Journey of the Journeyman

Yahoo! Maps India Edition with Driving Directions launched recently. To my mind, this is the best thing that has happened to the Indian roadways system since Sher Shah Suri built the Grand Trunk Road back in the 16th century.
I did a quick sanity check to get a map from my house in Calcutta to Howrah […]

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A few days ago, I was having a discussion with Siddhartha-da, a friend who lives in Mequon, WI about the fact that in today’s world, if you do not have an online presence, people start to doubt your physical existence. 
Siddhartha-da does have a tangible physical presence as a faculty at Marquette University though he does not have […]

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read_this_first: Christian has finally put the talk that he wanted to give at Yahoo! Hackday India online. If you are into Flickr and/or JavaScript, take a look.
ok_now_read_this:Last evening, between Brewhaha and Salad Bar in Koramangala, we thrashed out issues around BarCamp Bangalore 5 (a.k.a Winter Edition 2007). The debate mostly revolved around three things:

Should we […]

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24 hours of continuous hacking on Friday and Saturday and won.  So this post is embarrassingly looooong. Inertia of Euphoria, I guess. Naseer, Vijay, Arun (who had to unfortunately leave very early on) cobbled together a collaborative medical image viewer using the Yahoo! Widget Platform.
It’ kind of sounds too much politically correct to say that everyone was […]

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ArunRam finally got me on Twitter. Thanks, Arun.
Micro-blogging — something that has interested me for a long time. Though I have not had enough experience or time to form a set of thoughts on it. Obviously there is a present-tense context. But what really excites me, is say, how twenty years from now historians may be able […]

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Mike Barber, Chief Technical Officer at GE Healthcare, was over at JFWTC today on a global visit. He gave a no-ppt talk on a bunch of issues ranging from Deficit Reduction Act to amyloid plaque accumulation analysis in Alzheimer patients. Mike has been with GE Healthcare for 26 years, starting as an intern from MSOE.
This […]

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Arijit Sen writes,
It’s a baseball run that’s crossing continents like never before. Almost unknown to the rest of India, Imphal has been nurturing baseball dreams for its 20 clubs and planning to build India’s first baseball park.

Mr. Sen is one of those rare breed of young tele-journos with regional speciality. For Arijit, it’s the North-East, […]

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You can find startups everywhere. But startups opening up on an “auspicious” day ?
The ROIs [regions of interest] are mine, note the blue typo. Click on the pic for a better resolution.
 
The website is not all that bad, but Deepika, you owe yourself an @bindaaspoll.com address. And oh, talk to the guys at Alexa; they say […]

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Found this out last night.
The nightly cash collection password (that will open the closed shutters) for a certain very well-known confectionary off CMH Road, Indiranagar is “Thanda Paani” (cold water).
Swing low, you have been hacked. (cracked, if you take offence with the term hacked in this context.)
1:19 PM:Kind of a very timely post because right now, […]

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