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  1. Immunity to Death

    December 7, 2008 by Prasanna

    This has been the biggest break for me, after putting up my first post on this space. I was nearly ready with a post, and then the Mumbai attacks happened.

    There were so many things to be said, but at the same time I didn’t want to say a thing. There were so many things being said in the media already. They were proud of our forces at times, and they were outraged at times. Proud of all the men who swarmed into the hotel to save numerous lives putting theirs in line. Outraged that a dozen people could cause so much damage, so easily.

    It is my opinion that we Indians have become more immune to death than anybody else. May be because we see so many of them so often. Whether it is a natural disaster or a terrorist attack or a large scale accident, we forget about it the next day and move on with our lives. While it is great that Mumbai can get back to normal so quickly after the train bombs, are we learning anything from them? Or is it just some more lives lost and moving on as soon as possible? After so many terror attacks in the recent times, it is worrying that our Rapid Action Forces took more than 8 hours to reach the terror scenes.

    These recent attacks had more at stake because of the targeting of foreign nationals. The Government stand to lose a lot of its revenue from tourism and even some business opportunities. While it is terrible for so many people from US, UK and other countries who had planned their holidays in India, I am hoping these stakes would cause the Indian Government to take strong preventive measures. This is what we have come to, because it seems the lives of the locals don’t seem to warrant any.

    Category India, Mumbai terror attacks, Politics, terrorism | Tags: | No Comments

  2. Ayn Rand vs Dagny Taggart

    November 16, 2008 by Prasanna

    There is this discussion I had in Orkut communities sometime back that turned out pretty interesting. The community discusses Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, and this was reason enough for me to be interested. Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are among my all time favorites, and I have recommended the book to a lot of friends.

    This particular discussion was about something everybody who reads Atlas Shrugged would identify with. Many people understand and accept Ayn Rand’s reasoning, while many others find it as some sort of a scar in an otherwise terrific piece of work.

    Is Dagny Taggart right in leaving Francisco De Anconia and Hank Rearden for John Galt?

    (If you didn’t understand the last sentence, stop here. You have a lot of work to do. Go read Fountainhead, then Atlas Shrugged, then come back here. I will wait. Promise.)

    There are a lot of ways to look at this issue, and the explanation that Ayn gives in the book is perfectly valid. Here is my point of view, better formatted than from Orkut.

    Does anyone know what Ayn’s views on marriage were? The fact is she approved marriage very much. She even thought it was very important in one’s life. I think that is commitment.

    She actually did something very close to Dagny in her life. Not three men, but two.

    She was married to Frank O Connor. Ayn was in love with him, but he was not in love with her (he married her because Ayn persuaded him to marry her for her immigration purposes).

    And ayn had a student of her philosophy, Nathaniel Branden. She persuaded another student of hers, Barbara to marry Nathaniel. They were living happily. Until Ayn at an age around 60 started loving Nathaniel, and Nathaniel out of respect confided he loved her as well (he was not in love actually, as Ayn came to know later).

    She caused extreme pain to Frank, Nathaniel and Barbara, the 3 people she supposedly loved most in the whole world, and she caused the divorce between Nathaniel and Barbara.

    She might have persuaded the readers about this in her novel, but causing unimaginable pain to the very people you love is ugly in any philosophy. I love her philosophy and I respect her and her books. But because she says a lot of good things, doesn’t mean everything she says is right.

    What happened in her life is just an extension of what she wrote in Atlas Shrugged about Dagny. Infact, she quoted Atlas Shrugged to her husband and Nathaniel’s wife, and persuaded them that what she did was right.

    I have been thinking about this ever since I first read Atlas Shrugged and then Ayn’s biography. I have concluded that what Dagny did is right and what Ayn did is wrong. The only difference is that what happened to their earlier lovers (Hank and Fransisco – Dagny and Frank – Ayn). Hank and Fransisco don’t seem to be concerned about Dagny leaving them, at least they don’t seem distressed and hurt. But, Frank was hurt to the point that he started drinking very heavily and ruined his life. The fact that Ayn caused such agony and misery to the person she loved most in life (she dedicated Fountainhead to Frank earlier), is unforgivable.

    Although what Dagny does doesn’t seem to affect the earlier lovers, it should be remembered that it is fiction, an extremely well written one, but still fiction. May be Ayn wanted Frank to react like how Fransisco and Hank did in Atlas Shrugged, and because of this wishful thinking, the whole situation was created in the novel. Anyway, I think the only way a lover will react to an act like that of Dagny’s is how Frank reacted.

    If a women or a man is already in love, and he/she finds a great person, may be even greater than his/her lover, why can’t he/she have a relationship without a romantic connotation, especially when you know that you are hurting your earlier lover? For example, if the man/woman finds his/her sister/brother, or any person from the same sex as a great person, the relationship is great, as between two sensible people interacting, enjoying each other’s company, and obviously without any romatic connotations. Why can’t there be a relationship like that just because they are not related by birth, or of the same sex? Why should there be sex involved in all relationships? (I am not saying sex is wrong by any means. But I definitely think to have sex with every great man you see is foolish, impractical and most important of all, uncivilized). And it is the same when somebody says I give my soul to one person, but I would give my body to different people, at least until I find the person who I can give my soul to.

    It certainly doesn’t sound fair to me. It might when you are in the position of Ayn or Dagny, but what to do, we are talking about objectivity here!

    (Facts about Ayn’s life are from her biography, Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden.)

    Category Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Dagny Taggart, Fountainhead | Tags: | 4 Comments

  3. Michael Crichton

    November 5, 2008 by Prasanna

    Michael Crichton, one of my favorite authors, has passed away at 66. To me, nobody has made contemporary science, be it nano-technology, genetic engineering or paleontology, more interesting and popular than Michael Crichton.

    I became a fan of his gripping and fast-paced narrative style when I first read Disclosure. I remember reading the book, through the night, while working on a quite night shift, telling myself I will do some work at the end of next page everytime I finished a page!

    Everytime I finished one of his books, I have realized I have gained much more knowledge about a field that not only did I have any idea about, but also had no interest in, and wouldn’t have read it unless it was in such a format.

    It is hard to imagine the kind of research that must have gone into each of his books, considering they were usually of completely different fields, ranging from issues relating to abortion, dinosaurs (of course), Japanese domination in corporate America, sexual harrasment, issues relating to flight accidents and media, nano technology, global warming to genetic engineering, to name just a few.

    His contributions would be gravely missed. I will leave you with my favorite lines from one of his books.

    On your planet you have an animal called a bear. It is a large animal, sometimes larger than you, and it is clever and has ingenuity, and it has a brain as large as yours. But the bear differs from you in one important way.

    It cannot perform the activity you call imagining. It cannot make mental images of how reality might be. It cannot envision what you call the past and what you call the future. This special ability of imagination is what has made your—species as great as it is. Nothing else. It is not your ape—nature, not your tool-using nature, not language or your violence or your caring for young or your social groupings. It is none of these things, which are all found in other animals. Your greatness lies in imagination.

    The ability to imagine is the largest part of what you call intelligence. You think the ability to imagine is merely a useful step on the way to solving a problem or making something happen. But imagining it is what makes it happen. This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one thing inside you—the ability to imagine.

    - Sphere, Michael Crichton – 1987.

    Category Michael Crichton | Tags: | 3 Comments

  4. Plug your Blog on ProBlogger

    October 26, 2008 by Prasanna

    Blogosphere is filled with tons of very interesting blogs and downright extraordinary people. One of my favorite blogs around is Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger. When I wanted to start my own blog and started looking for stuff I should be aware of, tips on the best blogging platform etc, ProBlogger was one of the first I found, and there is some solid help provided in this area in the site. The passion with which he writes is very infectious!

    He is probably the last person needing a plug on a startup casual blog like this, but he posted a really nice post over the weekend. Being a top guy in a very competitive niche, he gets bombarded with requests for links in his blog, and obviously to keep the quality of his blog, he needs to turn the requests down. What he has done in this post is to let any readers comment on the post, giving a short write up about their own blog, for 48 hours.

    It’s a great opportunity for anybody who wants to let their blog be known to everybody interested, also that’s some great marketing right there. Right now, there are 1153 comments and counting. Do write up a small intro of your blog if the time has not run out. If not, just have a look at the blog. Some great tips on blogging there.

    Category blogging, problogger | Tags: | No Comments

  5. Cinema Cinema

    October 21, 2008 by Prasanna

    RV has sent a tag our way! And to be done in Tamil. Apologies to the readers (plural – I am optimistic), who don’t speak or just don’t read Tamil.

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    Category cinema, tag, tamil | Tags: | 2 Comments

  6. How to get the best out of your iPhone

    October 17, 2008 by Prasanna

    Mobile gadgets are my favorite type of gadgets. You can be in contact with all your friends from anywhere you want, take all the music and movies you need with you, and more importantly if the gadget is cool enough you can show off quite a bit with it too!


    So, when my old windows mobile had been used to its maximum capacity, after a couple of battery swaps, I decided to look for a new phone. I have an idea that if you want to find the best product around in any field, all you need to do look around for the product that is being copied frantically by all the competitors. That, obviously would be an iPhone. From Nokia to Google’s android everybody seems to want a piece of the iPhone pie right now!

    So, when Apple’s iPhone was released in Australia this June, I was among the first to pick it up. After nearly 4 months of heavy usage, I must say I am a very pleased user. I can confidently say that this is easily the best phone I have ever used. The ease of use and the internet capabilities are unparalleled. But, I think there are some things that a user can do to get the best use of the phone. With these tips, I hope some of you will have an even better experience with the phone. I will try not to get into the specifics of any particular application here. This applies generally to the phone and its usage itself. So, here goes..

    • This is the most basic of all tips, but probably the most useful. Even though you can hold it in your hand, the iPhone is still a small computer. Like in any computer, the first thing you want to know is what to do when something goes wrong. As stable as it is, it can sometimes stop on its tracks. The first thing to try if an application freezes and would not respond to the press of home button, is to force quit the application. Anybody who has used Mac OS X will immediately recognize this command. This is the equivalent of End Task in windows, but one that will work everytime. iPhone has a simple of calling this command. Press and hold the home button for about 6 seconds. If the problem is something simple and specific to the application, the application will quit completely and you should go back to the home screen and when you open the application again, it should start afresh.
    • Sometimes the problem is not as simple as that. If the previous tip doesn’t work, try restarting the iPhone. To do this, press and hold the on/off button on top for about 6 seconds. You will see a slider bar named Slide to Power off. Slide and the device would be turned off. Just press the on/off button a couple of seconds to turn it back on.
    • If you think the phone is really messed up and it doesn’t respond to either techniques, you might have to reset the phone. This one, always works! Press and hold the home button and the on/off button on top together for about 6 seconds. The phone turn itself off and then on again. You should be ready to put the phone to spin again.
    • Alright, with the crisis management out of the way, we can work on getting some productivity on the phone. This one relates to the 3G network that makes the iPhone such a fast internet browsing machine. As great it is when it works, 3G is still a very new technology in many parts of the world. In Australia, I have seen users have dropped calls, because of this, and when I contacted Optus, my phone service provider, they actually confirmed there were indeed 3G issues. So, the tip is, turn 3G off when not needed. There are a couple of advantages to this. First, my dropped call rate dropped from more than 5% to 0% overnight, after I turned 3G off. Thats a lot of difference. Also, the 3G chip is very battery intensive and turning it off will make your iPhone run for much longer. To turn 3G off go to Settings>General>Network>Enable 3G, and slide to turn it off. If you need high speed internet you can turn it on quickly of course (Internet still works, just that it is slower).
    • While many apps that are available for the iPhone are great and adds to the experience of the phone, it must be realized that a very large percentage of them are developed by third party developers. It means that they are not all stable, and some of them might be more battery consuming than others, simply because of bad coding sometimes. So, when you install a new app, try it out and if it freezes your phone, you would want to wait until a bugfix is released. Bugfixes are rather quick if the developers are keen, and shouldn’t take too long.
    • If you do not need mails pushed to your phone, and you can open the mail app to read them, turn off push notifications, this might have a major impact on the battery life as well.

    I am sure there are many more, but these tips I hope will make it using the iPhone a better experience for you!

    Do share any tips you can think of in the comments section, or about anything in the world for that matter. Thanks for coming!

    Category apple, iphone, technology | Tags: | No Comments

  7. Experiments With Food

    October 13, 2008 by Prasanna

    Ask any Indian who has migrated out of India and has been living elsewhere for over 6 months what they miss most about being away from India, and about 99% of them would give the same answer without a second’s thought – their mother… and they would be lying. Not that they don’t miss their moms much; just that they miss their moms’ food more.

    When you have such a ready source of great variety of food at home and anywhere else you go as in the case of India, you kind of start to forget that there in fact is a source! So, when I moved to Australia having decided to study here, it came as quite a shock to me that for some reason dining tables in Australia would not generate food every morning and evening like the ones in India did.

    I had never learnt even the basics of cooking when in India, because well, there really was no need for it until I moved out. I guess everybody needs a little push to get started – couple of days of bread and jam, oriental noodles, and potato chips from the supermarket did it for me.

    I would never forget the day, I think it was about a week in to being in Canberra and I couldn’t take it anymore, when I entered the kitchen with resolve and learned everything there was to know about lighting the burner. The landlord for some reason thought it was quite amusing that I would focus so much on a seemingly trivial task, trying hard to suppress his laughter all the while teaching me the nuances of lighting. About 15 minutes of constant practice later, I could at last light the burner without calling him or one of my house mates who were no better at this than me to supervise me. Yayy!

    It took many more sessions over a couple of years to learn cooking even modestly. But it is such a great hobby and I love it now. I probably can’t do without it. The good thing is I can now cook something edible nearly every time I start and all the utensils I start out with come out fine at the end of it!

    PS: The fact that I learned cooking enough to be a chef for a reputable restaurant for nearly an year, is simply a true testimony to the patience and skill level of the other chefs.

    Category Cooking | Tags: | 3 Comments

  8. Stupid Web Apps

    October 1, 2008 by Prasanna

    Richard Stallman has denounced cloud computing and web applications as a whole. “It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign”. He has come out rather strongly about these budding technologies that many think could be the next big thing in computing. So, why are they thought to be so good and is Stallman right in saying that they are stupid?

    Apple made its foray recently in to cloud computing, and made the term famous with MobileMe. Update a contact or make a new appointment on the go with your iPhone, and the details are updated within seconds to your desktop and laptops at home and work. You accept an invitation for a meeting at work, and it is automatically updated on your phone, so you will be reminded wherever you are, not just when at the desk. Pretty powerful stuff.

    Popular e-mail applications, blogging softwares, productivity programs like Google spreadsheets are all examples of web applications. There are some great advantages to web apps over its desktop counterpart.

    • There is no need to install web applications on every computer you need to run it on. Its distributed over the network, and they are available out of the box.
    • You create a presentation, save it on your desktop and forget to copy into a flash drive. Every body has these stories. No such problems with web apps. Point to the same URL and you have the file anywhere in the world, as long as you have an internet connection.
    • Upgrades and bug fixes are much easier to distribute. No need to install in every computer around. Upgrade it in the server, and the next time the users open the site, they find the changes. This in turn cuts costs for the service providers and so prices for customers are much cheaper. Many web apps to this date are free.
    These are just a few of the advantages. So, why is Stallman being so negative about these technologies? His argument is that, by storing our data with these companies, we are losing control over our data, and so we need to stop using them.

    There is no doubt that we are giving considerable control of our data to these companies, when we store data with them. But in my opinion not using web apps is as much a solution to this problem as stop eating due to the increasing costs of food (I think I took it too far too) !

    If we take some precautions, in my opinion we can save ourselves from this loss of control while also enjoying the advantages these technologies provide.

    • Use a software like Mail or Outlook. Get it configured with all your mail even if you never use it, and do not forget to have it started when the computer starts. In case you lose your mail account (this happens far more often than we realize), you have all the mails on your computer. You still need to let all your friends about your new mail address, but at least the glass is half full.
    • The fact that documents have been saved in Google Docs is not sufficient. Make frequent backups. The frequency depends on the importance of the documents you have stored there of course.
    • Try to use blog platforms that provide the option of automatic backups, and if possible exporting in XML format, so it is easy to import the complete blog into a new platform. WordPress does a great job of it. Have a look at this if you are looking for this plugin. I cannot find a feature that can export my blog in blogger. Can somebody please let me know how I can do this, if possible at all. Here is the second best solution.
    Some people have far too sensitive data and would have to take extraordinary measures to protect them. For the rest of us, I think the web is still a relatively safe enviroment. But, I think realization that these services are provided free (in most cases), and not to be taken for granted can go a long way.

    I am sure there are tons of such small techniques that can be used to ensure that our web experience is safe. Do share them in the comments section if you can think of some!

    Category blog backups, cloud computing, mobileme, Richard Stallman, web applications, web safety | Tags: | No Comments

  9. Gotcha !

    September 25, 2008 by Prasanna

    What do you call a person who is completely laid back; for whom nothing is sacred, nobody too big? You might use a 17 letter tongue-twister or you might use a simpler and more accurate word – ‘Aussie’.

    Have a listen to this Gotcha call for some first hand proof. Some background information, before you go though…

    Dr. John So is the Lord Mayor of Melbourne city. The man I have heard is probably the most famous of Mayors Melbourne has ever had, and was named World Mayor in 2006.

    My first memory of him is from the closing ceremony of 2006 Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne. On stage in company with the then Victorian premier Steve Bracks and the Australian Prime Minister, John So beat both of them hands down in the appreciation showed by the Melbourne crowd. At every mention of his name, the applause kept increasing, and after the completion of the games, there were even some John So for PM t-shirts seen around the city. So, you might say he is one of the most influential men in the country.

    Gotcha call is a rather famous section in the breakfast show of Fox FM in Melbourne. It is the equivalent of candid camera, for radio. People give information about their friends, usually some queer thing about them, and Matt Tilley, the co-host of the show, calls them up and torments them with the information, usually impersonating as someone else. What keeps the show interesting is Matt’s quick wit and the many variety of voices he can impersonate (He does a great Indian accent, the character Ajeeb he does has achieved near cult status).

    Last friday Matt decides to call up the Lord Mayor’s office impersonating, president of a local football team, who was going to run for Mayor, but withdrew at the last minute because of his commitment to the Hawthorn football team. The poor unsuspecting Mayor is in for some shock!

    Warning: There is some coarse language. It can be noticed that John So, being of Chinese origin is not fluent with his english. So, go have a listen. Look for the one titled Gotch Call – Matt gets Melbourne’s Lord Mayor John So singing. Here, the link again.

    Only in Australia! If it had happened in India, the radio station would have been history by now!

    Category Gotcha call, John So, Matt Tilley | Tags: | 2 Comments

  10. The thousand other things

    September 23, 2008 by Prasanna

    Action is highly overrated.  
    A scientist is highly active with her work.  So is a doctor, a software engineer or a writer.  But, so is a gambler or a couch potato.  She chooses all the wrong things to act upon.  So, the challenge is not action, it is the choice – What do I act on now?

    Every day, every moment, we have this choice to make.  But this choice is rarely as easy as choosing between something important vs something frivolous.  
    Do you spend your free time learning more about the programming language you are working on or about the brand new programming platform that looks like the next big thing?
    You have chosen what you are doing right now over a thousand other things you could be doing.  You could be out learning a new skill.  You could be spending quality time with a family member or a loved one.  
    Does the thing you are doing at any point of time deserve the precedence over all the things that you could be doing?  If no, make a different choice now.  If yes, are you putting in the kind of effort such a thing deserves ?

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