Surfing by Google Labs, came to know of two interesting features. The timeline and map view for Google Search. Given a search topic, google parses the results for key dates and locations and plots them on a timeline or on a (google) map.
Type the following into google: indian freedom movement view:timeline
You can drill-down into the […]
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Zeenami claims to be “your personal self-improvement center”. You fill in a very simple 2 page quiz (about 5 mins) on your life fulfillment profile and you can see how you stack up with other people. It also gives you customizable goal plans.
Here’s a glimpse of a few of the things where I score above […]
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Bongs prefer Netaji to Gandhiji. Period.
Indian Journal of Medical Ethics is an interesting read this time.
In her article titled “Waiting for the Doctor…”, Meenal Mamdani, a retired physician currently based in Illinois, USA, draws a big gun on the Indian small practice system.
Comparisons with western models of health care are usually dismissed in India with the argument that ours is a […]
Ruby
Started writing a distributed simulation in Ruby. And this is a great opportunity to learn a great language. One think I am liking about Ruby is that it gives you the opportunity to be terse without being cryptic (Perl). Don’t get me wrong, I love Perl and possibly the real-life implementation of this simulation is […]
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I had created a mailing list about 18 months back when I used to work at Clinical Software Engineering (my previous team at GE). Was supposed to be a group where people could share tech/geek stuff.
@HEALTH CSE BLR TechGeek
The list was quite inactive yet once in a while I’d get a mail from a new […]
Arun : Startups have this romantic stuff about them
Me: Romance and Money…not a bad combo, eh ?
This is the blog that triggered this talk.
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This post may not be relevant to people outside GE, but this is a personal milestone for me. After close to a year’s hard work laced with bouts of extreme frustration, painful lessons learnt and about 30000 frequent flyer miles leading to a few pleasantly surprising business class upgrades, CardIQ Physio has gone from scratch to […]
Social/Professional networks have been playing an ever increasingly important role in democracy, especially in the upcoming US Presidential elections. It’s a separate question as to whether Obama will really listen, but the fact that candidates (not only Obama) are using these networks to gather feedback as well as promote a “2.0″ image is interesting. The […]
Tags: politics · you prolly heard it first here
Life is made of ups and downs. Mostly downs. This can be thermodynamically proven. Up is a state of inequilibrium with accumulation of potential energy. The law of increasing entropy demands that the energy be restored(dissipated) and objects and people return to a state of down — i.e equilibrium.
Down: [8:04 a.m]Last night, Maui coughed a […]
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