Want to understand how the average American thinks? Go here. Now place your cursor in the center of the map, and drag it to the left or right. Keep going. Yep – there is nothing there. Not even a detail-less outline of the rest of the world. Nothing. For the average American, there is nothing [...]

So I decided to declare yesterday as the Unofficial Star Wars Day. Why? Because I could – it is unofficial, after all. And to celebrate the event, I plunked myself into bed, grabbed my trusty old Thinkpad, my AKG K240DF headphones and my Official Starwars Trilogy DVD set, made sure that there was plenty of [...]

My final year project in engineering was the development of a model hovercraft, designed by my project mates and me, and built according to our specifications by us, using a variety of locally available materials. We met with a lot of failure – the damn thing just wouldn’t work, i.e. it wouldn’t float. We were [...]

Reached Calicut on Saturday morning after an uneventful train-journey. Amazingly, I had GPRS connectivity almost throughout the journey, so was able to web-browse and do email till late into the night. Technology rocks! On reaching Calicut, was collected at the station and taken to the NIT guest house to freshen up. Met up there with [...]

I am off to Calicut this evening, to speak at the NIT FOSS Event there tomorrow. Shanu is also joining me, along with a few more guys. I have never been to Calicut before, though my connection with the place goes back a few years – friend Nikhil Datta and Manish Bhalla did their MBAs [...]

What’s in a name? A rose is a rose by any other name? Xerox used to be the name of a technology company before it became a generic document-duplication process they helped popularise (“I’ll just take a Xerox of this document using my Ricoh photocopier here”). Thanks to the media, hackers, who used to make [...]

Did you know that I am a great Phil Collins fan? Not only does he create great songs – he never holds back when it comes to calling a spade a spade. Here is an example (you can guess the context): Read the rest of this entry…

Phenom is participating in a show to raise funds fro Tsunami relief. The show is on January 28th (Friday) at 6:30pm at the St.Johns Amphi-theatre. Donor passes are Rs.100. The other groups are Galeej Gurus and Zebediah Plush, plus a few acoustic groups. All performing groups are doing so free of charge to maximise net [...]

I don’t want to sound cynical, but…. Has *anyone*, *anywhere* in India, got a BSNL Broadband connection installed? After much hoo-haa and lots of advertising, I have yet to hear about anyone getting a connection. Has anyone at least been contacted about the application that they have made online ? Specific to Bangalore – which [...]

Heh. Finally. Phenom releases my favourite from their album – CAP 5101. Nice, rocky song, great chorus, and I totally freak on that rousing solo at around 2:26 into the song – it gives me the feeling of a 100 piece orchestra going into full blow. The song is apparently autobiographical – the group is [...]