PlanetRead - A small change for Colossal gains in Literacy
Monday, September 18th, 2006 Posted in General, Progress, Social | No Comments »A fairly simple yet promising idea. Link to PlanetRead .. A small change for Colossal gains in Literacy
Television Screensaver
Saturday, September 9th, 2006 Posted in General | No Comments »You know you are spending too much time on your laptop watching media when you start getting restless after 3 minutes of watching television. Why are you restless? Coz you are reaching for the mouse to move it a little ...
Closure
Thursday, September 7th, 2006 Posted in General, Gumption, Technical, Windows | 1 Comment »So you quit your job in a good software company, move to a new country, start school again but it just doesn't feel complete until you do that one thing: Format+Clean+Reinstall Windows on your laptop.I finally got around to doing ...
Windows Live Writer
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 Posted in General | 3 Comments »Windows Live Writer is a really good tool. It's a freeware windows beta which surprisingly isn't simply tied down to only MSN Spaces. I could use it perfectly fine with this "Customer Installation of Wordpress". I am impressed.Setting it up ...
Divya Singh
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 Posted in General | No Comments »I am in tears!!!! It's been years since this email is doing the rounds, but it keeps coming back to me with full vigor! From Divya Singh (Siemens) Dear Friends please help, if possible . This is important to Me. so I ...
Windows Live Local Outlook Add-in Beta
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 Posted in General, Windows | No Comments »Windows Live Local for Outlook (Beta) It's less than 3 MB. Give it a spin.
Observe Cleanliness: Junagarh
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 Posted in General | No Comments ».flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } This is a nice notice I observed in a residential building in Junagarh, Gujarat. English Translation: "Observe Cleanliness + Do not ...
Pink Panther 2006
Thursday, May 18th, 2006 Posted in General | 2 Comments »French Accent: Overdone Plot: Interestingly knit, but too abrupt Continuity: Bad Humor Devices: Isolated from each other, as if the funny scenes were thought of first and a story was wrapped around it Trademark Dialogues: Very few, none extremely great Final Conclusion: Fails miserably compared ...
Donkey Monkey Pakitwala
Sunday, May 14th, 2006 Posted in General | 1 Comment »How many of you remember/know this phrase: "Donkey Monkey Pakitwala"? If you do, please leave a comment. If not, check back after a month for the answer! It's nothing important! Hint: School Days
w.bloggar update
Thursday, April 13th, 2006 Posted in General, Web | No Comments »seems impressive because it supports almost all the blogging hosts/systems. But it had a very sad way of screwing up HTML entries (converting new lines to line breaks), so I quit using it. Quit using it almost a year ...
Save water OR ELSE
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 Posted in General | No Comments »Save water OR ELSE By: A Mid Day Correspondent March 22, 2006 Today is World Water Day. Reports suggest that by 2025, two-thirds of the world will not have enough ...
Far East
Saturday, January 28th, 2006 Posted in General | No Comments »I went for a 8 day tour with my family to Malaysia & Singapore. It was fun. More details in later posts.Pictures here.
Quite a long break
Monday, January 9th, 2006 Posted in General | No Comments »Been busy lately. What's up? Raj National Express & CES.
SearchEngine Comparisions
Sunday, December 4th, 2005 Posted in General | 1 Comment »Search for "Raj National Express" on Yahoo! Search & search for it on Google Search http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22raj+national+express%22 http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22raj+national+express%22 Google returns 5 results, and the first one is my blog because I blogged about it a week ago. The actual site ...
Cherkady Natural Farmer
Saturday, November 26th, 2005 Posted in General | No Comments »A very interesting story here about a farmer who has been extremely successful doing farming. A man and his land. "I began to scrounge for seedlings and planted them all over. I would walk about ...
Our Micromouse
Thursday, November 24th, 2005 Posted in General, Technical | 2 Comments »While completing my engineering studies, the most gripping and enlightening work I did was the development of an autonomous robot for the Micromouse competition held at Techfest - IIT, Powai. The work spanned almost two years and it helped me see ...
Plan your regular travel - easily
Sunday, November 20th, 2005 Posted in General | 1 Comment »Take an online flight reservation system. Customize it to support bus reservations. What do you get?Peace of mind! Raj National Express Privatized Road Transportation has finally kicked inBrand new VOLVO straight out of the assembly line. Point to point service. ...
Gosh!
Sunday, October 9th, 2005 Posted in General | No Comments »I just "DROP"ed a database I didn't want to. It was the database that held all the galleries whcih are on My Online Albums. So I immediately checked to see what remained of it. But its there, working fine. Maybe I deleted a redundant ...
P2P for premium content: finally.
Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 Posted in General, Ideas, Progress, Technical, Technology | No Comments »As I had mentioned in my previous post, P2P can be used to explore new economic models. It's nice to know that there's formal work in that direction as can be understood by this post. They are doing exactly what I wanted ...
