BarCampMumbai Hey, there is a BarCamp in Mumbai! BarCamp is an unusual conference! It’s ad-hoc, people gather and share about technologies they like. People listen to and speak. It’s going to be the first BarCamp I will visit, but I have heard lot of good things about BarCamps. So it’s going to be fun. I am […]
Love of Gujarati language After Chitralekha did a story on us (GujaratiLexicon and Utkarsh, Chitralekha site requires special font download to view the site in Gujarati); we have been getting lot of inquiries. Comments have ranged from thrilled Gujarati’s, to upset people who couldn’t get the free CDs to people who put the CD in a VCD player. Then […]
Swami Vivekananda Ashok is conducting a leadership workshop in Magnet these days. Each group has to select a leader for their team name. Thinking about it, Swami Vivekananda’s name came to my mind. As I was researching about him, my respect for him grew each sentence that I read. He was a genius and travelled as a […]
Mark Shuttleworth at Mumbai Linux Users Group Mark Shuttleworth spoke at the Mumbai LUG yesterday. The event was attended by around 60 people. Mark was late due to traffic but he spoke well about Ubuntu, community building and his experiences of India. The question a lot of people wanted to ask: “How do you manage to send out so many free CDs?” […]
Google Search Features I was Googling for some WordPress themes and hit upon a personalized search feature of Google. Basically, you login to Google and then search. Google then learns how you search and select results and shows you better results next time. This service is still in beta – though it was launced in first quarter of […]
