Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2007

15 Jun 2007, 9:00 a.m.

MC Masala on Spam, and Lunch Conversation

This week's column, on the funny spam. I've added books to my wish list based on interesting sentences that spammers stole and pasted in to fool spam filters. I've received spam that includes passages from …

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08 Jun 2007, 16:47 p.m.

Confluence of Fun

Saturday, June 16th: A friend of mine is in a play in Washington, DC. An interesting metal band plays a park in Astoria. And Slightly Known People leads several area sketch comedy groups in covering …

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05 Jun 2007, 11:01 a.m.

The Annals of Point-Missing

Tonight I'll probably go to the New York Tech Meetup, in hope of interesting demos and good questions. I've been to several of them in the past 16 months, and attendance has stabilized at 300-500. …

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04 Jun 2007, 12:42 p.m.

MC Masala, and Le Weekend

A May 20th column on coffee rituals (citing Neal Stephenson) and a nice little column from yesterday, on my sister's graduation, dancing, food, and an old album. It could be that the main reason I …

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02 Jun 2007, 13:44 p.m.

Oh No They Coopted My Indie Band Part MCMXLVIII

A commercial for "Shrek 3" contains music from OK Go's "Here It Goes Again." I will be disappointed if no one in this film dances on a treadmill.

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30 May 2007, 17:43 p.m.

Update Re: Resumes

Yes, you write a customized cover letter for each job application.

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30 May 2007, 10:27 a.m.

Tip For Keeping Resume To One Page

Copied and mildly edited from my comment yesterday on the Joel On Software discussion board. The original poster, two years out of college, had asked whether to keep his college internships on his resume - …

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29 May 2007, 8:38 a.m.

Batman's New Sidekick, MC Masala

MC Masala on Batman! Today's comic books are like big, old cities where villains and bystanders vanish down alleys and new visitors need guides. I wonder what it was like when New York was just …

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24 May 2007, 11:50 a.m.

Creating Value & Expressing It

In reference to business models and the ability to respond appropriately to different stimuli, as well as Built to Last (current Fog Creek reading): The communications you make with your vendors, your business partners, your …

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24 May 2007, 10:07 a.m.

Fear Of Fans

Hmmmm, maybe I shouldn't have been so hasty in tossing off a column about Batman (for this coming Sunday). *shielding myself from a zillion cogent critical letters*

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