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• How would you accelerate the adoption of OLPC in India?
• A question, a survey, a conversation and some feedback
• Or, where we talk about digital future of the Bengali language
• On the road to an Indian language GNU/Linux OS
• On the Goddard bus

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• Inception – a good film ruined by awful acting
  I watched Inception on Sunday (that Wikipedia link contains somewhat spoilers by the way). I’d like to watch it again on DVD this time. Although I have no idea what actors like Ken Watanabe (whom I highly recommend for acting chops) are doing drifting through movies – they should probably pick scripts a bit more […]
• That thing about a pair of jeans
  I have a favorite pair of jeans. A pale blue number that has been with me for a while. Amazingly enough it seems to be the most comfortable pair even though it has a twin which, although not a bad fit, isn’t the same thing. Since I was immensely bored in the morning today I […]
• Or, where we talk about digital future of the Bengali language
  ABP Pvt Ltd has a history that goes back to 1922. From the website “In 1922, Anandabazar Patrika first came out as a four-page evening daily that sold at two paise and had a circulation of about 1,000 copies a day. Eighty-five years later, Anandabazar Patrika reaches out to over seven million readers, every day! Today, […]

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What I recently said

• sankarshan: Utterly lazy day of doing nothingness looming large.And,for a change,I wouldn't want to spend it reading books.
• sankarshan: Mixed reviews of OUATIM.Wondering if I should actually take time to watch the movie.
• sankarshan: The CWG arrangements are now being termed 'a scam'.What's that hoary old proverb about a barn door and bolting horse ?
• sankarshan: The question is "who decided on the scene cuts of Angels and Demons on HBO yesterday"?Might have saved trouble and shown only ads.
• sankarshan: DNA Pune After Hrs has a small feature about the Pune Photowalk of 24th July.Has the group photo too. #fb
• sankarshan: @trupz Hmm..that is not an encouraging sign.
• sankarshan: Somewhat upset to see that the author didn't take time to update/inform buyers about delay. http://www.unconference.info/buy.php Unexpected.
• sankarshan: @nearyd And now towards "the GUADEC effect" :) Nice write-up by the way and,as expected heavily dissected across interwebs
• sankarshan: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/11782/indic-qa may turn out to be an interesting forum on Indic computing to keep an eye out for
• sankarshan: @sidin The 'big' nature of the scam ensures that there are many cameos and hence nothing will happen eventually.

Blogroll

• Bona tempora volvant–by Guy Kawasaki
• David Miller’s Networking Blog
• Deliberately different blog
• FLOSS in India
• G Reynold’s blog on issues related to professional presentation design
• Hold Open The Glass Door…Please
• Interfaces and Interoperability
• Kingsley 2.0
• Kushal’s rants on FLOSS and life
• Moved by Freedom, Powered by Standards
• Paul Kim’s Blog
• Sayamindu
• Soumyadip Modak on random things that interest him
• Through Myopic Eyes
• Ulrich Drepper’s Blog
• XPlane

FLOSS jottings

• Eugene Teo’s Musings on Systemtap, Kernel and life
• Planet FLOSS India
• The Free Software Foundation

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Word of the day

• blithe: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
  blithe: carefree and lighthearted. […]

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• John Sladek
  "The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive." […]
• Groucho Marx
  "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music." […]

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