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A dozen IIMB junta got together at Hotel Pritam, Mumbai.

I like this. Information Wave, an ISP, has banned RIAA from accessing their network. But, they will take their own measures to ensure copyright violation doesn’t happen. That’s solid.

A blog on tech gadgets. Love it!

The STAR exchange is a stock exchange listing companies with good governance. That’s a good criterion to list by, given the accounting we read about. This exchange has managed to outperform the conventional counterpart (Borsa), BTW.

A quick round-up on the Indian bloggers’ lists: Anita’s list: 103 blogs. Comprehensive (static) Anita’s ring: 47 blogs. Big, collaborative Eatonweb: 41 blogs. Collaborative, growing Kamat’s list: 34 blogs. Flexible (moderated) Other methods like Blogchalk India yield too few hits. If you want to go beyond these lists, Google searches like indian blogger are probably your best bet.

Here’s a new problem with the online format of GRE tests: leaks! Bad enough that they’re expensive, tough to write, …

Intel vs Hamidi raises the issue of whether sending an e-mail could constitute “trespassing”.

Now, if you earn dollars, you can keep the dollars. Interesting that this move comes at just the time when the dollar is falling.

To: Rajnish Kanojia Subject: Would love to talk/meet up. Mail me.

Under the staircase of Bandra station lies a two-storeyed apartment. Dupleix layout, single room. East-facing, with elevated entrance. It’s 8:00am. The man on the ladder is a boot polish-walla. He’s picking up his box, getting ready for work, while his colleague watches. Their families is still asleep in the single room. And in the room, along with them, is a rather cramped storage space. I wonder how many live in such conditions. Of course, it’s much better than the slums around Mahim. Still, it looks like a rather difficult life. ...

W3C runs a HTML validator service. Quite useful. I managed to find several flaws on my site’s HTML (particularly wrong nesting.)

I just furnished my kitchen. While my aspiration levels were high, I ended up with this. Mind you, the photo makes the kitchen look a lot better than it really is.

Incidentally, this kitchen hosted my latest attempt at making pasta. I found a simple pesto sauce recipe, and ended up spending about Rs. 500 for the ingredients. We managed to eat it. Barely.

Update: There used to be an unflattering (Photoshopped) picture of Amitabh Mall here. It’s been taken down on request. I got a digital camera. Here’s a snap from it. Now, you may be wondering why the snap looks bad. That’s not true. Meet Amitabh, friend and colleague. Looks a little different. Unfortunately balding early. After all, he’s a consultant. Currently unsatisfied with the object of his attention (either the food or me) to the extreme. Following a unique love-life model.

Conway and Doyle prove that it is possible to divide by 3. The paper, which is distributed under the GPL, unfortunately comes without a warranty. (via Gimbo)

They’re piloting a magnetic levitation train at Virginia. These trains can run much faster than conventional trains.

In the meantime, Tim Berners-Lee is talking about the Interplanetary Internet. Given the Internet’s ubiquity, it sounds a lot more real than it did a few years ago.

Meg calls for professional blogging. I agree. Like all good things, blogging will have to go commercial, and like Faraday said, “… someday you can tax it.” (Note: Actually, Faraday didn’t say it.)

Forbes has a list the rich and the dead (dead celebrities who continue to earn a lot.) Elvis, of course, tops the list, but it’s good to see Charles Schulz and Tolkien on the list as well.

Domino’s Pizza is trying to charge for delivery. But I thought the whole point of Domino’s was to deliver pizza, as opposed to eating it “there”. They may as well hike the price – which is what this effectively translates to. Speaking of which, I ordered a Deep Dish with jalapenos, tomato and onion a couple of weeks ago. I really liked it. When I called Domino’s yesterday, they remembered the order and delivered it within 10 minutes. Impressive. ...