Though I must admit that having PrashanthChengi in your friendlist saves all the trouble of reading through them. Nonetheless, there's this Barnetts manual http://www.gweep.net/~prefect/bike/barnetts/ and Sheldon Brown dude (http:// ( Read more... )

How to increase shelf life? Learn from nature. Evolution. In business terms, it would be diversification and/or invention. In personal terms, it would be learning and continuously learning. You really don't have a choice here. Because if your choice is to get comfortable and turn blind eye to it, change is simply going to push you over and then ( Read more... )

This (http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/amartya-sen-threatens-to-quit-nalanda-univ-over-funds-queries/) reminded me of the Negroponte episode (Read more... )

This year has been year of accidents. Not at personal level but at globe level. Almost every 15 days, have been hearing news about some or other disaster striking some part of earth. Be it earthquake, tremors, floods or just about anything. For some reasons, this year also has shown how much we value our lives, our futures in light of current ( Read more... )

Sometimes listening to arguments help. They do force you to look onto the other side which you may end up ignoring otherwise in your day to day routine stuff. There were two specific discussions or rather argument points that left me wondering where are we going wrong. A dignitary mentioned that recently some security algorithm (RSA to be precise) ( Read more... )

Considering that every time I installed Plan 9 it ended up messing up the system badly, I decided to go easy on the stable system and try it on Virtual box. Unfortunately neither Plan 9 nor Minix could be installed on the VirtualBox 3.2.6. Minix though reports of having installation guidelines for VirtualBox 3.1.x so either I need to downgrade or ( Read more... )

But then if we take things in our hand and just because it ain't conforming to law books, it itself will be called lawless. Funny world it is. The book called law is never complete and has holes that allows fat rich people to escape and thin poor people to be stuck with it for eternity ( Read more... )

When I was at Delhi Airport waiting to take flight to Ahemdabad, I had this telephonic interview. There were two positions - Advisor to Head and Project Manager. And so the talks start ( Read more... )

Last time we had been on the temple visit tour, it was a hectic and tiring tour. Each of those visited temples had ample of devotees. Today we tried visit a couple of temples within mumbai, wadala to be specific. The number of devotees were handful and it felt really nice to be able to spend some quality time inside the temple without being pushed ( Read more... )

While one such evening, Bro started talked about his US trip a couple of years ago. He said - "The government tried promoting public transport by putting up clips in radio/newspapers. May be they were hinting to people about tough times coming in but instead of breaking bad news these tried using indicators for it ( Read more... )