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Hasya Kavi Sammelan

kpowerinfinity — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:24:53 +0000

Was looking for some interesting videos to watch on Youtube today, and landed up on a Hasya Kavi Sammelan video conducted in IIT KGP. That got me started into a journey into the past. My father has always been a great fan of Kavi Sammelan’s (literally, a congregation of poets), and as a kid we [...]

A Song of Despair

kpowerinfinity — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:56:53 +0000

Found this brilliant piece of writing by Pablo Neruda, and thought I’d share it here: I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: “The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance.” The night wind whirls in the sky and sings. I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved [...]

Why Makers Hate Meetings

kpowerinfinity — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:14:34 +0000

Found this very interesting article by Paul Graham (via facebook and freakonomics blog) about people who build things usually hate meetings, and find it as a big waste of time. At the same time, when you are in the management frame of mine, meetings are the most important thing you do all day. I find [...]

Ideas for new mobile operators

kpowerinfinity — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:30:04 +0000

I was going through Rajesh Jain’s blog post where he has penned downs some ideas that the new crop of mobile operators could use, both to differentiate themselves at launch, as well as establish themselves, and get a large number of subscribers. Rajesh has himself given some excellent suggestions like: Focus on Data-hungry customers with a [...]

The Kitchen Computer : If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute…

kpowerinfinity — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:22:48 +0000

Chanced upon this very interesting trivia in the Wired article on the new book by Chris Anderson (FREE): “Honeywell Kitchen Computer, priced at $10,600″ … “the Kitchen Computer was aimed at housewives and featured integrated counter space. Those housewives would, however, require a programming course (included in the price), since the only way to enter data was with [...]

Abir, Sancho and Lizzie

kpowerinfinity — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:00:45 +0000

“I should introduce myself now. My name is Abir Ganguly. I work for a tabloid in Bombay called The Afternoon Mail. I am 23. I masturbate 11 times a day. I exaggerate frequently, as in the last sentence” Thus begins Amit Varma’s (of India Uncut fame) newest yellowback My Friend Sancho (follow this link for the Author’s [...]

The Common Man Bowls every Political Party

kpowerinfinity — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:08:32 +0000

Found this brilliant piece of work by Neelabh on the the Times of India masthead today, and deservedly so. It shows the way elections in India are a completely unpredictable affair — no amount of opinion polls and exit interviews can help. Every constituency is unique, every booth different, every election machine throws up surprises. [...]

StalkDaily worm hits Twitter

kpowerinfinity — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:24:35 +0000

Found a full post mortem of the latest worm to hit the Social Media scene – StalkDaily. Very interestingly, twitter allowed to add script tags in their profile, and 17-year old Mickeyy Mooney employed a cross-site scripting attack to not just post an update promoting his own site StalkDaily.com, but also added the same malicious [...]

The Crisis of Credit

kpowerinfinity — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:44:48 +0000

A very good visualization and explanation of the Credit crisis. All this while, I was unable to figure out how mortgages were related to CDOs, but this does a fantastic job of explaining. Worth sharing … Posted in Economy Tagged: CDO, credit crisis, mortgages, wall-street

Indian Politics ki “Jai Ho”

kpowerinfinity — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:56:02 +0000

Can Indian Politicians ever stay away from capitalizing on anything that remotely smells of success? From India Shining (and subsequently whining) to Chak De Congress, Indian Politicians have always been lapping anything popular and successful in order to boost their political fortunes, in the hope that ordinary citizens will vote in elections the same way as [...]