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Monthly Archives: April 2006

PGSEM Interview Results

27-Apr-06

PGSEM interview results are out. I got an offer for admission. Classes starting June 23rd, will be held every Friday and Saturday for the next two-and-half years.
In case someone wants advice/help/tips/answers-to-questions on PGSEM, or is wondering what this is all about, please join the yahoo group.

Employees valuable or customers ?

22-Apr-06

There is a debate raging elsewhere on whether employees are most valuable for firms, or customers. I have not gone through the entire discussion, but most entries seemed to be for either one of the two.
My take on this would be - neither. In The Goal, Professor Goldratt has mentioned that the primary goal [...]

BarCamp Bangalore

20-Apr-06

The Bangalore Edition of BarCamp is going to be held this Saturday (21st April) at Yahoo’s Golf Link Campus. It is going to be an “unconference” with around 30 sessions on geek (NOT necessarily tech) topics ranging from Web 2.0 to Social behavioural patterns on Online communities to whatever the participants are interested in.
There are [...]

Seth Godin on Google

18-Apr-06

Seth Godin spoke at google, about google. Watch the video here.
More later ..

Google Calendar

16-Apr-06

Google has lanched its calendar service, much like Yahoo’s - but ofcourse, with its trademark simplicity, dynamic UI, and added features. Some of the key highlights :

Ability to share Calendars with the world
Multiple calendars per account
Calendars can be overlaid into a single display, so that you can schedule across multiple calendars
Natural language processing - Allows [...]

News of the day ? Get real, guys !

16-Apr-06

The standard of Indian journalism and news channels scaled new heights today, with the “Breaking News” and endlessly-repeating-feature of the day being Mallika Sherawat’s endorsement of the 7up brand.
It is amazing how all these news channels can keep airing such kind of news, hour after hour, when there are much more important things which should [...]

Ubuntu Certification Announced

05-Apr-06

Similar to the RHCE, LPIC-1 is the entry level certification for Ubuntu, announced by The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), a Linux certification organization, and Canonical Ltd., sponsor of Ubuntu.
The Computer-based test will be available from June, through Thomson Prometric and Pearson VUE testing centres around the world. The exam price is USD 100.

Cellphone usage increases brain tumor risk

03-Apr-06

According to this article, a Swedish study indicates that prolonged cell usage increases the risk of brain tumor substantially.
This contradicts other studies by the Dutch and British, that did not find any harmful effects in the radiations from TV and Cell towers.
So, who is right ? I do not know, but keeping the cell usage [...]