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Monthly Archives: October 2005

An interesting speech by Subroto Bagchi

25-Oct-05

An inspiring Speech By Subroto Bagchi, Chief Operating Officer, MindTree Consulting
“I was the last child of a small-time government servant, in a family of Five brothers. My earliest memory of my father is as that of a District Employment Officer in Koraput, Orissa.
It was and remains as back of Beyond as you canimagine. There was [...]

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Polyphasic Sleep

23-Oct-05

Saw this interesting post about polyphasic sleep on stevepavlina.com. The idea of sleeping for 30 minutes every 4 hours, which in effect means a total sleep time of 3 hours, seems appealing to me (It is another matter that I am sleeping around 7 hours per day right now, and cannot get to reduce it [...]

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Google Reader !

09-Oct-05

Google Reader is YABRFG (Yet Another Beta Release From Google) which completely rocks.
Found out about it from , while reading his blog via, ironically, bloglines (which has been my feed reader of choice since a long time). Promptly exported everything, and moved in to Google Reader. The Import took a bit longer than expected, [...]

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Converting documents to audiobooks

05-Oct-05

With podcasts and portable mp3 players increasing the popularity of audio as a medium for content other than just songs, here is a great article in the August edition of linux gazette.
To summarize, it is a HOW-TO for converting PDF/PS/HTML to mp3, all with the use of open source software and tools (ofcourse ! ) [...]

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