Globonomics!

Anaryst – The intellectual property game / pre-review / unboxing/first look

Naveen Athresh — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:59:15 +0000

I bought this first of it’s kind IPR game. My love for IPR is well documented in past posts and I have even been attending National law school for the last 1+ year in the specialized course run by them on IPR law. This looks to be a very promising game designed and developed by an [...]

Apple care protection plan

Naveen Athresh — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:24:14 +0000

I have my MacBook insured for accidental damage (similar to the DELL Complete Cover protection plan that I had for my DELL desktop) by a PSU insurance provider. This AppleCare protection plan (APP) provided by Apple Singapore is an addition to that and there are technical differences in the type of protection/cover the device gets. By [...]

Seventymm – India’s answer to NetFlix/Slumdog millionnaire/F1 update

Naveen Athresh — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:51:47 +0000

Seventymm.com is India’s answer to NetFlix. I have been using this service for an initial subscription of Rs. 849 unlimited for 1 DVD per day for 3 months and so far, my experience has been very good. The DVD quality has been excellent and their pick-up/drop is a hassle-free experience for us. We are putting our DVD [...]

NLSIU classes/update

Naveen Athresh — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:16:25 +0000

It’s been a long time since I blogged about this endeavor I have undertaken. I have to say that I found this course more demanding than what I envisaged. I had to postpone taking up my examinations to Jan 2010 due to time constraints I faced in balancing both my studies at NLSIU and my work [...]

My Blackberry Bold replaced free of cost

Naveen Athresh — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:02:19 +0000

About a fortnight ago, I had show stopper issues with my Bold which suddenly could not take in charge. I used to leave it for 2-3 hours on the USB charger with the PC but it just did not charge. It was strange. Thankfully, this time it’s 1-year RIM warranty was put to good use. Furthermore, the [...]

Bought a Sony DVD Player

Naveen Athresh — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:31:05 +0000

http://www.sony.co.in/product/dvp-ns728hp Advantage is my Sony Bravia LCD is Full HD (1080p) so this one has a simple HDMI cable that slots into it easily so I can watch full HD. This cable comes free with the DVD player and the cost of this cable itself (bought separately) is about Rs. 2500. This is the one I picked [...]

Rolls Royce Phantom – my chance encounter!

Naveen Athresh — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:30:19 +0000

Keeping with the uniqueness of my posts, here is one more: On my way back from work, I chanced upon an exquisite beauty! Near the Forum Mall, Whitefield, was a Rolls Royce Phantom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Phantom) on display! I quickly took out my Blackberry and snapped out a few pictures courtesy of some of the chaps from the [...]

Wolfram Alpha / a new computational knowledge engine

Naveen Athresh — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:58:17 +0000

This looks promising. Point is how will they commercialize it to sustain the vast amounts of data and information it will have to assimilate over time. Also, would this service scale? This is where Google was successfully able to handle huge amounts of data and information assimilation without any degradation in performance. http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Will use this search [...]

I voted, did you vote?

Naveen Athresh — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:31:15 +0000

There is no point criticizing the Government, the public offices, the institutions, the politicians etc. if you don’t exercise your fundamental right and cast your vote. So, get up and vote – for a change. Let’s make India a better place to live in!

Passport renewal / very efficient service of Indian passport offices/postal service

Naveen Athresh — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:13:09 +0000

I am not deviating from my rule of ‘uniqueness’ of content on this blog because this post is truly unique in terms of the sheer efficiency of our Indian Government and much criticized institutions so I owe this good piece to them! To a lot of those who got their passports during their final year in [...]