Battery powered vehicles

I was in Pune the other day and saw a few battery powered motor bikes. Ace Motors was the company selling them, and it looked like a good deal. Charge it for 6 hours, and it will run 70 kilometers. It can take upto 160 kilos of weight. Does not need number plate / license […]

CDAC experience

We do a lot of work in localization – especially for Gujarati language. We met Mahesh Kulkarni of CDAC Pune yesterday. We have met many other people in public sector and government over the last 3 years about Utkarsh and GujaratiLexicon. We have always got many hurdles. People have always spoken a lot about it, […]

Comments before code

I used a very interesting technique in my college exams. I knew how long an answer should be for 10 marks (or whatever). After I got the question paper, I would decide which questions I will answer. Then take the answer sheet and start writing down the headings for each answer – leaving enough gap […]

Trouble with servers

We have a few dedicated servers with EV1. It’s been good so far, but we faced just too many problems in the last month. So much that we are thinking of dumping them. We detected bad sectors on one server’s harddisk. Since we had a backup harddisk on the server, we asked the server guys […]

On business ideas

We brainstorm about new business ideas every now and then. Some things I recently: We should think about the size of the idea, not just how good it sounds! How much revenue can it generate? The idea should provide a steady value addition and revenue stream. Anything that gives less than 20% growth in a […]