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 […]
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IT Expo 2006 has started
It has started – I will be manning the ilug-cochin.org stall from 3:30 PM to 8:00 PM for the next two days. I was there today. So if you are reading this, come over there and say hi. I still have not looked at the other stalls – I was busy – and most of […]
IT Expo 2006 at Townhall, Cochin
IT Expo 2006 will be held at Townhall, Cochin. This event starts at November 30 and will end at December 03. If you are in Cochin, be there. The Cochin LUG, which I am a part of, will have a stall(#41) in this exhibition. The Hindu Newspaper has this to say… IT 2006 Kochi, the […]
Mysterious Comment Spam in Bin-Co
I am used to spam by now. You find it everywhere – emails, blogs comments, entire sites are spam. But all have one factor in common – it must benefit the poster in some way. Now I have come across a new breed of spam that is forcing me to re-evaluate my beliefs. I get […]
An American Living in India
What it’s like to be an American living in India. Indian’s ask it from one perspective and American’s ask it from another. Rather than my typical rambling, half-thought-through, theme-based article, I’ve decided to write this as a rambling, half-thought-through FAQ about my life in India. Kevin Barnes have been living in India for a while. […]
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.
Google Problems…
Google seems to be having some problems – people are getting logged out of their gtalk chat from gmail accounts. I was not able to recreate this error. But I noticed that it is taking very long for the home page(www.google.com) to respond. Unnaturally long. Anyway, it seems to be working fine now. And the […]
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 […]
Left Handed Words – The Finale
In my last post, I explained my intrest in finding words that can be typed using just the left hand on a qwerty keyboard. Apparently I am not alone in my quest. Many others also have tried to solve the same mystry. A few that came to my attention are… A text file with all […]