infrastructure on S Anand

Google internal subdomains

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Google’s internal subdomains.

What Lies Beneath New York

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000

What Lies Beneath New York.

Google and Wikipedia

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Google donates infrastructure to Wikipedia. Possible benefits to Google?

Test another end use for the famed Google OS
Get an “authoritative” knowledge base to provide search results on
Position against Microsoft Encarta as an encyclopaedia

Call phone towers camouflaged as trees

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 12:00:00 +0000

Cell phone towers camouflaged as trees.

The Internet is fast

Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:00:00 +0000

The Internet is fast.

Daypop is out of disk space

Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Daypop is out of disk space. Poor thing! Could we lend it some? I mean, could sites like Daypop work out a distributed architecture, using web services? Or using things like space drives? via Scripting News

Rail accidents are nothing new to India

Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Rail accidents are nothing new to India.

Magnetic levitation train

Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:00:00 +0000

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

Typographical errors on San Fransisco sidewalks

Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Typographical errors on San Fransisco sidewalks.

Microsoft deathwatch

Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Microsoft Deathwatch. No, Bill isn’t dead, but his servers were for a while.

Infrastructure at LBS

Mon, 02 Oct 2000 12:00:00 +0000

The session on Mergers, MBOs and other corporate reorganizations by Paulo Volpin started 5 minutes late. Reason: They had a problem with the computer projector. Fixing it turned out to be a hi-tech exercise, though. A guy came in with some kind of a hand-held device, pointed it around like a remote control, and the projector was on. 6:05PM – 5 minutes lost.

5 minutes later, “IP address conflict”. The Professor gives up and moves on to trusty slides. He came prepared.

Their IT isn’t all bad, though. In fact, it’s rather good. They have mail terminals scattered around the place for people to check e-mail, without having to go to the Computer Center.

The computer center isn’t far away, though – just across the road – about twice the distance from the IIM-B hostels to the Computer Center.

What’s lovely, though, is their audio-video system. They have one in each room, and the control panel looks lovely.

Their chairs are awful, though. The seats are cramped. There are no arm-rests. They don’t move. They’re too close to the table. (OK, I’m fat.) They aren’t shaped to my back. Anyway, to sit there for 3 hours on those chairs for a fidgety guy like me is tough.

Couldn’t tell much about the Professors. So far, they look just like IIM-B professors. The students on the other hand, are something exceptional. Each has tremendous work experience (a prerequisite for getting into IIM-B in the first place). There’s

a Russian consultant who used to work for BCG for 5 years (before you ask: he wants to become an I-Banker – that’s why he’s here)
an English lady who started a company called WorldCom (no, not that one: she sold the name to THE WorldCom :-)
an American IBMer who worked at Lehman Brothers for summers (his name is Stephen, and he’s not me, and I’ve never heard of him)
an English VP from Lehman Brothers
a French film production expert about to join UBS Warburg

and lots more.

Internet cable scenario

Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:00:00 +0000

An update on the Internet cable scenario.