Apple - the PUP company
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Posted in General | 1 Comment »Some sites still make me use Quicktime to watch video content. But, Apple thinks that I am too dumb to realize this, but I need iTunes too. I know Apple thinks that because it forces me to download iTunes if ...
Blogging through Journler!
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in General | 1 Comment »I really liked Windows Live Writer and I miss not having it on the Mac! I am using Journler for now and it looks very promising but I would really like to be able to copy-paste an image into my ...
A new paradigm: Social Investigation through Social Networks
Thursday, May 17th, 2007 Posted in General, India, NewAge, Social Computing | No Comments »Disclaimer: This post makes a reference to the death of a young girl in Mumbai. I never knew her but I wish that her soul rests in peace and I really hope her murderer is found and duly punished. However, ...
Enough
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »How long have you been online today? How long have you been browsing the web – one link leading to another, leading to yet another and yet another. Well, I am going to give you one more link to go ...
What’s that under my skin – an RFID?
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 Posted in General, HCI, Privacy, RFID, Technology | No Comments »I have always been very excited about this but have been putting it off. However, the IEEE doesn't want to let us on-the-edge engineers rest in peace – they went ahead and dedicated an entire issue of Spectrum magazine on ...
Sameer is a Facebook addict - Michigan Daily
Friday, March 30th, 2007 Posted in General | 1 Comment »So they did catch wind of this somehow and now the secret is out! Sameer Halai, a student in the School of Information, said he checks his Facebook.com account between seven and eight times each day. Halai is a first-year graduate student ...
Uni of Washington President visits Mumbai
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »For some strange reason, I have been terribly missing Mumbai since the start of the week. Then I came across this blog entry by the University of Washington President, Mark Emmet about his visit to Mumbai. Felt nice reading about ...
Molotov - last seen in California, now only found in Second Life
Friday, March 23rd, 2007 Posted in General, Virtual Worlds | No Comments »This is an interesting dramatized short movie series that I chanced upon through Shr's blog. I found the movie engaging/interesting enough to have it's own blog entry around it. The rest of the episodes can be found here.
Laloo at MIT?
Saturday, March 17th, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »If I am to believe this article in the Times of India, Indian Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, who is better known for the fodder scam, has been invited by top universities in the US to talk about how ...
Of Frappuccinos and Best Taste Dates
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 Posted in General | 3 Comments »I was at a Starbucks with a friend recently and he made a very interesting observation. The label on the bottle of Frappuccino had a date which read: "Best Taste By Feb 12 07" What do they really mean? Are they saying ...
Chill!
Friday, February 2nd, 2007 Posted in General | 3 Comments »So you are talking to someone, and that person says: Chill! And then you think - does that person even know what that means?If you look at the temperatures here, it's more like Freeze! These temperatures are in Fahrenheit. Chill!
The Ant and the Grasshopper
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »I may not necessarily agree with this, but it's an interesting parable of sorts. OLD VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long building hishouse and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks theant's a fool ...
Conversations at SI
Friday, December 8th, 2006 Posted in General, Music | No Comments »Him: What was your undergrad major? Me: Computer Engineering. Him: Wow!!! Me: How about you? Him: Psychology. Me: Wow!!! [We both are interested in Human Computer Interaction]
Free copy of Microsoft Office 2007
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 Posted in General | 1 Comment »Zdnet had reported a Microsoft give-away which allowed one to get a free copy of Office 2007 or Vista. I jumped at the opportunity and I completed the requirements and this is what Microsoft has to say: Congratulations! You’ve completed the ...
Intel 4004
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 Posted in General | 1 Comment »via Slashdot: The Intel 4004 Processor celebrates it's 35th Birthday and Intel designs a hands-on 130x magnified processor. It also has a Java simulator. Visit the Intel unofficial website for this at http://www.4004.com. Anyone with some basic knowledge in logic circuits and ...
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Monday, November 6th, 2006 Posted in General, Movies | No Comments »I will hold my comments about this movie. Be your own judge!
Wikipedia asking for what content should be freed
Monday, October 23rd, 2006 Posted in General, Ideas, NewAge, Social | No Comments »Jimmy Wales is asking people to come up with ideas and suggestions about what premium content they would like to be freed up and made available in the public domain if they had the money to do it. Dream big. ...
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits - Alchemy Live!
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006 Posted in General, Music | No Comments »Alchemy version of Sultans of Swing seems to be one of the most beautiful songs ever! He had performed it again when he was in Mumbai - it was really amazing - but not quite like the Alchemy version.
