Re: [silk] Security Issues....especially in Bangalore

2008-11-26 Thread Radhika, Y.
I once missed a flight in spain after 9/11 and ended up having to buy a one-way ticket to the states from Spain. At Amsterdam, the security picked me out for a "random" check and wanted to know why I had a one way ticket. I was irritate enough to want to ask: do i have to be more responsible just b

Re: [silk] Bangalore meetup?

2008-11-26 Thread .
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I may have to cancel for this evening. Something's come up, as well as > spousal frowns at my going out this evening. umm... can someone confirm if the meet is cancelled or not ! -- .

[silk] Security Issues....especially in Bangalore

2008-11-26 Thread Deepa Mohan
I wrote this in the heat of the moment; I am sure I do not understand the complexity many of the issues involved...would like other's opinions. I have had my TV set on since yesterday nightand it is ironic that yesterday evening, I visited two public spaces, and was musing about what a fa

Re: [silk] Mumbai silklisters OK?

2008-11-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
If they were etickets booked on irctc, you could just download those tickets from elsewhere .. srs > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Radhika, Y. > Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 11:46 AM > To: silklist@lists.hserus.net >

Re: [silk] list 2.0

2008-11-26 Thread Balaji Dutt
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am very interested in people's reactions to social networking > sites...both plus and minus. My own reaction? Orkut was/is a little too > "young" for me, I have fun in Facebook but have never seen anything > remotely >

Re: [silk] Mumbai silklisters OK?

2008-11-26 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Radhika, Y. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the big problem for me is that all my travel from mumbai was by train and > my > tix are sitting with my cousin in mumbai. the situation being quite tense, > i > don't want to worry her and ask her to dhl something. anyway

Re: [silk] Mumbai silklisters OK?

2008-11-26 Thread Radhika, Y.
the big problem for me is that all my travel from mumbai was by train and my tix are sitting with my cousin in mumbai. the situation being quite tense, i don't want to worry her and ask her to dhl something. anyway thanks for the quick responses. Mumbai was purely a pleasure trip for me so even if

Re: [silk] Mumbai silklisters OK?

2008-11-26 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > You are likely to find yourself rerouted by the airline into some other > Indian city - I hear that flights into bombay are getting canceled. > Radhika, last time, Mumbai proved very resilient after the terror a

Re: [silk] Bangalore meetup?

2008-11-26 Thread Biju Chacko
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Will try to make it. >> >> Me too. > > Folks, > > I may have to cancel for this evening. Something's come up, as well as > spousal frowns

Re: [silk] Bangalore meetup?

2008-11-26 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Will try to make it. > > Me too. Folks, I may have to cancel for this evening. Something's come up, as well as spousal frowns at my going out this evening. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.d

Re: [silk] Mumbai silklisters OK?

2008-11-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
You are likely to find yourself rerouted by the airline into some other Indian city - I hear that flights into bombay are getting canceled. Radhika, Y. [26/11/08 21:40 -0800]: anybody if it is safe for us to arrive. unfortuantely we had booked our travel for 27th i.e tomorrow night Pacific time.

Re: [silk] Mumbai silklisters OK?

2008-11-26 Thread Radhika, Y.
anybody if it is safe for us to arrive. unfortuantely we had booked our travel for 27th i.e tomorrow night Pacific time. Mike is canadian - can't hide him. we are arriving at 8pm on the 29th...any advice would be welcome. Thanks. Radhika On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Supriya Nair <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [silk] Mumbai silklisters OK?

2008-11-26 Thread Supriya Nair
Unharmed in body. Word of the shootings started coming in just as I left the area [I work in Colaba and was at an exhibition at the Bombay Store until late last evening]. It feels like a miracle that everyone I know is safe. On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Danese Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [silk] Mumbai silklisters OK?

2008-11-26 Thread Danese Cooper
Nevermind. Just saw tweet confirming Eric is okay :-) Danese Sent from my phone On Nov 26, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just got off the phone with a few friends in Mumbai - thankfully, they're OK. Mumbai silklisters - speak up, please. Are you folks fine? ht

Re: [silk] Mumbai silklisters OK?

2008-11-26 Thread Danese Cooper
Brian and I are most worried about Dr. Eric Von Hipple, who was scheduled to check into Oberoi last night. Karim Lakhani tweeted about this earlier. Haven't seen any word whether the good Dr. Is safe or not. Danese Sent from my phone On Nov 26, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROT

[silk] Mumbai silklisters OK?

2008-11-26 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Just got off the phone with a few friends in Mumbai - thankfully, they're OK. Mumbai silklisters - speak up, please. Are you folks fine? http://search.twitter.com/search?q=mumbai seems to be a useful way of getting some firsthand reports - though a lot of filtering is needed. Udhay -- ((Udhay S

Re: [silk] Bangalore meetup?

2008-11-26 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Biju Chacko wrote, [on 11/26/2008 5:33 PM]: > Will try to make it. Me too. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] list 2.0

2008-11-26 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Social networking sites are the Interweb's reality TV. Also, they are > >> utterly useless. facebook confuses and annoys me, while Orkut

Re: [silk] list 2.0

2008-11-26 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Social networking sites are the Interweb's reality TV. Also, they are >> utterly useless. facebook confuses and annoys me, while Orkut merely >> annoys me. > > Might I ask why you still have a Facebook account then? a) Ti

Re: [silk] list 2.0

2008-11-26 Thread Madhu Menon
Social networking sites are the Interweb's reality TV. Also, they are utterly useless. facebook confuses and annoys me, while Orkut merely annoys me. Might I ask why you still have a Facebook account then? -- <<< * >>> Madhu Menon Shiok Far-eastern Cuisine Moss Cocktail Lounge 96, Amar J

Re: [silk] list 2.0

2008-11-26 Thread Priyanka Sachar
hello, I am a n00b (newbie) in this list2.0. I would say that social networks can be tweaked to give one what one wants. I simply love FB for the network it has given me and I have even ended up selling some photographs I clicked, all thanks to FB's viral feed. For other nonsense, there's always t

Re: [silk] Bangalore meetup?

2008-11-26 Thread Biju Chacko
Will try to make it. -- b On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Vinayak Hegde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Divya Manian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And I thought it was 27th of December! > > You thought right. It is tomorrow. Sorry for the ambiguous language. I > mea

Re: [silk] list 2.0

2008-11-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:21:38PM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > > Out of curiosity, why? (I get the reality TV bit, though) > > Social networking sites are the Interweb's reality TV. Also, they are > utterly useless. facebook confuses and annoys me, while Orkut merely > annoys me. They're

Re: [silk] list 2.0

2008-11-26 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Sumant Srivathsan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Facebook? I almost hate it as much as Orkut. Death to all them social >> networking sites, I hate them as much as reality TV. > > > Out of curiosity, why? (I get the reality TV bit, though) Social networking sites

Re: [silk] last-minute itinerary for southie lens workout

2008-11-26 Thread Biju Chacko
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/26 Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> In contrast, 2-3 months before the last assembly election (ie state >> legislature), some bloke came by my flat and asked how many adults >> lived there. My wife told

Re: [silk] Bangalore meetup?

2008-11-26 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Divya Manian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I thought it was 27th of December! You thought right. It is tomorrow. Sorry for the ambiguous language. I meant people have already committed to other things today. The meetup is tomorrow at Samarkhand, 27th Nov 2008, 7

Re: [silk] Bangalore meetup?

2008-11-26 Thread Divya Manian
On 11/26/08 5:27 PM, "Vinayak Hegde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Divya Manian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 11/26/08 4:53 PM, "Vinayak Hegde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Time 7.00pm. Want to leave early. >>> >> >> Even I could make it for the meet

Re: [silk] list 2.0

2008-11-26 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the newer members, and those who weren't paying attention earlier - > other means of interacting with your fellow silklisters: > > Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/36480 > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/grou

Re: [silk] list 2.0

2008-11-26 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
> > Facebook? I almost hate it as much as Orkut. Death to all them social > networking sites, I hate them as much as reality TV. Out of curiosity, why? (I get the reality TV bit, though) -- Sumant Srivathsan http://sumants.blogspot.com

[silk] list 2.0

2008-11-26 Thread Udhay Shankar N
For the newer members, and those who weren't paying attention earlier - other means of interacting with your fellow silklisters: Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/36480 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5083012209 (about the subject line - I know, I'm an evil person. I couldn'

Re: [silk] Bangalore meetup?

2008-11-26 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Divya Manian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/26/08 4:53 PM, "Vinayak Hegde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Time 7.00pm. Want to leave early. >> > > Even I could make it for the meet up. In Bangalore on 26th night. I did a quick poll here at foss.in. People hav

Re: [silk] Bangalore meetup?

2008-11-26 Thread Divya Manian
On 11/26/08 4:53 PM, "Vinayak Hegde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Time 7.00pm. Want to leave early. > Even I could make it for the meet up. In Bangalore on 26th night. - Divya

Re: [silk] Bangalore meetup?

2008-11-26 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Vinayak Hegde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Devdas Bhagat wrote, [on 10/14/2008 8:41 PM]: >> >>> In which case, I am in Bangalore from the 24th evening to early morning >>> on the 1st. I s

Re: [silk] Bangalore meetup?

2008-11-26 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Devdas Bhagat wrote, [on 10/14/2008 8:41 PM]: > >> In which case, I am in Bangalore from the 24th evening to early morning >> on the 1st. I suggest the weekend of the 29th/30th. > > When/where is this meetup, I say? 27th

Re: [silk] Bangalore meetup?

2008-11-26 Thread Ramakrishna Reddy
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Devdas Bhagat wrote, [on 10/14/2008 8:41 PM]: > >> In which case, I am in Bangalore from the 24th evening to early morning >> on the 1st. I suggest the weekend of the 29th/30th. > > When/where is this meetup, I say? I'm

Re: [silk] Bangalore meetup?

2008-11-26 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Devdas Bhagat wrote, [on 10/14/2008 8:41 PM]: > In which case, I am in Bangalore from the 24th evening to early morning > on the 1st. I suggest the weekend of the 29th/30th. When/where is this meetup, I say? Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))