This email is a popular forward recently and some one decided to forward it to everyone at work on Friday:


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In the days and posts since my shift to Blogger, the only thing I really find lacking here (and in perhaps all other blogging platforms) is the way LiveJournal handles comments. The ability to have threaded comments is a strong enabler of conversation which I think is what blogging is also about - two way communication ( Read more... )

There. I've finally created another blog at http://umangjaipuria.blogspot.com/Read more... )

After at least a couple of years I think I must have read a book in one go.
Sputnik Sweetheart may not be Haruki Murakami's best novel, but it is definitely among the better ones I've read.

Check out the blurb on the back cover here to see what's it about. The plot is not where the brilliance of the story lies but with the story teller. The way ( Read more... )

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Yes, this is a Bangalore rant ( Read more... )

http://indexed.blogspot.com/
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http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TuppersSelf-ReferentialFormula.html

And so it came to pass that I twisted my foot badly while walking about downstairs yesterday evening. And I've been hopping around on one leg all day and nursing the bandaged appendage and OD-ing on analgesics.

And I get to miss proto.in. Drat, drat and double drat!

Saw Grosse Pointe Blank today. Good movie ( Read more... )

So I managed to go for a couple of talks while in the bay area: one at SRI and the other at Stanford. Both said to focus on the next generation of search and both were rather disappointing although they were in an area I suspect having at least half of all the computer science research thrust. It can probably be equated to the armament race - the ( Read more... )

So far an eon or an age has meant a year or two. Two and a half, perhaps. But this one beats all time spans I can recount.

I went to school Monday before last after five years perhaps. It was closed for the holidays so some of the classrooms and the assembly hall were locked and it looked uncharacteristically deserted ( Read more... )