To tell the truth...

[Gizmodo] AgileMobile says it has a new software application for cellphones that can detect when the person you're talking to on the phone is lying. Supposedly it can measure the stress that shows up when someone is being less than truthful. We're sure it works perfectly.

Moving on...

I'm moving on from by job at Zenithmedia to my previous employer Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd. who publish The Times of India and The Economic Times

What is a weblog?

What is a Weblog?

Nice Quote for the day...

He who will not reason, is a bigot, he who cannot, is a fool; and he who dares not; a slave. - Byron

MIT Everyware

MIT Everyware MIT is giving away their course ware to everyone for FREE... you can be sure come people will sign up...

GP, PGP, PGP-13

GP, PGP, PGP-13: Sound familiar? actually not... For every Physics grad (like yours truly) who ever went to a Movie... Any Movie. Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

Photos in the dark?

Sony's F-828 can shoot in the dark

Incase you thought Diamonds were expensive... Check this piece out in Wired on The New Diamond Age. Diamonds are cheap it says... $5 a karat to be exact... :D... Not to mention DeBeers is not amused...

for those with a need for speed

For those with a need for speed, coming soon Diamond semiconductors, NTT
did a demo which ran at 81 GHz. For a refernece. Intel's current consumer chips run at about 2.x GHz

PowerPoint is NOT Evil

Michael Gartenberg says
PowerPoint is NOT Evil. This of course in response to a recent Wired story that is doing the rounds of th weblog community

Dropload a neat thing to transfer files all over...

[Wired] Toyota plans to release a car that parks itself. Automotive journalists test-drove it and say it works like a charm.
I Want One

CD Freaks CDR's may only last 2 years ... Damn I have to make back ups of my back ups now...

Decentralisation in the real world

Decentralisation in the real world The Distributed Library Project

An Uber medium

Boston Globe The Net: an uber medium?

HT in Bombay?

HT to go to Bombay. Best of luck to them. It's gonna be an interesting time in The Times. Almost makes me want to go back to my previous company.

PowerPoint Is Evil?

I have been looking for Edward Tufte's Book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and Envisioning Information. He keeps on Raving and Ranting about Powerpoint... So much so wired did a
piece on this...

This ship I gotta have...

Matrix Revolutions

The Matrix Revolutions trailer is out...

We Love Arnie...

We Love Arnold from the people who brought you http://www.WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com/

Virus...

I barely said Good Morning today, and my mailbox is flooded with virus laden mails... pah!

Janmasthami

Today is Janmasthami Holiday...

Good Worm, Bad Worm...

Wired: A new worm circulating on the Internet is designed to kill MSBlaster, the worm that wreaked havoc on computers last week.

Bad Movies Beware...

Texting blamed for summer movie flops .. Text Messaging! .. got faster .. using SMS... consumers

Coca Cola Index

Coca Cola Index... Economist is also threatening a French Fry Index

Big Mac Index mmm....

Currency Map...

Map of the world's currencies... I think you may need an economist subscription for this...

Business Opportunity?

Hey this is yet another oppurtunity for India... to set up back end data warehousing and backup operations.. far far away from your site of operations...

New York Times: Many companies that had their own disaster recovery plans found on Aug. 14 that their backup site was within the blackout area.

Russia plans Mars nuclear station... Another giant leap for man, and a gianter leap for mankind.

New Scientist reports a DNA powered computer playing tic tac toe, and apparently, it can never be beaten...

Bye Bye Power Failure

Buckminster Fuller believed tieing all the world's continents into the same electrical grid... connecting power grids across the world...

Wired report, The Internet still functions after Saturday midnight -- so far. The Blaster worm failed to bring down a Microsoft's site and network, and cause other mischief as planned. Microsoft says 'no problem,' but warns individual computers remain vulnerable if not patched.

When my comp was having fits last monday I was wondering what the hell was happening... It was this blaster worm of course, fortunately for me I had another OS installed, I got on to the web, downloaded the patch and was back up and running in no time flat :D.

Google Calci

Next time you run out of a calci Use Google's... Just type the equation in the search window, hit search and ta dah back comes the answer

Why aren't all weekends like this

Long weekend last week... Independence Day, Sat, Sun... This should happen again and again...

My director has been posted to Zenithmedia Vietnam

Audio...

Suddenly and quite of the blue I'm on this audiophile kick... I have this unexplainable urge to buy a Home theatre system, DVD/CD 5.1 Surround et al... Onkyo is uspposedly good... so is Bose, but that is very expensive. Research, research adn research.

Content Management

Though Technology is supposed to be a business driver, sometimes it seems technology is adopted for the sake of technology rather than for achieving something concrete.

In my previous company (a publishing house, which generates pages and pages of content everyday) , whenever one spoke of content management , the discussion usually involved tech professionals, on what to use how to use. Very rarely would a discussion be around as to how does it help business This piece looks at it from a managerial perspective, as a business driver.

Does he own it or...

Kottke is asking whether the iPod he bought is his or Apple's?

Extra! Extra! GM made crappy cars...

Michael Fischler comments on GM's campaign to tackle the negative quality perception.

The ad as described (I've not seen it) is marketing suicide... which is the thought the author has articulated as well.

Miscellaneous junk...

iRATE radio is something one needs to watch... along with the Grapevine Project...

Is someone reading this...

This piece attracted quite a bit of offline comment from my people in my previous company BCCL which publishes The Times of India and The Economic Times...

The pretty girl and the old woman...

Robert Heinlein "An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be. A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is, and force the viewer to se the pretty girl she used to be, more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart."

I'm famous...

The Times of India Delhi Today published a screen shot that I gave them of Google going Local (i.e. India edition). If you look closely at the Google screenshot on the business page (free registration required), in the taskbar there is one tab which says Chirag... That's ME...