Posted by: Aadisht on: September 25, 2007
This Mint article on school lunches in Japan is rather alarming in its enthusiasm for the nanny state. It also gushes about the Japanese self-sufficiency movement, which actually dooms Japanese farmers to small farms and eats up money in food subsidies: Chisan, chishou, the local term for ‘produce local, consume local’, is a major campaign [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 25, 2007
Kodhi messages in: If Vodafone does a lot of outdoor advertising, can we say that it is painting the town red? The Times of India will catch on to this as soon as it’s done masturbating over the Twenty20 win, and it will cease to be funny. But while that window of TOI-less opportunity exists, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 25, 2007
Yet more woe. The Palio’s coolant pipe has sprung a leak. On the way to Saturday’s Open Quiz, the needle on the temperature indicator shot up beyond the red line, and stayed there in frightening ways. This set off a cascade of daamaal-dimeel events. The engine stopped burning petrol properly. Driving from Indiranagar to Nrupathunga [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 25, 2007
(I’m posting this now, because I have to rush for work. I’m not too satisfied with how the post is written, though, so I’ll probably continue to edit and update it over the day/ week. Your comments will be welcome, as always.) More than three years ago, Ravikiran inserted these lines into a blogpost about [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 24, 2007
WordPress is going to upgrade to version 2.3 next week. While I’m thrilled to bits about the upgrade and the core support for tags, I’m not so thrilled about having to find a tag-compatible theme. Consider my requirements for a theme: Needs to be compatible with WP 2.3 and thus with tags and widgets. Needs [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 23, 2007
I have abused bad books on this blog before. I roasted One Night @ The Call Center and If God was a Banker. But that was only because they were unmitigatedly bad books. On the other hand , Tarbela Damned – Pakistan Tamed has humongous mitigants to the badness. It is a conceptually bad book, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 20, 2007
From my Technorati inbound links, I discover that someone called Mohan KV has called me ‘Arrogant.Opinionated.Must Read.’ (Arrogant? Really?). The man is a must-read himself. The whole blog are strong, but this post about Mech Engineering endterms at IITM is sublime. Especially power plant engineering: Doing a simple energy balance, we (all of us) find [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 19, 2007
In the unlikely and shocking event that you read Sleisha Cuppax Fundaes (w)Only but not Within / Without, please follow this link and read this story immediately. Neha Vish has written a story that brings together pizza, instant messaging, arranged marriage, and Pink Floyd. And she’s done it in less than eight hundred words. Respect!
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 19, 2007
The much-hyped, long-in-development mChek seems to have gotten a little closer to mainstream commercialisation. Okay, it’s much hyped only if you follow the telecom sector and read BusinessWorld every week, but within that set of people, it’s hyped enough. mChek is basically this company/ product which allows you to use your mobile phone as either a [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 16, 2007
Why being a grossly overpaid MBA is brilliant: it lets you go berserk at the Crossword Sale.