Principia Unlogica

Cannot express how very happy I am to see this... Many many many congratulations dude!

I came across these wonderful talks from The RSA . The talks are pretty captivating. Very cool... very cool presentation and voiceover to go along with interesting ideas. The question is: How can I make some like this?

Kiddo's first day at school today after a lovely summer of being together. I am glad I did take this break from work. I am missing him around the house already. :) Yea, yea, I know I am the person who asserts that she would never miss kids when they are off to college and will have a real life, but what you folks don't realize is that when they go to college, they just aren't as cute as when they go to K. :) Kid comes out of the school and says 'Days are just packed!' LOL

Learning Python is fun. A lot of fun, reading about new things, and trying them out. And enjoying all the new revelations as they dawn upon me... yeah, usually things don't strike me, they dawn upon me gradually. But its "Yippeeeee" There was a time in Purdue when I took an operating systems course with heavy project load without ever having programmed in C before, without ever having seen a Unix system before. Starting my project I sat before the computer wondering just where to write the program in a terminal till someone came by and said - just use vi - as if I was pondering on an editor choice. What he didn't know was, I didn't know what vi was or meant, or how to open it, or anything about it till I saw him type vi at the prompt and open an editor. Wow, that was something colossally stupid. While my peers were wrangling through OS concepts in the project, I was grappling with the very basics. I remember compiling my first ever program. The compiler spewed li

I am picking on IITKanpur in this post just because of a conversation that made me think, but I suppose this can be applied to most Indian institutes. The other day, hubby was talking about the session he attended at IIT-Kanpur's convention on how IIT should be 30 years from now. He said that the panel was so completely out of touch, and so lacked a vision or even a grasp on current. They had employed McKinsey consultants and inspite of that they came up with ridiculous solutions like "We are going to build a new high-tech village near IIT Kanpur because the institute suffers from not being in a big industrialized city" Duh? But there is a basic issue here. Consultants. You cannot and should not outsource 'thinking'. Sure consultants bring a fresh view, but they do not know about your organization. Thinking about your organization or about your problem is an important process in which you learn more about organization, and really take time to step back from the da

I doubt if there is any reader left for this blog, but if any of you has thought of dropping by - "Hey there!" Its been tough to keep up with blogging as I have been consumed with several critical tasks like diaper changes, swimming classes and peek-a-boos that I have been biologically morphed into enjoying. Anyways, it doesn't matter why I couldn't blog. All that matters is I am here today; and that it doesn't bother me if no one happens to drop by though I will be happy if someone does read. Think about it, there is a kind of peace in this thought. Read a nice book recently - Three Cups of Tea. Its about this American guy, Greg Mortenson, who has built schools in remote areas around Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The writer could have done a better job in English, but the story is amazing! Also saw a wonderful movie "Harshchandrachi Factory". Its about Dadasaheb Phalke and how he went about making the first Indian cinema in an age when there was no movie

Many many congratulations to Mrs & Mr Bhanagay!!! :)

Happy times abound... many many congratulations to Mrs & Mr Dash.