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Monthly Archives: August 2002
Fiber in Mylapore
Walk around Mylapore these days and you’ll see a thread like mark in a lot of roads — that’s where Bharti (?) has been laying fiber as part of their broadband push. So far the two buildings in CIT Colony … Continue reading
Children and Family
JRobb: Subtext: it’s the networks of people that support you and keep you whole after you get old that matter.
Tagged MLP
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Aggregators with Auth Support?
Is there a single News Aggregator out there that supports HTTP User-Authentication (Basic/Digest)? Better still, one that can read IE’s cookies so that it can read intranet weblog feeds as long as an intranet login is valid? This is important … Continue reading
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ToI Claims it's the Largest Circulated English Newspaper
The Times of India says it is now the world’s largest circulated English newspaper. On the other hand, it remains too ad-cluttered and badly written to be called a quality broadsheet in the same sense as the NY Times, Wash … Continue reading
'Spooky' Happenings in UP
Now that the X-Files have closed, there’s an opportunity here for desi Chris Carters to get into the act — lots of inspiration here. Anyone remember the monkey man sightings in Delhi last year?
Google's Rise Imagined
Ftrain: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web It’s hard to believe Google – which is now the world’s largest single online marketplace – came on the scene only a little more than 8 years ago, back … Continue reading
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Web Core Fonts Discontinued
Microsoft discontinues web core font downloads. Reason cited is “EULA abuse”. Of course. Can’t have penguinistas prettying X with it with just an ‘apt-get install msttcorefonts‘ now, can we?
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Interesting Friedman Columns
Thomas Friedman: Where Freedom Reigns. His earlier column, India, Pakistan and GE, was also pretty interesting.
Tagged India, South Asia
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About India's National Anthem
A lot of people don’t know that India’s national anthem [listen to it (Real)] is but verse one of a five-stanza poem that Tagore wrote c. 1911. I’ve been unable to find the original Bengali version anywhere on the net, … Continue reading
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Do India's Rulers Trust her Citizens?
USS Clueless has a longish article that talks about, among other things, how the American military machine and the Information Economy has this in common today: empowering the line worker, be it an employee or a soldier. One sentence caught … Continue reading
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