chapter four – my 30s
Imperialism, migration, travelling and life have been on my mind a fair bit this past week. Having watched The Last King of Scotland over the weekend, I revisited the plight of Asians (and Africans) in East Africa during the rule of Idi Amin. I’ve been fascinated with this period of history for some time now. [...]
The wife and I often get into a heated debate about how to solve the world’s problems. One such problem is war and violence. My take is that things like sport and business play a vital part in progress, and that politicking and government intervention isn’t enough. I was reminded about this as I read [...]
I was listening to the Stanford podcast of Stephanie Keller Bottom (of Nokia’s Innovent team) today and found myself sharing an experience with her. It wasn’t that we both have degree’s that aren’t really technology related even though we work in technology – although that is true. And it wasn’t the fact that we think [...]
I’m becoming a bit of a spreadsheet nerd. Whenever I have the opportunity to look at some numbers and do a bit of crunching I get a bit nervous with anticipation – nerdy, I know! Sometimes I won’t really need a spreadsheet but just love working and seeing the numbers work. When I was looking [...]
Fiddling around with WordPress – adding plug-ins, analytics, widgets etc – got me thinking about how much I’m enjoying having time to myself now. I’m rediscovering PHP, reading newspapers, magazines and books for fun and not for class. I’m socialising and catching up with people all over again. I was chatting with a couple of [...]
My name is Farhan. I hit 30 last year, finished my MBA last month and joined Yahoo last week – okay it was 5 weeks ago, what can I say I’m a sucker for patterns. I used to blog at vox, and while it was a useful blogging tool for someone who was working full [...]