Thejesh GN

A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.

Category: Technology

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Life / Technology

RIP: Aaron Swartz

I got to know more about Aaron while using web.py. I think he built it during his stint at Reddit. In fact I am such a big fan of web.py that I use it everywhere including at myswar. I used to follow him on his blog and then his work at DemandProgress. He...

Julian Assange – Whats wrong with Gaurdian 1

Life / Technology

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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Technology

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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Technology

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

Technology

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...

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Technology

SmartTab – Why a cheap android tab?

I bought a new Karbonn SmartTab2. It was roughly INR 7K ($140). Many of my friends were surprised that I bought a cheap tablet (especially because I have plans of upgrading my Nexus One by year end). I have been exploring cheap tablets for a while and I settled down for SmartTab at...