Inviting all coders for four weekends of coding jamboree in Bangalore! Meet interesting people, create open source software, help your communities and win exciting prizes! Well, maybe you can do three out of the four. A bunch of my friends and ex-colleagues are going to get together for the next four weekends to “jam” and […]
Curious activity spotted in koramangala. Road repair work. I had an interesting conversation with a contractor supervising the road work turns out that they are laying MUD & jelly to fix the roads. Mud! I asked him again. Yes he said the road is very bad here. I just patted him for his thought. Now […]
First, i was able to check email from my mobile phone (nokia 6260) which was a huge deal for me. Then i discovered that i could send emails too! Once i figured out how to use the settings wizard. Next stop.. Surfing the net with opera mini.. What a browser. The icing on the cake., […]
From the Airlinesindia.org website 1910: The first Indian, or maybe even Asian, to have an airplane is the young Maharaja of Patiala, Bhupinder Singh, who has a keen interest in aviation. Singh sends his Chief Engineer to Eurpoe for a study with orders to buy three planes, including a Bleriot monoplane and Farman biplanes, which […]
Unlocking the door to the open source community can be done via the Internet. A wide variety of open source resources can be found on these organizations’ Web sites. Links to open source sites
Janet Hope’s impressive thesis, worth a read! Open Source Biotechnology Project: “What is Open Source Biotechnology? Dramatic recent expansion of intellectual property protection for biotechnology research tools has led to concerns that future innovation will be blocked unless action is taken to preserve access to, and freedom to operate with, those tools that are important […]
Ideasmith says Last year I was at a cousin’s wedding in Chennai (where else?). Alongside kaapi and kanjeevarams, I got a earful of the latest ‘grand experience’. The topic on everyone’s lips was the wedding the previous month, of the son of Mrs.Copper-Sulphate-Blue-with-mango-border-saree (visible in the distance) to his colleague. And why? Because ‘the girl’ […]
b2evolution drove me nuts with some hidden activity from within my mysql database. linksky gently told me to fix it. i uninstalled everything. its working now. of course it will!