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Book review: Rita Hayworth

I have a problem reading fiction. I had worked my way up from no reading to reading something. And that something could be anything but fiction. I did not think of it as missing anything, except my wife is a … Continue reading

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What people’s death tell us

When Steve died 3 weeks ago, the whole world indulged in tweets and statuses and blogs and such – indicating all of a sudden how profoundly he “changed the world”, how profoundly he “transformed their lives” et cetera… As for … Continue reading

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Why circles is not a solution

Please read here and here (or not, but I recommend you do) before you continue reading. The single biggest USP for Google Plus is Circles. Circles helps you make your blurbs contextual and relevant to a subset of people. FB … Continue reading

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What if we had wings?

Utter the word “technology” and 8 out of 10 people – whether they admit or not – are thinking about computers. This is not without merit, because what computer and communication technologies has given to a common man has equaled … Continue reading

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Human limits

Nothing can stop the world from the effort to digitize everything. Digitizing books, audio, video improves accessibility, conservability and collapses boundaries in lots of ways. This however does not stop us from a truly rewarding experience of reading a book … Continue reading

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Awards time!

Somebody thinks I write read-worthy blogs. I’d better hope I am doing a fair job, coz I have been doing this for a long time. Anyways, here’s the drill: Me getting this award also entitles me to give this award … Continue reading

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Super Brain Yoga

http://youtube.com/v/KSwhpF9iJSs I am spell-bound.

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Fun with numbers

A post I came across made me have some fun with numbers. According to this post, there are 285 million cars on a population of 330 million, representing 1.4 cars per driver in the US. Is that all? I didn’t … Continue reading

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Survival of the fittest

If this kid is not memorizing what he spoke, he is better than 60-70% of students who pass out from a engg college. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-URtZfIgKAU]

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Happy Holidays and…

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