The Best of 2006

I have spent almost the entire day today going through the post at kottke.org. If you have the time, got through them. My personal favorites(in no particular order) were… The language of The Simpsons. Implanting magnets in your fingertips gives you a sixth magnetic sense. Billionaire Steve Wynn pokes a hole in one of his […]

Indian College Students Face Bleak Prospects

The New York Times has written an article on the state of collages in India. From the article… “In the 2001 census, [Indian] college graduates had higher unemployment — 17 percent — than middle or high school graduates… [At a middle-tier college] dozens of students swarmed around a reporter to complain about their education. ‘What […]

Del.icio.us having problems…

Remember the problems with google? Right after that I notice another site with problems – del.icio.us. The main page shows this error message… What is happening? What are you favorite conspiracy theories about these sudden outages? The tubes got flooded? American elections impact on the interwebs? I think it is Microsoft’s fault. Somehow.

Bus Strike is Over

After one week, the bus owners have decided that it is enough. The bus strike has been called of. As Kochuthresiamma P .J pointed out in the comments, it is very said that we had to celebrate Kerala Piravi during a bus strike. That says something.

Kerala: Strike’s own country

We are going to experience a Bus Strike from tomorrow(20th Oct 2006). Based on my previous experiences with bus strikes and hartals, this is going to be fun. I was being sarcastic, if you did’nt notice. This comes just after the Bank strike on friday. Kerala is living up to its name… Kerala: Strike’s own […]

Linux in Kerala

The role of Linux in Kerala has been in the news lately. The move to use Open Source Linux over the propriety Windows OS in public schools is creating a great deal of excitement in the net. I saw four different articles of the same story hit the front page in digg.