Frost Bite: General

Show me the money!

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:25:20 GMT

Whenever I've used a coin operated laundry machine, for some reason I've always wondered what the ratio of quarters (that are liquid in the market) to the population would be. Thinking of the uses of quarters to the average Joe - parking meters (the single biggest need, I think), laundry, slot machines at casinos (the largest, in terms of sheer volume of transactions),.......(please feel free to add more uses in the comments) - I guesstimated that Joe requires around 10-12 quarters per week. Of course, at the end of the week he might end up with more than he started with but he still would have traded around 10.

Anyway, after another week of pondering on this number I decided to look online and see if there were any figures on liquid cash in the economy that was available to the public (not tied up by banking institutions). Here is an interesting article on how much cash is floating around, who has it, why is it floating etc. I will add my thoughts as an update to this post.

Announcing Frost Bites

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:55:14 GMT

After a long silence, I am just formalizing what this blog was mostly always for - giving you links to all things that I find interesting and appealing in the big bad internet/blogosphere.

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
- Samuel Johnson

In the spirit of this quote, announcing "Frost Bites" - my link blog. In the same breath, I promise to keep the posts rolling and the content fresh. Given the time I spend trolling the internet and blogosphere that should not be a problem!

You can also find me at my main blog [here]

World Press Photo Foundation

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:18:04 GMT

The World Press Photo foundation celebrates the 50th anniversary of its annual photographic competition this year and the BBC has all the details.

[link] Afghan Burial
[link] Tiananmen Standoff
[link] Fire Drama
[link] Trapped
[link] Soldier's Torment

On the top right hand corner of these pages, is a link to the winning photos of yester years. Do go over those too.

Warning: graphic images!

Corporate Blunders

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:19:27 GMT

What are Fedex boxes meant for? packaging maybe? shipping maybe?
what about furniture? Does anyone want furniture made entirely out of Fedex boxes? Jose Avila apparently did and he went ahead and used tons of Fedex Shipping boxes with packaging materials and made himself a couch, table, shelves and even a bed! Check his website out. Another report here

Apparently, Fedex didn't seem to like the idea that their boxes were being used for anything other than shipping and sent Jose a legal letter threatening action against his unlawful use of boxes. They also suggested that his taking a .com domain suggested that he was trying to commercialize his furniture making. Huh? please run that by me again.

Moved out here from my previous home on Blogger

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:00:29 GMT

I have made some 28 odd posts on my previous blog. I shall list their titles here and provide trackback links to them for my new readers (how I humor myself!)

1. Giving Birth, Painful Yet Cathartic!

2.Mozilla or IE

3. Google jumps on RSS boat with Adsense

4. Tyrant in His Pants!

5. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

6. Corporate Buzzwords

7. Thought For The Day

8. Crown Ov Worms?

9. XBox360: What Microsoft is doing and why

10. Black Gold or Pipe Dream

11. More XBox360

12. Conversations With God

13. Generation Z

14. Ars Technica

15. Achtung Panzer

16. Building Character Yet?

17. Ultimate Phones for the Ultimate Ears

18. The Cinderella Man

19. Tiger In Action

20. Colloquial Speech

21. The US on Iran-Pakistan-India gas deal and on human rights violations by China

22. Its Official: Apple goes with Intel

23. China's hunt for oil

24. Jackson hobbles away as a free man

25. Seeing Is believing

26. Jackson to change his lifestyle

27. The Eastern Front: WWII

28. The Great (fire)Wall of China