Re: [silk] Hyderabad silkmeet in August?

2006-07-07 Thread Mahesh Murthy
It seems like Ill be in Hyderabad from the 15th on till the end of the week. Be glad to join you all if theres something planned. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ekta bahl Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 10:56 AM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net

[silk] Lyrebird video

2006-07-07 Thread Pavithra Sankaran
For the birdwatchers on Silk:http://www.surfbirds.com/video/?p=18 "For David Attenborough’s 80th birthday celebration, the public voted on their favourite Attenborough TV moment. Number one was this clip of the Lyrebird. The lyrebird, which Sir David Attenborough meets on a log in a dense forest

[silk] What every global citizen needs to know about language

2006-07-07 Thread Vinayak Hegde
Linguistics, Anybody? What every global citizen needs to know about language --- http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=5no=298224rel_no=1 --- From our-language-is-getting-eroded-by-yuppies Dept English words that begin with 'ph' have a softer sound than words

Re: [silk] Internet access rate comparison

2006-07-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Ashok Hariharan wrote: By rates i mean cost :-) You could probably poke around oecd.org - at least for the rates in various developed countries.

Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-07 Thread Thaths
On 7/6/06, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2006-07-06 19:41:14 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why a database? They are not as malleable as text. Huh? grep, sed, awk, tr, wc and friends allow me to slice and dice an mbox archive quite well. SELECT silklist.from, silklist.subject

Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-07 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Thaths wrote: [ on 06:44 PM 7/7/2006 ] grep, sed, awk, tr, wc and friends allow me to slice and dice an mbox archive quite well. SELECT silklist.from, silklist.subject WHERE ... is just too painful to consider. The intention here, however, was to present a web-accessible archive. A database

Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thaths wrote: grep, sed, awk, tr, wc and friends allow me to slice and dice an mbox archive quite well. SELECT silklist.from, silklist.subject WHERE ... is just too painful to consider. http://grepmail.sourceforge.net works rather better than a combo of those other fine *nix tools

Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-07 Thread Thaths
On 7/7/06, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thaths wrote: [ on 06:44 PM 7/7/2006 ] grep, sed, awk, tr, wc and friends allow me to slice and dice an mbox archive quite well. SELECT silklist.from, silklist.subject WHERE ... is just too painful to consider. The intention here, however, was

Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-07 Thread Bharath Chari
At 06:51 PM 7/7/2006, Thaths wrote: On 7/7/06, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thaths wrote: [ on 06:44 PM 7/7/2006 ] grep, sed, awk, tr, wc and friends allow me to slice and dice an mbox archive quite well. SELECT silklist.from, silklist.subject WHERE ... is just too painful to

Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-07 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 07/07/06 19:25 +0530, Bharath Chari wrote: At 06:51 PM 7/7/2006, Thaths wrote: On 7/7/06, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thaths wrote: [ on 06:44 PM 7/7/2006 ] grep, sed, awk, tr, wc and friends allow me to slice and dice an mbox archive quite well. SELECT silklist.from,

Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-07 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Devdas Bhagat wrote: [ on 08:31 PM 7/7/2006 ] I would also suggest pointing the list to gmane for archival. They already have the threaded interface and stuff. Can somebody (crab?) who has all the archives in mbox format just get gmane to archive the entire list? Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar

[silk] India (Un)shining?

2006-07-07 Thread Aditya Chadha
Wow.Glowing negativity. Kinda surprising given all the recent positive press. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/opinion/06mishra.html?ex=1309838400en=63b065e1403c4316ei=5090partner=rssuserlandemc=rssJuly 6, 2006Op-Ed ContributorThe Myth of the New IndiaBy PANKAJ MISHRA LondonINDIA is a roaring

[silk] jews in india

2006-07-07 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
india was the only place in the world where jews were never persecuted, and outlook has a nice article [1]. it doesn't mention cochin jews though [2], who were protected by the raja from the portuguese, who _did_ persecute jews, until they were rescued by the 125-yr-long dutch occupation of

Re: [silk] jews in india

2006-07-07 Thread Radhika, Y.
vizag or more accurately Bheemunipatnam/Bhimili was a Dutch colony and the one Dutch guy there claims to be ashamed that his ancestors were busy selling us gults to Dutch settlers in Surinam! am not at all sure of the accuracy of this though. 2006/7/7, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: india

Re: [silk] India (Un)shining?

2006-07-07 Thread Badri Natarajan
Wow. Glowing negativity. Kinda surprising given all the recent positive press. The thing about articles on this theme - whether it is India Shining (or Un-shining) is that they mostly tend to have an idea that they set out to prove and they cherry pick facts which support that. The two most

Re: [silk] Help parsing news article on caste

2006-07-07 Thread sastry
On Sat July 8 2006 03:08, Thaths wrote: Why doesn't the article come out and say that the Dalits say that they are being kept out of the festival and the officials deny this? The article does say that, but I believe the issue itself may not be as simple and black and white as you have made it

Re: [silk] India (Un)shining?

2006-07-07 Thread sastry
On Sat July 8 2006 03:03, Aditya Chadha wrote: Wow. Glowing negativity. Kinda surprising given all the recent positive press. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/opinion/06mishra.html?ex=1309838400en=63 b065e1403c4316ei=5090partner=rssuserlandemc=rss Overall - I don't think its a bad article.

[silk] The long tail theory and wagging the dog

2006-07-07 Thread Divya Sampath
Apparently Chris Anderson is publishing a book about his theory now... The Economist has a review. http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=7138865subjectID=348918 What the long tail will do Wag the dog Jul 6th 2006 From The Economist print edition

Re: [silk] Help parsing news article on caste

2006-07-07 Thread Thaths
On 7/7/06, sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat July 8 2006 03:08, Thaths wrote: Why doesn't the article come out and say that the Dalits say that they are being kept out of the festival and the officials deny this? The article does say that, Actuall, I was looking for some background on