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Started – Double Star (Robert Heinlein)Finished – The Door Into Summer
Innovations
Here’s the description of a very interesting grass root innovation – article.It’s a solution for farmers who can switch on/off or check the status of the pump at their fields, remotely. I had heard about a little earlier also, but am heartened to see that they are now commercial and have a decent enough user…
Entrepreneurs and Slumdog
This post from earlier somehow got posted to my other blog –An article in today’s Economic Times reports that over 2/3 of the respondents want to start their own business. The sample consisted of 211 students and 1006 salaried professionals and these people were from the big cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ahmedabad. Interesting,…
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Current – Common Sense (Robert Heinlein) Finished – Citizen of the Galaxy (Robert Heinlein)
Reading update
Current – Citizen of the Galaxy (Robert Heinlein) Finished – Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)
Reading update
Current –Starship Troopers – Robert Heinlein Finished –The cat who walks through walls – Robert Heinlein
Chindigiri
Warning – this is a rant post.Now, you may have heard of Gandhigiri (made famous by the Munna Bhai movie – following in the steps of Mahatma Gandhi), but what you might ask is Chindigiri. ‘Chindi’ is a very Hyderabadi term, and has various meanings, depending on the context. But, I use this word more…
Reuters and all
I spent the last two days roaming, a lot. Akanksha was here for a short trip, so showed her around the city. And, while we were having dinner at Basera last night, I got this call from a U.K number. Now, normally the only person who’s called me from the U.K is Koppu, and he…
Tata Indicom Wimax Port Forwarding
I was looking for this info a while back and could not find any help on the internet. In the end, I finally did figure it out (with help from Srikanth), so thought i’ll post the info for the benefit of others. It’s not really complicated – just needs a little bit of fiddling around.Port…
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