raif’s random rants…

as a canadian, I’ve always been led to believe that we paid a lot more in income taxes than our counter parts in the US.
as I near my graduation and face the decision of staying in california vs going back to toronto, I decided that I should dig into this and see what the gap [...]

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i hate to say i said so, but just last week i claimed in a post that the iphone would not kill the blackberry.
this week rim announced that they’ve had an unexpected surge in subscriber growth for blackberry devices (WSJ article), in the meantime apple has significantly cut down its orders for the flash memory [...]

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living in berkeley, i will probably get lynched for posting this…
but the latest fiasco around obama’s borrowing of some of his speeches from massachusetts governor deval patrick, is something that cannot be ignored…
firstly, see the evidence.
first speech in question:

and the second speech in question:

and here is how the obama camp tries to play it down:
obama [...]

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hilarious website… these t-shirts and many others like them are actually available for sale at $100 each… check’em out at vcwear.com…

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i am a pretty avid facebook user… and not necessarily because i think they are better than any other social network. it just happened that almost everybody i know found themselves there, and with friends and family across three continents, four timezones and about a dozen cities, facebook’s a great way to keep in touch…
lately [...]

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if you know me, you probably know cantek – my best friend since high school…
after nearly a decade of a successful career in the technology/internet domain, which has included being my partner-in-crime in numerous entrepreneurial endeavors, he has now moved on to pursue his true passion: music…
he is the singer of an up and coming [...]

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