the highest price.
Why? Low barrier to entry more easily gets committed bidders at the start. Later entering bidders prefer to enter auctions that already have a lot of activity and end up paying more.
Negotiations, he mentions, are just the opposite. There start higher to get your best price.
Johns Hopkins has set up their own instance of Lyceum, ibiblio developed open source group blogging environment, at http://blogs.jhu.edu/
Lyceum allows schools and groups to become their own blogger.com (or typepad or livejournal etc) quickly and easily. The open source nature of the code allows for maximum local customization and for sharing of new and improved features. Lyceum will support from 2 to 200,000 blogs (or more).
for more on Lyceum see http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/
Here’s a brief list of the folks and institutions that I visited in Dharamsala/McLeod Ganj that have some relationship with ibiblio:
Jigme Tsultrim
Tibetan Computer Resource Centre – Manager
website of the Tibetan government-in-exile (CTA)
Jigme Tsering
CTA Dept of Information and Intl Relations – media
Tibet TV Online
Lhakdor
Library of Tibetan Works and Archives – Director
Lobsang Rabsel
Contact Magazine – manager
Lobsang Wangyal
Reuters reporter, photojournalist
Lobsang Wangyal Productions, Miss Tibet Pageant,
MusicTibet Music Awards – Director
Association of Tibetan Journalists
Lsering Lhundup
CTA Dept of Home – field officer and web developer
website to come
Nawang
Louisiana Himalayan Assn (LHA)
Neil Guidry
Louisiana Himalayan Assn (LHA) – director
Penpa Tsering
CTA Dept of Education – field officer and web developer
Phuntsok Dorjee
Tibetan Technology Center – Director
Sanon Nyima
Louisiana Himalayan Assn (LHA)
Tashi Samphel
Lower TCV – computer teacher/administrator and programmer
Tenzin Norgay
Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy – UN Affairs
Tsering Yangkey
Tesi Environmental Awareness Movement – ecotibet
Tseyang
VolunteerTibet – Director
Yeshi Choesang
Khawa Karpo-Tibet Culture Centre (KTC) – Assistant Editor
Both Sri and Sayan claim that India has great coffee. They may be right. But I didn’t find it in Delhi inside my bubble in the Oberoi or the Taj Mahal. In the room I got Nescafe, but even the most pedestrian tea was of excellent quality compared to teas commonly available in the US. At the restaurants and the bars in these two five star hotels, the espresso wasn’t made from an espresso or French roast blend. It was either a mild roast or gawds help us from what tasted like freeze-dried stuff like Nescafe.
In McLeod Ganj, there were actual coffee shops – mostly there to deal with the tourists who were Israeli in majority. The coffee there was better than in Delhi, but by then I had become a tea drinker.
India and the Southern US has something in common when it comes to tea. We both like it sweet, very very sweet. The difference is the temperature. Indians drink hot tea; Southerners drink it cold. But we still like our tea to be as close to sugar syrup as possible.
On other fronts, former ibiblian Kyle aka Clark aka Beastie sends links to about 15 pages of photos covering his trans-Siberian trip. He found more Lenin statues that I found on my trip to Siberia.
I was in India during the monsoon season. In the areas in which I wa travelling that meant hard rain in the afternoon or most likely in the evenings and night. But not such a terrible thing to have happen. In the mountains there were washouts, but not like the stuff we see from hurricanes in NC.
Thanks to our friend Ernesto, I’ve seen more rain in the past 24 hours in NC than during my whole trip to India.
Kirk Ross at the Cape Fear Mercury has all kinds of details about Ernesto.
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