tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59968442009-05-13T18:33:55.049+05:30Ramblings by Jaya JhaJayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09739951508347074067noreply@blogger.comBlogger414125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996844.post-1130051337045628242005-10-23T12:38:00.000+05:302005-10-23T12:38:57.126+05:30

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This blog has moved to jayajha.wordpress.com. More details here.Thanks a lot to Diwaker for sparing the wordpress.com invit :)The old posts will still remain here. So, if you are a new visitor, the archives might still be a good place to start on my blog...Categories: Information

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The example of dominant paradigms in any area going in circles with time is evident in several spheres of lives. Recently, was thinking about this in terms of content organization.In particular the swing between tagging and searching. Tagging appears to be the buzz-phenomenon of these days. There was a time, when search held the same position. Now, come to think of evolution. People find that

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Okay - I have no first hand experience, but I have almost heard "horror-stories" (there is a reason, it is in quote - do not take it too literally) about them. Is it that they really have no work to do. From what I hear, it is true. The idea apparently is that a company like Infy needs to have trained people ready, in case a project comes in. They can not bid for a project saying they *will*

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Well - more or less "silence", this blog has witnessed. The silence will be broken today, but would most likely be resumed soon as I am leaving for home on Tuesday, immediately after finishing my exams. Only for one week though. Hence, come September 15th and the blog will be in action again. However, some compensation needs to be made for this long period of inactivity. So, I start from here :-)

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If you are the kind who makes use of the "Categories" feature of this blog (which I have so labouriously created), you might wonder as to why is this categorized into "TimePass". I am afraid, but there is no way to find that out except by going through the post. Of course, you might want to decide that it is not important for you to find out the reason. In that case, of course, you can skip.Ok-

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Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the VillainBeing a fan of google is the closest I have come to being a fan of anything/anybody in my life. And of course since they came out with GDS v 2.0 and then Google talk, I just can not stop almost worshipping it :-DIn such a context, above was a nice change. No, not that I completely believe in it. Due to its commitment to open standards (as Abhaya

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India tries exam to boost quality of outsourcing.Okay - so apparently is playing with the idea of having an exam in place for giving some kind of certification to wannabe BPO employees.Now, for the regular readers it should be no new as to how worthless I find things like exams. But this one triggered me to write about exams on a different note. It had been on my mind but somehow never came here.

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Thinking of death, there are two people, whom I just can not forget. One was my maternal grandfather and the other my Music teacher(Mr. Anshuman Banerjee) in Purnea. My grandfather died around 15 days after Raksha Bandhan. In that year Raksha-Bandhan was during a weekend; and hence I had come to home from Navodaya. So, accompanied my mother in her trip to his place. After living a fairly healthy

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Was Wikipedia gamed by the BBC?This is just one "high-profile" cases. It needs no rocket science to understand as to how obviously the two "Democratization" and "Reliability" of Information are in conflict. Will it be possible to keep a check on it? While what the above article has been criticized for may still not do much harm, there certainly are more pathological possibilities. What if a

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One and single conclusion of the whole-night administration-bashing (it was a particular person - but for politial correctness, let me omit the name!) at IITK this time was that our fears were not misplaced. In many of the incidents that were recounted recently, I could see a "history repeating" or put in other words institutionalizing the wrong processes.The beauty of the IITK administration has

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Another trip to IITK... and the walls are more in number.To start with IITK did not have a wall around the academic area. Why? Because Prof. Kelkar (the founder director) did not think that academic area and residential area for the students should be separated. It's the same. Openness, freedom to just walk-in, no distinctions between places and areas and corners!At some unfortunate point in the

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Okay, I have been always advocating the importane of nurture in the observed differences between men and women. The following, which is a descriptive research not going into underlying causes, would certainly delight the mars-venus proponents... (they ARE different!)Key Website Research Highlights Gender BiasBut at the same time there is this, which highlight the role of nurturance - Why more

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Oxford Dictionary talks techNow, this is a clear indication of how languages change. I have always been skeptical of language fanatics. No, I do not say that individual languages should not be protected and promoted, but have never sympathized with the rigidity some self-proclaimed promoters advocate. Languages change, they have always changed and any irrational attempt at their preservation in

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Okay - could not give up the temptation of making the 400th post on this blog. (yep! This is the one :-D) So, decided to put this up.A 'story' again - though elsewhere, I have mentioned my limitations with story-writing. And once again, it was written long back - 18/08/1997). That is almost 8 years back. So, please keep the age of the author in mind, while reading the work :-D--विद्यालय परिसर

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Today is my official birthday (no - do not flood the comments with wishes, since it is only official and not the real one :-D)And today Nagasaki Bombing completes its 60 years.Today the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and several other prominent Congress leaders for Quit India Movement completes its 63 years.During the same movement on August 11th, seven young people were killed in an attempt to hoist

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Drawing here can be taken as a common term used for all related art-forms like painting, sketching, moulding etc. where words are not used to express oneself. I am using the words drawing because this is what came to my mind while I was thinking on this topic.I, in general, do not have much complaint against writings or words as a medium of expression. Of course, there are exceptions, but

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Guide for buying a printerCategories: Information

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Security researchers problematic bunch?.This was needed after the last posting on Cisco Routers.Though I think the language could have been less "retortionary" to make it more convincing, there is a genuine point in what has been said.Categories: Information Thoughts

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I sometimgs look back at my life and I wonder at all that adds to the "successes" of my life. In particular, I recall numerous exams and try to figure out what was tested in all of them? Yeah - starting right from the exams at school, the board exams and then the much touted JEE and CAT!! A month from JEE - 2000 (the results were declared approximately then, I get 88th rank and I am sure I could

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बचपन में बताया था किसी नेकि तारे उतने पास नहीं होतेजितने दिखते हैं।नहीं समझी थी मैं तब,अब समझती हूँ।बचपन में बताया था किसी नेकि सूरज बड़ा दिखता चाँद सेफिर भी वो ज़्यादा दूर है।नहीं समझी थी मैं तब,अब समझती हूँ।बचपन में बताया था किसी नेचलती गाड़ी पर कि पेड़ नहींहम भाग रहे हैं।नहीं समझी थी तबअब समझती हूँ।कोई पास होकर भी दूर कैसे होता हैनज़दीक दिखती चीज़ें कितनी दूर होती हैंऔर हम भाग रहे होते हैं

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I am facing this irritating problem in firefox for quite sometime. While typing in a textbox (like the box for typing post or comment on blogger ), the cursor positions keeps going haywire. Usually it will be little left to where it should be and hence hides the letter I am typing!! Has challanged my vision to quite an extent, because when I think I am deleting 'a' of "challanged", I end up

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Here is a sensible argument by Nanda (as a comment on one of my earlier posts) regarding the application of traditional IPR system with Software -There are many issues related with software patents.ObviousnessProblem with most software related patents is that they're highly "obvious". Now this point may be debated to death, obvious to one person does not mean obvious to the other. But think of a

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Today in the QAF (Quantitative Applications in Finance) class, the professor insisted on our using SAS as the statistical tool, and not SPSS. For the uninitiated, SPSS is a menu driven, fairly powerful SPSS tool and because it is menu driven, it is simple to use. SAS on the other hand needs to be programmed, but is much, much more powerful than SPSS, in terms of things it can do as well as in

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Have you noticed that the Google ads on GMail beside your messages are extremely relevant. So, somehow it analyzes the content of the mails on the fly and presents the ads. The ads on blogs, on the other hand, are often irrelevant unless your blog has a focussed content (technology blog, marketing blog etc. etc.). Now, this is not fair. And if blogs have to be so specific their beauty is lost,

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