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.
Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid thinks PRISM is nothing to worry about. In his own words “This is not scrutiny and access to actual messages. It is only computer analysis of patterns of calls and emails that are being sent. It is not actually snooping on specifically on content of anybody’s message...
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...
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...
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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