Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
I never had a good feel or the measure of the strength of electric current. Had questions like what’s the power of a current when they say 1A, 100 A or say 200 mA and so on. You don’t get a pictureI was reading Floyd’s Electrical Fundamentals this morning. Very ...
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007
My first ever theatrical experience in my adulthood. Went to Ranga Shankara, yesterday evening to watch this kannada play Huttadalli Hutta ( Ant-hill within an Ant-hill ) written by TP Kailasam.Why I was keen on watching the play ?....I was curious about the delivery of the dialogue by the artists. ...
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
To understand the function of Mobile IP, a great analogy to use is the Postal Service.1. Postal mail is sent to you by placing a letter (the packet payload) in an envelope addressed to you (IP header). 2. The letter arrives at your local post office and is routed to ...
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
At Petrol pumps they have this FREE AIR facility. Air pumps got this lengthy pipe to reach to the tyres. Since 2, 3 and 4 wheelers have different requirements for air pressures on front and back wheels,Air-filler person has to get up and go back and forth to adjust the ...
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
Sipping coffee at Coffeeday, IIT chennai campus deserves few lines.
I treated myself for sitting through a marathon day of 30 odd talks. With capuccino and two chocolate cookies.
It will always remain in my wishlist. Going back to school and study in a campus of this nature.
Cycling all around, Having great ...
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
Sat through 30 Presentations morning till evening. Just noted down the presentation names in my diary. Folks who presented today were not completely new faces. Have seen them at bar camp bangalore. Sloka, Seraja, picsquare, tazzaa to name a few.What appealed to me, in no particular order, from the top ...
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
Landed here this morning at Chennai Railway station. Staying with my friend and college time project mate Mallikarjun Raddi.Since the event is tomorrow, had no idea as to how to spend this day.It was noon when I set out. Did nothing in particular, but aimless wandering.Asked my friend, who had ...
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
I observed one funny line this morning in Hindu's Bangalore edition.Article is titled : WiMAX now in Bangalore WiMAX is more efficient in preventing virus attacks.The staff reporter probably has been told by the Aircel to do some PR work.The ill-educated reporter not taking any pain to do some ...
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Any ball tossed up on earth’s surface returns with an acceleration of 9.6 m/sec2.Throw it any number of times. I mean ANY.It returns with the same acceleration.That is consistency.And it is measurable.That’s what is Science all about. Consistently measurable with the same accuracy.Anything which is immeasurable, or not yet understood ...
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Monday, January 15th, 2007
This is what it read in Businessline's supplement this morning.I quote two lines. Every job on this planet is boring and monotonous, if you don't understand the science behind it.So very true.But let me take some time to talk about history than science.Be it Iraq crisis, India's Satelite Program, New ...
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