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A thoughtful article on Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh: Beyond Media Images
This is a very thoughtful piece on Andhra pradesh and it's political leadership. It also goes in-depth about the cause of factions in the rayalaseema region. A must read.
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Great trip, Back in the US.
I am back in the US after an amazing 5 week work/leisure break in India and Israel. Professionally, I learned a lot about creating and deploying a product in Israel. Personally, I had a great time visiting beautiful places, meeting tons of new people and above all friends and family. On the sad side, I was subjected to racial discrimination, ( Read more... ) -
Breakfast can wait
Breakfast can wait, the day's first stop is online speaks volumes how our mornings are shaped by technology. The below story quantifies the change:
In May, Gabrielle Glaser of Montclair, N.J., bought her 14-year-old daughter, Moriah, an Apple laptop for her birthday. In the weeks after, Moriah missed the school bus three times and went from walking ( Read more... ) -
Free pictures for passport
Want pictures for passport/visa but don't want to pay for it? Follow these steps- Choose a good picture of yourselves(edit in picasa if needed)
- Follow guidelines on epassportphoto.com to get 4X6 copies of your photographs.
- Register for a CVSPhoto account (if you don't have one) to get 50 free prints.
- Order the prints at CVSPhoto for a 1 hour pickup ( Read more... )
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An interesting experiment
An Israeli news paper replaced their staff journalists with noted and upcoming authors and poets. The result is pretty impressive. This is probably an interesting way to save the dying new papers because big things don't happen every day. -
Vancouver Trip 1
I am being too lazy to blog about my recent vancouver trip. So, I decided to do it in parts. In short, It was an amazing trip where I met a ton of people both new and old. It was the best trip so far.
On my second day, I went for a hike in Stanley park with a group of friends. It was an amazing walk. But when I stopped for a while to observe the ( Read more... ) -
LTTE in american media
It's weird how LTTE is portrayed in Canada vs US.
In Canada, they are portrayed as the largest terrorist organisation on earth who trained Al-Qaeda and PLO. There are reports published that say that they had committed human rights violations, smuggled goods, assanited politicians, used child soldiers, used human shields, pioneered hidden belt ( Read more... ) -
Elections in India
The Indian public has spoken yet again and has handed the batton to the congress party and the sensex goes crazy. Probably the craziness of the sensex is indicative of the irrational decisions we will see in the next five years. -
ICSE'09, ICPC'09 and Canada
Part of my research work has been accepted as a poster at International Conference on Program comprehension (ICPC'09) which is co-located with ICSE'09. I am proud of my research and it was an excting ride. Apart from the results, I am also proud of the project because I wrote meta-meta programs in 5 languages that do dynamic escape analysis of ( Read more... )