Nov 17
How good are you, or any of us, at estimating numbers? Sometimes I'll be in
a crowd of people and I'll try to make a quick estimate of the numbers
around me. I usually don't have a way to verify my guess, but I feel pretty
confident in distinguishing between dozens, hundreds and thousands.
I am re-sending a response I posted, in cyberspace terms, a millennium
ago, that is, yesterday...
What stands out for me in this post is the preponderance of Catholic and
Goan journalists in the Times of India in the Bombay of those days. Imagine
a Catholic Staff Association in a newspaper in
Nov 15
Backlog: two today, two (I hope) tomorrow.
What's not to like about a phenomenon that has come to be called "fairy
circles"? This: that I didn't know about them when I visited Namibia. How
I'd like to have roamed among these mysterious formations in the desert.
Still: yes, these circles
What stands out for me in this post is the preponderance of Catholic and
Goan journalists in the Times of India in the Bombay of those days. Imagine
a Catholic Staff Association in a newspaper in cosmopolitan Bombay today --
impossible, right? The size of the Catholic cohort in the media in Bombay
Nov 17
I've always believed that one of the great triumphs of science is the way
it handles mistakes, or outright failure. To me, that's how scientific
research progresses: try something, fail, learn, try again. Simplistic?
Sure. But if you remember, it's how you learned to ride a bicycle, or
Nov 16
Tucked away at the back of my mind - for years now - is the little stat I
use in the column below: the size of Lotus 1-2-3 when it first turned up on
computers, versus when it was discontinued. Why should software expand like
that, and faster than hardware power and storage does?
It need
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VRS for Govt employees
The exercise is a farce to pull wool over eyes in the name of efficiency
of service.The scheme is floated close to elections for obvious reasons
Action can be initiated under existing rules for deviant behaviou,
habitual absentism, slow processing, indecision on
