Sandbox Archives for August 2008

Archive for August, 2008

THE TWIN WRITERS

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Do you remember what you did when you were 11 years old? I think I was somewhere between playing with building blocks and listening to Hip Hop. In any case, I wasn’t doing something very memorable. Jyoti and Suresh Guptara, twins of Indian and British descent, however, did something else: They wrote an entire book. [...]

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DEBATING OVER MEZZE

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

If you want to have a nice meal with a large group of people, we suggest you go to a place with good mezze, the small middle eastern dishes that you share with everyone at the table. Not only is the food excellent, but the sharing will inevitably lead to everybody having a good time [...]

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CHINA’S POTENTIAL – AND PROBLEMS

Monday, August 11th, 2008

It is true that the web has made the world a smaller and more connected place. But of course, there still are a lot of differences between regions – be they social, cultural, or political. If you’re building a web business, then just because everyone can reach your website does not automatically mean that you’re [...]

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WHY DON’T WE HAVE THAT AT HOME? – FROM THE COMMENTS

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

A couple of weeks back, I wrote about the small but cool innovations I encountered in Finland, and asked readers to share their travel discoveries of things we would like to have at home in the comments. I’ve decided to re-publish all those inputs from the comments in this post, to make sure that everybody [...]

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