Dushyanth Jyothi

Just want to share this beautiful Inforgraphc on Indian Classical Music : Raag Rang. I am glad to see Indian designers taking interest on Inforgarphics recently. Full credits to the designer pratyush89 and visual.ly for sharing..

Lead Role : Anna Hazare

Guest appearances: Baba Ramdev, Kiran, etc

Supporting characters: Uncorrupted Indians (It seems they are about 90+%)

Main villains: Manmohan Singh & UPA

Side villains: Corrupted Indians (there are very few, it seems), Police, Govt officials, Switzerland banks

Produced by: BJP and other opposition parties.

Executive producers & Cinematography: 24 x7 Media

Action & Stunt coordinators: VHP, RSS, right-wing groups and some ….

Publicity & Media Partners: Facebook, Orkut, and other Social Media

Story line: Fighting for a bill that will eradicate corruption and change the fate of Indians.

Highlights: Poor Anna been sent to Tihar jail (very emotional scene), Rakhi Sawant-Baba Ramdev-Rahul’s Item song in Tihar, UPA’s comedy of errors, Punch dialogues in parliament.

Budget: Several sessions in Parliament, Increased flights & trains, Intense policing, public disorder maintenance, holidays to government offices & schools, and cant fit all here. Only white money will be used.

BoxOffice verdicit: Running successfully

Awards and Nominations: Will be nominated for ‘Bharat Ratna’, if BJP comes to the power. Some say ‘new age Gandhi’ and others ‘media-fed megalomaniac’?

My Review: A great story on dependent personality disorder. The classic hope of ‘one thing’ presumed to change everything.
Last but not least, ‘Mirror Mirror Who’s the Fairest of All’?

Just watched Google chromebook video.
Bit surprised to see for the first time (may be I don’t aware of any previous attempts) Google’s public satire on Microsoft.
Watch the video 0.34-0.38sec’s. The voice says : “No Desktop – No Rolling Hills of Green”.
Clearly the first thing that comes to mind is “Windows signature default Desktop Background”. Is it intentional or have I been too picky?

My first attempt to get chrome os running

Quick fix VMware player Error: “Taking ownership of the virtual machine is failed”

Reason (one of..): Host OS might have shutdown unexpectedly causing a running Virtual Machine to die without saving its state.

Quick fix:
1. Stop VMware player
2. Go to the virtual machines directory, i.e. where VM files are stored on host OS.
3. Check for lock (.lck) files. Usually in Windows: vmdk.lck, vmem.lck, vmx.lck
4. Move .lck files to another directory( for backup purposes)
5. Restart VM
6. If its fixed, delete .lck files

HTH

After watching Dr Adam Rutherford’s BBC program The Gene Code, I can see the future workflow of Indian Matrimonial Agencies.

Just give you a bit of background Adam talks about an Indian study that shows certain genes behave differently in specific Indian caste people. This is because most of the Indian people marry within their caste, the chances of carrying their distinct qualities to the offspring is high.

The Future Workflow of Indian Matrimonial Agencies:

1. Get grooms blood sample along with other bio-details
2. Get the genome sequencing done. By this time there will be ‘n’ number of gully sequencing centers providing the sequencing service for Rs1000.
3. In-house bioinformatician does the similarity search against bride’s ‘caste based reference genome’
4. If Brides ‘caste specific genes’ exist:

• If there is a strong evidence: go ahead with marriage, but check for susceptibility to future disease.

• Else: No Marriage. There will be no further pipeline to deal with Distant Relationships. Poor boys.

A new group of brokers emerge to assist grooms to get thier genomic data modified for a price. Well, dont know how Anna Hazare will respond {:-)

[Image source: http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/theme-genomes-junk-dna.html]

This could also be used as an alternative method to find out same caste people, if Indian government abandons the caste system. Instead of ‘what caste you are’, People may ask ‘what are your family genes’? Of course it only works until Inter-caste marriages are not much popular in the population.

Also, imagine what would happen to those Indian cinema’s famous caste/vamsam based dialogues?, hilarious..

• The hero says “Hum ‘BRCA1,BRCA2” kaandhan se hain“

{ Just for fun… }

Comments:

@Vasu : Take it a notch further … The sequencing centres will have Bolt ON (perfect family package) that will check that the bride has a Pharma and therapeutic angle to provide genetic medications that express (or suppress) the transcription enhancers that will coordinate with the variations that help in grooms liking to cricket, guitar or kishore kumar … or nappy changing.

@Vasu: Ironically, the database that contains the India specific caste compatibility variations is going to be much bigger than the UK10K DB, that only gully Seq centres should handle and they will customise it well I presume. – Specialised sequencing canters for each caste may be

Jonathan Rosenberg: Rules to success : Source : GOOGLE VIDEOS
In his quarter century of working in Silicon Valley at such companies as Apple, @Home, and Google, CMC Alum Jonathan Rosenberg has had ample opportunity to watch successful people in action. He will share his observations on what makes great people tick and draw conclusions on how a liberal arts education can arm the next generation of leaders. His talk will include a set of “rules” that promise to be excellent preparation for any student who plan at some point to enter the real world.
Here is the video:

Philosophy bites: podcasts of top philosophers interviewed on bite-sized topics like. …
proof of gods existnce.
What gives meaning to a life?…

http://www.philosophybites.libsyn.com/
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Download:
http://philosophybites.com/downloading-episodes.html
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India will be the focus of the latest country-themed week of events at Clare Hall next week. The enterprising international graduate college will be hosting lectures, dance, drama, music an exhibition and a cookery demonstration in India Week between 6 and 12 June.
Free admission to all events, except for the formal dinner.
More details:

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2010052702

http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/index.php?id=327

Thursday 3 June
6.00pm – 8.00pm
Clare Hall Gallery
Exhibition : BLOW HORN
Signs and Life in India: a solo exhibition by Natasha Kurmar

Sunday 6 June
6.00pm, Clare Hall Dining Hall
Event: Sanskruti School of Dance
Nritya Margam – A dance recital by Krishna Zivraj-Nair

Monday 7 June
6.00pm, Richard Eden Room
Lecture & Workshop: The multitude of colour in saris
Mrs Anindita Lipner and Mrs Purbani Chakrabarti
will talk about the different saris and how to wear them

Monday 7 June
8.15pm, Richard Eden Suite
Play and Poems: Indian Interludes, Readings from a play,
two short stories,and six poems
Written and devised by: Rani & John Drew
Followed by Reception

Tuesday 8 June
6.00pm, Richard Eden Suite
Lecture: Innovation in India:A Threat to the West
Professor Jaideep Prabhu
Jawaharlal Nehru Professor
Judge Business School
Followed by Reception

Tuesday 8 June
8.15pm, Richard Eden Suite
Lecture by Sir Mark Tully
The Voice of India: India not a failing but a flailing state
Followed by Reception

Wednesday 9 June
6.15pm, Richard Eden Room
Lecture: India’s Foreign Policies
Mr. Asoke Mukerji
Deputy High Commissioner (Short Bio)

Wednesday 9 June
7.00pm
Reception, followed by Formal Dinner
Indian Meal produced by the Rice Boat Restaurant
authentic South Indian Cuisine

Thursday 10 June
6.00pm, Richard Eden Room
Lecture: Professor Julius Lipner
Faculty of Divinity
A unique point of view, or how the Hindu view of life has helped India to survive
Followed by reception

Thursday 10 June
8.15pm, Dining Hall
Music Concert: Sarod Player Soumik Datta

Friday 11 June
6.00pm, Richared Eden Suite
Pinky Lilani OBE, of Spice Magic
Coriander makes the difference
How each of us can make a difference
Talk to be followed by demo of spicy Bombay potaoes and tasting

Friday 11 June
8.15pm, ALB
Bollywood movie: 3 Idiots

Have a look at my new wordpress premium qulaity theme developed for my church
http://christ-foundation.org/NLCF/

Inspired by freely avble magazine style wordpress themes.
It uses JQuery JS, AJAX library and other opensource JS.

I am still working on during my free time to make it completely wordpress friendly. Once thats done, it will be avble for free download.

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he’ll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.
Great Technology – Must Watch
http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

The Digital Economy Bill plans to disconnect people from the internet if they’ve merely been accused of filesharing, or if anyone sharing their connection has been so accused. This is a breach of our human rights, and must be opposed.

No-one should be disconnected from the internet or otherwise punished for illegal filesharing unless they’ve been found guilty in a criminal court. Nor should anyone be punished merely for sharing a connection with an illegal filesharer; collective punishment is an infringement of human rights, and a war crime.

Normally, politicians care more about vested corporate interests than they do about mere citizens, but we’re lucky in the timing of this, because there has to be a general election within the next 8 months. There are roughly 7 million filesharers in the UK; if we all make our voice heard, they have to care what we think, at least until the election is over.

lIf you want to fight this unjust law, join the group, invite all your friends to join, and publicise it on your blog or website.
More Information Here:
http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2009/nov/21/i-wont-vote-for-mandelsons-digital-economy-bill/

My Mowgli – Asmitha Rao

MaTelugu Talliki
Artist: Tanguturi Suryakumari
Source: www.youtube.com
Tanguturi Suryakumari Singing at the rangaraya Medical College Old Students Association Reunion in Birmingham in 1985
Its not only the voice – but the sincerity n pride in her voice that I like.

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