Author: Kupitero
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A Tribute to Cesaria Evora
Cape Verdean –Cape Verde is a string of islands off the coastline of West Africa and a former Portuguese colony– songstress, Cesaria Evora passed away last Dec 18, 2011. Since most of her songs were rendered in Portuguese, I thought – when I first heard her music -that she was Brasilian. My mistake only proved, once more,…
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Black Friday Version 2.0.11
I had to get home early after our Thanksgiving party in Fremont so that I could get to bed early. By 10:00 PM, after watching a streaming video – “Bride Flight” – via Netflix, I dozed-off and dreamt about the gadgets I planned to buy for this year’s Black Friday sale, version 2.011. On top of…
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11-11-11
A once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, 11/11/2011 had been deemed by the Chinese as the luckiest day to get married. For them, it’s the best day to leave the single life behind. In the U.S., 11/11 is Veteran’s Day – a national holiday. It was President Woodrow Wilson who proclaimed this holiday on November 12, 1919, to celebrate…
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October 5, 2011 – Steve Jobs Goes Beyond
My early adulthood years hero is dead. Since I had my first Apple II back in 1980, I had looked-up to Steve as my idol. He was brash, handsome and had that unmistakable air of invincibility in him. I was working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1982 when I first saw the fantastic Apple IIe – as well as…
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Will The Clouds Go Down the Amazon?
You have to admire the spunk of Jeff Bezos (CEO, Amazon.com). Today, after the release of Amazon’s tablet, ‘Fire‘, he fired the opening salvo towards the heavily-fortified Apple castle with this quotable quote: ” There are two types of companies: those that work hard to charge customers more, and those that work hard to charge customers…