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Recently, I had this discussion around the issue of qualification for a software developer. Indian IT services companies often issue recruitment ads asking for first class engineers from the best colleges in India. Notably the IITs. That was how some of the companies started. Then they climbed down, going to the best non IIT colleges. Then they climbed down and now almost any engineer with a first class can make it through to most companies.
There are many other companies who ask for best in class graduates. Some companies prefer NIIT graduates - who are not engineers, though many of them are engineers too.
Really, what is the level of qualification required to be a software developer? This is a funny question if you ask me, since it is like asking what qualification do you require to be a driver. To be a driver, you need no qualification. If you are an MA or a M Ed, well, good luck to you but that has no bearing on whether you get a driving licence or not. As long you can drive a vehicle well and convince the RTO inspector that you can, you get a licence and you can drive.
To be a coder, is exactly like that. In India many people (and companies) make us believe that you need a science background to learn coding. It is like asking for mechanical engineers when what you really want are drivers.
I have some of my friends as young as 8th standard who have waded knee deep into coding. I know of some who have created small tools and other patches even before they cleared their class Xth exams. I know of accountancy grads who are experts in coding/hacking. One of the guys who studied with me had created his own game - and he was not even a graduate - his dad has passed him a defunct PC which he had made good use of. Qualification - well nothing. Except that they loved doing what they did.
Google Jam is a step in the right direction. I wish service companies in India too tried and picked up geeks this way rather than a traditional formal-tie interview process. These are the geeks who will create more code juice and innovate - they may not follow coding standards though and geeks oten come with their own idiosyncracies - which service industries hate. But Google and Microsoft? They love 'em.
The highly qualified educated coder who gets into the IT service industry today wants to "get out of coding" even as he sets foot in the industry - with the result that the industry is filled with (generally) low technical skills. The industry also "rewards" good coders with management positions with the result that they lose their technical skills and that is often seen as the only way to grow in the firm. (That last part is changing though the hiring is still done the old way.)
One point here is that good educational qualifications (ranging from any graduation to post graduation or an MBA) help in assessing whether a potential employee can create documentation, processes - but thats not the same as coding. What IT service companies do need is a mixture of low to medium end coding skills at the entry level followed by good communication, presentation and documentation skills at the next levels. Honestly, you need neither first class engineers nor first class graduates at the entry level in an IT service company. You do need a high level of presentation skills, negotiation skills, strategic thinking at a managerial level and beyond.
Coming back, coding is a fair bit about self interest, which is about the geek - someone who lives, talks and breathes code - and nobody can teach you to do that (not for code, not for music, not for blogging). This is for those whom computers (or central excise or dance) is a passion.
The other part is around technical training, which is for the NIITs and their ilk to milk. The engineering colleges should really get out of creating newer engineering streams for Information Technology (IT - this thing sells like crazy) and focus on creating engineers not coders.
Make no mistake, the uber technical chaps are highly regarded, paid as much as (if not far better -look at any core tech companies payscales) than uber domain guys and there will always be a continuous demand for technology professionals at all levels. And, once again, it does not matter what qualification you have as long as you have a licence to drive (or code).
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Of geeks and coders
Recently, I had this discussion around the issue of qualification for a software developer. Indian IT services companies often issue recruitment ads asking for first class engineers from the best colleges in India. Notably the IITs. That was how some of the companies started. Then they climbed down, going to the best non IIT colleges. Then they climbed down and now almost any engineer with a first class can make it through to most companies.
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- 11:59 PM, October 03, 2006
- Prasanth said...
You raised a pertinent point about "good coders getting promoted to managers". It happened to me. I love coding but once I became a "manager" I hardly code at work (though I do in my spare time). The issue is, Indian companies do not have a well laid out career path for "coders" as it is considered an "entry level" or "junior level" activity.
- 12:23 AM, October 04, 2006
- Rangachari Anand said...
A very nice post! I took my current job at IBM research explictly in order to get time to write code. There are a few places where you don't get penalized for wanting to actually build things :-)
- 2:22 AM, October 04, 2006
I agree with some parts of your post... but not wholly. The whole point behind a whole formal interview and such process is that you need someone presentable and someone who has the right aptitude to become a coder. That is why the puzzle-solving and such stuff come into the picture: the better you are at these: the better the chances of you being a good coder in the future. Companies like Google and Microsoft can do with the idiosyncratic variety of coders, but not any random software & consulting company.
On the whole I liked the analogy of the drivers and such stuff :)
- 8:00 AM, October 05, 2006
Bingo, ur post is right on the spot. There is absolutely no connect between your educational qualifications and your ability to code(especially in context of a service industry). I have no idea why the companies could not recruit much much cheaper coders by means of online exams of the Google Jam/SAT kind, right after high school.
- 9:37 AM, October 05, 2006
- prope//er said...
Once in an interview some 10 years ago, Steve Jobs said of Microsoft,
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, and what that means is - I don't mean that in a small way I mean that in a big way. In the sense that they they don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their product and you say why is that important. Well, you know proportionally spaced fonts come from type setting and beautiful books; that's where one gets the idea. If it weren't for the Mac they would never have that in their products and so I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success - I have no problem with their success, they've earned their success for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third rate products.
A number of Steve Jobs employees were poets who were also computer scientists. Writers who were graphic designers. This is why mac is what it is.
Here is Steve Jobs about design:
Steve Jobs: Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don't take the time to do that.
So you see, creating software is not just about coding but looking at the big picture. If software has class, it will show up. What we have going on in BPO sector is that people are being passionate and they don't have to be passionate. They are simply given the class, sequence diagrams and asked to code a bunch of JSPs displaying data from a Mainframe or some Oracle database. When people are forced simply to do x,y,z, there is no incentive to look at the larger picture or what the application is about and why one is even writing the application.
By that rationale, creating any kind of software requires skill and class. Writing bits and pieces does not. Earlier, when the demand was high, they chose to select the so called best of the crop and they went to the IITs. You would see boatloads of IITs getting recruited at TCS etc and at that time those guys thought they were gods. Six years later, a grad with MCA and a decent grade probably makes more money and gets promoted than the IIT grad at TCS 6 years ago. The point I am trying to make is that our educational qualifications do matter. For example, one would be 100 times much better at coding if one clearly understands how compilers and operating systems work. But to acquire that knowledge, one need not be from IIT. That does not mean, everyone out there knows completely about compilers and Operating systems. You need good technical education, read some great literature, and be passionate.
Someone rightly said, "code is poetry."
- 8:24 PM, October 05, 2006
- prope//er said...
small correction... The sentence, "What we have going on in BPO sector is that people are being passionate" should have read as "What we have going on in BPO sector is that people are NOT being passionate even if they want to"
To add, please note that we are in the software services sector, anytime, you hear services, you provide services in exchange for money, you do not have the freedom to be creative because the solution may not require you to be creative at a larger level. Had you been writing a product on your own or writing code for opensource, it would be a different. However, our brethren are so screwed @ 12 to 14 hours a day that they don't really have time to think about what they like and what they want to do with their skills rather than simply making money for the employer.
- 8:30 PM, October 05, 2006
- Varun said...
Take 1000 random engineers and 1000 random accountancy grads. Which bunch will have more number of better, more easily trainable coders?
The examples that you have quoted about your 8th Standard ubergeek and your accountant friend are rare exceptions than the norm.
- 11:28 PM, October 05, 2006
- Neelakantan said...
//, Varun
The point I am trying to make is that the qualification aspect is overrated when you have to work in the IT services industry. But if you need to, say, create a product, you need your share of maverick coders.
The other point I am trying to make is that having said that qualification is overrated, companies can fish for talent across the spectrum of qualifications.
- 7:43 AM, October 06, 2006
- prope//er said...
The point I am trying to make is that the qualification aspect is overrated when you have to work in the IT services industry. But if you need to, say, create a product, you need your share of maverick coders.
---> I disagree. I believe that irrespective of services or product development, people need to feel empowered and creative to generate the best output. Currently, the Satyams, TCS', Infosys' all treat their IT workers as skill for some change and not as creative people. That is not good.
The other point I am trying to make is that having said that qualification is overrated, companies can fish for talent across the spectrum of qualifications.
---> Agreed.
- 11:46 PM, October 07, 2006
I started it as a comment to your post. But instead made a separate post in my blog. Check it out at
Came here from DP.
- 12:27 AM, October 10, 2006
- Freudian Slip said...
There seems to be more and more of a need for management. My friend was also promoted from a coder to a manager. He misses coding though!
- 2:16 PM, October 10, 2006
- Ankit said...
Just came across your blog ....I just recently appeared for placements this season(I belong to IIIT,Allahabad).Well most of the Indian based companies(I got in TCS) are not even asking coding questions anymore.My tech interview lasted 3-4 min.They are literally taking anybody who they can find.Their only emphasis is on personality and communication skills .Some companies like Induslogic do emphasis solely on tech perspective.They are even relaxed on formal interviews.The next thing is that most of the students in good colleges are looking for jobs in high end product companies like MS,Yahoo etc.No one from my college is planning to go to TCS,Infy etc whatever maybe the package
- 7:14 PM, October 14, 2006
The Indian IT revolution so far is based on cost advantage.Cheap labor and the first mover advantage got us this far.What we need is more product companies from india to move to the next level.Working in a product environment is lot different than services play.You will have a mix of talent and question of coders nirvana do not arise
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bbatten needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 29 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
We currently have a How to Swarm graphic on our website that can be seen on our homepage at eSwarm.com. We are looking for new ideas for the four images we have now that represent the four steps.
Pleasedesign four new images to represent the four steps in the How to Swarm graphicon the homepage at eSwarm.com.
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Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran threw down the gauntlet to those who would reopen the 2002 farm bill, saying he would fight any efforts to make changes in farm bill payment limits.
Speaking at the National Cotton Council's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Cochran said he will "work as hard as I can to oppose any changes" in the rules limiting farm program payments.
His comments appeared to put him on a collision course with Bush administration officials, who reportedly were considering new payment limitations as part of agriculture's contribution to achieving the president's goal of cutting the federal deficit in half before the end of the decade.
Reports in Washington said the president's fiscal 2006 budget proposal, which was expected to be released Feb. 7, would include changes in the eligibility requirements for Commodity Credit Corp. loan rate and counter-cyclical payment programs, extension of the Milk Income Loss Contract program at a lower rate and reductions in limitations on farm program payments.
"We always know there's a threat of lower levels of payments to producers from some in the Congress," said Cochran, who recently became chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee after serving as chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
Cochran didn't mention names but could have been referring to Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., who have led several attempts to apply stricter payment limitations to farm programs.
"This farm bill is working as it was designed to work and payments are going down because prices are going up, and I will continue to work as hard as I can to oppose any changes in the farm bill payment limits to producers," said Cochran.
The statement drew a sustained round of applause from members of the seven segments of the cotton industry attending the meeting. Of the major commodities, cotton and rice appear to have the most to lose from tighter payment limits because of higher input costs for those crops.
Washington sources say administration officials are still discussing where the budget axe will fall on farm programs, but that they are working toward a goal of $15 billion in savings over the next 10 years.
Grassley has said his new payment regulations would save from $1 billion to $2 billion in farm program spending over the remainder of the 2002 farm bill, which is scheduled to expire in 2007.
In his speech to its members, outgoing Chairman Woody Anderson said the NCC will continue to fend off efforts to change the 2002 farm bill and payment limit rules, in particular.
"The Council's biggest and most consistent battle since passage of 2002 farm legislation has been protecting it against attacks from those who want to dismantle it, especially its cotton provisions," said Anderson, a producer from Colorado City, Texas.
"As usual, the program had to be protected from efforts to single out agriculture for disproportionate cuts as Congress wrestled with a worsening budget deficit. There were the usual efforts to impose stricter payment limits. And, as always, there were media attacks on the cotton program, driven by continuing, misleading allegations of the Environmental Working Group."
Anderson said there will be no shortage of challenges for agriculture and cotton in the coming year, but that Cotton Council leaders will be joining Cochran and other farm-state senators in a fight for a "fair and equitable budget for agriculture."
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As might be expected, there are some good examples of films and videos about shipping and maritime subjects in the WFSA collections. Southampton and the Solent are renowned for liners, yachts, ferries, merchant ships and smaller power craft, as well as being the centre for shipbuilding activities in the region. The port of Southampton is well represented in collections from Associated British Ports, British Transport Films, and Southampton City Council. Particular shipping lines are represented by the well-known firms of Cunard (mainly 1960s onwards) and Union-Castle, as well as the ferry companies Red Funnel and Hythe-Southampton. Merchant Navy crews are the subject of films by the British Sailors Society, whilst modern sailing ship activities are covered by the Jubilee Sailing Trust.
There are now many commercial videos containing maritime archive footage as well as modern subjects, and WFSA has acquired a number of these. Plenty of amateur and semi-professional maritime films also exist, notably Cunarders at Southampton (1950), and Southampton, Octobre 10, 1930, produced by an unknown Frenchman who visited the port that day. Noteworthy amateur footage can be viewed in the Bealing, Campbell, and Barrington-Smith collections. The Densham collection contains sound recordings about ships and shipping.
Two ships with strong local links are the Mary Rose and the Titanic. WFSA holds all of the unedited BBC film footage of the raising of the former, on behalf of the Mary Rose Trust. There is no known film of the latter ship at Southampton, but WFSA does hold a film copy of her at Belfast prior to the maiden voyage in 1912.
Ship building is a major local activity, which is represented in collections like Vosper Thornycroft, British Powerboat Company (Scott-Paine), and British Maritime Technology, although the latter is more concerned with prototype testing of merchant vessels and hovercraft at Hythe, prior to construction. Boat building and testing is also featured, notably with regard to Fairey Marine of Hamble.


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Simon Gregory needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 95 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
I need help coming up with a logo for my "Venture Accelerator" workshops (which target getting early stage companies off the ground rapidly).
Venture Accelerator
The logo must have a professional "feel" and may have some sort of progression theme (eg. accelerating forwards; upward trend etc) - non compulsory though. Use your imagination
The full brand is "Growth Consultants' Venture Accelerator", but the "Venture Accelerator" part should be the focus - "Growth Consultants" may be in smaller text.
You might elect to use a phrase like "Getting your business moving ... fast" although I'm in two minds as to whether this is too wordy. If you can make it work then great.
I had an idea for a logo in mint green, with the "V" in Venture coming out of an upward trending "stock price" line, with the "V" taking up two lines and "Accelerator" appearing below "enture" (if you see what I mean ...)
This is only an idea, and I'm also very keen to see alternatives. I imagine you guys are far better than me at coming up with this sort of thing
Many thanks in advance for your efforts!
- No specific requirements for colour theme, style etc although see suggestions above for ideas.
- Must be professional and appropriate to the business
- Please avoid unnecessary clutter or over complication
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TOKYO (Reuters) - All Nippon Airways (9202.T), the Japanese launch customer for Boeing Co's (BA.N) 787, flew its first Dreamliner in more than three months on Sunday to test reinforced batteries installed by the U.S. aircraft maker.
The ANA flight was the second by an airline since aviation regulators on Friday gave permission for 787 operations to restart after batteries on two of them overheated in mid January. One was on an ANA plane in Japan and another on a Japan Airlines (9201.T) jet parked at Boston's Logan airport.
Ethiopian Airlines ETHA.UL on Saturday became the world's first carrier to resume flying Dreamliner passenger jets since the global fleet was grounded three months ago, carrying passengers to neighboring Kenya from Ethiopia.
The ANA flight, with company president Shinichiro Ito and Boeing's chief of commercial aircraft, Ray Conner, among those on board, left Tokyo's Haneda airport at 8:59 a.m. local time. It returned without incident at 10:54 a.m., a spokesman for the airline said.
ANA plans at least 230 test flights through May before resuming commercial operations. In addition to the battery fix approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the United States, Japan's Civil Aviation Bureau has requested its airlines monitor the battery current while the jet is in the air and inspect used batteries.
ANA owns 17 of the 50 Dreamliners, which have been grounded since mid January, while local rival JAL has seven of the carbon composite aircraft in its fleet.
JAL will start test flying its Dreamliners early next month with the aim of returning to normal operation in June. Neither Japanese carrier, which on Tuesday will release their earnings results for the three months that ended March 31, have said how much the 787 grounding has cost them in lost revenue.
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July 9, 2004
Game Master Greg Shaheen introduces 2004 Labbies to the fundamentals of production.
The program was started more than 30 years ago by faculty in the Wabash economics and speech departments. It has morphed over the years into its current format of about 50 students spending a week on campus in what amounts to a summer camp of the mind.
Economics professor Bert Barreto spearheads the program with able-bodied help from OLAB veteran Greg Shaheen and English professor Tobey Herzog. The trio gets assistance from a half-dozen counselors and various Wabash faculty and staff, who will put the "Labbies" through a rigorous and stimulating week of discussions, lectures, workshops, and exercises.
The program essentially compresses about a semester's worth of college business, public relations, and marketing courses into a week. Imagine being 17 years old and thinking you're going to summer camp, only to realize that you'll work from 7:30 in the morning until 11 p.m. every day!
The Labbies grow to love the rigor and challenge of the program, especially after they are broken up into teams that become companies that market a product—a hand-held organizer that each company can customize with a range of features, real and imagined. The companies then begin to compete in a business game simulation complete with tough accounting problems; issuing stocks; setting and adjusting pricing to maximize profits; developing marketing and advertising campaigns; and the toughest of all challenges, a real labor negotiation.
Forty-six high school seniors are attending OLAB at Wabash.
Barreto teaches economics and runs the business simulation. Shaheen, who in real life used to serve as Chief Operating Officer for Long Electric Company and now works in a senior position with the NCAA, brings reality to the simulation. Shaheen can and does present information to the students on what it's really like to run a company—keeping costs down, wages up, and delivering stock dividends to shareholders.
Labbies listen intently to Shaheen's discussion of production.
Throughout the week, the Labbies make speeches and presentations. They also make some of the best friends they'll ever have. There is plenty of time for socializing, relaxing, and getting to know new people.
It's the perfect mix of tough academic work and social time that results in a one-of-a-kind camp experience.
Best of all, the entire program is free for the students who enroll. Wabash Advancement officers have solicited foundations, corporations, and business people throughout the state who donate money to allow the students to attend.
Sponsors of the 2004 OLAB program include the Carmel Rotary Club; D.J. Angus-Scientech Educational Foundation; Eugene and Marilyn Glick Foundation Corporation; John B. Goodrich Charitable Trust; Indianapolis Power and Light; Lithonia Hi-Tek Lighting Group; James D. Price; Union Federal Savings and Loan Association; Indiana Sports Corporation; and the Benjamin A. Rogge Fund.


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Endocrine glands, which are special groups of cells, make hormones. The major endocrine glands are the pituitary, pineal, thymus, thyroid, adrenal glands, and pancreas. In addition, men produce hormones in their testes and women produce them in their ovaries.
Hormones are powerful. It takes only a tiny amount to cause big changes in cells or even your whole body. That is why too much or too little of a certain hormone can be serious. Laboratory tests can measure the hormone levels in your blood, urine, or saliva. Your health care provider may perform these tests if you have symptoms of a hormone disorder. Home pregnancy tests are similar - they test for pregnancy hormones in your urine.
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Fragments Of War
Fighting the Fires of Hate
Odegaard Undergraduate Library and Commons
first and second floor display areas
January 1 - February 28, 2007
Numerous acts of censorship that took control of the German book market during World War II are presented in an exhibit sponsored by the Washington State Holocaust Resource Education Center. TheFighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings exhibit is on loan from the Unites States Holocaust Museum. This exhibition focuses on how the book burnings became a potent symbol during WWII in America's battle against Nazism, and concludes by examining their continued impact on our public discourse.
Hear Deborah Jacobs, City Librarian, deliver opening remarks at a reception for the exhibit "Fighting the Fires of Hatred; America and the Nazi Book Burnings" Sunday, January 7, at 2:00 p.m. in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, room 220. Guests are encouraged to tour the exhibit which includes 4 audio-visual panels featuring historical footage, displayed on the first and second floors of the library.
Thursday, February 22, 2007, 7:00 - 9:00 PM Odegaard Library, Univ. of Washington, Seattle Guest Speaker: Stephen Feinberg, Director of National Outreach, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Dell Takes More Steps into Linux
Dell Plots Its Roadmap
Dell, a long-time member of the Wintel camp, has started taking more steps into Linux, often hand-in-hand with various software partners. Outside of splashier deals with the likes of Red Hat, Oracle, and SAP in North America, Dell' has more quietly started selling SUSE Linux and Red Flag distributions on other continents. Meanwhile, Dell's been working with developers of all sizes on several Linux projects.
This week, Dell and SAP rolled out a new services program, in which the two companies will help big enterprises to outfit their Dell servers with SAP software. A few weeks ago, Dell and Oracle announced plans to package Dell servers with Oracle databases.
Dell is also running a couple of Linux-specific Web sites: a public site at http://www.dell.com/linux, and a developer's site, called Dell Linux Community Web, at http://linux.dell.com .
Yet in contrast to some larger OEMs, which have embraced Linux faster and even more fully, Dell has traditionally viewed itself as a hardware specialist, many analysts say.
"Dell hasn't been seen in the same category as IBM, HP, SGI, or Sun, which have all put in lots of effort to help move Linux ahead," says Dan Kusnetsky, an analyst at IDC. Over time, though, Dell seems to have started seeing more value in moving toward "soups-to-nuts" Linux solutions, according to Kusnetsky.
When Dell does move into a new area, it's always with a business reason in mind, Kustnetsky says. Generally, Dell is attracted to "large volume markets." Now, though, Dell is working with partners to pursue two- and four-processor Linux servers, a "small but very significant market."
True to form, Dell CEO Michael Dell used the forum of this week's Dell/SAP announcement to point out some of the high-growth areas for his company, at the moment: enterprise services and Windows- and Linux-based servers.
During a press conference, Dell contended that enterprises are "tired of being locked into proprietary servers."
"Unix will continue to lost market share," he predicted, pointing to charts claiming lower TCO for two- and four-way Intel-based systems than for RISC-based servers from IBM and HP.
In making announcements at Linux shows and other industry events, Dell tends to share the stage with its large ISV partners.
"Dell and SAP share a vision. We see the enterprise rapidly evolving to this type of (server) world," the Dell CEO said at this week's press event.
Dell's tone was reminiscent of remarks at another press conference, held about a year ago, in which Dell and Oracle rolled out Linux- and Windows-based server clusters.
At the earier press event, Dell contended that the Oracle clusters would "edge out proprietary niche systems." He also credited Linux as "the fastest-growing operating system."
Dell, Oracle and Red Hat caught mutual attention way back during LinuxWorld 2002 by launching a set of professional services for Linux. Also that year, Oracle joined Dell and Red Hat's One Source Alliance.
At this point, though, Dell is moving a bit beyond its long-time alliance with Red Hat to sell SUSE Linux in Europe and the Red Flag distribution in China -- parts of the world where Red Hat is not distributed, anyway.
A Dell spokesperson attributed Dell's sales of the non-Red Hat distributions to customer demand for those products in those particular parts of the world.
But Dell is working with smaller Linux ISVs, too, a spokesperson contended. Geared to users of all distributions, not just Red Hat, the Dell Linux Community Site includes sections on Linux projects; RAID and storage; hardware monitoring; distributions; and desktops and laptops.
In one forum on the site, people can get advice from other users about installing Linux on laptops.
"Dell also has a way of satisfying customers who are interested in loading Linux on other alternative OS on their Dell systems," according to the spokesperson. On Dell's "n Series" machines, "the hard drive is blank, allowing customers to install the OS of their choice."
"Dell has been depending on developers to help do the work needed to support its hardware on Linux distributions. Largely, this has succeeded," observed IDC's Kusnetsky.
Dell's current projects with other developers include Devlabel, for dynamically creating symbolic links to disk/partition names; Efibootmgr, a Linux user-space application for modifying the Intel Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Boot Manager.; Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS); and Bios Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) 3.0.
However, unlike HP, for instance, Dell doesn't look likely to start supporting Linux desktops through its professional services programs any time soon.
"In 2002, Linux's share of the desktop market was only about 8 percent. The 2003 number isn't likely to be much higher than that. This isn't a large enough market for Dell to pay that much attention to," according to Kusnetsky.
Dell is still pursuing the Linux market on the enterprise side only, the Dell spokesperson acknowledged.


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Thursday, March 01, 2012
Shelly Glover Is On Fire!
During Question Period in the House, Shelly gave them a excellent dressing down. I just wish she would have included the lefty media in her lecture.
Then Sun New's David Akin had her on his show. She continued to present her points, even though Akin tried to trip her up. He tried to make his questions appear balanced, but they weren't. He has a faint whiff of lefty dirty shoes about him. It didn't matter because Shelly excelled at answering his skewed questions. She came out smelling like a rose.
Shelly is also responsible for helping to get rid of the gun registry. She deserves to be promoted to a Minister. I would like to see her take on the CBC! Now that would be a fight to watch.
The opposition/media is stating that the Conservatives got the wrong company, and the Liberals didn't use a US firm, but that isn't the issue. The issue is, after a week of the NDP and Liberals yapping about calls, they have NO PROOF that it was a Conservative that did it, or that the Conservative party had anything to do with it.There is proof that a Liberal was responsible for smearing the reputation of Toews, but that was shoveled out the door by the media as fast as shit through a goose.
It is a clear and eye opening picture of how the Conservative haters band together and use any tactic they can to try and bring this democratically elected government down. It is a smear job, but lefties are good at those.
We now see the bottom feeders like Council of Canadians trying to stir up trouble. Good luck with that lefties. I hope you spend thousands of dollars to fight this fake battle, because you obviously have nothing better to spend it on, like helping the homeless that you all cry about.
Meantime Dalton is killing Ontario with his green agenda, and not a disparaging word is heard from the lefties. I'm actually glad that he got re-elected, because he has to try and fix the mess that he created, and after 8 years in power, he has no one to blame but himself.....oh and Alberta! DUH!
19 comments:
- maryT said...
Wonder how Pat Martin would react if Adam Caroll had published documents re his divorce. I heard it was a very messy affair. If he was that angry all the time at home, she had good reason to kick him out. Does he really live in BC. because she got the house.
- Friday, March 02, 2012 12:18:00 AM
- Brrr said...
Shelly is my MP, and I've volunteered on both of her campaigns. She is the straightest shooter I've ever seen in politics, the only one who has inspired me to say, "yes, I'll walk door to door with you, and yeah, I'll hang out at a polling station on election day and watch that the vote is done fairly."
I'd like to see her in a cabinet position for sure, but I think she's much better suited to Public Safety or Justice. Her pet project is the YCJA. As a police officer, she's seen the revolving door young offenders go through, and making that much tougher is a big reason why she got into politics at all.
Wherever they put her, she definitely should be one of the CPC's higher profile ministers. Besides the fact that she'd be great at the job, the optics are great too: A bilingual woman of aboriginal heritage who got the job because she deserves it, not because of some quota.
- Friday, March 02, 2012 4:43:00 AM
- liberal supporter said...
Another finely crafted smear of all who would dare to disagree with you. Well done, hunter!
- Friday, March 02, 2012 6:46:00 AM
- Gerald said...
To liberal supporter...34 seats,and Rae for a leader,what a joke.The CPC has 11 peace officers,an aboriginal Health Minister,the first Japanese MP etc.,etc.,etc.,and what beautiful ladies in the CPC.Lieberals are a bunch of whiners.Being defeated by a bunch of NDPPQ from Quebec that nobody had even heard about.Cry me a river,get over it,as you're in the wilderness for a long long time.
- Friday, March 02, 2012 7:16:00 AM
- Calgary Junkie said...
Shelly is a real straight shooter. She was in Calgary West a couple of years ago, speaking at a fund-raising breakfast set up by Rob Anders.
Unfortunately for her, she lives in Manitoba, which Harper seems to have politically decided should only get one Minister--Vic Toews for now. She is obviously very talented, given that she is now P.S. to Flaherty in Finance.
Manitobans should be proud to have four inspiring, hard working female MPs--Shelly, Candice Hoeppner on the gun registry, Joy Smith on human trafficking, and the new kid on the block, Joyce Bateman, who is helping out on the public safety file.
- Friday, March 02, 2012 7:36:00 AM
- CanadianSense said...
What else can we expect from sore losers who blamed the RCMP for agreeing to launch a criminal investigation into ADSCAM. (Requested by an NDP MP)
The blamed TV ads and can't come 2 grips the Conservatives have supplanted the Liberals as the Natural governing party....
Shelley like many female Conservatives outclass their peer across the floor and anyone who watches QP can see why her promotion is only a matter of time.
- Friday, March 02, 2012 9:35:00 AM
- MeanOldMan said...
I agree with Brrr. With Shelly's background, she would be a great P.S. or Justice minister. I think Toews should be replaced.
- Friday, March 02, 2012 10:12:00 AM
- liberal supporter said...
So Hunter starts with this:
That is how shallow lefty activists are, they attack the person, not the ideology.
Then most the of the comments here, and indeed most of what the CPC has said in Question Period this week amounts to exactly what she claims the "lefty activists" do, attacking the person.
- Friday, March 02, 2012 1:27:00 PM
LS: Your side lost. Deal with it.
- Friday, March 02, 2012 2:16:00 PM
- JR said...
Thanks for this, hunter. Good on Shelly Glover.
"I just wish she would have included the lefty media in her lecture."
Amen to that!
- Friday, March 02, 2012 2:23:00 PM
- liberal supporter said...
That's the best you can come up with Eskimo? I'd say "nice try" but you'll have to do more than crib from Harper's lame comments to get a "nice try". See if you can come up with something original for a change.
You guys are the ones not "dealing with it". You won the last election, at least we presume so at this point, yet it has been nonstop campaigning ever since. Depending on the day of the week, we're supporters of Hitler, the next day we're with the child pornographers, the next we're Taliban supporters, the next we're aligned with foreign interests and then it's the ever popular "sore losers".
You have a major scandal brewing, a potential Constitutional crisis, and all you can do is blame everyone else and pretend to be victims.
Bob Rae, for all his faults, manned up over vikileaks. We've yet to see the Harpergoverment at least pretend that election fraud is something serious and not something to use for your daily sneer and smear against all who oppose you. We've yet to see the Harpergovernment accept responsibility for anything, other than trying to take credit for things like our financial situation and banking rules (inherited from previous governments).
Funny how you praise Glover for robotically parroting the party line, even when some talk show host is supposedly "out to get her" and mock those who you can see are actually thinking and sometimes speaking their mind even if they then have to clarify. You see changing one's mind or clarifying their words as weakness, while the majority of Canadians see it as a sign of actual thinking and intelligence, as opposed to being a robo-puppet.
- Friday, March 02, 2012 2:39:00 PM
Election fraud, eh? That's pretty rich coming from someone who hails from the "vote early, vote often" camp. The left INVENTED voter fraud.
Bob Rae "manning up"? The CBC and CTV are still leading the charge though. Think he'll ask them to back off?
- Friday, March 02, 2012 2:51:00 PM
- liberal supporter said...
Keep up with the name calling, Eskimo. I understand it is helpful when you are in prison. Just as some adscammers went to prison, so will some of the Target Seat Management Unit. The only question is how high up this will go.
- Friday, March 02, 2012 3:02:00 PM
- Blame Crash said...
Lib S, could you at least change it up a bit, you've been emitting this same white noise for years. Everything that you've beaked off about here is the same bunk that you were going on about before the last election that won the Conservatives their majority. Can't you remember? The same election that you predicted that the Conservatives were going to lose but it ended up being the election that you Libs lost all but thirty something seats. It's not hard to understand why you'd want to forget that brutal shell shocking.
Oh, and one last thing. The criminal Liberal Party and their journalistic fraud cohorts attempt to frame the Conservatives with the very same thing that they themselves are conspiring to do against the millions of Canadians who voted Conservative and to democracy itself, is going to end the same way all those other bogus schemes ended.
Makes me wonder why Libs and leftist have such a hard time being honest.
- Friday, March 02, 2012 6:17:00 PM
- Blame Crash said...
Lib S, could you at least change it up a bit, you've been emitting this same white noise for years. Everything that you've beaked off about here is the same bunk that you were going on about before the last election that won the Conservatives their majority. Can't you remember? The same election that you predicted that the Conservatives were going to lose but it ended up being the election that you Libs lost all but thirty something seats. It's not hard to understand why you'd want to forget that brutal shell shocking.
Oh, and one last thing. The criminal Liberal Party and their journalistic fraud cohorts attempt to frame the Conservatives with the very same thing that they themselves are conspiring to do against the millions of Canadians who voted Conservative and to democracy itself, is going to end the same way all those other bogus schemes ended.
Makes me wonder why Libs and leftist have such a hard time being honest.
- Friday, March 02, 2012 6:18:00 PM
- liberal supporter said...
Considering the Conservatives spent 13 years in the wilderness, we're just getting started to send them back for another decade or two. You do know that, Blame Crash, don't you? Your picking up on my theme to Eskimo of trying harder and trying to aim it at me is pretty unimaginative, just like your leader now claiming the Liberals were behind the robocalls. Most folks stop "I know you are but what am I?" around age 10.
I'm sure you have a lot of experience in being shell shocked, after the Conservatives went from the largest majority to TWO seats, not even official party status.
I think you'll have to report to CPC Central for some remedial waterboarding. You forgot to use the "liberalism as a mental illness" routine. Just can't get good conbots these days it seems.
And meanwhile what you call the smear campaign is now up to 30,000 complaints. Will you call it a smear campaign when it gets to half a million?
At what point will Harper have to call an election or at least a public inquiry? At some point even the best efforts of Target Seat Management won't be able to tamp this down. Your people are becoming increasingly desperate, as evidenced by the mistakes they are now making and all them them going catatonic with their last words being Harper! Coordinate!!
- Friday, March 02, 2012 6:58:00 PM
Hey LS, has Stephane Dion paid back his loans from the leadership race yet?
- Friday, March 02, 2012 7:32:00 PM
- hunter said...
Poor LS is still in denial. Those 30,000 "complaints" are actually coming from a lefty/NDP website that is connected to the American Move-on organization. Talk about subverting our democracy, well they are doing it.
- Friday, March 02, 2012 7:32:00 PM
- liberal supporter said...
Speaking of denial...
There couldn't possibly be 30,000 complaints about the election, no not possibly. You're still going with the vast left wing conspiracy?
Don't mess up when you're making my license plate.
- Saturday, March 03, 2012 12:20:00 PM


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(NOTE TO READERS: I've been adding more events to this post as I learn of them, so be sure to review again. MVS)
The period of time between October 18th and the 26th in New York City is going to be very exciting, with exhibitions, awards events, the NY Art Book Fair, the Contemporary Artist Book Conference and the venerable PHOTOPLUS EXPO among others. Here is a list of events; try to take in as many as you can. I know I will!
Saturday, October 18th, 5-10 at Splashlight Soho:
5-6:30 p.m. HERMAN LEONARD, the 2008 Lucie Award Honoree for Achievement in Portraiture. Presentation and Q&A with this legendary photographer.
7-10 p.m. BEST OF SHOW: the IPA Awards – Open to the public (Free)
Curated by William Hunt of Hasted Hunt Gallery
BOTH EVENTS at Splashlight Studios, Soho
ONE HUDSON SQUARE (75 Varick Street, Third Floor) New York, NY 10013
Complete list of winners can be found here.
Sunday, October 29th, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m., Artist Talk and Book Signing, also at Splashlight's SoHo Studio, also part of the Lucie Awards:
From the Aperture e-blast: "On Sunday, October 19, Aperture Foundation will conduct book signings with Hank Willis Thomas and Sara Terry following their artist discussion sponsored by EN FOCO's Nueva Luz magazine, also taking place at Splashlight. Hank will sign his just release first monograph, Pitch Blackness, which deals with black on black violence in America and the commodification of the African American male in advertising. Sara Terry will sign her recently published book-a-zine, War Is Only Half The Story: The Aftermath Project, featuring the work of the winners of the Aftermath Project's first annual grant competition, which was founded by Terry, open to working photographers worldwide who cover the aftermath of conflict (2009 application deadline November 3).
Limited seats, RSVP to email@example.com"
Monday, October 20, 2008: Brown Bag Lunch series at MoMA
12:30 p.m.
At the Center and at the Edge: The Contemporary Artist's Book
Education Classroom B, mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building
From the MoMA Website:
"Join us for lectures on modern and contemporary art. You may bring your own lunch.
The artist's book has long served as a form that merges, seamlessly or not so seamlessly, elements of image, text, and design. There has been a veritable explosion of artists' books in the last fifteen years, perhaps as a reaction to the oft-repeated claim that the book is a doomed form in the digital age. This lecture offers a survey of recent artists' books, including work by Richard Minsky (U.S.), Mindy Belloff (U.S.), Ron King (U.K.) and Ken Campbell (U.K.), and investigates the multiple possibilities (and personalities) of a surprisingly vital mode of expression.
Lecturer Richard Turnbull (Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) is Chair of the Department of Art History at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and is a longtime lecturer at both The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tickets ($5; members, students, seniors, and staff of other museums $3) can be purchased online, or at the Museum at the lobby information desk, at the Film desk, or in the Cullman Building lobby."
(see also THURSDAY October 23rd, below)
Monday night 20th, 6 p.m.: Lucie Awards event at Lincoln Center; some tickets remain.
Tuesday night, 21st 6:30 p.m. Erwin Olaf at Aperture Gallery (Artists Talk and book signing)
547 W. 27th Street, 4th Floor NYC (212) 505-5555
"Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf is a key European figure in both fashion and find art photography. Olaf will discuss his new Aperture monograph, Erwin Olaf, which brings together for the first time three of the artist's series: Rain, Hope and Grief. Theis luxuriously produced volume features a DVD of his short films."
Wednesday night 22nd, 6:30: The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Awards Announcement of the 2008 Recepients and the Howard Chapnick Grant
Tishman Auditorium at The New School, 66 West 12th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues
FREE and open to the public; refreshments will be served following the program.
Doors open 6 p.m., seating on a first-come, first-served basis.
Wednesday night 22nd 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.: "Meet Up" for Blurb's "Photography Book Now" at the New Museum (afternoon publishing seminar filled; evening "Meet Up" still has tickets – reserve on line; free)
Thursday 24 – November 22: Diana Walker "Political Party" at Howard Greenberg Gallery; reception for the artist on Thursday, October 23rd, 6-8 p.m. HGG, 41 East 57th Street #1406, NYC (212) 334 0010.
Thursday 23th through Saturday 25th – PDN's PHOTOPLUS EXPO.com at the Javits Center, the expansive trade show and educational event with lectures, panel discussions and seminars on photography.
I am moderating a panel on THURS from 1-3 p.m.:
First Impression: Selling Yourself in 20 Minutes (panelists from gallery/ad agency/magazine/book jacket markets), and I am giving a lecture on FRIDAY 3:45 – 5:45 p.m.:
"Presenting Your Work to the Fine Art Community" (this lecture is updated frequently)
There are MANY excellent educational programs, including the NGS' All Roads winners as the Saturday keynote, trade show floor on Saturday at 11:30.
Thursday the 23rd at 12:30 p.m., as a part of this conference, another Brown Bag Lunch series at MoMA:
At the Center and At The Edge: The Contemporary Artist's Book
(see Monday, 20th above for event details)
Thursday 23rd through Sunday 26th: Contemporary Artists Book Conference
From the event website:
In collaboration with Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair, the Art Libraries Society of New York (ARLIS/NY) announces a conference on contemporary artists' books.
The program will include speakers, panels, artists' presentations, institutional tours, and receptions. The conference focuses on recent developments in artists' books, a period of increasing diversity in the field. The conference will present a rare opportunity to explore the contemporary scene, promising a thought-provoking opportunity for discourse among scholars, collectors, artists, and librarians.
Conference venues include the New York Public Library, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, and the NY Art Book Fair at Phillips de Pury.
To view event schedule and descriptions, click here
AA Bronson, Printed Matter, Inc.
May Castleberry, Museum of Modern Art
Deirdre Donohue, International Center for Photography
Milan Hughston, Museum of Modern Art
Deirdre Lawrence, Brooklyn Museum
James Mitchell, Metropolitan Museum of Art
David Senior, Museum of Modern Art
Jennifer Tobias, Museum of Modern Art
Tony White, Indiana University"
Friday 24th -Sunday 26th in Chelsea: Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair
Printed Matter's annual fair of contemporary art books, art catalogs, artists' books, art periodicals, and 'zines offered for sale by over 120 international publishers, booksellers, and antiquarian dealers. Admission to the fair is FREE.
Phillips de Pury & Company
450 West 15th Street at 10th Avenue, 3rd floor, NYC (map)
Friday/Saturday, October 24 & 25, 2008, 11am – 7pm
Sunday, October 26, 2008, 11am – 5pm"
and last but certainly not least, two events on Friday night:
Friday evening, October 24th: The exhibition BOOK DUMMIES will open at the ICP Education Gallery. 6-8 pm at 1114 Avenue of the Americas.
"These images are from a series I have been working on since 9-11 called Homeland. The images address issues of militarism, security and identity in contemporary America.
I embarked on the series to make sense of my own confusion over the words patriotism and security.
Why did I wake up some mornings feelings anxious, wondering whether or not to take the subway?
Was I being manipulated? Was my fear a genuine concern? Is my country my protector or my deceiver?
I set out to discover and in my explorations I saw Air force bombers entertaining sunbathers on summer weekends; high schools taken over by the Department of Defense as a solution offered communities desperate for school funding; frequent simulation drills costing millions of dollars and involving thousands of participants where various war scenarios are imagined; recruitment scenarios where young children are transformed into smiling would-be killers.
Some of these events have the look and feel of state sponsored performance art, where realism is replaced by theater giving participants a powerful sense of identity and value through a militarized experience. It is this identity, and the ambiguity between real and made up, so emblematic of post 9-11 political discourse, that interests me most.
I came to this series after having spent the last few years photographing very graphic examples of the human cost of war. Many of the subjects I photographed said they grew up thinking war would be "fun." Many watched the first Gulf War on TV and thought it was "awesome." Several said that becoming a soldier meant they would finally do something good in life.
Rather than continuing to show evidence of war, it seems appropriate for me to show the fantasies of war, the selling of war, the institutions of war, the culture of war and with it the militarization of American life."
I'm heading east in the morning, see you at these exciting events!


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Jenny McCarthy is NOT on the chopping block at "The View," despite reports saying she's a dead woman walking ... at least according to the show's executive producer.
Bill Geddie was out in New York yesterday when he was asked if there was any truth to rumblings Jenny's getting ready to pack her bags, just one month after she took over for Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
But Geddie was pretty strong -- Jenny's seat ain't up for grabs.
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Student or Learner
I thought when we're talking about the aim / result we want to achieve, we can use the word 'objective' as in 'the objective of this plan is...'
However, I came across the word 'object' the other day and it too can mean the same?
Are they then synonymes?
Object: a reason for doing something, or the result you wish to achieve by doing it
(Cambridge dictionaries online)


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text: It's been such a long time since I last posted and I feel like I have to make my comeback at last!!!!And it's gonna be the hell of a comeback...:P Three days ago I went to Patras where I had arranged a meeting with a fellow blogger super girl ,Nadia from stateofgrace. We met at last after a long time(we where trying to arrange it for months) and after we had our drinks we continued to one of my favourite photoshoots ever...Nadia and I have so many things in common and our ideas are quite the similar about the blogger world..Hope you'll enjoy the result...Have a great mornging and I wish to all of you a Happy New Year!!!


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One of the major religion events of this past weekend, obviously, was the Vatican rite at which Pope Benedict XVI created 22 new cardinals, including two from the United States. In terms of standard-issue news on the big-city religion beat, having your city's archbishop join the college of cardinals is a mucho big deal. At the very least, it's the kind of thing that requires the writing of a full-career feature story about the man, with a heavy emphasis on the work that he did to earn this nod from the Vatican.
The other day, I noted that then Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York City held his own when The New York Times served up its pre-red-hat feature. That fine story offered a combination of attributed material from a number of different sources -- including radio broadcasts, public sermons and interviews.
The other U.S. archbishop-turned-cardinal was Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien of Baltimore, who currently is in a transition between his work in the nation's oldest Catholic archdiocese and a global-level slot in the Vatican hierarchy. This means, of course, a major story in The Baltimore Sun. The result was utterly and totally predictable, other than one or two glaring oddities. Here is the top of the feature:
Even as he prepared in Rome for the weekend ceremony that will elevate him to cardinal, Baltimore Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien vigorously lobbied for political issues important to the Roman Catholic Church -- a hallmark of his five-year stint here.
The vocal 72-year-old O'Brien -- who has been the spiritual leader of Catholics in Baltimore and nine surrounding counties -- has sparred with the likes of President Barack Obama and top Maryland lawmakers. He didn't always succeed, but he pressed on, as he has on a number of highly charged issues.
Last month, O'Brien decried a proposed federal regulation from the Obama administration that would have required Catholic hospitals and universities, among other institutions, to provide employee health insurance that covered contraception.
In recent days, the O'Brien went head-to-head with Gov. Martin O'Malley, a fellow Catholic, over the elected leader's support for legalizing same-sex marriage. O'Brien called several state lawmakers from Rome, urging them to oppose the measure, in the hours before a crucial Friday night vote moved the measure closer to becoming law. And in one of his most criticized moves locally, O'Brien made the budget-minded decision to close 13 Catholic schools in the spring of 2010, frustrating students and parents.
Now, here is your assignment: Name a major American city in which each of these points -- to one degree or another -- would not apply to the work of a Pope Benedict XVI-era prelate.
As this standard-duty article rolls on, it becomes pretty clear that the Sun team faced a major problem. The bottom line: A key voice is missing from this feature. Whose?
Pope Benedict XVI could name his successor in Baltimore as early as March, O'Brien said last month. He has been traveling between Rome and Baltimore, working two jobs since August, and did not respond to interview requests for this article.
Ouch. Frankly, that is amazing. I may be wrong, but this gap has to say something about the archbishop's attitude toward the Sun, a newspaper that never uses a fly swatter when a baseball bat will do when it comes time to cooperate with and-or to promote the views of local Catholic dissidents. O'Brien is no arch conservative, but to this newspaper he is, clearly, a fundamentalist.
Still, O'Brien preaches sermons all the time that could have been quoted in this story. He writes, too. While he declined to be interviewed, it would have been easy to find ways to feature his voice as a balancing element in this all politics, all the time report. It's even possible that there are religious, faith-based themes in his work that could have been included. Then again, apparently not.
The Sun team did manage to reach out to a global-level expert -- who promptly pointed them in the right direction (should the editors be interested in knowing more about why Rome honored this man). They turned to Rocco Palmo of Whispers Inside The Loggia. And what did he have to say?
Palmo, who has sources in the Holy See and broke the news of O'Brien's new appointment, said the O'Brien's strong leadership style likely contributed to his elevation and transfer to Rome, where he is expected to take on additional assignments for the pope.
"O'Brien's always been given sensitive assignments by the Vatican," Palmo said, pointing to O'Brien's role as the head of an in-depth study into all U.S. seminaries, to root out the potential origins of child abuse by Catholic clergy.
"I wouldn't be surprised if O'Brien were called in as a troubleshooter for the Vatican, in addition to his day job," Palmo said.
Ah, the study of the seminaries. That would be a key starting point, since it is hard to have Catholic churches without priests.
It is at this point that the Sun, once again, looks away from a major story that has been sitting in its own backyard for several decades. You see, Baltimore happens to be the home of one of North America's most famous, or infamous, seminaries and one of the first things that O'Brien -- the former leader of America's Catholic military archdiocese -- did when he came to town was attempt to change the culture a bit at St. Mary's Seminary. All you have to do to learn more about that situation is type "Baltimore," "seminary" and "Pink Palace" into a search engine.
Palmo did his best to underline the obvious, but it was not enough.
Basically, this Sun news feature centered on the elements of O'Brien's tenure in Baltimore that the newspaper had, in the past, deigned to cover. One can ask (I just did) whether the actual O'Brien was missing from that earlier coverage, just as he was -- by his own choice -- missing from this pre-red-hat feature.
PHOTO: Cardinal Edwin O'Brien (left) and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, rocking the red.


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Valuation optimization vs maximization – what is the real goal?
One of the most confusing and misunderstood concepts to entrepreneurs is around valuation – not only in how it is determined (that is an entire post itself which I won't try to tackle right now) but more importantly, what should the goal be?
I think for entrepreneurs who haven't been been through fund raises already, the first and obvious reaction is the get the highest valuation possible and if you do, you'll have "won the battle". I guess it makes sense that this viewpoint is commonly held – in many other areas of negotiations, auctions, grades, sales deals, etc, the goal is to get to the extreme (either lowest or highest) and the closer you get, the better you did. Its how they got to where they are now – by winning and excelling in everything they did. They view the "valuation negotiation" with a VC just another competition to win.
So, why isn't this the right approach for entrepreneurs? (and the answer is not because I'm the VC writing this and I'm trying to convince you to take a lower valuation – but good try!). The reason is because a) the funding is a financing event, not an exit (the exit is when its decided whether you win or lose) and b) the prior valuation has a significant impact if and when another financing round is required. The exception to this is if this is definitely the last financing round the company will need before exiting – and even this has it pitfalls when it comes time to exit (see my earlier post about entrepreneur and investor alignment specifically regarding exits and the VCs need for high returns and a multiple on their investment).
For the entrepreneur, the financing event and resulting valuation merely puts a number on the company value which then affects the percentage ownership the founder has in the company – but this doesn't translate to real money that the owners can walk away with (I'm sure those of you who were at startups during the dot.com bubble but didn't exit before the crash can relate to this quite well…). Its paper wealth. Funny-money. Remember 100% ownership of nothin' is still nothin'…
Valuation becomes a real issue for those companies that need to raise another round of financing (this may be where many of the entrepreneurs who raised money in the last 18 months before the market crash last fall start to perk up…). A high valuation (which 12 months ago seemed like a huge success) is now feeling like a huge albatross – a heavy burden on the company that may stifle their ability to raise money from an outside investor. This occurs because the prior round investors want to be rewarded for putting money in earlier through getting a higher "step-up" valuation in the next round. The new investor is often wary of companies with valuations too high as their expectations for a smooth round getting done is put at risk as they worry about spending a lot of effort for a down round that gets resistance or just gets done by the insiders (prior investors). In a startup, momentum is very important on how the world perceives your succes. When things continue to be on the "up-and-up" across all areas of the business – great team is built out, revenues increase, customer base grows, metrics improve….and valuation continue to rise round-after-round, everyone is happy.
Now, just to be fair, on the other side of the table, it isn't in the best interest of the VC to drive to the lowest valuation possible either. This is because if the founder/entrepreneur doesn't have enough of an ownership stake in the company (especially after several financing rounds), there is a real risk that the founder may leave if he feels like the reward for staying isn't big enough vs doing something else (starting another company, taking the big corner office at a cushy large company job, etc) – remember, being an entrepreneur is hard work and people need to be rewarded for their commitment.
Somewhere in the middle between a valuation so high it risks future financings and a valuation so low it dis-incentivizes (I know this isn't a word but it should be….) the founders is the optimal valuation. For the entrepreneur and VC, the goal should be to find a fair valuation for everyone. The entrepreneur/VC relationship is a long-term one, often 5+ years. Raise these concerns with the VC and get it on the table so both of you see each other's perspectives and motivations. Its a good initial step in a very long journey that will ultimate be in both of your best interests. Remember, "winning the war" is the goal – exiting the company so that both you and your investor makes money through an exit. The fund raises and valuations are just a step along the way towards the final goal.
As this topic can be a bit confusing, feel free to sign up for my office hours to discuss at greater length.
[Update: 6/19/2009 Thanks to Ben Kuo at SoCalTech for the posting. ]


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Jess McGuire tells Rafael Epstein why she is running in this Sunday's Mother's Day Classic.
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Like many running the Mother's Day Classic this year to raise money for breast cancer research, Jess McGuire has a personal reason for doing so.
The well-known writer and broadcaster lost her close friend Gen to breast cancer last year.
"About two and a half years ago at her birthday party she came up to me and pulled me aside and mentioned that she'd found a lump on her breast," says Jess.
Jess McGuire, having previously said that she would climb Mount Kilimanjaro for her friend, opted for the slightly less daunting 8km run of the Mother's Day Classic instead.
Describing herself on her Mother's Day Classic profile page as a 'terrible, shameful, wheezing mess of a woman', Jess McGuire's sponsors got value for their donations.
"It wasn't pretty, I won't lie," says Jess. "I was getting lapped by lovely ladies pushing prams."
Gen died just three months after last year's Classic. She was 37 years old.
Jess McGuire speaks to Rafael Epstein about why she thinks you should join in her running in the Mother's Day Classic this year.
Libbi Gorr is broadcasting from the Mother's Day Classic at the Botanical Gardens this Sunday.


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