ImPending Horizons

Why wasn't I blogging for some time

2009-08-08T02:15:00.000-07:00

I haven't been blogging for some time now. And if you thought it was because of work, then you are partly correct. Various things kept me out of it.1) I can't blog from workplace - that's of course, due to work - loads of it.2) My PC had run into the maintenance window, first it was the SMPS and then it was the OS.3) I spent almost a month at my place back home, attending my elder brother's

Citizen ID cards

2009-06-06T20:09:00.001-07:00

I had been long dreaming about this. Had mentioned this dream i one of my earlier posts also. UPA 2 is going to introduce the unique ID cards to all citizens in the next three years time. Am not as certain at this juncture, how successfully it will be implemented or what are the things that the govt has in mind. Some of the things that should be in their minds.1) It is got to be the one-in-all

Bing

2009-06-05T10:59:00.000-07:00

Hoping that MS's next best thing will bring some cheer to my heart, I was eagerly waiting for the launch of Bing. However, Bing has been a clear cut dissappointment to me. It has neither the simplicity nor the audacity of Google homepage. Neither the emotional touch that brings Google close to everyone's heart that is often felt with long-standing relationships.Just have a look at the buttons on

Tweet Tweet

2009-05-31T09:45:00.000-07:00

Its hard to believe how enjoying it is to say tweet tweet all day. It fills you with a feeling of being noticed all day. You are once again important.I always wondered why Twitter has become so pop so quickly. And so many people got addicted.

I salute them

2009-05-31T01:11:00.000-07:00

Why have the last two weeks been special to me. I will note down some points.1) We have achieved what, till before the elections, was looking seemingly impossible even to the experts. We have a stable and a non-hung government at the centre.2) We have removed the age-old communists from not only the government, but from their strange hold of West Bengal.3) The coming to politics of the youth

OpenId Principles

2009-04-04T03:36:00.000-07:00

As the father of OPENID Brad Fitzpatrick hailed it, "Nobody should own this. Nobody’s planning on making any money from this. The goal is to release every part of this under the most liberal licenses possible, so there’s no money or licensing or registering required to play. It benefits the community as a whole if something like this exists, and we’re all a part of the community.”This statement

Label Cloud

2009-04-04T03:06:00.001-07:00

I have always wanted my blog to have the Label Cloud that I have added just now. I was not finding the best widget to do this. However, thanks to a good tutorial given at the phy3deaux blog - I was, lately though, able to put a Label Cloud.For novices, Labels and Tags are integral to Web 2.0. It is important to tag/sort/identify/classify your data and information on the web so that Web 2.0

IRCTC Horrors

2009-04-04T00:01:00.000-07:00

Now this is some serious thing. The next time you book your train ticket at IRCTC - ensure that you take a print of the ticket then and there. Coz, if you fail to do so, then IRCTC also fails to log your transaction into its DBs occasionally.Thats what has happened to me last week. And unfortunately, if you are booking the tickets for somebody else, then nobody is going to save you from the blame

Nano Launches

2009-03-23T10:18:00.000-07:00

Nano - the most awaited Indian car has launched today. With the turbulence of the economy at the peak, there cannot be a better time to bring hope to people. And it came from India's best and most innovative people - the Tatas. The Tatas have always done it for the people owing to their goal of social entrepreneurship. Of giving it back to them who they owe. Nano brings hope to Indian middle

Wolfram Alpha is coming

2009-03-09T02:36:00.000-07:00

It was coming. Every body active on the web was having a gut feeling. Now that Wolfram Alpha has been finally announced, the scene has become so much exciting.Wolfram Alpha will be(:)) a computational knowledge engine - that's what the simplistic UI says. It is one of those simple input but high output kind of engines that can take in your factual questions and give computational answers. It is

Questions people ask?

2009-01-15T05:06:00.000-08:00

People tend to ask different set of questions, on which so many things like their attitudes, general knowledge and sociability depends.Its weird to explain, but I stuck up on this this morning. Some people ask a lot of How questions. Yet others tend to ask only When questions. One of my acquaintances likes to know what and where. He is never interested in how and why. People leading steady, fast

Every thing sits on the cloud

2009-01-15T04:54:00.000-08:00

My grand father would have realized really late that its better to save money in banks rather than in his black old steel trunk. It was like a generation of people took to change - all at the same time. Now when information is money,yet another wave is persuading that its all but unsafe,inefficient and inconvenient for us to manage it ourselves. Let us outsource it. Let us push every thing into

Entomophagy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2008-09-30T04:16:00.000-07:00

Have you ever heard about Entomophagy? Wikipedia says,"Entomophagy is the practice of eating insects as food. Entomophagy is seen in a large number of taxonomic groups including insects (that eat other insects), birds, amphibians and mammals."However, there is something available online these days. Check out thisEDIBLEEdible also contains some of the exotic dishes from all around the world. Just

Improving Experiences in Gnome, KDE and OpenOffice

2008-09-29T22:09:00.000-07:00

Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Design, user experience and development at Canonical: "When you present yourself on the web, you have 15 seconds to make an impression, so aspiring champions of the web 2.0 industry have converged on a good recipe for success:Make your site visually appealing, Do something different and do it very, very well, Call users to action and give them an immediate,

Walk Alone

2008-09-16T10:32:00.000-07:00

You notice this always. But the smog or mist around gives such a hazy view all the way. I was walking down the stairs right from the fourth floor. When I reached ground zero, I had the count of stairs in each bracket to each floor and the sum total. Just to mention that walking alone in life or may be some good few steps gives immense pleasure and reveals significant truths. Now

Che

2008-09-14T06:32:00.000-07:00

I have finally got hold of a copy of "The Motorcycle Diaries". I had longed for reading this book ever since I noticed the picture of Che in posters, T shirts and propaganda of Communist parties. I would always wonder - what is with this photo. The book seems to be a good account of the person by himself, I mean the notes he made while he was traveling. Hope it is going to be a good read.

I Mapped

2008-09-13T22:51:00.000-07:00

visited 6 states (17.1%)Create your own visited map of India or determine the next president

Do I open my mouth?

2008-09-12T05:01:00.000-07:00

The man on the other end asked me if you can stop talking when you are on.I said , yes, and that’s what I always do. He said, I don’t believe you. Where did you get so many things in your mind at the same time. I said its old memory and the refresh rate is low, so things remain there only. He said, “Ha Ha Ha, well said. That’s the answer one can expect from a guy like you” It all started like

In Search Of God's Particle

2008-09-11T08:51:00.000-07:00

I had not been following things for the past one month. Not blogging either. I had missed out on this Big Bang test being done in Switzerland/France for the entire world. Well, its a moment of real apprehension. To see if really the hypothetical existence of Higgs boson is proven. Boy, are you waiting to know? For those who do not know what is this Higgs boson, then its just one of the basic

My Birthday

2008-08-01T10:02:00.000-07:00

It is my birthday today. Its a day, when you feel like everybody treats you specially. A day when, every body greets you with a smile, no matter whatever tension and trouble he is in. Sometimes I wonder, what does this day bring in with itself. Good will. No, it can't be goodwill as it doesn't last. Respect. That's a wild guess,but. Is this a day whose observations and celebrations were hailed by

Safer GMail

2008-07-31T08:06:00.000-07:00

Google has introduced this new setting for GMail. Instead of adding https every time you log on to Google, we can do away with the hassle by just clicking a radio button in the Gmail setting page. This is really good, as you need not worry about security. The account itself acts to add https every time, so that even if you change you browser or machine, you are safe. For those who do not

88888

2008-07-30T11:22:00.000-07:00

The 88888 campaign against Global Warming is what I discovered today. Its a novel way to say something and participate in something important. Environment and Global Warming should be on every ones mind if you are rational enough to believe that its high time to, and even if you are not, then it should be responsibility in place of rationality. Either ways, by hook or crook, we need to make it

Idiots!

2008-07-30T11:00:00.000-07:00

Reacting like fools is a virtue of highly intelligent people. You may regard them as idiots, but that what they are not.

The chewing gum. Spit it out in a dustbin next time.

2008-07-29T10:36:00.000-07:00

Its about the chewing gum. The chewing gum I was chewing was hard to stop from spitting outside. I had just got down from the train reading Professor V Raghunathan. In the book, Games Indian Play, he has questioned all possible Indian traits and behaviors. And has found out rational answers to these traits, by using behavioral economics and game theory. Some traits:1) We do not miss a chance

We have the choice

2008-07-28T11:30:00.000-07:00

What we are is the choice we have made. We have the freedom to choose for ourselves and we have every freedom to choose the right thing. The only thing is that, what is my choice.----------------------- Inspired from Spiderman, The movie