Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, together!

Jobs and Gates appeared together on stage to interview for D5 at All Things Digital. It was a fitting culmination of my two week long sojourn into the history of personal computing. I had watched Pirates of the Silicon Valley, read Fire in the Valley, saw Apple 1984 superbowl ad, unearthed clippings from Triumph of the Nerds, enjoyed some really creative ads of Mac vs. PC (here and here), heard Job's Stanford 'Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish' commencement speech, got acquainted with antics of Jobs, and had even seen the entire Apple WWDC 1997 when Jobs announced Apple entering into partnership with Microsoft and Gates was towering above him from the projector screen.

Here are the YouTube links to the interview video (10 parts of 8 min. each):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G3Vcy7u8Gs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlnapkgH6bQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEd6WzDczzE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZTQeqpdDYQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwYxjgyPHNM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k8ZUxMSb3M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN3Y5_Yjkd8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWf0n2S-L3s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMxR-XDTeG4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqTDBArvHQE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqTDBArvHQE

Hibernation

The last post from my side was made some 2 months ago. Mr. McNamara's few advices still need to be chronicled. Random discussions, which have been major source for the underlying themes of my posts, have dried out. The group with which I regularly rallied on such matters has ceased to exist for all practical purposes. These and such other reasons have put the blog into hibernation.

Paradoxical as it may seem, the number of ideas sharing my mind-space have, however, multiplied. It has been becoming increasingly difficult to prevent the mind from hopping from one thread of thoughts to another. The time-splice allocated to activities have become ridiculously small. Here, sum-of-parts cannot much a contiguous total.

Hesitation has also set in to pour out seemingly non-business thoughts in public domain. Authoring on some niche topic would have been probably easier and the blog could have mostly cruised in auto-pilot mode.

I met Morpheus on 11th June. We were meeting after nearly 2.5 years. Morpheus has been in his own thick of things. Generally our troughs and crests of blogging alternate. A steady flow of posts had been thus maintained. This time, however, we both have hit "sleep mode" on our individual blogger-pods at the same time. Come on Morpheus, show Neo the path, as you are supposed to. Free your mind (and time)! Lets see some posts here, friend.