Background
About a year back, I was at Big Creek elementary School for Nithin’s orientation/academic day, where the class teacher would tell what the students would learn and also our responsibilities as a parent. Mrs. Mary Ellen Drone, the teacher, is an amazing person - let me put it this way, I never came across a teacher anywhere close to her.
At the beginning of her presentation, Mary just made a casual reference to her husband (Randy), who happened to be in the same classroom. Mary said “Randy has MS and is …

I just happened to notice that a friend of mine had given glowing LinkedIn recommendation  for his boss. Let’s call the boss as John Doe for now. I knew very well that my friend hated and despised John Doe. My friend used to joke that John Doe is an enormously insecure, self-doubting, pessimistic and sarcastic personality wrapped in Xanax. So obviously I was shocked by the glowing recommendation and prompted for a phone call. Following is how the conversation went:
[after usual pleasantry exchanges, we delved into the issue at hand]
me: …

Updated on 12/3/2008 based on feedback from Paula at Divorce360. This blog entry  focused mainly on their marriage/divorce calculator. However, their site does offer lot other tools for people going through (or contemplating) divorce. While it is not a useful site for me, it may be for you depending on your situation. I.E., do your own DD.

Approximately 1.3 million couples divorce each year. Divorce360.com was created to help people contemplating, going through or …

Wigix is the new way to buy and sell on-line. It’s a socially-driven marketplace, where you can communicate with like-minded collectors and traders. Get a live pricing history for each item and negotiate prices intelligently. Social communication encourages informed buying. This is the actual business description from Wigix.com. Well, that sounds like eBay, right?
Ever since eBay alienated it’s customer base with consistent commission rate increases, numerous sites are popping up to attract the disgruntled ebay customers. Wigix’s mantra is to offer a reduced fee structure, which was the cornerstone of …