Its a long way to the top….

I’ve been longing to write this since quite some days now. The latest terrorist act, that everyone has been talking about, happened on 26th November 2008. I was no more or no less annoyed by the incident, than any other ordinary Indian, in any ordinary household. But it wasn’t until about a week back, that [...]

System updates

Back home, this vacation, i had fedora 8 and ubuntu 8.04 installed on my system. in process of installing these OSs i had formatted various partitions (had 3 primary, and 3 extended including a 1gig swap), so that the disk had a bunch of unallocated space pending here and there, wasting some 400mb of the [...]

Beyond just faculty reservation at IIT

Now that the reservation for the faculty thing being said, figure this. the Times of India, Jaipur edition, dated july 3, 2008, writes “Kanpur yet to get HRD funds for IIT-Rajasthan. Even as at least 112 students have already been enrolled in IIT Rajasthan for the current session, the Ministry of HRD has not provided [...]

Cyber Bullying

Just when we thought that the cases of bullying in our schools and colleges throughout the countries were not very satisfactory, and that children were time and again taunted and bullied by their counterparts and seniors, does BBC put light on another very serious form of this age old malicious practice viz. Cyber Bullying. Then [...]

This way up

This post was originally my last post on my old blog. I just added it here as my first post to start the blog…
what have i been upto? a lot in a sense, although nothing in another sense too. realizing this is my first post this vacation, doesn’t actually feel like i’ve not been writing [...]