Archive for June, 2007

Twenty Years Late

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Sometimes at work, I pause.
And I wonder, if this is the thing that excites me. If I like being here in the first place. Because if it does not then there is a problem.
Apart from one or two instances when I was really down, I have never doubted my decision to be a programmer. […]

Guru Gone (Plagiarizing?)

Monday, June 11th, 2007

The Sunday Times of India, page 14 “Spotlight | Instant IQ”, a feature called “Guru Gyaan” has the heading “About a Boy” and talks about one Kurt Cobain. Everything fine except for the fact that it has been copied, verbatim, from Wikipedia’s page about, no prizes for guessing, Kurt Cobain.

Wikipedia’s page on Kurt Cobain here.

It’s […]

The City by the Sea

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Be Aware…

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

ps: All images copyright, Dipankar Bose.

5 ways you can help the environment

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

On World Environment Day, I start up a series of articles that focus at the need of the hour — Conserve our home, this planet. Here’s the first.
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5 ways we can help our planet
Its not much difficult, trust me. I am not claiming that this is all you will ever need to save the planet […]

Defeating the purpose

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

I am yet to come across a single telephony/broadband internet company in India which does the basics right. For example, here is something that should not have taken more than 12 hours, but the problem is already 4 days old. Reason being, wrong information provided — repeatedly. My letter to the customer care department of […]