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A few clicks from afar

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I just don’t get it

Why is everyone going on and on about Twitter? Why? Technology is weird. Everything happens in “Internet time”, a new combination of space and time in which none of the old rules matter, or so we are led to believe. In the late 90s, there were hundreds of new ideas that promised to magically “revolutionize [...]

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Things have changed some.

Quick anecdote, fresh from the English summer: I was playing at a local badminton club yesterday and realized that the scoring system I had always played in until as recently as 2007 back in business school (wherein one gains a point only after winning back the serve and games end at 15) had quietly become relegated, unbeknownst to [...]

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Investor’s bookshelf

Since I seem to be buying more than a few books every month these days (all hail the great Amazon), I thought it’d be useful to write down some of the better books on investing I’ve read and/or bought as a sort of paper trail for when I think of re-reading them. I would’ve loved [...]

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I don’t want to blog. I want to write.

I have a problem with the word “blog.” No, really. I don’t mind “website”, “web page” or “webspace.” On a particularly delightful day, I might even be hand-wavy at “weblog.” But the word “blog” is a downright irritant and has the unfailing effect of bringing out a wince on my face. What the hell kind [...]

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Down Usenet lane…

Exactly one day after I wrote that Jeff and Joel are two of my favourite writers, both of them announce a joint venture they’re doing called stackoverflow.com which is the new Usenet/newsgroup. For the dear reader who perhaps has not seen the wonder that is the Usenet – I learnt most of my real coding through Usenet [...]

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Talentless and soporific

What does a talentless, soporific New Age writer do when he realizes he is all three? Simple: he points elsewhere. Abnormal Returns: I’m not a fan of talentless, soporific New Age writers who point somewhere else, but this is a happy exception. The average quality of content being pointed to is very high and it’s [...]

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Mysteries of the wedding invite

WEDDING (n.) A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, and then spend the rest of their lives deciding which one. Dear, Dear Reader: (Nota Bene: The crucial details are right at the end, so if you are busy, maybe the scroll down button is a good idea.) We find the prospect of [...]

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Update and The Source

Time for some trivia. I work out of the same building as the London Stock Exchange at Paternoster Square. Here is a view from the inside. What you see in the picture is the famed artwork of Greyworld called The Source, which is a physical representation of the stock markets, a full eight stories high! [...]

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The Invaluable Moment

It so came to pass that I was digging through my old archives of backed up files and folders; and lo, I find this piece of writing in the mishmash. I post it here since I think it is valuable enough to not lose, and valuable enough to share. I have no clue where I [...]

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Now, that’s what I call funny

Three links for your browsing pleasure. Not one more, not one less. Three it shall be. The Best Page in the Universe: is arrogant, funny and uses language that might be termed offensive in most Parliaments. “This page is about me and why everything I like is great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong.” The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: is written by [...]

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IIM Bangalore Admission Process

The news IIM Bangalore has decided to go public and fully transparent with their flagship PGP selection process. I, for one, welcome that! Apparently, there’s been a heated debate amongst IIMB faculty regarding this move, but it’s now official. A 5-page document detailing the admission process is available on the IIMB website. I’m sure the [...]

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A theory of Potterdom

You can’t escape it, can ya? It’s like potholes on Indian roads–all over the place. And you’ll run into one whether you like it or not, whether you see it or not, whether you approve of it or not. Harry Potter. Quite like ah, potholes. Heh. (To all those fanatics who are sharpening a lead [...]

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Of civil action and auto-rickshaws

Well, Chennai is hot. Smeltering hot. That’s not so bad in itself, but, I had to be in it for two days. And my primary mode of transport was auto-rickshaws, and so, as Ali would say, “Oh blimey.” Now anyone who’s gone to Chennai knows the highway robbery and pillage that is the auto-rickshaw system. (It’s [...]

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Trivia

Euonymous aptronym: An appropriately named name that suits its owner. A semi-recursive name, the hallmark of a true geek. I was very pleased with myself when I came up with it, and found that there was nothing comparable on Google. Now, searching for euonymous aptronym on Google yields my blog as the top result. Ah, [...]

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The knowledge of inequity

“I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world’s deepest inequities… on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.” –Bill Gates at Harvard [Email subscription of all content is available. This [...]

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Fighting comment spam

After an hour of cleaning up comment spam, I’ve installed reCAPTCHA. From the website: A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to [...]

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The Game of Kings

One of the greatest miseries of one with a love for writing is that period in which one doesn’t know what to write. It would be safe to say that I am very much entrenched in that morbid space. Every day for the last week, I have fired up my blog editor, stared into the [...]

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The time has come

“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things.” –Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter [Email subscription of all content is available. This article is available online from "The time has come". Brought to you by Euonymous aptronym.]

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Penmanship and me

Why do I even bother? Why do I take the trouble to sit down and write, of all things!, knowing fully well that what I articulate will probably not be as ground-breaking or as eloquent or even as sensible as I would like it to be? What do I get out of it? What do [...]

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