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I am (finally) launching my own domain and my own blog! Follow me here..
I am (finally) launching my own domain and my own blog! Follow me here..
The title of this post refers to a statement from the book and the talk, “The Last Lecture“, by Randy Pausch, a Computer Science professor at CMU, who had pancreatic cancer, to which he succumbed in July 2008. In his book, Randy talks about how you have don’t have any …
A very good friend of mine, SaiG, is training with Team in Training with the goal of running the Seattle marathon in June 2009. In addition, his goal is to raise $3900 for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. This is a cause that is extremely dear to my heart. Even …
This day today, 200 years ago, marked the arrival of Charles Darwin into this world. On this occasion, I’d like to recommend the following award winning documentary to readers: “The Genius of Charles Darwin” by Richard Dawkins. A very fascinating and very well done documentary..
It had been a long time since I had gone on a hike, and I had been itching for a nice time in the wilderness. This trip to the bay area seemed like a good opportunity to get some hiking done. Getting friends around here to join me turned out …
Here’s a beautiful picture by Sandip– Table For Two- Bali. Reminded me of our recent vacation to Bali. Checkout this one and some other nice pictures on his blog.
Manas has an excellent post about “Book-as-Blog“, where he makes the case for splitting books into chapters or even smaller units, and publishing them as blogposts. While I don’t have any numbers for justifying this thought, anecdotal evidence through conversations with a lot of friends is enough to convince me …
Recently I read the book, “On Becoming Fearless… In Love, Work, and Life“, by Arianna Huffington of “The Huffington Post” fame. It is an excellent read, and I would recommend all women to read it. She talks about fearlessness as not really the absence of fear, but the ability to …
I can write tons of blogposts about conversations between son-in-law (read: Niket) and mother-in-law (read: my mom). Here’s an unforgettable gem. MIL: I was reading “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!” the other day. Very nice book. Richard Feynman very much reminded me of you. SIL: (Thinking: Oh dear FSM, this …
When I visited the US this time around, I was pleasantly surprised to find that one of my friends from grad school had moved to the bay area. It had been three months since he joined, and I had no clue about it. In fact, it was about two years …