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 picture I was reading Floyd’s Electrical Fundamentals this morning. Very well illustrated book for [...]
January 27, 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. Are they going to [...]
January 25, 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 you at your Home [...]
January 23, 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 pressures at the panel. It’s [...]
January 21, 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 conversations over [...]
January 21, 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 of my head are [...]
January 20, 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 to go to [...]
January 19, 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 research has printed this line. [...]
January 16, 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 is still a [...]
January 15, 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 book of Richard Dawkins,Cricket [...]
January 12, 2007
Will Apple’s iPhone be a threat to mobile carriers ?!Because Verizon, Alltel and Sprint Nextel will miss out on the frenzy that is sure to be caused when Apple releases the device this June. What might happen is hundreds of thousands buy the device almost immediately, and if those customers don’t have Cingular, they *will* [...]
January 11, 2007
Five things probably you do not know about me. 1. I am born and raised in Shimoga and graduated in Electroncis from Bagalkot engineering college. My final year project was mostly done by project mates. I was just hanging around with them. 2. I hold a Post graduation degree from Bhagwan Jain Mahaveer college in [...]
January 11, 2007
I have registered my .com domain site in anticipation of a free hosting from Google. http://www.arvindtm.com When it becomes available, you will start seeing my http://arvindtm.blogspot.com at http://www.arvindtm.com
January 10, 2007
Visual-Literacy.org is an online introductory tutorial about how data, abstract thoughts, and concepts can be graphically represented to more easily gain useful insights. One of their knowledge map examples is this excellent Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. Rolling your mouse over each form of visualization brings up an example of the technique. It looks like [...]
January 10, 2007
Why is that we see this pattern in climate.Summer -> Rainy -> Winter seasonWhy notSummer -> Winter -> Rainy seasonAm curious why Rainy season follows summer. Is it a global phenomena or just it’s specific to India ?Does this pattern offer any particular advantage ?
January 9, 2007
Increasingly, you should assume the best people reside outside your corporate walls So very true. The subtitle of the book is “How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything”, and the authors do a great job covering all the latest tools and topics (e.g., wikis, Flickr, YouTube, etc.) As they see it, the four keys to success are [...]
January 9, 2007
With the objective of supporting the Indian Industries to adopt the State of the Art technologies to survive in the international arena, Asia Technologies Limited is organizing a massive RFID event called RFID expo ‘Live’ India 2007 JANUARY 19,20,21 – 2007. KTPO’s INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTRE,WHITEFIELD, BANGALORE Visit http://www.rfidexpo.in for more Conference themes:>> RFID for Manufacturing [...]
January 8, 2007
I am in Bangalore for the last six years. Most musically inclined bangalorean youth knows about it.I knew too.About Freedom Jam. Free music festival. Somehow, never got a chance to see the bands performing.Finally it happened this Sunday. For those who are new to this, let me do some intro.It’s a musical movement of muscians [...]
January 8, 2007
Saturday I was there at Koramangala ezone and Jayanagar with my friend Aju, who was buying his notebook. What one should look for buying a notebook.Here’s list of things from top of my head- Core Duo processor( Intel or AMD, choice is yours. AMD powered ones are little cheaper.64 bit processors are the new age [...]
January 5, 2007
I read the review of this book couple of days back.The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I faintly remember the exact words which appealed me in the review. I did a look up on the net.This is what sums up the theme of the book in Dawkin’s words. “I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because [...]
January 31, 2007
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