Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

> (You know the funny thing - the toughies - the armtwisters like DFID (UK), > USAID etc have been asked to stick - which the smaller ones - who hardly > make any demands and are more likely to be working on natural resources > management, gender, etc like Swiss Dev Corporation, DANIDA, etc have b

Re: [silk] SPF and spam

thank you, i will stick to seive scripts and spam-assasin then :) On 3/13/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dont waste your time http://www.circleid.com/posts/spf_loses_mindshare/ ashok _ wrote: > > Will SPF entries for my domain really help? i use a couple of sources > fo

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

On 3/13/07, Neha Viswanathan wrote: Or are you strictly referring to bilateral/ multilateral aid? Primarily, I mean this You say foreign aid in any form - what about - contributions from individuals of another nationality? Even this I agree there a bunch of people, who know and un

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

(though personally i am against all foreign aid in any form funny enough, i like the chinese model of doing business and investing in africa... ) You say foreign aid in any form - what about - contributions from individuals of another nationality? What about contributions from say the Ind

Re: [silk] SPF and spam

Dont waste your time http://www.circleid.com/posts/spf_loses_mindshare/ ashok _ wrote: > > Will SPF entries for my domain really help? i use a couple of sources > for sending email as that domain... so i can tie it down to those... > but should i bother, if it really doesnt work (since it appear

[silk] SPF and spam

Hi, hoping someone can advice me... i have a couple of email addresses hosted on a custom domain both these emails get hit with a shitload of spam... which makes life rather difficult. Spamassasin etc... dont seem to help very much, and apart from that i am get emails from other people beca

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

On 3/8/07, Ingrid wrote: 4. self-fulfilling prophecy in two ways a. positioning determines who joins, which, in turn determines perceptions b. donor preferences determine ngo stances which do nothing to change donor preferences this is quite true especially when you have small loc

Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

Nishant Shah wrote: I never thought getting sponsorships would be this easy. Thanks a lot for the offer Bruce. Don't take it personally. The offer is open to all silklisters. Note however my point about an "interesting topic". While the costs of flying to bangalore and back are not really

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

Bruce Metcalf wrote: [ on 05:45 AM 3/13/2007 ] Or by "non-profit" and "NGO" do you *only* mean social service organizations? I've been involved in many non-profit organizations over the years, but only one qualified as social service. Does anyone see this distinction making any difference in

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

On 3/13/07, Bruce Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Udhay Shankar N wrote: > There are still quite a few examples of both scruffy khadi-clad > pseudomarxists as well as socialites in the NGO space. Which obliges me to ponder which I am. Yup, as of next Friday week, I'll be the executive direc

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

Udhay Shankar N wrote: There are still quite a few examples of both scruffy khadi-clad pseudomarxists as well as socialites in the NGO space. Which obliges me to ponder which I am. Yup, as of next Friday week, I'll be the executive director of an NGO. I have be

Re: [silk] Quantum QotD

On 3/13/07, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/12/07, Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The trouble with trying to understand India is that everything you can > say about it is true and false - simultaneously. Isn't that the case with any country/culture/region (as you seemed to indi

[silk] where money meets magic

the economist's art correspondent, along with 200 private jets and the world's top art dealers, visit my pretty hometown... --- http://economist.com/daily/diary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8839363 Where money meets magic Mar 12th 2007 >From Economist.com Our books and arts editor at a market for m

Re: [silk] carbon offsets

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 06:20:15PM +0100, Bernhard Krieger wrote: > i thought that my new year's resolution to undertake less plane journeys > and if i had to to buy carbon offsets would be the easiest one. happily > sitting on my island i avoided booking an air ticket for now almost > three mo

Re: [silk] Quantum QotD

On 3/12/07, Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The trouble with trying to understand India is that everything you can say about it is true and false - simultaneously. Isn't that the case with any country/culture/region (as you seemed to indicate by your oh-so-apt signature)? Thaths -- Ho

Re: [silk] carbon offsets

On 12/03/07 18:20 +0100, Bernhard Krieger wrote: > on a side note: i was told on the atmosfair website that an average > indian would produce 900 kg carbon emissions / year which appears little > having experienced polution in an indian city for half a year. how do > people come up with these e

[silk] carbon offsets

i thought that my new year's resolution to undertake less plane journeys and if i had to to buy carbon offsets would be the easiest one. happily sitting on my island i avoided booking an air ticket for now almost three months. now i have to travel to bratislava next weekend and planned to get

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

On Monday 12 Mar 2007 10:07 am, Biju Chacko wrote: > Odd, really. You'd think that, with the population we have, there'd be > a lot of sex going on and Indians would be less repressed about it out > of sheer familiarity. > > I guess Indians mostly reproduce asexually. Not at all. They follow the

[silk] Quantum QotD

The trouble with trying to understand India is that everything you can say about it is true and false - simultaneously. from: http://blog.acumenfund.org/2006/12/14/suketu-mehta-at-acumen-funds-investor-gathering/ Devdas Bhagat -- Anything anybody can say about America is true. --

Re: [silk] World Cup

Thanks. I also found this one: http://cricket.plusmo.com/cricket/wap/ which seems to be the best formatted for a cricket screen. And when I try to download their client using: http://cricket.plusmo.com/downloads/wccast/download I get an error message saying I need to be on Hutch GPRS and use

Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

Rub it in why don't you rubbadubbarub... three men in a tub *goes senile and spouts more rhyming verses of no meaning* Well hopefully people who come this time will be engrossed and enthused enough to make it into a regular appearance. This is one of the few times when I regret leaving Bangalo

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

ashok _ wrote: > This is a small country with a finite number of indians, so clearly > getting a local indian mistress was out of the question (too many > familiar people). So, instead, the guy imported a mistress all the > way from Jamnagar, and additionaly, the mistress was from his own > commu

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

I think there is also an incestual nature to indian communities (and by incestual i dont mean it literally...) I have this friend who is a shopkeeper in a small north western town in Kenya. His family has lived in Kenya for over a 100 years. When the guy got married 15 years back, he married a w