antarnad - अंतर्नाद

How to implement non profit projects with crowdsourcing?

2010-03-14T21:16:00.001+05:30

Information is power. And even in the field of empowering people with power of information, there are many efforts such as Wikipedia which can revolutionise the world. And crowdsourcing is the ultimate volunteer force to execute these projects. How to get such projects off the ground until they gain momentum, and subsequently how to sustain them is then an important question. The recent effort

Pakistani players in IPL - a mumbaikar perspective...

2010-02-07T12:26:00.001+05:30

While there is a raging controversy about the Pakistani players in IPL currently. Some who have expressed the desire to bid and include Pakistani players are talking about the freedom of expression, etc and how what they are saying isn't quite wrong etc... There is no contrary view to this except the Shiv Sena view being aired by any media. Hence this post. I encourage you to pl. express your

V. S. Naipaul about India...

2010-01-15T01:07:00.002+05:30

... And then in your next book of travel, a journey through India called An Area of Darkness there are more unacceptable truths. It created a huge stir in India. I must confess that reading it at college was a revelation: it made one aware of things that were hitherto invisible, but right in front of one's eyes. And yet I found it difficult to argue wholeheartedly for the book amongst my friends.

A NASA Project Manager's lessons learned

2010-01-14T20:02:00.001+05:30

As the page says, "None of these are original--It's just that we don't know where they were stolen from!" here is a good one... Make sure everyone knows what the requirements are and understands them. Much easier to say than do. On GRO we stated quite clearly that the scientific instruments had to take 18g in a specific axis. Everyone understood the requirement but until the mechanical test on

Salman Rushdie on the "Idea of India"... on 50 years of Indian Independance...

2010-01-14T19:45:00.002+05:30

".....And yet I do feel like celebrating. The news is not all bad. (For example, the election of India's first untouchable President, K. R. Narayanan, will almost certainly bring a great assault on the worst excesses of casteism.) Above all, however, I want to extol the virtues of the most important thing that came into being on that midnight 50 years ago, the innovation that has survived all

Mobile blogging test subject...

2009-04-10T11:12:00.000+05:30

Blog entry...

आंतरराष्ट्रीय ऊर्जा किरकोळ मुल्य निर्देशांक / Global Fuel retail Price Index

2008-09-12T15:45:00.009+05:30

From today, I have started recording the retail prices of fuel in daily use in India at following location,Following is the matrix structure,countryRetailer (largest retailer in the country if possible)Data SourceFuel Brand (standard, non premium variety for all categories)Fuel CategoryNoteFuel QuantityCurrencyDate (dd/mm/yyyy)Price (effective in Capital city if possible)Price Currency to Euro

Failed Perl Catalyst install on WinXP / Activeperl 5.10 setup log...

2008-09-08T18:48:00.002+05:30

1] Install activeperl (5.10.x)2] Check Activeperl PPM repository packages for catalyst packages.3] Check catalyst packagesIf unavailable search and add relevant repository... (http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/)Downloading University of Winnipeg's 5.10 PPM repository packlist ... doneUpdating University of Winnipeg's 5.10 PPM repository database ... doneSynchronizing Database ...

Getting into development - MVC framework

2008-09-08T18:35:00.003+05:30

It's been time since I coded anything of late. When I was trying to create a portable system on a disk system, I found a lot of very lightweight standalone apps that were really good for the task at hand. The feeling to code some really needed functionality was felt badly. I needed to decide the platform. So, I decided to identify some crucial filter criteria.1] It should be a MVC framework based

new mumbai train carriages - information scroller display

2008-05-18T19:13:00.001+05:30

discovering podcasts and audio books...

2008-05-10T13:54:00.000+05:30

This will interest you all book who enjoy reading or at least have to endure long commutes common in any large city..Since I am back from project, travel takes a lot of time (3 hours +) and that's a quite sad.. so I have started doing something that may interest you... I have discovered podcasts and more importantly, audio books podcasts which can be enjoyed on any mp3 player. After some P G

"cookbook" guidance vs. experience and common sense

2008-05-10T13:52:00.001+05:30

In consulting, there is often a danger to preach ideal advice in terms of to-be processes that has little practical relevance. While recently browsing 'NASA Systems Engineering Handbook', following quote by Dr. Edward J. Hoffman, NASA Program Manager in a forward written to theHandbook makes an interesting point about this habit."In an attempt to demonstrate the potential dangers of relying on

DD loksabha programs...

2008-05-10T13:50:00.001+05:30

Seems the DD Loksabha channel has started a host of good new programs. Mrinal Pande, Neelam Sharma, Tharkuta, Rajeev Meherotra, Sohaila Kapoor, Suresh Prabhu etc each have a interview / discussion program. They really call some interesting personalities and are good in conducting these sort of programming (compared to the rest of the private channel pack!). Couple of days back, I saw another one

Incremental back using binary diff / patch software for windows...

2008-05-10T13:46:00.002+05:30

I am trying to set a cleanup backup system for my laptop for project data. I have set up daily mirroring with a microsoft utility called Robocopy which also syncs with our portal, so others can access project data.I am trying to now do same for outlook pst. I want to have a latest copy backed up every day. But copying the entire PST every day is too lame. I thought an incremental backup, and

IPL

2008-05-10T13:35:00.003+05:30

Indian Premier League may eventually turn out to be a success... currently it seems that the1billian+ windfall that BCCI had from TV rights... they were compelled to distribute the pie, incorporate the state associations, grounds into league system and facilities with private parties thrown in. Since the billion were to be apportioned, there was a large amount assured for private owners, they

SMS spam...

2008-05-10T13:21:00.002+05:30

Seems I need to search for something that will block SMS spam as well... I am getting flooded with at least 4 SMSs just for Shahrukh's TV show alone!I am starting to record the SMS spam sender's blacklist here, so that when I find a usable spam SMS blocker, I will have a ready list to use...Here are 1st set of SMS spam senders in the blacklist,55000SharukhKhanMeet SRKWIN 5 CRORE

A stab at seamlessly interchanging addressbooks across gmail, palm, outllook...

2008-05-10T13:00:00.003+05:30

I am left with so many different addressbook formats with none complete, and no possibility of a consolidation without manually doing import, realignments, and exports with CSV as the only interchangable format! I am sure I am not the only one with this problem! So I will be blogging details of my attempt to seamlessly interchanging addressbooks across gmail, palm, outllook...To start with, here

Tata's briliant strategy - Multiple fuel options (hydrogen/Air/Electric/petrol/Disel) to Nano/Indica/Ace

2008-02-15T00:01:00.006+05:30

It's been widely reported today that Tata has backed an inventor to launch air-power car for Indian market. While the vehicle that will be fitted with this engine is not any of the Tata cars, a pattern seems to emerge looking at the announcements coming out of Tata MotorsNov 2007 - Electric version of Indica for europe...Nov 2007 - Collaboration with ISRO for Hydrogen fuel based engines...Jan

free call screening software for Nokia (S60 3rd edition)...

2008-02-13T23:48:00.002+05:30

In earlier post "Blocking Airtel advertisement calls...", I had mentioned about earlier attempt to find call screening software to filter unsolicited sales / marketing calls. I finally found a free software mobigenie for Nokia devices with S60 3rd edition firmware. The basic filtering works quite well. It also has a local voice mailbox feature, but it didn't work for me.download the software

how to synchronise between contact addressbooks of Rolodex, PDA, Mobile, desktop Mail client, and webmail client...

2008-02-13T00:42:00.001+05:30

Despite taking this up a few times myself, it's one of those things that never quite gets a satisfactory answer... Seems from 1970s when email arrived to now, we have been left with more devices and less organisation in terms of personal information!So, here again I try to handle this in a GTD and "worse is better" / "better is the enimy of good enough" approach! In short, I plan to attempt this

Notable Indian TV presenters in hindi / english news channels...

2008-02-07T22:56:00.000+05:30

24 hour news channels have been in India for about 3-4 years. There are quite a few now, let's see...Sahara samay, Aajtak hindi, DD news hindi / english, star news hindi / english, NDTV India Hindi / English, CNN-IBN, India TV, IBN 7, Live India, Times Now, Headlines today, news 24 and Lok SabhaI would include the last one... it has substantial news/current affairs content. Also note business

Blocking Airtel advertisement calls...

2008-01-28T22:21:00.000+05:30

I have been unable to register with airtel's "Do Not Call" list. It seems there was some 3 month deadline for this to be implemented for all operators back in Q4 of 2007. But there is no trace of the service. I have been adding these unsolicited advertising phone calls from Airtel in my address book as At1, At2 and so on.Initially I would disconnect the calls when I would get a call from one of

Mumbai: Trafic on Andheri - Kurla Road...

2008-01-25T00:13:00.000+05:30

Here are a couple of snapshots taken today of the crazy situation on Andheri - Kurla Road in Mumbai. Behind me, there were some 7-8 metropolitan transport buses, some of them double decker... Now if some of these people decide to come out in their vehicles, there will be chaos! The road is narrow, and all sort of obstructions come up like a lot of commercial vehicles on the route due to a lot of

Bharat ek khoj - signature tune...

2008-01-21T22:55:00.000+05:30

When this serial was running on Doordarshan -Indian national telecast service probably 15 years back, we did find it quite strange in the way it depicted the history. Other costume dramas like Ramayan and Mahabharat were also running sometime during that period. But "Bharat ek khoj" felt far more authentic and unusually gripping, credit to Shyam Benegal and his chosen crew. And it's title track

Mumbai Marathon 2008

2008-01-20T22:22:00.000+05:30

I took part in Mumbai Marathon 2008 on 20th Jan in Dream Run which was a 6 KM run. Considering the previous experience of 10 KM run in Hyderabad, this was better organized. The number of supporting organizations, NGOs, corporates and enthusiastic citizens were overwhelming. The atmosphere was joyous and quite infectious.I think I can go up to 10-12 KM without any preparation, off-course a few