Re: [silk] Fwd: Introduction

2008-02-08 Thread Hassath
On Feb 8, 2008 12:21 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Thanks Hassath and Abhijeet for accepting my explanation and apology. :-) But now that you have our address, do something useful with it. Send us a nice postcard at least! -- - Hassath

[silk] a standard XML representation for queries

2008-02-08 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
I'm looking for a simple way to represent a search query as XML. The query language applies to email messages, and is a superset of the IMAP SEARCH syntax. It can express things like flag blah is set, and the subject contains foo, and the text contains bar or baz: a handful of primitives plus the

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Feb 8, 2008 8:43 PM, Madhu Kurup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm: Vinayak Hegde wrote: Good to see another Akamite (that sounds like a pest doesn't it :) on Silk. I work in the Bangalore office. When I had work dealings with Akamai (circa 2000-2002) I often wondered how much easier it

[silk] yet another introduction

2008-02-08 Thread va
Hi, Seems like my kurtz intro got lost in the excitement of discovering Hassath's gender/identity and address :-) so yeah /me is yet another woman joining silk. On Feb 7, 2008 6:48 AM, Hassath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because I couldn't think of a better introduction. if '/me' implies

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Feb 8, 2008 7:13 PM, Linda L. Julien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I've known ams for a number of years, and he directed me to this list. I work for Akamai Technologies in the US, and it looks like they'll be sending me to our Bangalore office within the next month or two, for 3-4

Re: [silk] yet another introduction

2008-02-08 Thread va
On Feb 8, 2008 2:47 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi VA, and welcome! But...being a non-geek and all, I must confess, that I thought you were (like several others) a lurker who was belatedly introducing..er..hesself...andvid or va don't give me a clue to your name, either...are

Re: [silk] long

2008-02-08 Thread Ramjee Swaminathan
Yes, :-) And nice to note the 'Telegu' as opposed to Telugu. :-)) Actually it was something like: stones the colour of frankincense, sweeter than figs or honey [1] - referring to Khand; this was in 326BC. Arthatshasthra of the same time also refers to the whole gamut of products of sugarcane.

Re: [silk] long

2008-02-08 Thread Radhika, Y.
in Telegu, it is Panchadara and chakkira. my understanding is that there is a greek account in Alexander's time that refers to the sugarcane as producing honey without bees. On Feb 8, 2008 8:35 AM, Ramjee Swaminathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :-) the rambler strikes again. Probable reason: too

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Linda L. Julien
Deepa Mohan wrote: Welcome to the silklist Linda! And welcome, slightly in advance, to Bangalore as well. Oh, after Massachusetts (have I got all those s's in place?) Thanks. You've got to love those India (American-Indian, not India-Indian) words...place names around here are full of them.

Re: [silk] long

2008-02-08 Thread Ramjee Swaminathan
:-) the rambler strikes again. Probable reason: too much sugar. On 2/7/08, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip (but again, not in all languages - in Malayalam and Tamil, they are respectively called charkarai and chakkara, AFAIK - there are also cheenchakkari, chenjeeni etc in

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Madhu Kurup
Hmm: Vinayak Hegde wrote: Good to see another Akamite (that sounds like a pest doesn't it :) on Silk. I work in the Bangalore office. When I had work dealings with Akamai (circa 2000-2002) I often wondered how much easier it would be if they did have a Bangalore office. I asked once and

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Gautam John
On Feb 8, 2008 9:42 PM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: working on the embroidery that I wanted to do for my wedding dress anyway. do you crochet ? or cross-stitch ? or tatting ? Speaking of crochet, I saw this yesterday: http://www.monster-island.org/tina/index.html The wedding dress must

Re: [silk] a standard XML representation for queries

2008-02-08 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Feb 8, 2008 6:31 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a simple way to represent a search query as XML. The query language applies to email messages, and is a superset of the IMAP SEARCH syntax. It can express things like flag blah is set, and the subject contains

Re: [silk] long

2008-02-08 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Feb 8, 2008 10:53 PM, Ramjee Swaminathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, :-) And nice to note the 'Telegu' as opposed to Telugu. :-)) Actually it was something like: stones the colour of frankincense, sweeter than figs or honey [1] - referring to Khand; this was in 326BC. Arthatshasthra of

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Feb 8, 2008 8:43 PM, Madhu Kurup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm: Vinayak Hegde wrote: Good to see another Akamite (that sounds like a pest doesn't it :) on Silk. I work in the Bangalore office. When I had work dealings with Akamai (circa 2000-2002) I often wondered how much easier

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Linda L. Julien
Deepa Mohan wrote: Ha...don't be too sure about that. The last time at JFK, they let my little swiss army knife through in my handbag, where I had forgotten it was...and they threw out all mysafety pins. The ones I had on, pinning up my scarf, went right through...I was trying to figure out

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Feb 8, 2008 9:42 PM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How's the public transportation in Bangalore? *sigh* (. that is not a negative sigh) its so much better than Bombay (Mumbai if you must) but my pet grouse is No train/rail network exists in Bangalore. And ofcourse beware of the

[silk] bangalore public transport - was Re: another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Ramjee Swaminathan
On 2/8/08, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/8/08, Linda L. Julien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip How's the public transportation in Bangalore? snip snip Public transportation is pretty much non-existent in Bangalore. (unless your starting point or destination is Majestic). The

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport - was Re: another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Deepa Mohan
Ramjee...that was an excellent treatise on how to use the Bangalore bus system, thank you. I too have been using buses almost exclusively (green decision!) and though I disagree with you on the time taken...it took me 2 hours to go from my home to Vidhan SoudhaI do agree that the bus services

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport - was Re: another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Radhika, Y.
I love the bangalore bus system. When i traveled everyday for 6 months in 2004 from Padmanabha Nagar to Indra Nagar and took the bus, i felt cleaner, safer and more well-read to boot(reading books or people's faces-either way there is a whole new world to be explored). And it was fantastic seeing

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Deepa Mohan
get some of my best knitting done on airplanes, but sometimes they don't like to let you onto the plane with knitting needles. I imagine they'll be more laid back about an embroidery needle. Linda Ha...don't be too sure about that. The last time at JFK, they let my little swiss army knife

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Dave Kumar
On 2/8/08, Linda L. Julien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking forward to getting to know you all. Linda As a former resident of both Bangalore (middle school, high school, taught at a law school there a couple of years ago, parents still live there) and Somerville (while in law school at

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Gautam John
On Feb 8, 2008 11:06 PM, Dave Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: at a law school there a couple of years ago Oh? When was that? I graduated in '02, assuming it's NLS you are referring to. What did you teach?

Re: [silk] Fwd: Introduction

2008-02-08 Thread Deepa Mohan
we have conversations in public, in private, and in secret. All three are quite separate. The public is what we say to a crowd; the private is what we chatter amongst ourselves, when free from the demands of the crowd; and the secret is what we keep from everyone but our confidant. Indeed

Re: [silk] Meeting on 10th - Venue

2008-02-08 Thread Vinit Bhansali
Damn the drunks I say. Having said that, I can offer safe driving (well, not my wife's view, but still) from the Lavelle Road area. - Vinit -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] et] On Behalf Of Udhay Shankar N Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Deepa Mohan
Welcome to the silklist Linda! And welcome, slightly in advance, to Bangalore as well. Oh, after Massachusetts (have I got all those s's in place?) you are going to just LOVE Bangalore traffic...especially if this is your first visit to India. And congrats on your marriage-to-be...I hope to be

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Dave Kumar
On 2/8/08, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 8, 2008 11:06 PM, Dave Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: at a law school there a couple of years ago Oh? When was that? I graduated in '02, assuming it's NLS you are referring to. What did you teach? Yup, I taught at NLS in 2004-05,

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Linda L. Julien
va wrote: working on the embroidery that I wanted to do for my wedding dress anyway. do you crochet ? or cross-stitch ? or tatting ? I crochet, and knit...mostly knitting these days. I've done cross-stitch in the past, but not since I was a teenager. No tatting (yet?). I also sew,

Re: [silk] yet another introduction

2008-02-08 Thread Deepa Mohan
so yeah /me is yet another woman joining silk. Hi VA, and welcome! But...being a non-geek and all, I must confess, that I thought you were (like several others) a lurker who was belatedly introducing..er..hesself...andvid or va don't give me a clue to your name, either...are you based in

Re: [silk] long

2008-02-08 Thread Hassath
On Feb 8, 2008 11:26 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also thought of gulkhand which seems to be a popular sweet in many parts of India. Was this of Mughal, or Indian origin? I never liked it, and could not understand my grandmother's need to dunk rose petals in sugar syrup!...

Re: [silk] long

2008-02-08 Thread Hassath
On Feb 8, 2008 9:41 PM, Ramjee Swaminathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: misri or chini - white crystalline sugar It would be of interest to note that, of all the above products, misri or white crystalline sugar is a very late entrant to the scene of Indian cuisine in a major way and has quickly

Re: [silk] long

2008-02-08 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-02-08 08:11:07 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: misri or chini - white crystalline sugar If chini is Chinese, is misri Egyptian? -- ams

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Linda L. Julien [08/02/08 08:43 -0500]: I work for Akamai Technologies in the US, and it looks like they'll be sending me to our Bangalore office within the next month or two, for 3-4 Great. If you know John Payne or Patrick Gilmore say hi to them from me And welcome to silklist srs

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Linda L. Julien [08/02/08 11:01 -0500]: Thanks. You've got to love those India (American-Indian, not India-Indian) words...place names around here are full of them. Even the locals tend to abbreviate the state name in writing and speech as Mass. Where I grew up, in central Mass., learning

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport

2008-02-08 Thread va
On Feb 8, 2008 7:01 PM, Ramjee Swaminathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/8/08, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice rant, Vinayak! :-) But I completely disagree with the take on the public transport. I too use the bus network a lot (especially when i get frustrated after asking

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-08 Thread va
On Feb 8, 2008 5:39 PM, Linda L. Julien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I crochet, and knit...mostly knitting these days. I've done cross-stitch in the past, but not since I was a teenager. No tatting (yet?). I also sew, though not nearly as often as I used to. Remember what I said in my intro

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport - was Re: another intro

2008-02-08 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Feb 9, 2008 12:31 AM, Ramjee Swaminathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice rant, Vinayak! :-) But I completely disagree with the take on the public transport. Then we agree to disagree. I was obviously exaggerating a little :-) But public transport in Bangalore works only if you have loads of

Re: [silk] bangalore public transport

2008-02-08 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Feb 9, 2008 10:26 AM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another nice thing, the front seats are for women (even BEST has 6 seats for women) only, which ensures i dont have to argue or use any kata's on men who think its fine to accidentally brush against or feel up or fall (by mistake of course)