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Trend Radar 2008: Offshoring

Posted on Friday, Jan 11th

Did you know, China now offshores manufacturing to Vietnam? If Pakistan behaved itself, may be India would start offshoring some call-centers over! In 2008, outsourcing, offshoring and globalization are likely to continue as major trends. Rising wages in the most popular offshore centers (especially Bangalore), are eroding the cost advantage that drove this business to

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Benazir’s Death

Posted on Thursday, Dec 27th

Here is a beautiful picture of Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani Prime Minister who was assassinated yesterday. There is not much to say, except this, that the world still has work to do. (I could not find the credits for who took this photograph … if you know, please email me, so that I can

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World Population’s Scary Trend

Posted on Saturday, Sep 15th

Our neighbor, Carl Jacobson, came back from Australia the other day, and talked about a conference he was attending where many big world issues were discussed. In particular, he was talking about Indonesia, and how its moderate Muslim population / leadership is important for the future peace of the world, and needs to be an

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