Author: Thejesh GN

The year that was 2012 6

The year that was 2012

So world didn’t end and hence I am back to give you the status update: Life has been great. I have been blessed with lots of love and care Work at Mavrix has been great and expect some new announcements very soon Work at NextDrop and India Water Portal is exciting to say...

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Pictures from Barcelona and Madrid

I spent a week in Barcelona and Madrid. Most of my day was spent in walking and walking. I didn’t visit any museums. Barcelona is known for museums but artsy types. So instead I spend my time wandering, eating, watching people, taking pictures and drinking. Spaniards are very friendly. You can talk to...

Julian Assange – Whats wrong with Gaurdian 1

Julian Assange – Whats wrong with Gaurdian

I do follow Guardian very closely. Today I read this so-called interview based profile of Julian Assange. Its wrong at so many levels. It doesn’t talk anything about his work or whats the effect of it. It’s completely focused on his personal life to bring him down at any cost1. Gaurdian which thinks...

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On Lynx

I was curious about the appearence of my blog on Lynx. I should say its very usable from command prompt. Even the contact form looks good. And works as well.

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Kevin Warwick Again

I think first time I heard Kevin Warwick was in 2002 at a public event at IISc. I think I was still a student then. It kind of got me interested in robotics and artificial intelligence. I am sure that was the point of public lectures. Ten years later he was back in...

You could be committing crime by Scraping or Stumbling 1

You could be committing crime by Scraping or Stumbling

For most of us who work with data, Scraping is the default way to get the data out of public internet. To give you an example what it means. Lets say you have a published URL like http://openbangalore.org/postbox/pb/pincode/571120 which gives you the postboxes in the pincode area 571120. If you are smart enough...