Re: [silk] Life is a game. This is your strategy guide.

by the player, at all costs , is the end goal. This model can be useful when you are in a situation which is a zero-sum game. -- Raj Shekhar @ilunatech http://rajshekhar.net/blog Operative: Do you know what your sin is? Mal: Aw hell. I'm a fan of all seven.

Re: [silk] Why Being Sleepy and Drunk Are Great for Creativity

attention. -- Raj Shekhar - Simon: I swear... when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.

Re: [silk] [liberationtech] Pakistan's Firewall: Need your help and support

of folks in silklist reside in India. Did not know India had a firewall in place. I know that the ISPs are under the thumb of the government and will dance to whatever tune is played. Is that what you are referring to? -- Raj Shekhar - Simon: I swear... when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon

Re: [silk] Why Being Sleepy and Drunk Are Great for Creativity

:16 PM, Raj Shekhar spa...@rajshekhar.net wrote: One of the books I read compared the conscious mind to a man with the megaphone, who goes around shouting pay attention to me. Remember the name of the book? Am interested in checking it out. Regards, A

Re: [silk] Fwd: Srivatsa Krishna: Babu is not always a four-letter word

is not always commendable. An improvised tool might be good enough, but not the best tool available. -- Raj Shekhar - Tonight at 11 - DOOM! - Read the latest at my blog: a bag of tips http://rajshekhar.net/blog/archives/408-a-bag-of-tips.html

Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read

picked up its sequel, Dune Messiah and plodded through it. I then picked up its sequel, Children of Dune and could not go beyond the first 10 or 15 pages and I gave up on that series. Today I learned that there were 6 novels in the Dune series. -- Raj Shekhar - If there's anything more

Re: [silk] Zero rupees

for establishing a new electricity connection back to the no longer compliant citizen. '' This anecdote is a bit hard to digest. Or maybe I have dealt with more hardened bureaucrats. -- Raj Shekhar - In gratitude, I present you this offering of cookies and milk. If you want me to eat them for you, give me

Re: [silk] Forensic Anthropology

the series sometimes with my wife (who is addicted to it) and I think Brennan's and Booth's (the FBI guy) intimacy is much less than that between Scully Maulder (X-Files) -- Raj Shekhar - I love this planet! I've got wealth, fame, and access to the depths of sleaze that those things bring. - Read

Re: [silk] Indian foodies

in North India as well, however I had not seen this being practiced in Delhi (where I stayed for 10 years) and almost forgotten about it. The South Indians were extremely particular about the use of right hand. -- Raj Shekhar - I love this planet! I've got wealth, fame, and access to the depths

Re: [silk] Burnout

only anecdotal evidence for this. My personal explanation for this is quieter work areas, less interfering HR (no mandotary team outings etc.) and easier access to people who can give you a go/no-go decision. -- Raj Shekhar - I love this planet! I've got wealth, fame, and access to the depths

Re: [silk] On self-improvement

. My opinion is that self-improvement works. However, it might be that what I am labeling as self-improvement, might be different from what you guys were talking about. -- raj shekhar Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from

Re: [silk] Migrating an organization to FLOSS

LTSP - one powerful box with dumb terminals connected to it. IIRC, they had some problem in migrating their accounting software. HTH -- raj shekhar facts: http://rajshekhar.net opinions: http://rajshekhar.net/blog I've never made anyone's life easier and you know it!

Re: [silk] Musings on Youtube et. al.

work. Check http://youtomb.mit.edu/ YouTomb is currently monitoring 272029 videos, and has identified 9308 videos taken down for alleged copyright violation and 36263 videos taken down for other reasons. -- raj shekhar facts: http://rajshekhar.net opinions: http://rajshekhar.net/blog I've

Re: [silk] One witty guy in Bangalore....

in infinite wisdom Deepa Mohan spoke thus On 09/24/2008 12:29 PM: http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm205/depontis/?action=viewcurrent=IMG_0153.jpg What does venustraphobian mean? Let's trot out all those lengthiterminophobias... That word too falls out of my dictionary. -- raj

Re: [silk] Fwd: [india-gii] New 'Crish' software to track cybercafe users

or watching the Die Hard 4 movie just after reading Cryptonomicon. -- raj shekhar facts: http://rajshekhar.net | opinions: http://rajshekhar.net/blog Yoda of Borg are we: Futile is resistance. Assimilate you, we will 'Borg? Sounds Swedish.' - Lily, Star Trek First Contact

Re: [silk] Fwd: [india-gii] New ‘Crish’ so ftware to track cybercafe users

. -- raj shekhar facts: http://rajshekhar.net | opinions: http://rajshekhar.net/blog Yoda of Borg are we: Futile is resistance. Assimilate you, we will 'Borg? Sounds Swedish.' - Lily, Star Trek First Contact

Re: [silk] ISP BitTorrent Manipulation Test

in infinite wisdom Alok G. Singh spoke thus On 05/24/2008 08:52 AM: I have not been able to test it yet. Did anyone try this ? Anything interesting ? Did the test with my airtel connection, and the site gave it a green flag. -- raj shekhar facts: http://rajshekhar.net | opinions: http

Re: [silk] [ccm-l] desktop calendar (OFF TOPIC)

PlannerMode -- raj shekhar facts: http://rajshekhar.net | opinions: http://rajshekhar.net/blog Yoda of Borg are we: Futile is resistance. Assimilate you, we will 'Borg? Sounds Swedish.' - Lily, Star Trek First Contact

Re: [silk] double delivery

in infinite wisdom Udhay Shankar N spoke thus On 01/09/2008 10:59 AM: Bharath Chari wrote: [ on 10:54 AM 1/9/2008 ] Are you sure it is fixed? I just got two messages from Raj Shekhar. It will go away as the messages with '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' get older and people stop replying to them

Re: [silk] The Christian, the Muslim and the Hindu..

, it is really great to see the traffic police managing the resources so well. -- raj shekhar facts: http://rajshekhar.net | opinions: http://rajshekhar.net/blog I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.

Re: [silk] BS Detection

I wanted to use some other email id to subscribe to mailing lists that I would read once every day. Cheers -- raj shekhar facts: http://rajshekhar.net | opinions: http://rajshekhar.net/blog I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.

Re: [silk] BS Detection

://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail1869.html -- raj shekhar facts: http://rajshekhar.net | opinions: http://rajshekhar.net/blog I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.

Re: [silk] Jimmy Wales in Madras

Aditya Kapil wrote: An example? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22i%20think%22%20inurl:pundit%20inurl:blog should find you enough posts :-) -- raj shekhar facts: http://rajshekhar.net | opinions: http://rajshekhar.net/blog I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.

Re: [silk] What is all this ??

. -- raj shekhar facts: http://rajshekhar.net | opinions: http://rajshekhar.net/blog I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

into that wire and caused the fault. -- raj shekhar facts: http://rajshekhar.net | opinions: http://rajshekhar.net/blog I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.