Valley Chai

you know the high gas/petrol prices are hurting people when this happens.
Two tank trucks laden with diesel fuel were reported stolen yesterday morning in Prince William County, but one of them was recovered last night after it caught the eye of a woman in Baltimore, authorities said.

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i seriously don’t know when i’d be back on the slopes, so i jumped on an opportunity to hit the tahoe ski slopes a couple of weeks ago. i was driving by myself from south bay to south lake tahoe area, and went via 580/I-5 route.
as soon as you hit highway 5, the traffic comes […]

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many financial institutions (JP Morgan, RBC Capital Markets, Banc of America) are predicting that the deal as it structured now is extremely likely to go through, pending only some customary haggling over the valuation. there seem to be no likely scenarios reported for either (a) other bidders (b) other better strategic alternatives, nor did anyone […]

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background: earlier today, microsoft made an unsolicited offer to acquire yahoo. this comes after yahoo stock has been battered by transitional turmoil, economy and competitive stress. this reminds me of the imagery from the movie “the hills have eyes“. when you are in a funk, everyone wants in at you.
kevin kelleher at gigaom has a […]

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our reverse migration to bangalore, india in a week or so. over the last few weeks i keep getting asked about how i made the decision, to how i could pull it off in a short period of time, to the lifestyle changes etc.
so it appears like some sort of return to motherland is on […]

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