Pakorakorner

Title: The Last Lecture Author: Prof. Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow If you have never heard of Prof. Randy Pausch a good place to start is here. He died of pancreatic cancer on July 25, 2008 after battling the disease for over a year and a half. This book is based mostly on his lecture at CMU (where he was a Prof.) and was written along with Jeffrey Zaslow of the WSJ. The book follows the lecture for the most part except ...

I happened to watch live the back to back one on one sessions of the two Presidential candidates with Rev Rick Warren at the Saddleback Church, CA. Senator Obama took questions for an hour followed by Senator McCain. The format was interesting in a number of ways. Firstly, the questions were quite different from those asked by conventional TV channels. There were hardly any follow on questions (which has its positives and negatives). On the flip side, the ...

Sri Lanka first destroyed India's ODI team at the Asia cup final. They then won the Test series against India rather convincingly. The common factor behind these victories was the new cricketing sensation, Ajantha Mendis. He baffled Dhnoi's boys in the crucial Asia cup final. Then, he also destroyed India's fabulous four (Dravid, Sachin, Ganguly and VVS). And now the young turks return. This is easily Dhoni's biggest ODI challenge since he took on the mighty Aussies after insisting on ...

Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif have finally decided to temporarily bury the hatchet and go after their common enemy, President Musharraf. After few attempts on his life and playing a cat and mouse game with the terrorists (for several years) while simultaneously keep the democratic process at bay, Pakistan's magic man Musharraf enters a new seemingly challenging phase in his political life. This time like many other times in the past seems like the end of the ...