tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215927356910573802011-12-11T11:23:34.477+05:30Ganesh N. Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329113858970359598noreply@blogger.comBlogger1061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-64193597464728084012010-07-01T12:26:00.003+05:302010-07-01T12:35:00.477+05:30

This is a passage from Betrand Russel's book 'Conquest of Happiness'. I have not seen any other modern book putting things in so simple a manner. And I have found that this is closest to what common sense suggests. You can read the whole book online here.The capacity to endure a more or less monotonous life is one which should be acquired in childhood. Modern parents are greatly to blame in this

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Ans:The question actually is - 'Why people pay Rs. 200 for sundry items like a cup of coffee, while buy/download pirated material to save as low an amount as Rs. 150?Here is what I think - There is 1 thing that makes people sensitive to price, and it is the 'Experience'. I am ready to spend Rs. 100 for a CD of good songs (even Rs. 100 for a song like 'coffee...' which is composed by you). But the

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Today I got to read 2 extremely brilliant articles which propound a line of thought to which I subscribe whole-heartedly. Interestingly these articles might have seemed a bit politically incorrect had there not been an economic slowdown. A little secret that will make the world fall apart Most of the time, the valuelessness of money doesn't really matter. As in a Ponzi scheme or a run on

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“You are our permanent ambassadors”, the delegates were told by one minister. India believes it would not have passed the Indo-American nuclear deal last year without their help behind the scenes. Barack Obama, then on the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, told the International Herald Tribune in 2006 that “there appears to be a very co-ordinated effort to have every Indian-American person

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2 Eye-opener news - India’s Bourses Have Hundreds of Satyams There're hundreds of Satyams listed on the stock exchanges. Good coporate governance seems to be last in the priority list as over 1,200 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (^BSESN : 9156.31 -250.16) have yet again failed to comply with corporate governance norms for the quarter ended September 2008. "In terms of

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JPG, a magazine devoted to images, has made available its archives as pdf downloads on the site. Here is the list of downloads available. Since, every issue of JPG is a gem and these are legally free downloads, I was searching for a way to download all issues. In the conventional tedious method, you click on each link and then download. Yawn! There are @ 50 such pdf files to

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Year In Ideas 2008 – NYTimes.com: This is a very interesting feature from www.nytimes.com. Here is one of the very amazing discovery: Avian Dancing If you aren’t one of the millions who have already done so, go immediately to YouTube and search for “Snowball the Dancing Cockatoo.”  [View the video here] There you will see a large white bird balanced on the back of an office chair, bobbing

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Imagine how difficult is the job for this TV reporter – very funny video! [Thanx Kiran for link!]

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“ Honda is pulling out of Formula One, blaming the world economic crisis for plans to sell its team. Sources told BBC Sport the team were "optimistic" they would continue, but an investor had not yet been found. The decision leaves Englishman Jenson Button and 2009 team-mate Rubens Barrichello without drives, with only a few mid-ranking seats still available. Honda, which spent

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Here is the text of an open letter to India’s PM, which appeared probably in Times of India. Currently it is doing rounds of emails. Only part that I disagree in the letter is about corruption in Maharashtra – no, it is not more than or even equal to what is there in some other states in India. Read it - LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER Dear Mr. Prime minister I am a typical mouse from Mumbai.

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The shameful attacks that were carried out on Mumbai for last 2 days are finally reached to the end now. With death of more than 150 common people, some best cops & commandos, and some foreign nationals, these attacks have made wounds on hearts of billions of Indians. A few things that I noted during these attacks are - These attacks have certainly shocked even the most resilient

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I always believe in the fact that there is always something more than what meets your eye. And this has been proved right for me on every occasion. Take case of Nano – the cheapest car from India’s Tata group. Tatas promise to deliver the car at INR 100,000 (i.e. little more than $ 2000). Mind well – this is a promise, so the car will carry the INR 1 lac tag notwithstanding any external factor.

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Financial Crisis As Explained to My 14 Year Old Sister - Kevin Nguyen Kevin: I’m getting to that. Let’s say that the Charizard is worth $50, so in case you decide to not return my money, at least I’ll have something that’s worth what I loaned out. Olivia: Okay. Kevin: But one day, people realize that Pokémon is stupid and everyone decides that the cards are overvalued. That’s

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Today I cam across this amazing web app. The concept is really cool. The app lets you create a slideshow of webpages. The slideshow displays pages not aas images but as live pages. Further, you can also share/embed the slideshow.Incidentally, it is created by Paras Chopra and Ravi Pathak.See here an example of slideshow of webpages of Reality Is a Farce.Amazing thing is that Paras created this

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Finally, something is happening on Web. Google launched its browser ‘Chrome’ today. Supposedly a Microsoft-killer, Chrome rocks – at least, that is my first impression. Here is a list of Top 10 features of Chrome - 1. Plug & Play After you install Chrome, you can import everything – passwords, bookmarks, history, search engines – from Internet Explorer and Firefox. This means that when

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This is a video made of over 3000 snaps, shot over 3 days around Boston. Interesting video... 3 Days - 3,038 Photos from Robbie on Vimeo.

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A few days ago, I registered on Nokia India site for prior booking of N96 – the hyped i-Phone killer in a country like India. Today, I received a call from Nokia dealer in city informing to book N96 by paying Rs. 4000. He said that N96 will be delivered to me within 8-10 days. With the handset, there is a free 2GB card (why it will be needed when N96 will have 16GB of internal flash memory?)

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India will remember the Beijing edition of Olympics for years to come. Firstly, she never had before so many individual medals in any single edition. Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra clinched a gold in rifle shooting, her wrestler Sushil Kumar bagged a bronze and now boxer Vijender Kumar has a chance to create history by winning in semifinals of 75 kg boxing. He has anyway secured a bronze in

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Some songs make a place for themselves in your heart forever. This song - ‘Big Rock Candy Mountains’ is one of such gem of a song. I heard it first in Coen Brothers’ ‘O Brother! Where Art Thou?’. The song instantly captivated me. First was the music. I came to know that this particular music genre is called Bluegrass Music. According to Wikipedia, “In bluegrass, as in jazz, each

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This happened yesterday, in Mumbai, when at the same time, a person was called and also was being answered. Look carefully - if you are a regular Nokia user, you will instantly understand that this is not a call-hold situation. Incidently, the operator is Vodafone (who acquired Hutch, who acquired BPL).

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Update What the hell is this? The problem which I thought is over is still there – alive and kicking! Do you know what is causing this trouble? --- Supposedly the fastest browser of all is not the lightest one – at least with some of the recommended add-ons. Look at the amount of memory it is having for breakfast! Look at the sharp drop of blue line [indicating RAM usage] when I ‘

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No Smoking Hotospot [Global Warming Myth] “…The satellites that measure the world's temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980). Land-based temperature readings are corrupted by the "urban heat island" effect: urban areas encroaching on thermometer stations warm the micro-climate

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Pi or 2Pi: That Is the Question In February this year there appeared in Physics World an article entitled Constant Failure by Robert P Crease of Stony Brook University, in which he showed in how many formulae of physics and mathematics 2π turns up, rather than π. This article struck a chord with me, since even after many years I remember the feeling of "cognitive dissonance" when being

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Above: 3 reasons why Dark Knight is awesome movie A day before yesterday, I went to watch the much hyped superhero flick – Dark Knight. It had already generated enough curiosity for being the last completed movie by Heath Ledger. I also liked Christian Bale after ‘Batman Begins’ and ‘3:10 to Yuma’. He is an actor with a lot of substance and in future he is sure to portray some memorable

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In this excellent article, on Livemint.com, Murad Ali Baig points out to the exact share of oil price rise in Inflation. Price hike for every commodity and everything else is attributed to the sky rocketed oil prices. However, as Baig points out that “…. (but) only few realize that the Rs3 (roughly 8.5%) increase in diesel prices would affect freight transport costs by only a marginal

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Lately I am extremely annoyed with the crashes and memory leaks of Firefox 3. The browser which made a world record of highest number of downloads in a single day, is actually not that stable after all. But here is an update to Firefox 3…let’s see if it does any improvements. In case of Firefox issues, I turn to Opera, which IS most reliable for me…

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Google Documents is a very useful tool for knowledge workers. Today they made it better by launching Templates for documents. There are templates for Resume, Business Plans, Venture Pitch, Wedding Planner, Project Plan etc. Some templates, like the one above for Presentations, look stunning. Read more about templates here.

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Today, it was a day of tweaking for me. I tried to change a lot of things about this blog and realised that small tweaks take a long time. So here I am – fatigued from clicking Ctrl-F5 (which refreshed the page overriding the cache) the whole day. At the end of the day, these are the things which lingered on my mind: 1. Tweaking takes real long, but you need to do it once in a while. See at

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In the morning today, I was extremely happy to see this ad on the front-page of Times of India. There so many people like me who are waiting for this beauty of a device. Many had already had unlocked device from USA. But I abstained from buying that time since 1. no money 2. it was better to wait and watch because I had heard so much negative things about iPhone from some of my friends staying

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Today, I stumbled upon these extremely funny quotes about Rajanikant. On his blog,Mostly Harmless, this blogger has written this post in 2007...the quotes are too funny so with all credit to original blogger (if he is the one), I am reproducing entire post here. The original post is here. For those aliens who really do not know Rajanikant - he is THE Tamil Superstar and a God for many a fans.

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In a beautiful article in Washington Post (in 2007, but still very relevant) Steven Mufson, points out attention to a major impact of rising oil prices - the transfer of wealth from oil importers to oil exporters and the petroleum companies. Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth High oil prices are fueling one of the biggest transfers of wealth in history. Oil consumers are

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Here is the Google Trends comparison of 2 major natural disasters...Draw your own conclusions - "china earthquake" "myanmar cyclone" China Earthquake Deaths - 71000 Myanmar Cyclone Deaths - 128000

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In a great news for gadget enthusiasts like me (and to thousands of iPhone anticipators in India), Vodafone has announced that it will bring iPhone to India 'later this year'. This was announced today by Vodafone. Apart from India, iPhone will be introduced officially to 9 other countries. Read Vodafone announcement here. Read the PC Pro article about it here.

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Fortune has a good feature-slideshow on its website. It features captains of industries, astronauts and other successful people. These icons share the best advice they ever got. Watch the slideshow here. The one which immediately resonates with me is the one given to Sam Palmisano, CEO, IBM. He talks mostly of 2 things - 1. Leaders don't make themselves centre of attention; they listen. 2.

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See why they say that Obama is the web kid! Obama beats Hillary hands down when it comes to being an object of Google Search and of news items. However, funnier is the picture in India. Hillary is far more popular in India than Obama is -over past 12 months. Also look at the state-wise break up...Why Madhya Pradesh is so obsessed for Hillary?

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Featured, Most Popular, Most Discussed, Most Recent, Most Responded, Most Viewed, Top Favorites, Top Viewed... Isn't all this tad confusing? Then combine these with Today, This Month etc. and you get a more confusing experience...

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Windows quick launch bar always offers a good place from where you can launch the frequently used applications. Today, by accident, I discovered the short-cut for launching quick launch bar applications. The image above explains the short cut. For example, to launch Firefox, which is the first on quick launch bar, you need to press 'Windows+1'.

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Photo credit:Tom Schierlitz in Nymag.com 'You Walk Wrong!' says this article in New York Magazine, and I agree instantly. No excerpts here...please read the article in original at NYMag.com. Basically it says that your foot should touch ground more often without a shoe...

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On Fastcompany website, I read very interesting question - "Do attributes like height and a louder voice really translate into more power in the workplace?". Most of the respondents to this question deny this. In my opinion, what Mary Parker Follet said about leadership is very important. She propounded a leadership style which is based on expertise - Functional Leadership. He, who knows about

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This funny pic is doing rounds of email. This was probably clicked on the launch ceremony of Kolkata Knight Raiders team of Indian Premier League.

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Astronauts may be at increased risk of premature aging due to exposure to radiation found in space, suggests a study that could have major implications for long-duration space travel.The findings from the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Centre at Georgetown University Medical Centre in the United States shows that astronauts may be at increased risk of colon cancer due to exposure to the high

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Contentsutra.com reports about the till-now secret portal developer of IPL. Look at the hefty paycheck that the firm received for developing one portal. Now we hope that a standard portal comes through for IPL..."Live Current Media Inc (LCM), a Vancouver, Canada based company has bagged the portal rights of the Indian Premier League for 10 years for $50 million, contentSutra has confirmed from

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We all laugh (though while increasing TRP and thus steaming up the business) at the news channels in India. Whenever I feel sad, I switch on a news channel! They for sure have a waking up value. Another day, an anchor who was visibly concerned about US subprime crisis could make a single point in about 5000 words!! So much of fog!!! Then there was an anchor who was asking opinion of another

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Nice idea... Now Read and Write Web has an exclusive sneak peak into Google Dreamads!!! You guessed it right...it is contextual advertising for your dreams!!!

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Tata's deal with Ford has many skeptics. For one, what will be the effect of looming global economic downturn on the market? Then there is the troubled history of UK auto industry - particularly the labor trouble. While on one hand whole nation (except, perhaps the stock markets) felt jubilant after the deal, real success of the deal will hinge on how skillfully Tata's balance the demands of

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Every nation has some peculiar characteristics which sound very funny when looked from outside. This is a very good and funny article in NY Times - well written by Elaine Sciolino. One peculiar characteristic of French people is the love for anniversaries; then there is the the 'french' kiss. Read On...No anniversary is too minor to celebrate. In my time here, France has marked the 20th

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Cricket!!! Originally uploaded by ganeshkulkarni This is actually a play ground meant for Hockey - the white banner in background says so. But this also happens to be India - where Cricket rules hearts of people

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Today when I tried to visited Wall Street Journal's website - WSJOnline.com, I was presented to this page...To my surprise, it offered 30 days free access to WSJOnline.com's premium content.When I clicked on the link, this was the page -What's this?

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Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig Bets 'Wikipedia' Approach Will Transform Congress | Wired.comLessig, known for his decade-long role in trying to loosen the entertainment industry's vice-like grip on popular culture by shaping copyright law, is betting that the energy and dissatisfaction exhibited by voters against the status-quo in Washington DC, and the emergence of collaborative software

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Cricket in India: Moving Into a League of Its Own - India Knowledge@Wharton"Yes, priorities have changed for a segment of the population," says Sridhar Samu, professor of marketing at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. Adds Bamzai: "Cricket today is a metaphor for change." According to Ashish Kaul, executive vice-president of the Indian Cricket League (ICL), a rival to IPL: "We as a

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Until recently, however, Wikipedia was run more like a storefront community center than a digital-age powerhouse. What was a nine-person operation — a top 10 Web site had a paid staff of less than 10 — has just recently grown to a 15-person operation. Last year’s $2.2 million budget grew to $4.6 million this year.“A surprising number of people don’t even know it is a nonprofit,” Ms. Gardner said.

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The Indian success story in ITES was, according to me, a major factor that boosted the confidence levels of Indian business captains. The revenues of IT companies, their liberal HR policies were talk of the nation for a long time. But this is going to change - if the US Dollar downfall continue. Lot of my engineering batchmates were employed in biggies like Infosys and Wipro, and were paid hefty

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Here are links to 3 BBC articles which talk about the new & revolutionary ways of human-machines interaction - Has touch technology come of age?Technology is going touchy-feely as products appear which threaten to replace the humble mouse with finger-touch computing... Brain control headset for gamersGamers will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and

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Urbanisation has been a subject of constant interest to me. Now since half of the world will be urban by 2025 - as par an UN report, Urbanisation and urban centres escalate on the agenda of policymakers and on to the public conscious. I live in Pune, a city which is on verge of becoming the new IT destination of India. With a network of quality educational institutes, large student population,

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But over the past 15 years it has been transformed into a far more powerful beast. Its companies have become worldbeaters. Without India's strength, the world economy would have had far less to boast about.Click here to find out more!Sadly, this achievement is more fragile than it looks. Many things restrain India's economy, from a government that depends on Communist support to the caste system,

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Soon, he was deployed to war and headed overseas on the Carpathia -- the same ship used in the rescue mission of the Titanic.art.buckles.cnn.jpgWorld War I veteran Frank Buckles entered the Army at age 15. "I didn't lie," he said with a laugh this week.Click to view previous image1 of 4Click to view next imageHe drove ambulances in Britain and France for soldiers wounded during World War I.A few

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Declining standards of education have always been a cause of worry for educators and parents world over. In countries like India, the classrooms crammed with children and non-performing teachers is a regular feature (apart from teacher absenteeism in rural and remote areas). 'How to make the teachers perform?' is the question of the millennium for policy-makers. One simple to imagine way-out can

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Zen Habits is one blog which churns out most useful content day after day. Mainly focussed on welbeing and productivity, this blogs is one of the best and most useful resources on this subject for a common man. Recently, Zen Habits interviewed Stephen Covey, the famous writer of '7 Habits of Highly Effective People'. Here is one answer which I liked very much (especially, the quote - "The

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When Vladimir Putin came to power, on New Year’s Eve, 1999, we learned that he was a judo expert, that he had a poodle named Toska, and that his grandfather had been a cook for Lenin. But the most salient fact about him was that he was a career K.G.B. agent. And, in eight years as President of the Russian Federation, Putin has been as true to his school as any Old Etonian. According to Olga

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While searching on Internet for the economics of IPL (the Indian Premier League, which is roughly modelled on EPL and NBA), I found this wonderful article in Deccan Herald. Read On -How much BCCI will earn?* The bidders pay only 10 per cent of the price they offered to buy each team, which means Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Group needs to pay a little over Rs36 crore for the first year, with similar

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Taking clues from the Malthusian logic, China successfully enacted the One-Child policy to control the burgeoning population. However, over the years, this compulsion is showing more ill-effects than the benefits. There is a news that China is muling over a change in this policy. May be China look at her neighbor - India. In India, sometime ago there was a debate as to how to reign in India's

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Sramana Mitra thinks so. In her Forbes article she has focused on the thinning competitive advantage that India has in terms of lower wages. She predicts that by 2015, this wage difference will disappear and so will be the BPO's in India. Interestingly, she doesn't talk about the quality of workforce in India. Combined with lower wages, the highly qualified taskforce is India's competitive edge;

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A Microsoft Corp. executive last year said the software company made a mistake by lowering the minimum technical requirements needed to run Windows Vista, a decision he said was made to help Intel Corp. meet its quarterly earnings, according to internal emails disclosed this week.The emails provide a glimpse into how Microsoft executives and hardware partners grappled with technical glitches and

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Interesting!! Why we try to 'keep options open'? When faced with a lot of choices, humans try to keep choices open rather than concentrating on a single choice which can maximize the returns...The experiments involved a game that eliminated the excuses we usually have for refusing to let go. In the real world, we can always tell ourselves that it’s good to keep options open.You don’t even know

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Read on this Wired.com article - Over the past decade, however, a different sort of free has emerged. The new model is based not on cross-subsidies — the shifting of costs from one product to another — but on the fact that the cost of products themselves is falling fast. It's as if the price of steel had dropped so close to zero that King Gillette could give away both razor and blade, and make

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I strongly feel that the Disaster Management is going to play a major role in coming years. While we anticipate the disasters in traditional forms like natural disasters or wars, newer and newer forms will emerge as a massive threat to humanity. Here is a good news - Norwegian government is planning to cave in seeds that humans need in an Arctic vault. Though this a pretty old news, it is in

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Ok...This is my first post from the inbuilt blog editor of Flock 1.1, the social browser. I have been using firefox for ages now mainly due to the enhancements available for Firefox. The extensions, skins and tweaks available for Firefox far exceed any of the other available browser today. Further Firefox is also good on the front of speed. On the downside,  Firefox is a memory-guzzler - it

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Google reader - you work 'within' your main browser. With FeedDemon, you add another browser just for reading the feed and open the links in feeds. So I have IE7 and Firefox and FeedDemon - open at the same time (first 2 I can't skip).FeedDemon - one thing which was decisive was Offline Capabilities of the reader. With the Google Gears, though you add offline capabilities to Google Reader, most

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No Conscience...Ponting telling umpire that Ganguly was caught.image courtesy:cricinfoMuch will be talked about the current India-Australia test series for long. Mainly, the Sydney test will be remembered by the Cricket lovers as a proof against no-ethics Australian team and the poor umpiring by Buckner and Bensen. In this test, almost 7 umpiring decisions went against India and it can be easily

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Consider this - IMDB has 170,000,000 registered users as on 10 Oct. 2007.Bollywood is really learning to rock!!One interesting thing which I noticed is that the phenomenon of meaningful mainstream cinema caught up steam only after invasion of multiplexes...This tells something.Click on the images to go to the list and official movie website respectively.(By the way, VG is Video Game.)

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(Image credit - Collider.com)Gone are the days when I could watch a movie on just a flicker of thought. Prior to and post - office hours, I am mainly engaged in the sweet little devil that my daughter is. This adds up to an increased backlog of movies on my wishlist. Here are the movies of 2007 which I wish I could have watched but could not find the time to watch them. Some of these, I already

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Huh! It has been almost 4 months now that I had stopped blogging. The reasons were many and excuses were easy to find. I have a tighter schedule now than earlier; I am finding micro-formats more and more appealing - my Twitter updates in last 2 months rival my blog posts in my whole life! But apart from this, also there is the blogger's gene, which I think has been weaker in me always. I have

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Yahoo! - An old world company trying to hold on to success in Web 1.0. Some glimpses of success due to Flickr, Answers etc.Microsoft - Vilified genius. Only company which brings out some worthwhile products from common man's point of view.Google - Ambassador of today's world. Lot of genius working on small things and making money out of that.Linux - Yeah! It must be something good.Vista - Not so

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I got a mail today from a good friend of mine and a great web designer - Mario Garcia Jr. who works for Garcia Media - a company which helps newspapers and online products to help themselves redesign and 're-engineer'. Mario is one of those hundreds of enthusiasts who waited eagerly for buying Apple's iPhone in June. An avid gadget lover, when he was in India, Mario wanted to buy a good mobile

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United Nations Population Fund, also known as UNFPA, has come out with its 'State of the World Population Report 2007'. The theme for this year's report is 'Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth'. The findings of the report are not very surprising. The report says exactly what was being said during past few months - the future is urban. By 2030, almost 5 billion of the world's population will

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Economist has a cover story on 'Apple & Art of Innovation'. In this brilliant feature Economist has enumerated the rules behind this art of innovation. The article says - "...But mostly Apple's zest comes from its reputation for inventiveness. In polls of the world's most innovative firms it consistently ranks first. From its first computer in 1977 to the mouse-driven Macintosh in 1984, the iPod

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The G-8 summit is over without taking any clear decision on Global Warming. There are three stands on this issue. One stand is of environmentalists who are giving a hue and cry to slow death in the form of Global Warming. They must be given the credit for building a consensus about existence of Global Warming. Second stand is of Western Countries and particularly of USA's and the third being of

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This is really good edit in Times of India today. It is bang on target. Read it -...It brings up questions of inequality and class envy — notwithstanding that India's score on the Gini coefficient, the measure used by economists for inequality, stands at a moderate 0.33. It's far more egalitarian than comparable economies in BRIC — Russia scores 0.40, China 0.45, and Brazil is off the charts

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Sometimes you come across something intellectually refreshing and fulfilling. Palo Alto based Singularity Institute of Artificial Intelligence [SIAI] which is at the forefront of expanding our limits of ignorance about Intelligence has started its own blog. Look what SIAI has to say about its mission - "In the coming decades, humanity will likely create a powerful AI. SIAI exists to confront

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Here is an interesting piece of research which throws some light on relative lengths of Index and Ring fingers and its implications.Finger Length Predicts Aggression in MenThe research, done at the University of Alberta and announced Wednesday, found a connection between the length of the male index finger relative to the ring finger and the tendency to be aggressive. No such connection was

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After I wrote the post 'Villages or Cities', I mailed the abstract to Atanu Dey for his reaction. He was kind enough to post a prompt reply to me. He wrote - "...For all I care, India can continue to live in villages and be -- as reality dictates -- be dirt poor. It's a choice we make -- to be poor and underdeveloped. In fact, it can be argued that village life for some is so unbearable that they

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Why the political parties don't have anything special to offer to the young people? What is true for commerce, is also true for politics. Youth have high adaptability, they have high action power, they are receptive. Should not the politics be a bit younger in offerings as well as in composition?

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I just chanced upon two articles through Rajesh jain's weblog on Emerging Technologies. One of them is in Economist and other one in Mint, an economic daily in India. The article - 'World Goes to Towns' in Economist is a part of their survey on cities, which covers many facets of increasing rate of urbanization. The main argument made in this article is that urbane metroes will be the future and

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Why One Minute Movies will matter?Democratic flavor: Everybody can't be Martin Scorcesse or Peter Jackson. But everybody can make a 1-Minute statement. And cameras are dozen a dime now in cellphones, which everybody has. It's simple: Just click and shoot.It's quick: Just click, shoot and save.It's economic: Camera, as an add-on in a cellphone, is free. Unless you sign up Brad Pit for your movie,

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Here is great talk by talk master Seth Godin at Google, where he tells why Marketing is important. Also a great viewing for those who want to know what is a really great presentation?

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Google has taken two entities head on. On one hand Google challenged Yahoo; firstly on Search front and then on a lot of other fronts. On the other front, there is Microsoft who is threatened by Google's web based office applications. Among these three, only Google seems to be completely belonging in the Web 2.0 eco-system, while Yahoo is the runner-up(mainly due to Flickr) and Microsoft seems to

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What can be a truly disruptive idea? What can be said to take the business one step ahead of the competition? What can be the answers of these questions when they are asked in connection with media business? These are the questions which I ask myself again and again. I think that in media the business ideas which succeed beyond expectations are those which truly exploit the potential of that

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C-DAC [The institution that launched India into Supercomputing age] launched Pragati a Hindi web browser, which is based on Firefox. This is important, since there is much to be done in Indian languages computing, before Indian masses can interact with PC's and web in their local languages [via Quick Online Tips]. Economic Times reports that India may offer free broad band services to her people

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Today, there is a full page ad of Nokia N95 in Times Of India. The features list of N95 is just impressive. It has a dual slide design, 5 MP camera, Wi-Fi abilities, internet browser with Mini Map for better internet experience, integration with Flickr, the LifeBlog application, GPS...and so on. Cool! That is a range of features I will die for! See all the features here and a deatiled review here

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It was great watching this video about how wikipedia changes during a world acknowledged event. I originally viewed it on Wired.com. Now it seems that even NY Times has made a great homepage feature on Wikipedia's woking in the wake of V Tech shooting. A must read feature on NYT and also a must watch video...

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Great players are not born again and again. The simpply fantastic goal by Maradona against arch rivals England in the 1986 World Cup has always fascinated me. I have watched it again and again and again on youtube. Unbelievable!However, a more unbelievable thing happened in the match between Barcelona and Getafe. The said-to-be 'Next Maradona', Leonel Messi scored this wonderful goal. The goal is

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While reading about the shooting spree in Virginia Tech, in which more than 20 innocent and bright people died shocked me to the roots. The real shock comes from the fact that this incident is not an isolated event. Earlier, there were similar incidents across USA and which happened on some campuses. Being from India, where there are is a strict gun control regime, the US liberty for owning the

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In spite of some differences of varying extent in the association or separation, one fact that remains true about the governance set up in a democracy, that there are 3 basic functions of the State and these are Legislation, execution and judicature. There are 3 arms of state in a democracy, which performs these functions in – legislature legislates, executive executes and judiciary decides the

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Have a good video. Definitely people would like it. So you want the people to watch it. So you have also put it on Digg. But there are thousands of people like you out there. There are thousands of better videos. What do you think will then make the difference? Why a dig visitor will click on a video, which is just one of many? The answer is – Write a compelling description of your video. Those 3

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Whenever I look at the traffic chaos in Pune, the emerging IT hub in Western India, I always think about the possibility of levying a congestion tax, like in case of London and Stockholm. In London, for example, in central area, an entering vehicle is charged a congestion tax of 8 £, and in case of evasion, a fine of 50 £. This is true from 7 am to 6 pm, every day except Sundays and excepting

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"John might prefer apples to bananas, bananas to cherries, but cherries to apples."- This tells the irrational nature of human decisions. Human preferences can't be assigned with ascending/descending values. 'a>b' and 'b>c' means that 'a>c' in mathematics, but not in Human Life. Human choices vary from person to person and for a person, from time to time. I read it on website of American

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1. Touchscreen - From video, it looks great, but we will have to wait to see how Apple has tackled issue of scratch resistance, unintended touches etc.2. Internet surfing experience - This will be where iPhone's success will matter in long term, especially in the non-US markets like Europe and Far East, where use of cell phone for net-surfing is rising with leaps and bounds.

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I just finished reading 'Murder Is Easy' by Agatha Christie, the queen of mystery. Here the lead of novel meets an old woman on a London bound train and gets to know about mysterious deaths taking place in a desolate village, not far from London. The old lady mentions to this retired police officer, that she is going to report to the Scotland Yard the murders and the suspect according to her. But

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