Social technologies and time interruptions
This is an analysis of how to strategically think about adopting a new social technology – if you value your freedom that is. The DATA: I asked a lot of my friends about what isthe time they think that occurs between interruptions, if one has access to any of the social technologies listed below – and here are the results: (for all practical purposes “Boss” is considered as a technology) I assumed (as is us...

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India - high cost economy?
Growing political mayhem and economic mismanagement are turning India into a High Cost Economy. Read that as falling competitiveness, job losses and industrial emigration. On September 12th, 2005, Business week headline read : "Why the world must watch out for India and China". Alas, this very statement created in India a superego that is now hard to get rid of. We are proud people. A little bit of praise thrown ...

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The India "Story" - An Elusive Future
I often watch videos off the TED site, but some videos related to India, off late, set me thinking. Shashi Tharoor and the Power of Soft Power (referred to as ST from now on) Devdutt Pattanaik on East v/s West (referred to as DP from now on) Mallika Sarabhai - Dance to Save the World (referred to as MS from now on) I couldn't help but notice and laugh (yes, laugh) at the commonalities that these speakers......

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Why is it so hard to read others' minds?
I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realised that what you heard is not what I meant. Rebecca Saxe tries to address the problem of how we develop the neural infrastructure to think about others' thoughts. The region of the brain called the RPTJ can actually, on external stimulation change people's perceptions of what is fair and what is not.

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The Fourth Dimension
Analogy is often drawn between one, two , three and higher dimensional beings, and their behaviour, in one two or three dimensions , not respectively. I will try to express my views on one such analogy which everyone is so grossly mistaken about. The dimensions in increasing order are : zero, one, two, three, four….etc. The examples of figures in these dimensions are point, line, square, cube, tesseract… etc res...

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Unclear Nuclear
Washington, July 10: Invoking national interest, renowned spiritual guru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, has appealed to all Indian political parties to display ‘magnanimity’ and support the troubled Indo-US nuclear deal. "All parties must support the deal that is beneficial to the country," he said. India has always had a tradition of the government and opposition coming together in national interest whenever a crisis ...

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The Money Genie
I came across this article on http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_happiness_genie/ Suppose a genie appears and gives you two choices. The first option is that he will give you $10 million dollars, but everyone else you know will get $20 million apiece. Choice two: You get $5 million, but no one else gets anything. As a bonus, the genie offers to erase your memory of having made the choice, so guilt will never...

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Blockbuster Suicide - talk about a Kamikaze business model
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/blockbuster-express-digital-rent-movies-on-sd-cards-20091110/# Last week Kingston announced it was going to start bundling movies with sales of Flash memory products, this week Blockbuster has announced you can start renting movies on SD cards. Now correct me if I'm wrong but out of the following two scenarios what looks good? This is what a sane human (Blockbuster management...

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The Popcorn Theorem
This experiment started about a month ago, when I noticed that no matter at whichever setting you pop the microwave popcorn, there are always some kernels left unpopped. So either there must be an optimal setting of the microwave OR these kernels should not be there in the packet. I tried to pop various packets at different power levels at different times in the Microwave. The recommended settings are usually...

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My reading speed
I came up with a formula for my reading speed long time back in school, and thought I would share it here. Conventionally reading speed is defined in words per minute but I don't see how that is of any consequence. How can you know before hand the number of words in a tome and come up with how much time you're going to finish it in? This formula does just that. Its like this: Time taken to read in minutes = [(No....

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Internet ExpLODER v8.0

At first, I just didn’t like IE due to its slow speed, clumsy interface, lack of innovative widgets, cluttered antediluvian support… well you get the idea. I recently installed Windows 7 (which actually rocks), and tried to give IE 8.0 one last chance. Nothing had changed, it was still crappy – but this time it got a little too personal.

This is how my blog is rendered in Firefox (latest version):

FIREFOX This is how the same blog is rendered in Chrome (latest version):

CHROME This is how the same blog is rendered on Safari (latest version):

SAFARI AND THIS IS HOW ITS RENDERED (really? Does Microsoft know what rendering is?) in IE (latest version):

See those extra margins and black outlines that IE so smarrrrrrtly added to all my columns, rows, header, semi header, post title, comment box….? Even the rounded corners (top left) are rendered as straight lines. Arrrrgggghhhhh! If I were Steve, I would fire half my development staff. Bloody overconfident, underinformed bastards.

I officially hate Internet Explorer. And caramel popcorn.

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Social technologies and time interruptions

India - high cost economy?

The India "Story" - An Elusive Future

Why is it so hard to read others' minds?

The Fourth Dimension

Unclear Nuclear

The Money Genie

Blockbuster Suicide - talk about a Kamikaze business model

The Popcorn Theorem

My reading speed

Internet ExpLODER v8.0

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