Profugo Blogs

This morning, MIT posted a new course on their OpenCourseWare site, “15.992 S-Lab: Laboratory for Sustainable Business.”  This course was offered “live” at MIT’s Sloan School of Management in Spring 2008.
For those of you not familiar with OpenCourseWare, MIT has made many of their courses available free on the web — some have video content, others [...]

I finally took the plunge and opened a Kiva account a few days before Christmas.  I wanted to give my sister a Kiva gift certificate as part of her gift, and I figured that I should also open an account while I was there.  I had heard and read a fair amount about Kiva, but [...]

Slumdog Millionaire Trailer (from YouTube)
I went to see “Slumdog Millionaire” last night at Ritz East in Philadelphia.  This movie has been getting hype as a potential Oscar candidate, so I decided it was worth checking out, especially as one of my brother’s friends mentioned that it would be especially interesting to me given my numerous [...]