Shankar Nag – All India Radio Program
Found them on Youtube, Tried my best to remove the noise. Its much much better now. Have fun listening
Thejesh GN Blog
SQLite – Open Format for Open Data
I scraped Gujarat rainfall data recently. The end result was 6 lakh rows of structured data. I released the data as an SQLite file instead of say a bunch of CSV or excel files. It kind of surprised some of my friends. But I think it’s a great file format for releasing open...
Anil Kumble Circle – Time Lapse video
BTIS.IN provides images from traffic cameras across Bangalore. I wrote a simple script to capture and store images from camera no 3 (Anil Kumble Circle). Code is very simple and is listed below. The camera AK circle is usually up from morning 6 to evening 7. I have about 1.3k valid pictures from...
Rajasthan Rainfall Data (1957 to 2011)
The Rajashtan rainfall data was scraped as part of Scrapathon held in Bangalore 21st July 2011. Intially I used scraperwiki, but the huge amount of data made it to timeout all the time :) so I wrote a simple python script to do it. Data is in the SQLITE file data.sqlite, in a...
Dear Reliance – One of us is lying
From Web of Deceit on the The Caravan A more worrying development regarding ISP actions came to light at the end of May, when the activist group Anonymous India hacked into the servers of one provider, Reliance Communication, and released a list of 434 web addresses that had been blocked. Among these were...
Using sshuttle to remain Safe on Insecure Wi-Fi
Working from home mostly means working from cafes. Though I mostly tether through my mobile to get onto the Internet, it’s not always fast enough. Also bigger bandwidth does attract the geek in me towards public wi-fi. But most public wi-fis are insecure (I think even the private ones are insecure). Using HTTPS...
