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I just signed a message calling for unity following the attacks in Mumbai. Read the email below – Thanks ————————– Dear friends across India and the world, We’re all feeling the shock of the awful attacks in Mumbai. All our hearts go out to the victims and their families. The attacks were aimed at our…

Will resume posting again sooner or later. I do have plenty to write about but somehow… you know… same old story… temporarily somewhat over-entangled in the Work@ElectronicsCity-Commute-Malleswaram-HouseholdStuff loop… For now here are some links that I’d come across a long time ago (except the first 2 which I’m yet to read fully) but reminded by…

My (cousin) brother visiting from Australia wanted to see the Osho home opposite to Chitrakala Parishat, Kumara Krupa Road. So I’d also had accompanied him out of curiosity. It was quite nice, a very pretty building with many books and audio material, a small meditation hall. Some of the facilities/events free for all, and some…

Here is a list of tools that makes a developer’s life easier… Scite – Lightweight Powerful Text Editor: Though there are other ones like Notepad++, Scite is quite comprehensive and amazingly fast, and based on screenshots only seemed to be move lightweight than Notepad++. The link above has an installable that includes an Explorer integration…

Too big for my shoes….? Originally uploaded by common man. Too big for my shoes? I may end up thinking so sometimes, but this picture proves quite the contrary… ! When my wife brought up this picture we took in a tourist center in Innsbruck, couldn’t resist posting it here. Now I’m back in Bangalore,…

In an ac circuit 6 ohm resistor, an inductor of reactance 4 ohm and a capacitor of reactance 12 ohm are connected in series with an ac source of 100 volt (rms). The average power dissipated in the circuit will be 1. 600 W 2. 500 W 3. 400 W 4. 200 W Help me…