There have been serial blasts in Delhi, similar to those in London earlier this year. An act of such madness and utter terror – how does one respond? There is shock – how could this happen? It doesn’t make any sense! There is anger – on behalf of the victims – who were completely innocent, [...]
Saturday, October 29, 2005
I don’t know if you guys have noticed this, but CNet is showcasing a new way of following news links. Here’s what happens – when you read a CNet story (this one, for example), there’s a section on the right which shows you the article in some kind of “article-topic space”, also viewable in full-screen [...]
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Milind Deora, Member of Parliament from Mumbai writes on IntentBlog: “…cities like Mumbai and Bangalore are rapidly decaying. Their infrastructure can handle only so much, yet commercial and residential buildings (mostly hideous structures) and unplanned construction continue to change the landscape of these metros. The Bombay High Court’s recent judgment on Mumbai’s mill lands has [...]
Thursday, October 27, 2005
The Left parties promise to be a pain in the neck for anything that remotely resembles progress. Here we go again. This time, the Left Front has pricked a particularly hopeful balloon – the idea of allowing foreign universities to open branches in India. Their reason, quoted in the Indian Express: the entry of foreign [...]
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Since we’re all such expert time managers, the system must of course continuously strive to challenge us to greater heights. It usually chooses to do so by the method of giving us endless new ways to waste time at work. The latest one – Scott Adam’s Dilbert Blog. Don’t think that this only means another [...]
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
How often do we appreciate the sunshine in our lives? Sometimes, after ages of bleakness, the magic moment comes. When we experience, and are grateful for each ray of sunshine thats come our way. Such moments of clarity are rare, but well worth the wait. This happens to be the 1000th photo in my Flickr [...]
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
14.2 Muralitharan to Tendulkar, one run, played away on the leg side and the single takes him to fifty, Tendulkar is back ! 14.1 Muralitharan to Tendulkar, FOUR, tossed up delivery outside the off stump, Tendulkar stretches well forward and taps it away to the fine leg fence, played it with the spin and got [...]
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
One day, I want to be jobless enough to be able to do this. Write a program for generating audio noise. From their website: It’s the hottest sensation to sweep the nation: Pink Noise! Also known as a signal with even power distribution on a logarithmic frequency scale, pink noise masks background noise to help [...]
Saturday, October 22, 2005
I thought I’d be Luke Skywalker, turns out the program thinks I’m his twin sister. One would think they could calculate the chromosome number correctly, but I guess you can’t get closer than that! Take the quiz, its fun.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things… differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t [...]
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