A great start, with me being slightly late thanks to the ‘awesome’ number allocation of plots at Udyog Vihar.

The start was from Shailesh Mehta, he being the one who has hit the road, with the aim of becoming the next-door Google by deeper penetration into our local ecosystem. A Search engine for providing the local search, this would be a content distributor along with being a content creator. The concept of providing a space for users to write their reviews might actually help in making the search better, and more intuitive. Although there are several other players in the market, the claim stood that it is the user community will make the venture perform better in the market in due course of time. Check this link out at: http://www.onyomo.com/ they call it ‘on your move‘ <- personal note: I have used Sulekha for long, thinking of trying my luck on each of them (got something to work on over the week-end  - >

This whole thing seemed just like another lecture until David from The Innovation WorkGroup came up and organized the group into a single discussion. Now is what we call ‘the shape for discussion’. It was only then that the minds began to think and mouths began to pour.

Next on the list: Two individuals have finally removed the N from non reliable indians NRI and have come back to their nation, to fill colors of prosperity with their venture called RangDe.org, these were Smita Ram and Ram NK. A cool name inspired by the Bollywood blockbuster hit Rang De Basanti - RDB. A peer2peer non-profit micro-finance company with the aim of providing small amounts in the multiples of 1000 to the needy. The deviation from the normal track has been to promote women of the villages as moneylenders. The philosophy driving them is: ‘women are more proactive in returning the investment’, I would add ‘more often’ and make is subtler for the men. So they often lend money to the women, which in turn shall distribute it further. A great awakener for us as youngsters who have put their benchmarks for life as packages, in Rs. a.k.a $, and not as ‘change’ in the society a.k.a innovation. My fi’e for the couple for this social innovation

The brain storming session comprised of loads of statements of what innovation is and what is means to companies big and small. I for innovation and innovation for I, a quote by Pavan from Wipro provoked each one of us. The adrenaline for innovation comes from the need for it. The need in the individual to get recognition. The need for the company to earn more. The need creates and the need drives. The thought was opened by Anand from Wipro and towards the end it was unanimously agreed upon. I would like to add, that for eras man has innovated to improve his way of living, and is constantly doing just that. <–(boring though, try something new. something which is just the opposite. like much more of bioweapons, missiles….)–>. Dissatisfaction for the current situation, mentions a need for change and a change is innovation. And as a lady mentioned it can either sustaining or a breakthrough innovation.

The debate between creativity and efficiency was the one I loved more. We believe that both efficiency and creativity need to go hand in hand for an organization to survive. I concluded with the mention that: creativity is a galloping horse, with the reigns of efficiency controlling it. The rider falls off due to bad ROI (Return on Investment) if the efficiency levels are not reached.

Big-brotherly treatment of the bosses are great killers of innovation, cited with an example of the man who proposed first aid kits for Maruti cars back in 1980′s was suppressed for the idea. Today he has a venture which supplies these kits to several automobile manufacturers, mentioned Pavan from Wipro. Illiteracy was cited as another good cause. But it was the society, which was killing it much before it could mushroom out. And was killing it for good, said a gentleman. Since birth we are asked to act Good, a Good son, a Good brother, a good husband (daughter, sister, wife). And we are asked to be on the track, and if we just walk on the track, we follow. By following there is no new track, no innovation. A great conclusion indeed.

I just forgot to mention the new media devices from Vmedia which might as be a great way to watch movies. These are blue-ray optical disks smaller than a credit card, perhaps the smallest optical drive. And this drive fits nicely into a mobile phone. Plug in and Plug out into a HD experience with the latest blockbusters on the move. This was Anuraj from Vmedia.

Innovation was becoming such a cliché in these 4 hours.  With all these high-end statements. I found this last real life narration quite joyous. A node-network was setup in a matter of 5 months at this engineering Institute, by few IIIrd year students with old computers (PI, PII and 386′s) along with old hubs and switches. Linux was the savior of these garbage boxes, who saw the light of the day in a ‘server’ room. The room soon became a high profile dare-not-enter area, mentioned Sanat from IIT Delhi

It was filled with old junk and great minds, ‘beware we bite’

I have been visiting comesum for couple of years now, it seems like a great outing, when you have spent the night wacking your brains on some project. With each visit I have witnessed a change in the crowd. From a destination for night train travellers to a good-snack-cafe for call center employees and now as an after disc hang out for youngsters, the transition seems little too drastic.

Earlier, I seldom used to find any one properly dressed. With people in their night chaddies with a T-shirt on top or with a pair of shabby jeans it seems like a cool-cool place. But now its seems, Sun never sets at ‘comesum’, its hot in here. Wearing shades at 3 AM seems a possibility here. Its now filled with yankies with minnies and halters and yunkies as Men in BLACK. Its a hot place to be. Surely ,being a witness to this drama at 3 AM is worth the travel.

After all its only the pizza that drove me to nizzamudin tonight, with a smile on my face, and pity for Lalu I return to my cozy home.

Little did Lalu know that his ‘milking’ restraunt shall serve as a hang out for hang overs.

After some six hours of traveling from one corner of Gurgaon to the other to wind off the work, it was time to wait at the City Centre. The Wait was an experience of not being part of the war.

At 5:30 pm, a war was on, a tussle is on, in each one of the souls who have left their office to go back to their home. A tussle to fight for their own existence, to gather space, that they could call their own. It was the time when they had to forget about the worries of their office, as it was the dawn of a new set of problems. The problems of their own homes.

It seemed all these beings were lost in their own thoughts. For them smiling at a passerby seemed merely a waste of time.

The swarms of cabs had arrived, people rushing to settle in their own. The irony was that all of them were in a hurry to get relaxed. They wanted to get into their cars and sit, waiting for the others to come. Please some one tell me is waiting what you do to relax(I am very Impatient). Meanwhile, each  one spent their time looking out of the window, mesmerized in own thoughts. The idea of talking to their fellow passenger seemed another job to them. ‘Talking’ surely is an effort, especially when you have to get a false smile on one’s face, when you are yourself low.

I could visualize my self on top of a building, when all these cars would seem like ants and these humans like food. The ants would come, swallow these beings, and set off for their way.

At the Toll Gate, I was a witness to the perspective of these ants going through a narrow channel out into an urban jungle.

Even tragedy at road, would have moved a few, while others would mostly pouring out their emotions blaming the situation as a mere time waste.

The fast lanes and cunning lives makes this city a golden dumb land. Hahaha Say no more….

Now see the rangeela India – The Chandni Chowk – The Heart of Old Dilli

In these fast lanes of the slow land, even a ferrari shall be at pace with the one on foot. This is the equality at Chandni Chowk. loolzz…

The paranthe waale gaali, railway station ki chai, and the looks of the bystanders. I am what I am(courstey RbK).

Ahhh. forvige me for the exxagaration, coz just when Every one would be tired with a day of work. (;P)

Its been quite a lotta time, since I last visited my own blog. I was opening it only when I got a mail saying, hey you a got a new comment. But these were all spam, filling up my mailbox each day. Finally I thought, I should get rid of all this mess. Finally got the courage and configured akismet- a spam filter for wordpress ( the tool on which my blog works ) .

My site looked old and bland. see right…———————————–>>>>>

Indeed an overhaul was required, thus I fetched a new copy of wordpress.. 2.51(current version), and put it on. Now the first thing to be done was to get hold of all the old posts (though very less in number). Here google served as a saviour and I got hold of a plugin called ‘wp-migrate‘, which let me export all the posts along with comments. Using this feature, I could have migrated to a drupal or joomla or any tool  for that matter. But I have left that for the next time.

Damn it took me 2 days to fix this new thing, which should ideally take 5 minutes, it gets messy (just when u open an editor to tweak with html or php). You wouldnt know when time flies. I have used this theme called Leia named after the princess from star wars. Here’s wat u get upon searching, (although u might find more of bikini clad women).

Thereafter it was another task to widgetize this theme, to put thigs which u see on your right…. The outcome seems beautifull.

I also designed the much missing favicon for the website, seems impressive now.. loolz.

The British Medical Journal this week published the results of a study in which dogs – ordinary pets – were able to distinguish the urine of patients with bladder cancer from that of healthy people.
Doctors believe the animals detect the scent of the abnormal proteins present in the urine of the patients with cancer.
It’s thought that a dog’s sense of smell is 10,000 to 100,000 times better than a human’s.
The idea that dogs may be able to smell cancer was first put forward in 1989 by two London dermatologists, who described the case of a woman asking for a mole to be cut out because her dog would constantly sniff at it, even through her pants, but ignore all her other moles.
One day, the dog, a female border collie-Doberman mix, tried to bite the mole off when the woman was wearing shorts.
The mole turned out to be malignant melanoma, caught early enough to save her life.
Here’s the recent news, as reported last week by the BBC.

Dogs ‘sniff out’ bladder cancer
There have been anecdotal reports of dogs spotting cancer in their owners, but now researchers say they have proved this phenomenon scientifically. The scientists at Amersham Hospital, Buckinghamshire, ultimately hope to build a tool that is as good at discerning these smells as dogs’ noses. Their findings appear in the British Medical Journal.
In 1989, researchers wrote a letter to the Lancet medical journal about how a woman claimed to have sought medical help as a direct result of her dog’s inordinate interest in a skin lesion that turned out to be skin cancer. Similar anecdotal claims have been made about cancers of internal organs like the breast and lung.
Cancers are thought to produce distinctive odours.Even when present in minute quantities, it is possible that dogs, with their exceptional sense of smell, might be able to detect these odours. Dr. Carolyn Willis and colleagues conducted a carefully controlled experiment to see whether dogs could be trained to spot bladder cancer based on the odour of urine samples. Over seven months, they trained six dogs of varying breeds and ages to discriminate between urine from patients with bladder cancer and urine from patients without bladder cancer. On nine different occasions, each dog was offered a set of seven urine samples, of which only one came from a patient with bladder cancer. Overall, the dogs correctly selected the bladder cancer urine on 22 out of 54 occasions.This success rate of 41% was significantly more than the 14% that could be expected by chance alone. Also, all of the dogs indicated one of the “bladder cancer free” samples as positive. This patient had been investigated prior to the study and no tumour had been found. The patient’s doctor was sufficiently concerned by the dogs’ behaviour to do further tests. These revealed a tumour in the patient’s right kidney which had escaped diagnosis by usual medical tests.
Lead researcher Dr. Willis said: “We are very excited because this is the first time this has been scientifically proven. “Dogs have these fantastic olfactory abilities.” “They are recognising a signature smell of cancer which is very difficult to pick up by any chemical methods. “They are not just detecting a single chemical.
“They were having to pick out smells for bladder cancer amongst the hundreds in urine and that’s no mean feat.” The dogs’ trainer Claire Guest said it was a bit like naming the ingredients of a soup.
“We looked at a whole range of dogs. The spaniels did the best… but we are still keeping an open mind as to what breed of dog might be best for the job.”
The researchers hope to be able to identify the exact cocktail of chemicals the dogs were smelling.
Then they might be able to design a medical device to detect these signature odours and pick up cancers in patients.
They will also investigate whether dogs can detect other cancers in a similar way, starting with skin cancer.
Cancer Research UK’s Professor David Neal said: “Using sniffer dogs to detect the minute traces of molecules associated with cancer is a fascinating concept.
“Many cancer patients do have abnormal proteins in their blood and urine.

“The dogs might be smelling proteins from inflammation rather than the tumour itself, although the researchers have tried to minimise this possibility.”

He questioned whether it would be practical to use dogs to detect cancers in real life, but said it might be possible to develop other detection methods based on future research in this area.

Listening to japanese music, always makes me quirky. And as it happened one day, I was listening to the sound track of some of my favorite anime and not understanding a single word of the songs, but nevertheless thoroughly enjoying it. And with the vigour of japanese rock, a thought , an idea if you will, slowly started to take form. (insert evil laugh with lightening here!). Yes , It was from a very simple statistical conjuncture, often misleading and errenoulsy called the ’7 people Lemma’. The lemma states that,

‘On an average every person in this world knows every other person through atmost 7 people excluding himself’

This was what made me spend a whole sleepless night with this website called orkut. Now “orkut.com is a new social networking service named for the Google engineer who developed it, Orkut Buyukkokten. (Orkut is easier to spell and pronounce than Buyukkokten.)”. Self explainatory isin’t it. But thats not the point of this post anyway. Orkut, has an invite system, pretty much like google’s gmail . And, to get an acount you need to know someone already there. So, now you may ask what does all this have to do with the first few lines of this post.

Well, for starters, orkut is the perfect place to test the 7 person lemma. and orkut makes it even more comfortable to check it out, as it gives the shortest path to the person(yo! dijkstra!). So, now adapting the lemma for our cyberworld needs, I had to give the original conjuncture a bit more room. So, instead of 7 people, I had to increase the number to a comfortable 11(also because, I am the perfect asocialite possible!). And started experimenting.

And to say, the results were nothing short of astounding!. As I moved across communities, ethinicities, and sometimes even nationalities, the maximum length of path was mostly around 6 or 7. And the longest path I ever encountered on one whole day of ambling around in the orkut world, was around 10. And also, its always suprising when some person who you would never ever know, and possibly never meet in real life, is just 3 hops away. On the other hand, its also interesting to think about the fact that, when someone you reached through one friend, is even more easily by some other friend. Well, doesn’t this line of reasoning have a lot of interesting ramifications. So, what do you expect, Its a small world after all!!.

Signing off,
Sahil.

PS : any one, who wants an orkut invitation just mail me.(sahiilseth@gmail.com)

hi daddam,

It is actually amazing to see the results… it is the hard work of the ppl. In the Himalayas who had devised these simple exercises a thousand years ago…. those were the days when there were no BP machines … and the cause of the illness were seldom known and a few symptoms like ‘stress or pain’ the only ways to diagnose the illness of problems inside inside the body.

I wonder pulse rate or BP might have still been able to judge but how the hell can you know sugar levels..?????…

Thus were established the techniques of yoga

1. Which maintain your general health

2. Prevent stress

3 Give work to essential muscles, because many of the sadhus were believed to meditate for long—- so to prevent muscle Sagging…

And now remarkably WE the modern ppl sitting in front of the PC whole day long don’t give exercise our essential muscles… (lungs heart etc…)

Therefore, when after a long time when we do these excercises, we get remarkable results….

Indeed it was the stupidity of us Indians that we adopted modern medicines for general health…..

Lets now take a global picture:

In this global period of distress <10 years ago> “breathing exercises” became popular —- The molecular basis: mind functioning at a high rate—->more oxygen needed—–>heart puts more pressure to supply blood——> high BP—-> change of internal physiology—–> more pressure on mind—–>thus forms a vicious circle.

Then, yoga was adopted in the western countries….Also world over mnc s were building gyms in their companies… ——>

With this yoga was becoming more popular…..

The ppl. In India joked on themselves… our knowledge which WE never utilized is being exploited by the west……

Still yoga couldn’t enter the lives of Indians……

Yoga was immensely required —– all was needed was a spark…. which was provided by the swami…..

I had attended an amazing session titled “science and spirituality —building a bridge”

between noble laureate SIR HARRY KROTO and the SWAMI….. It was indeed a very good session in the beginning…. But towards the end swami started to criticize Mr. Kroto in what you might call indecent —- copying the way Mr. Kroto sits,

And also stating ‘these ppl.’ want to prove yoga is stupid and then patent it themselves, he went to an extent to call the entire medicine industry being full of fools and crooks….

I was really feeling bad on the fact that he was losing his identity…

Sadhus are believed to be calm and god fearing ppl.

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2 – THOU SHALL NOT DO DOPE WITH KIDDIES.
IF THOU ART A KIDDY, THOU SHALL NOT DO DOPE.
Much like the dealers, kids get special treatment in the Drug War. Anyone over eighteen passes the pipe to anyone under eighteen and the gloves are off. Anytime kids are mixed up in your bust, everything is more painful and harder on your karma.

3 – THOU SHALL NOT COVET MORE THAN A MISDEMEANOR BUZZ.
Misdemeanors are painful and humiliating. Felonies leave scars and speech impediments. Keep your drug weight down and observe the First, Second and Seventh Amendments. Break these and possible pain starts at a year in the joint all the way to life.

4 – THOU SHALL NOT PISS AWAY THY RIGHTS.
Never consent to a search. Always remain silent. Never get wasted in public. Always ask to speak to any attorney. Never sign a plea bargain you don’t understand.

5 – THOU SHALL BE CALM
Panic is deadly in the Drug War; it can lead to breaking the Fourth Commandment and it will make the police suspicious and/or nervous themselves, calmed by several blows with the nightstick. Panic can also lead to additional charges for attempting to destroy evidence and will ensure that you are charged with possessing any drugs in the vicinity. Nervous types should honor the Eighth Amendment at any expense.

6 – THOU SHALL NOT PISS OFF THE POLICE
Forget the lawmakers in Congress, forget the DA’s, and forget the judges; the police have all the power in the Drug War. An angry cop has the power to bring you down no matter what the circumstances may be. Once a cop decides to bust you, you begin your slide down the black hole of the criminal justice system, and it’s very, very hard to stop the slide until you’re shat out the other end.

7 – YE GETS BUSTED, YE SHALL NEVER GET BUSTED AGAIN
Now it’s not a “mistake.” Now it’s a “drug problem.” Now it is clear that you didn’t learn your lesson. Now we bring the pain.

8 – THOU SHALL LEAVE THY DOPE AT HOME
The only true right to privacy you have is in your home. Once you take your dope on the road, all the rules change. At the airport and in your car, you’re just Drug War cannon fodder.

9 – KNOW THY FRIENDS, MISTRUST THY ENEMIES
A fellow citizen is almost as powerful a drug warrior as a cop. A tip from a fed up neighbor can lead to house search. A fellow motorist can have you pulled over. Your roommate can consent to a search of your bedroom. Someone you hooked up can have you busted. An ex-girlfriend can get you drug tested. So be damn sure who you’re discussing and/or doing dope with. And never give a reporter or blogger any kind of Drug War quote you can’t live with; it will end up online and in eternity.

10 – THOU SHALL CHECK THY LOOK IN THE MIRROR
Marching out onto the Drug War battlefield means taking stock of yourself, your facilities. Make an honest assessment of your state of mind, your goals for the night on the razz, and your personal style. If it were your job to bust people for possessing drugs, would you be interested in seeing what’s in your pockets? Tattoos, piercings, wacky hair, funky smells, sporting the freshly fucked up look, political t-shirts and/or bumper stickers are all suspicious. If you’re a suspicious type, heed the Eighth Commandment.

from a site called drugwarsurvival

If you couldn’t get my words clearly read more and you would understand why firefox enhances your browsing experience. CLICK ON ANY OF FIREFOX LINKS ON MY SITE —- LET THIS BE A GIFT FROM MY SIDE.

Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers.^[1] The browser began as a fork of the Navigator component of the Mozilla Application Suite; Firefox has since become the foundation’s main development focus (along with its Thunderbird mail and news client), and has replaced the Mozilla Suite as their official main software release.

Before its 1.0 release, Firefox had already gained acclaim from numerous media outlets, including Forbes^[2] and the Wall Street Journal.^[3] With over 25 million downloads in the 99 days after the initial 1.0 release, Firefox became one of the most downloaded free and open source applications, especially among home users.^[4] On October 19, 2005, Firefox had its 100 millionth download, just 344 days after the release of version 1.0.^[5] Firefox 1.5 was released on November 29, 2005, with more than 2 million downloads within the first 36 hours.

Firefox includes an integrated pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, support for open standards, and an extension mechanism for adding functionality. Although other browsers have introduced these features, Firefox became the first such browser to achieve wide adoption.

Firefox has attracted attention as an alternative to other browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. As of January 2006, estimates suggest that Firefox’s usage share is around 10% of overall browser usage (see market adoption below), with its highest usage in Finland (nearly 40% as of January 2006).

• Processor: AMD Turion 64 ML-37 (2.0GHz/1MB L2 Cache)
• Screen: 17″ WSXGA BrightView Widescreen (1680 x 1050)
• Graphics: ATI Express Radeon 200M 128MB
• RAM: 1.0GB DDR SDRAM (2 x 512MB)
• Hard Drive: 80GB (2 x 80GB @ 5400RPM)
• Optical Drive: DVD+/-RW/R & CD-RW Combo w/Double Layer Support
• OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• Battery: 8-cell lithium ion
• Weight: 8.1lbs
• Wireless54g(TM) 802.11b/g WLAN w/125HSM/SpeedBooster(TM)
• Dimensions: 11.1″(L) x 15.62″(W) x 1.48″(min)/1.82″(max)
• Ports: 1 ExpressCard/54 Slot (also supports ExpressCard/34), 1 Type I/II 32-bit card bus (also support 16-bit), 1 IEEE-1394(Firewire), 4 Universal Serial Bus (USB 2.0), TV-Out (S-video), Integrated Consumer IR (remote control receiver), Headphone out w/ SPDIF Digital Audio, Microphone in, 1 RJ-11 (modem), 1 Expansion Port 2 Connector, 1 RJ -45 (LAN)

Reasons for Buying

The dv8000z is a new and powerful desktop replacement by Hewlett Packard which I often call a “dabba”(which literally means a box in hindi). It has a high resolution 17″ monitor (1680 x 1050), and the option of installing two separate 80 Gigabyte drives for a total of 160 Gigs. This seemed to me like a great deal of storage for a laptop, and two separate drives are traditionally recommended for things like video editing or photo-retouching where it is best to keep the disk that contains the OS separate from the disk with your media on it.

What most attracted me to the machine, however, was the 64 bit Turion chip. I’ve never owned a machine with an AMD chip, and generally didn’t pay much attention to 64 bit computing. A few months ago, however, I read a press release that Autocad n various other 3D animation software would run better if offered a 64-bit computing system This started me thinking more seriously about 64 bit.

As many people know, Windows Vista will be a 64 bit operating system and 64 bit software will allow serious performance increases, especially in my field. For example, a job that takes 3 days to render on a 32 bit system might finish overnight on 64 bit. If one’s primary application is a word processing, this is not an issue, but in my business, speed is important and could shave days off of a project.

Many have said that it is premature to worry about 64 bit right now, that it is a long way off. However, it seems to me that 64 bit is a lot closer than people think. Several companies either have 64 bit versions of their software or are in the process of working on them. Microsoft currently has a 64 bit version of Windows XP, and has released 64 bit versions of such programs as Windows Media Encoder. I’ve also been noticing the availability of 64 bit drivers such as for an Epson printer that I own.

After watching a speech by Bill Gates and reading some documents on the Microsoft website where AMD chips are endorsed, I had a feeling that they were subtly endorsing the purchase of 64 bit computers.

Therefore, 64 bit computing and Vista compatibility became a primary concern and the just-released dv8000z seemed like it was designed with it in mind. Vista is already in Beta and this machine seems expressly built according to its guidelines (see the Microsoft Website). We think that attention to Vista-compatibility was a major design factor with this machine. My decision was also influenced by reading this article: http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10166_7-6359821.html among other articles.

While it is true that by the time Vista goes really mainstream, there might be more advanced chips on the market than the Turion, the point is that those who buy a 32 bit computer today and decide they want to get into 64 bit computing tomorrow must buy a new computer. However, those who buy a computer today with a 64 bit chip such as the Turion have the option of buying a computer with a better chip in the future or not. I wanted that option. Of course the Turion runs favorably with 32 bit Pentium chips today (see benchmarks).

So great going my “dabba” i think it serves me well.