about everything, and especially the rest
I may know 8.3 million people ! |
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Received this yesterday. It says:
Sergio just joined Facebook. You are getting notified of this because our “People You May Know” tool discovered you and Sergio both live in New York …
Hope I am not getting all New York facebook users the same way… And besides, wow: that’s what I call filtering !! ;-))
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Freedom at Midnight, and the Partition of India |
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Two weeks ago, I won an photo contest from my company (Air France KLM) with this picture, and the prize was 2 return tickets anywhere in the world. After a few discussions about where we could go (Iran, back to Burma, Philippines, Uzbekistan were discussed) we eventually settled to do what every backpacker has to do at some point, India. And where to “start” in India if not in the Rajasthan (wiki).
The decision was motivated by a recent gift: I am reading an amazing book about India, a best seller from 1975 written by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins: Freedom at Midnight (amazon).
Freedom at Midnight is a detailed and novelized account of all events that occurred in 1947 and 1948 in India and in the UK that led to India’s independence and partition. It’s a fascinating stack of 800 or 900 pages that flew in just a few weeks. But especially, it made me realize how little I knew about India recent history, and how much there was to know !
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I "heart" new york ….. |
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Yes, I did it. But please don’t tell anyone … |
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I usually buy my boxer shorts and socks at H&M. I buy other stuff occasionally at H&M, like simple white t-shirts, shorts once in a while, maybe a sweater now and then, shirts, but I reckon my most common purchase at H&M must be boxer shorts and socks.
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Scary city….. Fulton street construction works |
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Some of those pipes must be over a century old. A graphical illustration of chaos ?
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I’m thinking of a number … |
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For years, we’ve been assaulted with this commercial. At the end, those 5 little words made me want to put my head in a shredder or pour concrete on my eardrums.
So for the last time:
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Craigslist, Wikipedia, all that money wasted … |
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Is Craigslist is worth $5 billion ? Based on some analysis by ClickZ, AlleyInsider has proposed an estimated valuation of $5 billionof the company - but more interestingly potential profit of $500M. But Craigslist wants to remain a non-for-profit.
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