Archive for April, 2009

whom to vote for

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

With all this campaigning about having to vote to excercise one’s right in a democracy, one of the factors of someone educated not wanting to vote for, was that one has no clue about who’s who, and this ends up in a murky generalisation that everybody is useless, and there’s no point in voting either […]

weekend at Siddaganga Mutt, Tumkur

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Tumkur is supposed to be just an hour’s drive from Bangalore, but the bus (which we got almost immediately, both to and fro) took well over 2 hours each way. But the journey was enjoyable, and more than anything the trip was well worth it! Visited the Siddaganga Mutt and stayed overnight in the simple […]

cartoon: living forever

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

A small online comic strip… (click on the Forward link below to continue reading) I wrote “Living Forever” in a coffee shop in the spring of ’97. I had been thinking about how wonderful it would be to meet children’s book author and illustrator, William Steig, but I wondered why he would want to be […]

Sudha Murthy's speech at Berkeley

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Charityfocus’ twitter feed (really nice one to follow on twitter) had this video… Sudha Murty is an Indian social worker and an accomplished author. She is the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation and is known for her philanthropic work through the Infosys Foundation. Among other things, she has initiated a move to provide all government […]

talking to strangers

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Pretty interesting site I came across from Leonid – which as he warned on his twitter feed, can be pretty addictive! Omegle is a brand-new service for meeting new friends. When you use Omegle, we pick another user at random and let you have a one-on-one chat with each other. Chats are completely anonymous, although […]

photo of the day

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Prashanth’s photoblog Payaniga is usually pretty good and I’ve often used the monthly calendar wallpapers that he shares. But this particular picture simply left me breathless… 8) UG‘s quote comes to mind… If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, […]

gmail in Kannada!

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

ಜಿಮೇಲ್ ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರಿಯಬಹುದು ಈಗ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿದೆ ಇಂಟರ್ಫೇಸ್ ಸಕ್ಕತ್ತಾಗಿದೆ!

finally some yoga classes (again)

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

For a long time off late, I’ve sort of deteriorated in many ways, having trapped myself into the habit of waking up late every day, and in the psychological trap of thinging myself as ‘not an early person’. I could justify myself by saying I can stay awake at night for any late hour, but […]