shashiWhen the chickens come home to roost!
14 March 2025 Hi, I’m Gyanesh Harindra - a 36 year old investigative journalist with The Hindustan Dak. Of late, my efforts at digging for the truth are throwing up…
On predilictions of predictions
So, Princeton University researchers claimed that they found strong evidence that Facebook will be largely abandoned by 2017, like an infectious disease. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/22/facebook-princeton-researchers-infectious-disease Engineers at Facebook were “intrigued†by the…
The missed slingshot
Here is a sketching attempt I did out of boredom! It depicts a scene that shows a man with a bump on his head shouting at a naughty boy. The naughty…
Migrate OpenStack Keystone to a different IP address
This hack describes how to change openstack service end-points after there is a change in the host IP address. When you initially install and provision OpenStack, Keystone (the identity service)…
“Edge” Crowd Funding Fail – Brilliant market hack by Ubuntu
Product marketing is a very tricky activity. Especially for a product that is based on free and open source software. Ubuntu Edge is a great idea that might eventually get…
LatLong to Addresses
Here's a simple python script to convert latitude, longitude to addresses. It depends on Google Map's Reverse Coding API. https://gist.github.com/3958041
Probability of Certainties or The Karma Theory Redux
Life is uncertain! I had a quaint notion about certain cliches, including this one. But events in the recent past, have shown me that there are certainties even about uncertainties! This…
GitHub for Windows through proxies
If you're using GitHub for Windows in a corporate, chances are high that you're behind a big bad Corporate Firewall/Proxy. GitHub for Windows doesn't yet have the proxy parameters in…
On how companies lose it to their founders’ ego!
OnLive and OnMobile are entirely different companies in different domains, different geographical spreads, different sizes. But they have quite a few similarities as well. While the  "On" in their names…