June 2001

The Indian Patent Facilitating Centre helps Indians develop and register patents.

After B2C and B2B, is it now going to be B2E?

I’d been to the Samrat restaurant (near Eros theatre) with Vinod. A bright and clean place, serving Gujarati cuisine. Having decided to try only new items, We picked corn bhel and fried baby corn for starters, and makai nu shakh with reshmi paratha and rumali roti for the main course. Makai nu shakh is “cream corn, cooked in milk with coconut, coriander and green chillis”. It tasted rather like Au gratin, and rather nice, in my opinion. Corn bhel was excellent – just bhel, except corn was used instead of puffed rice. Figuring there was too much corn on the plate, we had onion rings (instead of fried baby corn) which taste the same pretty much everywhere, I suppose. ...

Viruses are bad. But some are good, and others, ugly (hoaxes, that is).

50% of all Net surfing is done on the sites of Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft and Napster. There’s consolidation of web properties for you!

Mumbai dabbawallahs have been given a 6-sigma rating. I might start ordering dabbas online for dinner.