Indian Sport – Double Lucky this month
This month (Sep ’07) has been double lucky for Indian Sports. Last week Indian Cricket team won the world cup for Twenty:20 championship in South Africa. Today Viswanathan Anand has…
September 2007
Disk Cleanup utility in Vista
Windows has been having a Disk Cleanup utility from Windows 95/98 days, but I haven’t considered it of any use till today. I found today in my Windows Vista Laptop…
Landmark super sale
Landmark bookstores in Chennai are running a super sale of selective books with discounts up to 60% until October 2nd, 2007. I was there shopping yesterday and was pleasantly surprised…
The Thunderbolt Kid
Yesterday I finished reading the book “The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid” by Bill Bryson who is a popular writer of travel books which are very hilarious. In…
Greece PM Mobile bugged
I read in IEEE Spectrum July 2007, a detailed technical analysis of how a high profile mobile phone bugging that happened in 2004. It was of Greece Prime Minister, his…
Office 2007 Viewers
Many times you might have got stuck not being able to open a Word/Excel/PowerPoint file because MS Office is not available on that machine. Though OpenOffice/Office Suites in Linux can…
Megacities in the world
June 2007 issue of IEEE Spectrum carried a comprehensive report on growth of Megacities. It talked about the pollution levels being highest in Karachi (Pakistan) followed by shamefully New Delhi…
Economic Growth – Computers and Internet behind them?
This post is more of my thinking than a finite point on the present world economic achievements. If you stop and think about what has been achieved in the last…