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Are We Really Different?

I saw the below video in one the Turkish blogs that I am following and wanted to share it here as well. The description on YouTube says it was a class project and there is no other information.

April 23: Children’s Day

Today is celebrated as “National Sovereignty and Children’s Day” in Turkey. Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, devoted this day (in 1920) on which the Turkish Parliament was opened to the children of the world. In celebration of this…

Does Silicon Valley Need More Visas for Foreigners?

The Wall Street Journal Online invited Robert Hoffman, an Oracle Corp. executive who heads a tech-lobbying group that includes Microsoft, Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co., to debate the issue with outsourcing critic and author Ron Hira, an engineer and a…

Happy New Year

End of 2006 marked slow blogging days for this blog. However, this would not prevent me from wishing a happy new year for everyone.

I hope the new year brings us happiness and health. That’s all I want. The rest…

Waiting for Your Muse

The above image that I stole from Creating Passionate Users’ post suggesting not waiting for the muse to get work done, perfectly illustrates the situation.

It is hard to deny that there are times that I wait for the muse to…

Orhan Pamuk Wins Nobel Prize

Orhan Pamuk, a Turkish novelist, won the Nobel prize for literature. You can check out the Google News coverage about this. This is the first time a Nobel prize was awarded to a Turkish novelist. This is great news especially since…

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I am Turker Keskinpala. I am currently a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and soon to be a Software Engineer. You can find my personal view on various topics in this blog.