Let’s accept it. Most of the educated lot has this popular perception that maximum accidents are caused by drivers who are illiterate or received very less education. We think that, in general, educated people...
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July 30, 2003
RSS Problem
It happened today again. My posts were not showing up at Javablogs for long so curiously I clicked on the link to my RSS feed and found that the XML was all messed up. It had happened in the past too and the problem would mostly occur if I use apostrophe in my post (though […]
July 29, 2003
One way street to amity
Vajpayee went too ahead in accommodating Chinese sensibilities. When I wrote this I was convinced that the recent visit of Prime Minister Vajpayee to China was an occasion for haughty talks in Indian media. The recent revelation that Chinese had transgressed into Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh during his visit, on the grounds that the […]
July 29, 2003
Flying Coffins
Yet another MiG-21 Fighter aircraft crashed in Punjab. Luckily the pilot escaped unhurt. We have seen a spate of such crashes before. In fact, more than 150 Indian fighter planes have crashed in the past 10 years. Each aircraft costs about Rs 100 crore, the cost of the training of pilots is about Rs 23-45 […]
July 28, 2003
List of DSNs
Does anybody know a way to display a list of available DSNs using Java code? Is using JNI the only way out?
July 28, 2003
E-governance, where and for whom?
This piece originally appeared in my column ‘Reality Bytes’ in issue dated 14th Oct, 2002 of the Free Press Journal, an English daily published from Indore, India. In a recent seminar on “IT and communication challenges and opportunities in Madhya Pradesh” speakers, many of whom where amongst the who’s who of Indore’s IT fraternity, were […]
July 25, 2003
The truth is out nowhere!
The word camouflage first registered in my mind while I was at school. We were introduced to it in our biology classes as the art of concealment. A chameleon, for instance, changes colour to blend in with its environment. A white polar bear is hard to see on ice, as is a striped zebra in […]