Deal or no deal - open source style

The way companies buy bulk keywords you can get very funny results sometimes. Like the following ad when I searched on keyword “open source” -

I remember seeing Ebay links as well.

Strategic crap

Funny how English language works. You take any word out of the dictionary and add strategic before it and it becomes quite a serious affair. Somebody on NPR mentioned Iraq situation generates “strategic pessimism”. Now that’s something to ponder. Maybe that requires some strategic pondering.
If you want to try this, go ahead and add “strategic” [...]

Blogger’s block

I am hit by blogger’s block. There are plenty of issues and news I feel like commenting but then something stops me.
Recent trip to India further complicated the picture by providing such an overwhelming experience. Place is exploding with new ideas and optimism never seen before. Plenty of opportunity to indulge in precocious intellectualism.
Maybe [...]

Folish font

Random observation:
Why Indian government is allowing their citizens to choose their own font for the motor license plates?  This practice is totally out of control. It’s a study in how chaos develops in the absence of standardization. If  governement plans to use camera [...]

Managing events

Blogging is very slow these days. It has always been slow for me but last 10 days of hectic travel it came to a virtual crawl.
I am so overwhelmed with events and observations that I will need good time to soak up [...]

Red Carpet and making sense of new India

Fiction writers are a different breed. They view world in a different way and lot of their training is precisely in fine tuning their ears and eyes. Which helps in interesting interpretation of the events and stories around us.
That’s why it helps to hunt for new writers and their work if objective is to understand [...]

Female infanticide

I get really mad when I hear politicians or armchair intellectuals talk about making India a next superpower. Specially when you compare those rhetorics with ground realities. One of that reality is this disgusting practice of aborting girl foetuses. We pretty much managed [...]

Step back

For some reason this thought keeps coming back to me -
Sometimes the best way to deliver punches is to step back

It’s from the Million Dollar Baby movie.

Year 2006

Wishing you all a very happy new year !
2005 was great and looks like 2006 will be one heck of a year. Interesting times are here.

Fun is important

Count on Alan J Perlis to remind us about the importance of having fun - “I think that it\’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. [...]