My next flight from Paris is on time but I have an hour to go.The airport is just beyond my expectations.Truly international.I dont mind spending all my life at airports.Wish I could take pictures. I think they have some restriction. - I had an aerial view, few minutes before landing here at Paris.The city or [...]
April 27, 2007
Friends tease me.In spite of the fact that I was the first to be placed among the batch, I haven’t seen much of the world.Had a great urge to go around, but not been so lucky.The farthest travel by air, so far has been Bangalore – Delhi.So this would be my first ever overseas trip. [...]
April 25, 2007
Two companies which caught my attention in this morning’s IT Ascent. Sipera – Openings on VOIP C-DOT Alactel Reseach Centre – Openings for Wimax
April 24, 2007
Update :My travel is finally confirmed. I will be leaving Bangalore on 28th , Saturday midnight.Reaching Boston on Sunday afternoon.Stay is for three weeks. Returning back on 20th of May.
April 20, 2007
Atlast. We all had been waiting for this to happen for more than two years now.The long patient wait is over.
April 20, 2007
Over the weekend I was at Landmark book store to pick up some intro book on yoga.Either it’s too expensive, the content isn’t well put or they are boring.I must have browsed 30-40 books and finally to buy none. Our yoga trainer gave away this two pager hand-outs y’day. Look at the pictures. She drew [...]
April 18, 2007
mapquest generates location map if you specify the latitude and longitude values…. Latitude: 12.924 deg N Longitude: 77.669 deg E Our office location is marked with a star Where did I get these accurate values for Latitude and Longitude?!Our Lab BTS is powered with a GPS receiver. This is a better picture if you want [...]
April 17, 2007
How cool is that. Angioplasty.My brother will have to undergo this in a day or two.I was bit tensed till I read about this technique.In Angioplasty Doctors reach the patient’s heart without cutting open the chest.They’ll do it all through a needle injected from the thigh portion.That means no knife, no blood and he’ll be [...]
April 14, 2007
It has been my most religious practice for several months now. One Hollywood movie per week.This started long before, I got the British Library membership. Dont know if this one still exists. There was one ( coffee bar + library) in airport road behind intel’s office,called Leisure Hours. They used to play movies over the [...]
April 14, 2007
Pulling news, astro or some jokes from a service provider on your mobile costs you.You send NEWS to 222 of AirTel and it charges you not lesser than 3 rupees for every update. But you will like this one from http://www.mytoday.com/ . Not a slick one by looks. But there’s enough substance. I am subscribed [...]
April 11, 2007
If you happen to read any primer books on wireless systems, opening chapters of those will describeTime Divison Duplex(TDD) systems and Frequency Division Duplex systems (FDD).All fine. Very easy to understand. But there’s a problem if they leave it at just that point.Reader might be led to believe that TDM is better than FDM and [...]
April 9, 2007
Yoga classes have started at office. Instructor has asked us to get some comfortable clothing. Friday evening, I was at Bangalore central, for some random shopping.Spotted Urban Yoga. Checked out their collection. But took nearly two hours to make up my mind to finally put that into the cart. Here’s how I shop. Notice something. [...]
April 4, 2007
You will call this stupidity…but that’s my thinking style at times. Why cars are short and buses are tall….?! My answer is:In cars people sit and travel. That’s why it’s short. You will say….same is true in buses. People sit and travel. But the reason why buses are tall is…when you step inside the bus…you [...]
April 3, 2007
Been in this situation at public toilets like office, hotels, theatres,etc ? Trying to knock, push and open a door which is occupied…?Little embarrassing. I noticed that our office Toilet room has a clever knob.When you get inside and lock, the rotation of the knob brings up “Engaged” display outside.When you unlock and come out [...]
April 1, 2007
Two loaded days at IIMB. Do not have any energy left to key in all the event details.Just check this link to find out more… Here are some presentations…not all…
April 30, 2007
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