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Thanks to a vast amount of 'down-time' I've been enjoying, I've managed to catch up on some reading over the past month-and-a-half. The books I've read, and recommendations...

1. Fools Gold by Gillian Tett. See my review for a reco.


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From the New Indian Express, techies expressing their disappointment in Pranobda's budget - "...the budget failed to address their [s/w engineers] primary concern - to create jobs, like the increase in NREGS ... which will create direct jobs"

To which I say Bravo! We could recreate Windows, and then fill it in again. Idiots!

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I've always wanted a mobile internet connection, but I always assumed that it would be completely rubbish on GPRS. But, I finally sprang for airtel's GPRS connection, and while it's definitely not the fastest connection, it is a very liberating experience. So here I am waiting for my grandmom to finish her work at the bank, and I, for a change, ( Read more... )

I'm a murderer. Well, let me change that to inadvertent assassin. You see, I like to make notes on and annotate papers that I read. And since much of my life is consumed reading research papers, I print papers rather indiscriminately (of course, the fact that my office has a laser printer doesn't hurt. But, that changes tomorrow). That's a whole ( Read more... )

I've started cross-posting to a new WordPress blog called Entropium, with the hope of eventually moving my blogging there. I've been blown away by WP's blogging tools, the interface and general ease of use. However, the primary motivation for setting up there is because I've also started a more technical blog called Minimal Descriptions. Since I ( Read more... )

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I think Pramod Mutalik and his merry band have it right. They are correct, we need to ghettoize our nation. Damn it, how dare we all, of different religions and denominations, mix together destroying the purity of our souls? But, I think they don't go far enough. Oh no, not by a mile. Let's go the whole hog while we're at it, I say. Let's ghettoize ( Read more... )

After a day pondering it I finally figured out what I found totally strange about "Jai Ho", the song during the credits in Danny Boyle's film, "Slumdog Millionaire" - the characters don't sing it to each other! They just...dance. This is wrong! Heresy! And this is why hamara Baalyvood is better I say - we know how to put our mouths where our feet ( Read more... )