How to Reduce your Property Taxes in California

folks, if you have real estate in the california, you can claim reduction in property taxes due to the decline in home values. check out the county assessor’s office of santa clara.

they even have a neat PPT showing exactly what this is about, and an online form to apply – very helpful government, all [...]

Pony Tail, Check. Cool? No.

apologies for the long delay in posts. was checking out this video blog from the pony-tailed CEO of Sun Microsystems. wonder how it has gone from the brightest thing in the valley to being a lovable loser (like.. uh.. chicago cubs) to who cares (atlanta hawks).

i found the answer in the video blog. in [...]

Unemployment Rate History of Silicon Valley

did a quick plot of unemployment rate history of silicon (from Employment Development Department website). the idea was to see if the current situation (at 7.8% unemployment as of Dec 2008). the idea was to see when the jobs would start to open up.

purely from corp planning cycles perspective, you can expect companies to [...]

Overlay’s on YouTube Videos

looks like YouTube is pulling out all stops in making the site overbearing. after the ugly dropdown search box in the video widgets, now they are showing overlay ‘links’ within videos. check out the screenshot. Clicking on the grey box takes you to another related youtube video.

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Horizontal Visibility

apologies for the long gap in posting. was in powerpoint-land for a few weeks. that’s over now, it’s back to execution.

returned from the US last night. a year or so after relocating to the US, i got a new perspective on the country i lived in for the last 14 years. here’s what i [...]