September 29 04
3 steps to easier networking with people Most people are too shy to meet strangers and carry on a conversation with them. Networking with people can, however change your life by giving you access to information you would never have otherwise, like new job openings, or interesting business prospects. Jeff Colvin has a simple three [...]
September 29 04
The Taj turns 350 A tribute to the Taj Mahal. (I’ll resist the temptation to say “Man’s greatest erection for a woman”).
September 28 04
Should you spend money on technology or development? I posted this story on Slashdot about India’s moon mission and as expected, there were plenty of comments on the lines of ‘Shouldn’t India focus on removing poverty before sending rockets to the moon?’. I could give plenty of arguments about how it is impossible for a [...]
September 27 04
Obligatory periodic link to new pictures I took this picture a few weeks back during the Vegas trip. There was a railway track running parallel to the freeway and this train just happened to be zooming by. Holding the camera still was a bitch, but somehow it behaved for the duration of the shot. If [...]
September 26 04
Locking out Academics Bruce Schiener (the guru of cryptography) has written a piece on how tight visa controls are hurting academics in the US. It’s become so difficult for academics to come to the US in the past three years that people are simply scheduling conferences elsewhere. Many students are opting to do their graduate [...]
September 26 04
The world’s first education satellite On monday, India launched the world’s first education satellite – a two tonne (~2000 kgs) satellite using a home-built rocket. The Indian space program has come a long way from 1975 when it built a satellite that was sent piggyback to space on a Soviet rocket. The Indian Space Research [...]
September 22 04
Why DRM is bad for you, me and my neighbor’s dog. Cory Doctorow gave an excellent talk to the Microsoft research group at Redmond on why DRM is ineffective, bad for business, bad for society, bad for artistes and bad for all the companies involved. Cory makes the excellent point that while DRM is totally [...]
September 21 04
Same shit, new place. I’m in the process of moving my site entirely to this domain. I am also putting together a new home page for this site, and a better site for my photographs. I’d like to change the look of this page, but then I don’t care and I know you don’t either. [...]