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Who do we believe?
Sep 15, 20082 min read

Who do we believe?

As information is becoming cheaper everyday and as we are getting access to more and more information, I see one problem. There are certain 'well known theories' which are being proved to be untrue...

Random thought
Dec 23, 20071 min read

Random thought

"There are some points in your life, when you have to just let your brain on auto-pilot and work on intuition and co-incidences than on logic and reasoning."

Prove that you are a human being
Dec 11, 20071 min read

Prove that you are a human being

In continuing with my observations made , I wonder if the following way of preventing someone from spamming a commenting system really helps: Spam protection: Sum of II plus III plus IV ? If I real...

Locating the Friends Apartment
Oct 27, 20071 min read

Locating the Friends Apartment

I was watching Friends for the umpteenth time. Whenever they showed the apartment, I used to wonder if it still exists and if so what it looks like. So here I was Googling for 'Bedford Street' (I h...

Difference in interpretation?
Aug 07, 20061 min read

Difference in interpretation?

I like blue. This has nothing to do with me being in IBM. I have always liked blue. Now let's say you hate blue and like some other color, say yellow. What is the reason behind this? Why do you lik...

How far is heaven from earth?
Jan 03, 20061 min read

How far is heaven from earth?

I don't know why I am writing this. But I felt this is interesting. (This is not a ground-breaking observation and may be baseless) So the question is how far is heaven from earth. Let us make some...

Guess who?
Dec 01, 200511 min read

Guess who?

Time to change my LJ pic. This goes better with the ? / // / // `/ ? / /-/ theme.

Random thought
Nov 25, 20051 min read

Random thought

If you are committed, luck is always on your side... ALWAYS.

Random thought
Oct 06, 20051 min read

Random thought

People enjoy coding... how different is it from playing computer games?

Google Earth now shows Bangalore
Sep 23, 20051 min read

Google Earth now shows Bangalore

Yeah, it's true! now shows Bangalore satellite images. Without any more words, let's get to business (I didn't want to mark the images): Golden Towers - The place where I work currently: (Landmark:...

Humor? Naah...
Sep 12, 20051 min read

Humor? Naah...

Method of swinging on a swing A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch induces s...

Random thought
Aug 03, 20051 min read

Random thought

An advice: Read your daily horoscopes at the end of the day, to know how your day went by.