Category: Life

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TCS World 10k Bangalore – 2014

This is my second TCS 10K. All I wanted to is better my previous performances. I think I did well.

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Thrissur Pooram

I like huge human gatherings and festivities. I like watching people and activities. This year I got chance to be in Thrissur during the Pooram. Wikipedia has a decent article about the pooram. Thrissur Pooram (Malayalam: തൃശ്ശൂര്‍ പൂരം) is one of the most popular temple festivals of the South Indian state Kerala. It...

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Brew your best Coffee with Aeropress

I knew about Aeropress from long time. Their website didn’t build much confidence, but then Leo always talks about it on TWIT. And I trust Leo enough. I got myself an aeropress from Blue Tokai Coffee which offers world-class Indian coffee online. They are probably the first Indian coffee subscription service where in...

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Bangalore Tree Survey – POC Results

Bangalore, once upon a time called Garden city, still has quite a bit of green cover. Almost every week we read a story about cutting down trees for some reason. But nobody knows the details, including the people who write those articles. I thought it would be great if you had a baseline...

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BMTC Bus Stop Accessibility – Part 2

One of the biggest criticism of my previous post about BMTC Bus Stop Accessibility study was that the data was old. I set out to fix that. BMTC now has fairly well defined website and hence I scraped their data with ease. Now we have the recent data (Feb/2014) as per BMTC website...

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Trusting DataMeet

It seems Anand and I thought about the same thing at the same time. We called it differently but we settled on DataMeet because it was better. In the initial days we used to have virtual meetups on Skype, then offline. After a while we started an email list so we could discuss...