in my spare time ...

not exactly in my spare time, there is no spare time, but time can be made spare at the expense of less interesting endeavours.

i was just doing some work and profiling bhp billiton. this company's revenue for 2010 amounted to about US$52 billion. anyway, so i looked up the IMF's 2010 estimates for the GDP of African countries ...as one does. in this table, all the countries in green have GDPs that are less than the revenue of BHP Billiton-one company. tis ridiculous.

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the war council

it has been a shitty year for the world with the jasmine revolutions, earthquakes, floods ...just general mayhem. the world's bad energy has seemingly extended to me on a personal level this year and i've needed to face some seismic events of my own - this is not going to be an oprah session, i am just giving some background. (*disclaimer: i am in no way comparing my personal woes to what is happening in japan, libya etc - that is infinitely more real) aaaand onto the point...

this weekend, when life took another interesting turn, i realised that there are people in my life without whom i would be able to emerge safely from any precarious situation... my war council. from chicago to cape town this phenomenal group of people disarm the shittiest of situations; calm me when i am struck with a bout of irrationality and usually have me laughing in no time at all. the un security council has nothing on the peacekeeping abilities of these people - if this council was in charge of world affairs, the world would be an infinitely better and more balanced place. so i guess this is a public thank you to the war council - too much love.

to end off, rabi: get a blackberry.

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