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Consultants’ role this year will be to convert old economy companies into new economy ones. Old economy strategy consultants will gain.

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INDIA - A Country Study from the Library of Congress. A comprehensive overview of India.

Even states have performance based pay. The less their fiscal deficit, the more their plan allocation. Good.

The Economist website looks more like a newspaper now.

Microsoft Deathwatch. No, Bill isn’t dead, but his servers were for a while.

Plastic – an interesting news source. I like Plastic work.

Salon’s article explains how silly people can get when firing employees.

I’ve ordered a copy of the World Employment Report. Apparently, it says that India won’t sustain its software boom, and I want to know why.

Asian option calculators from Enron and DerivativesModels.com.

A neat banking & finance portal by Northern Light. Covers mergers, reforms, technology, regulations, country-specific info, etc.

Every Night Josephine is out of print. If not for copyrights, one could just copy an old print.

Info1001 is a good site for info on shopping, investments, and even industry analysis.

Thinks.com has some good maths puzzles and recreation links. Cut-the-knot is good. Math cartoons are better.

My friend Manu is doing research in graphics at Ohio State. You really must see his morphs: Ash to Mandela, for example. After playing around with the grid, I realised Mandala’s pretty handsome too. Requires Java. Comments rajesh 10 Aug 2009 4:46 pm: great work!!!!!

MP3 CD players. The next big thing? It’s basically got a hard disk where you can put in any MP3s, and listen to it like a walkman. Why bother with cassettes?

Multinational Monitor features the 10 worst corporations of 2000.

Fashion lessons paid off. After reading about business wardrobes for men, and how gentlemen dress, I shopped for a suit, hoping to look my professional best. Ended up with a grey single-breasted polywool suit from Louise Phillipe.

I’ve replaced my old photo (left) with this new one (right). Yes, I know. I’m growing younger by the day.

Eight case studies on sanctions: Cuba, South Africa, Libya, Pakistan, Iran, Burma, China and India.