From my archives – PCMCIA cards
Look what I found! Old PCMCIA and CF Cards for Laptops of early generations. Before the introduction of USB ports, the PCMCIA (or PC Card) provided the first true way…
May 2020
Ponmagal Vandhal (2020)
Ponmagal Vandhal (2020) is the first big-brand Tamil movie to get released directly on OTT (streaming service and not a theatrical release) and the first movie to release in over…
The Art and Engineering of Blogging
As readers of this blog know I have been blogging from 2004, with over 2900 posts in these 16 years. One of my regular readers is Dr Shriram Raghunathan who…
Saramonic Blink 500 B6 – A wireless microphone
Let me get this out – I hate Air Pods and clones being used for non-personal video calls, more so when I see them used in TV interviews! I had…
A standing desk trial
My improvisation of a standing desk during #lockdown in Chennai, India. I have been wanting to try a standing desk for a long time, today I tried for a few…
India Beyond 2020 Webinar
It was my privilege yesterday to be invited to spoke in a panel organised by the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam International Foundation run by House of Kalam, Rameswaram. Inspired by…
A simple yet useful gadget for video calls
Because many of us are stuck in our homes, as a result, all our meetings with friends and family, working from home, are done through video calls – webinars have…
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) is a kind of a historic spoof about King Arthur of Britain on his quest to find the “Holy Grail”. If you get…