Via Reddit,

The Bhakti Movement - "Tamboori Meetidava" feat. Vasanth S

which led to other interesting tunes like:

The Bhakti Movement - "Govardhana Giridhara" (feat. Anjna Swaminathan)
The Bhakti Movement - "Maiyya Mori" feat. Aditya Rao New programming music is always welcome. Excuse the videos, they are a bit stilted for my taste, but ( Read more... )

As the friendship, knowledge and wisdom that he created lives on, each of us are left with our own devices to cope:

na jāyate mriyate vā kadācin; nāyaḿ bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥ
ajo nityaḥ śāśvato 'yaḿ purāṇo; na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre

For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into ( Read more... )

The most interesting series that I've recently discovered on Youtube is Amrita TV's Taste of Kerala series. Unfortunately, you need to be able to understand spoken Malayalam to be able to enjoy the programming, but if you do, you are in for a treat.

The intent is to travel around Kerala (and amusingly enough parts of the US) getting local and ( Read more... )

Here are three things:

Shah Rukh Khan is frisked at the airport.
Bob Dylan is detained for suspicious loitering.
Ravi Shankar, a Central Connecticut State University professor of English (Indian and 6 feet 2 inches, 200 pounds) is arrested on a warrant for a 5'10" 140 pound white male in New York.

Which of these did you hear about?

So with Bing being behind Yahoo's search, many pieces of the Panama project that I worked on will be put to rest.

When I first read that a full 1/3 of the software that gets built never gets used, I initially naively believed that it would not be true for me. I guess a system being used for a little while is still better than not at all.

Please do not do this when you are near a drink that can spill over you or have something important to go to do. This will make you waste considerable time, but nearly all of it laughing.

Someone at work mentioned an amazing prank that involved a porta-potty in a park being reconfigured so that it then eventually opened into into a meeting in ( Read more... )

Among the many things recently that I've found very surprising, some real estate agents refuse to work with you (aka show their listings) if you indicate that you found their listing on Redfin. How self defeating can you get? There's a 3% of profit out there if you take the trouble to show homes to people who are interested in them. If you don't, ( Read more... )

If history is anything to go by, then in about 3-6 months, the initial kinks get worked out and the price gets a little bit more realistic ( Read more... )

After much work, I tried to get NDTV Live to watch the election results (mostly due to old memories of elections with Prannoy Roy). Perhaps it's me, but the older NDTV appeared much more professional, cool and sophisticated. Perhaps, it's just that I've gotten older and I can see how they are making mistakes or it's just that they just prefer to ( Read more... )

the work cappuccino machine has a "South Indian coffee" setting. I expect my coffee intake to skyrocket.

In other news, I'm in Bangalore for a super short visit.