Of starting up blues
shashiThough technically not a startup, we’ve been in a startup mode from quite sometime – say seven years. Oops! In seven years, history gets changed by companies younger than that.…
Parable of a MS Word document
Inspired by Mark Shuttleworth‘s latest post A friend of mine is pretty tech savvy and also very organised. He backs up all his files once a month, copied it to…
Fortune 100!!
In unix, fortune has been around from a long time and it’s as popular and a favourite now, as it was way back in time. Some nuggets: Don’t worry so…
Corporate Responsibility!?
p>Our honorable Prime Minister has called upon our corporate honchos to cut on their drawings and increase their commitment towards social responsibility. As several writers have already talked about it…
Theory of Relative "Product"ivity!
A few weeks ago, Userfriendly ran this series: So ? Google betas their products almost always, to enable people experience cutting edge technology without waiting endlessly for the product to…
Free Operating Systems. Next"enta" ?
enta (ಎಂತ) in Kannada slang translates to “whither†as in “whither are we wandering ?“. Over the past couple of months huge strides have been made in the development and…
Hedging life !!??
Today, I’d been to a session where I was educated about the importance of hedging against the Dollar falling again against the Rupee. The gist was this, “you buy Futures…
Research in Monopolies and "Intuit"tion
A couple of days back, while going through Google news, I came across two headlines – “Blackberry network squashed“, “Intuit overwhelmed by last-minute tax filers“. Wow! Blackberry is a kind…
The "Object"ive
Anapodoton: (an’-a-po’-do-ton) Gk. “without the main clause (apodosis).†A figure in which a main clause is suggested by the introduction of a subordinate clause, but that main clause never occurs.…