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One last sit-in final and one last paper, both due Tuesday, and then I'm pretty much done with BGIA for this semester. Goodbye New York, hello once again summer at Lafayette. I'm actually looking forward to a quiet summer of just working, and trying to get my thesis started. I'll also be helping with the new FAAP microfinance project, DreamsWork! In all honesty though, I'm writing on my blog right now so I can procrastinate my final IR paper on global warming a threat to global security. So, I'm going to stop here, and get back onto my document. Or maybe I'll check out slashdot first...

So the atari games website is back up (must have been as of today, since I was experiencing downs last night), though it has a completely new look. The java has been upgraded, but it seems the site is much slower. I couldn't get a steady game going, let alone send someone an invite to play Monopoly. I'll keep checking back and see how it improves, if that. Back to my 2 pager, then 4 pager, then 14-pager... what an end to a semester.

So it's one of those all-nighter sort of nights, and I just made myself a fresh bowl of pasta with meat-sauce, and I sit at my computer in the greatest of moods to play online monopoly, only the find my regular site, games.atari.com down! The front-page of the site works, but once you hit 'play games' (http://games.atari.com/playgames/home.jsp) the page is down. Oh man, this is going to make the news tomorrow. I know there are hundreds who use the site at any moment of any day... I'm going to sulk now. Maybe youtube has something entertaining...

The implication of Globalization's biggest financial offshoot, and what can be done about it (Submitted for a Journalism class assignment - OpEd piece) When Alexander Graham Bell's patent for the telephone was granted in 1876, little did he know that it would eventually lead to the emergence of Globalization: A powerful international phenomenon that has paved the path for technological comparative advantage, where countries are now trading based on what they are best-suited to produce. In terms of trading skill, this has become infamously known as outsourcing. A little over a century ago, European nations were scrambling to set up industries in African countries. Now, using mouse-clicks and Skype, the United States ' corporate world has most of its operations based in the Asian Tigers like Singapore , India and China , where people are putting in more time for less money. In the last decade the increasing use of the Internet has taken outsourcing to another level. A

What a week. And from what a weekend! Turned 21 last Saturday, and I have to say that it was one of the craziest weekends I have had so far this year. Got to spend some good quality time with folks over at Lafayette on Friday night and then did it up bigtime with Aly, Maria and Khati here at PM in New York City on Saturday. Amazing times. The semester is almost over, and I'm stressing out. I wrap up work at the EastWest Institute next week, but final papers are due for classes, and I have an exam for my IR theory class. It's been quite a semester, and I feel like I'm coming out having learned a lot. But geez... what a semester. When I think about my mood changes, the people I've met, the experiences I've had, that's all I can say - what a semester! I figured I'd also start posting some of the paper's I've been writing for my Journalism and Human Rights classes. If I look back on the reflections I put in those papers, compared to what I thought about

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6610901.stm "Michael Dell, the founder, chairman and chief executive of Dell, is himself an Ubuntu user. He has the operating system installed on a high-end Dell Precision M90 laptop he uses at home." Seems like Michael Dell is moving from taking work home, to bringing home to work. Enjoy!