Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Could do without

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

In the three weeks that saw this blog, the writer of this blog and the world’s largest democracy grow an year old there were a few things that we could have done without. To name a few:
1. The bombs in the city were too many and enough to spark a debate, yet again, on how […]

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. […]

We’ve come a long way, baby!

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

So I haven’t been spending much time on the internet updating my blog and not reading much of others as well. A few other things keep cropping up that need my attention and I have seldom had this sort of “break” or “time-off” from blogging. I can’t promise regular updates for now!

Anyway, I had this […]

Notbanking

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Though I have always believed that Indians have been, on the whole, more open to changes related to technology, I have also found out how various (Indian) organizations, which would have otherwise benefited from people using more technology, have failed to realise this and have lost a lot of money and goodwill, on the way.
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Programmer Blues

Friday, November 10th, 2006

A friend I know, one of the many programmers in the city, told me over dinner that he is facing problems with his job.

What kind of problems I asked.

The company he works for has barred the employees from using the Internet. It is common, of course, network administrators keep on applying policies to block certain […]

Barcamp Bangalore

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Barcamp is an event held globally for techie people to join in, talk technology and come up with interesting ideas. Barcamps usually happen at the city level and Barcamp Bangalore, Bangalore’s first ever, is scheduled to be held at Yahoo! Bangalore, on the 22nd of April.

India’s first Barcamp was held in Delhi on the 4th […]

Too much of Google?

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Last year we got gmail from Google. Wonderful concept of never being able to delete any of your email, ever. And the space keeps on increasing.

This year, of course, we got the Instant Messenger, Google Talk. No clumsy graphics, neat interface, ability to talk with anyone on the list by push of a button.

Google’s […]