Council bars Hafiz Contractor

Fridays edition of The Times of India reports:
In its letter of March 24, 2009, the council, an autonomous body of the Central government, has ruled that Contractor be suspended from practice for one year “from the date of issue of letter conveying the order’’. During the suspension period, Contractor must surrender the certificate of registration [...]

A couple of good posts

I intended to comment on this ugly piece which appeared in The Times of India, but Aristotle The Geek has done it already and his piece has a lot more to say than I usually have the energy to. Read the whole post. Since that saves me some time, I will spend it dissecting some of the [...]

Seasteading

I happened to find this website quite by chance. From their introduction page:
Seasteading means to create permanent dwellings on the ocean – homesteading the high seas. A seastead, like in the picture above, is a structure meant for permanent occupation on the ocean
Currently, it is very difficult to experiment with alternative social systems on a small [...]

About an year of blogging – a review

Its been about a year since I started blogging and more than a month since I wrote my last post. This is a good time to take a fresh look at my blogging experience. I started blogging out of a desire to “do something about the state of the world”. Since that sounds too close [...]

A new blog on business, economics and free enterprise

Simply Capitalism (feed) is a new blog on business, economics and free enterprise.
Here is an excerpt from their first post
Today, we live in a mixed economy made up of both semi-free markets and government controls. We live in a culture that views business and businessmen as a necessary evil. While the ability of capitalism to bring general [...]

Discovered this blog

I used the tag surfing feature in WordPress after a long time and discovered The Minority Advocate.

This left me speechless

Just look at the comment on this post.

Announcement – The Undercurrent

The Undercurrent (TU) is an independent, student-run Objectivist newsletter distributed twice a year to college campuses across America. TU is currently looking for distributors and donors for its fall edition, and will stop taking orders on or about September 22, 2008.
If you would like to distribute, please visit http://the-undercurrent.com/subscribe/ and buy your copies of TU [...]

Applied Philosophy – Series

This is an introduction to a series where I intend to put my thoughts on several loosely related topics and finally tie them together.
1. My tech blog gets much more traffic than this blog with no active effort to promote it.
2. Some comments on the article Property Rights and the Crisis of the Electric Grid
3. Some comments on the [...]

Found this on Professionalism

“Professionalism is not about adherance to the policies of a bureaucracy. Professionalism is about having the integrity, honesty, and sincere regard for the personhood of the customer, in the context of always doing what is best for the business. Those two things do not need to be in conflict.”
I found this in a reply to a comment [...]