Here's a more or less final listing of the universities am planning to apply to, in no particular order: (i) University of Washington, Seattle (ii) Cornell University, Ithaca (iii) University of Wisconsin, Madison (iv) University of Massachusetts, Amherst (v) Pennsylvania State University, University Park (vi) Ohio State University, Columbus (vii) State University of New York, Stonybrook (viii) University...

A friend of mine, Radhika , along with a few others, has started a community-driven program called reStore , for sustainable development in a number of domains with both products and services. The Blog . I might be attending the reStore Organic Saturday Bazaar this evening... Sounds mighty interesting and I felt anushsh , deponti , thaths , kai_dranzer , among others...

one of the founding fathers of Sci-fi, is dead. And he was just across from India too. I would still do anything to have attended some lecture of his or something. Just a coupla days ago I was reading his essay, Extra-terrestrial Relays after a mention of it in one of mobile computing course books. Can't help but have regrets. Last time he was in the news was for his Lankabhimanya ... thaths...

I googled for the video of this lovely song, and I must say, whenever I get to old Tamizh film hits, they are always short of something...no lyrics, or I have to shuffle through dozens of other songs, or get shunted into other people's conversations about them... I got this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfwZz4kOQU0&feature=related But notice, the embedding, which would have been...

Of the two people I could ping, it turned out thaths  had not read the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, so I had to hope and pinged botsie . I was trying to get a sense of both how accurate it was and what he thought about it. His comments: "a. The atmosphere is just right for late-80s, early-90s Gaborone. b. I don't think I ever met anyone as daft as the main characters. Most...

Via Endgadget . For deponti , thaths , kalyan , and amoghavarsha .

Well, having posted all that, I decided that though I never got a chance to eat in a Tanzanian home, I must set down the little that I learnt about food in Tanzania. I might be mistaken, so do correct me if you have more accurate knowledge. Apparently the staple food is maize/corn, and from maize/corn flour they make a kind of sticky pasty preparation called Ugali. This is just the flour, cooked...

This one is for shortindiangirl , thaths and my non-Indian friends.... Here are four varieties of homemade mango pickles: Starting from the 3 o'clock position and moving clockwise (do youngsters today know what 3o'clock position is, and what clockwise is?)... 3o'clock: Maavadu 6o'clock: Menthiya Maangaai 9o'clock: Maangaa Thokku 12o'clock: Aavakkaai (those are the phonetic...

" A New Way to look at Networking " on Google Video Google Tech Talks August 30, 2006 Van Jacobson is a Research Fellow at PARC. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist and co-founder of Packet Design. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist at Cisco. Prior to that he was head of the Network Research group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He's been studying networking since 1969...

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