My second column in “Vijaya Next” (Kannada) was about what are the things to take care of at home for a smooth internet surfing experience. Main points were, Read the rest of this entry »
I visited my niece’s school Nasr in Hyderabad for Independence Day celebrations. Was thrilled as my niece was getting her Prefect badge (how to be a good Prefect at school?). I already look upto her as she is at least 4 inches taller than me, after getting her badge I would look upto her even if she was shorter than me!
Last 2 days I have been spending time fixing my Blackberry 8520. I was using Blackberry Desktop 5.x on my Windows 7, I read about their new snazy upgrade, the upgrade itch forced me to upgrade to Desktop 6.0. During installation I thought version 5 would be deleted/upgraded, at the end of the installation I had two working versions – 5.x and 6.x.
Just few days ago an innocent Engineering student fresher Abhishek Sahai was forced to suicide. Reason – the dreadful ragging. Lately because of TV in India these incidents are getting exposed quickly. It was heart breaking to see Abhishek’s dad weep, his grief very much understandable. Every parent prays they will never be in his shoes.
Today’s Mint reports domain names in regional languages will be released soon. There has been talk about this for a while now, it would be interesting to see how the usage of language domainnames will pick up in India.
