Things look different here

Since I had some spare time today, I upgraded the blog app (WordPress [http://www.wordpress.org]) to the latest version 2.0.5. Besides, I’ve also been working on a fresh template/theme for the blog, which is also live now. I hope its more usable and cleaner.…

Deja vecu

Yogi Bhajan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Bhajan] says: > Don’t solve your problems, dissolve your problems–so that they should not recur again. I wonder why is it so then that even your first kiss–has an afterlife [http://www.beliefnet.com/story/202/story_20289_1.…

Moonlight as an Entrepreneur

Continuing from my previous article [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2006/11/08/coolie-valley/] on the need & process of Entrepreneurship, there’s another interesting article titled “How to Moonlight as an Entrepreneur [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/jobs/29advi.html?amp;ei=5088&en=a5bfc5383337ee56&…

Coolie Valley

“50% Silicon Valley firms are run by Indians” [http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/nov/08inter.htm], tells Raghav Kher, founder and CEO, Seventymm [http://www.seventymm.com/] – India’s first online movie rental service. The term “coolie valley” was coined [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22coolie+valley%22]…

Polar Singularity

> Me: Whatever I do is between me and my conscience. Who are you to tell me? [a moments silence, droplet’s falling in the bucket from the soaked roof in my sleep] Them: We are your conscience! Conscience is a moral faculty. This voice within is not intellectually reached,…

WordPress Update

I’ve finally updated the blog to WordPress [http://www.wordpress.org] 2.0.4 (latest). I was earlier running version 1.5 with a custom mod of the Orange Sky theme and a couple of plugins. The update process [http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress] was quite straight-forward (files,…

How I saved over $4000 on software?

Is the “free software [http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html]” revolution a myth or a temporary trend? I don’t think so. Being a technology evangelist myself, who’s been involved in software usage & construction for over 10 years, I feel that “free software” has a tremendous…