Wednesday, April 20, 2005

India - China - USA

An interesting dynamics is emerging on the horizon of world politics.

Here are some links that corroborate this..

Asian giants help reshape our world

China and India are emerging as future superpowers, both independently and in unison in a few cases.

By JOSEPH S. NYE

''Courting New Delhi: Washington and Beijing Compete for Influence''

By Adam Wolfe

http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=290&language_id=1

Today's links..

Vibrant India keeps a traveler on his toes

Bruce Ramsey, Seattle Times.

A journalist’s travelogue ..

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002246356_rams20.html

For future escapades, I suggest he take a copy of the ‘Lonely Planet’ on India..

Letter From India: 100 million dialing out: That leaves 900 million

Amelia Gentleman, International Herald Tribune

India’s tele-density, the other side of the story..

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/20/news/letter.html

India makes tracks for the train

The fast-growing country upgrades its rail services to
meet travel demands, even as other infrastructure
lags.
-The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0420/p07s01-wosc.html

Sunday, April 17, 2005

got some time on you?

Then read this:

It's a Flat World, After All

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/03DOMINANCE.html

Don’t forget to see the video on the right under the Multimedia heading.

Friend's blog:

BRAD, a great friend from Australia has his blog at http://superbrudd.blogspot.com

Good stuff there mate!

Monday, April 04, 2005

Today's links

How To Build A Tin Can Waveguide WiFi Antenna


Curveball the Goofball

“As the commission's co-chairman, Laurence Silberman, put it: "Our executive order did not direct us to deal with the use of intelligence by policy makers, and all of us were agreed that that was not part of our inquiry."

Huh? That's like an investigation into steroids in baseball that looks only at the drug companies, not the players who muscled up.”

-Maureen Dowd, New York Times. Link here.