Journey of the Journeyman

This is a new affinity group that has opened up in GE Healthcare.
The aim is to provide a tension free and non-discriminatory working environment for people with special preferences. Membership is also open to “straight-laced” people like me (yes, I joined), who support in principal and action, the need for such “Safe Spaces”.
Proud to work for a company […]

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The Linux/FOSS movement in Bangalore is apparently hot, but for some reason the flow in the mailing list has ebbed. This post is not delivered with any hint of sarcasm or snigger. Just that a sense of potentially irrational tragic wonder.
Maybe too many books available ?Maybe the openness in the Open Source Movement is on […]

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Q: How many hardware engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. We’ll fix it in software.
Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. […]

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Four companies come together an invite the software developers of a city to come and discuss technology.
Welcome to PlugLondon.
Eat, drink, make merry, go back and write code. Sounds very Barcampish, but I like a few twists that have been put in. From the website, 
This is not a corporate exercise driven by PR but started […]

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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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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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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 […]

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Snapped on my mobile at a place rather close to where I work
If you can read Hindi, you would have noticed that some unsung genius has translated “Hard hat area” to “Helmet Pradesh“.
Poetry, sometimes, is what is created in translation.
Technorati tags: hindi, translation, poetry

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