Many of us have the dream of just quitting our job and do stuff we are passionate about. You might be thinking what it needs to stop working and do things you want for the heck of it. I’m trying to find out how much it takes for a single person (with no dependents...
The Law of Karma is very important in many spiritual schools. It’s a very potent weapon in the arsenal against skeptics to ward off unnerving questions. The most important being why good people suffer badly? Today I was reading about shifting goalposts in the excellent book Human nature after Darwin by Janet...
When it comes to devotion, my folks at home do not discriminate between Shri Raghavendra and Adi Shankara. This of course is in addition to a whole contingent of Hindu Gods. A trip to Mantralaya receives an equal gusto and preparation (in spiritual terms) to a trip to Kanchipuram. I find this quite surprising...
Yeah, we all know office 2010 is coming up. Is there someone out there just waiting for 2010 and not using the current version? The answer obviously is no. The reasons: 1. Office has become a ubiquity - It’s like your soap or bodywash. You just can’t do without it. 2. Affordability-It’s not a...
Just out of interest, I’ve been immersing myself with the following literature recently: 1. God Delusion by Richard Dawkins 2. Why I’m not a Hindu? By Kancha Ilaiah 3. Code Name God by Mani Bhaumik 4. The Autobiography of Gora 5. TED talks by Dan Dennett, Julia Sweeney, Richard Dawkins Except for one book...
Online marketing of non-internet based companies majorly has till now been confined to Websites, Email newsletters,the intrusive banners and popups and in rare cases participation in social sites like Twitter and blogs. With user generated content ruling the roost at this point of time, the sum total of all the contents a company is...
When I heard about Yahoo Pipes, that too only recently I didn’t give much attention to that. In fact I was wondering how could Yahoo! come up with anything interesting. The last time Yahoo attracted me was during the early days of email. But then I saw about pipes here and there in various...
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. It’s just a matter of perception in deciding what is good and what is not. Subjectivity, we have come to see has become one word providing escapist route for average performances. When we start thinking about how people respond to things, more often than not ,subjectivity...
It all started when I wanted to calculate some statistical measures like variance/std deviation automatically in Excel. I was planning to use the Analysis Toolpak in Excel. It’s available in Tools -> Add-ins -> Select Analysis Toolpak -> Click Ok. Unfortunately, I found that neither was it installed on my system nor was it...
Just thought of recording my experiment with slowness. It all started with an email forward which was talking about the slow movement taking on silently in Europe starting with the concept of Slow Food, which you might have guessed as opposed to fast food. Anyway, as the name suggests the movement is all about...
