Neither Body Nor Mind

Last updated on: April 21, 2006 at 6:08 pm By Desh Kapoor

I generally get daily quotes from Beliefnet.com - here is one I got today. I really liked it so wanted to share it with all. He has no staff nor tuft nor sacred thread.He faces heat and cold, pleasure and pain,Honor and dishonor with equal calm.He is not affected by calumny,Pride, jealousy, status, joy or sorrow,Greed, anger, or infatuation,Excitement, egoism, or other goads;For [the illuminated man] knows he is neither body nor mind.  -Paramahamsa Upanishad Read more

Installing the Love Software!

Last updated on: April 21, 2006 at 5:51 pm By Desh Kapoor

Here is an interesting take on a software called Love and how a conversation might have went between a person desirous of installing such a software and a "Tech Support" specialist! Forwarded as an email by my friend, Sheela K.. ===================== Tech Support: Yes, ... how can I help you? Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install Love. Can you guide me through the process? Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed? Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready. What do I do first? Read more

links for 2006-04-21

Last updated on: April 21, 2006 at 2:26 am By Desh Kapoor

InformationWeek | Technology And The Environment | Special Report: Are Computers Destroying The Earth? | April 20, 2006 With Earth Day just around the corner, two reporters cross swords over the question of whether computers and technology are helping or hurting the environment. (tags: computers PC Earth Environment) Read more

IDontWantDowry.com – great Marriage portal idea!

Last updated on: April 20, 2006 at 11:39 pm By Desh Kapoor

There are business ideas and there are great business ideas! This one is example of the latter! There are so many dating/singles/matrimonial sites for Indian scene as well.. and this one is destined to quickly break away from the clutter!! Kudos to the creative thinking!! Idontwantdowry.com , is a portal launched by NKGonline.com,Hyderabad.Idontwantdowry.com is a Matrimonial website exclusively for the people who would say “I Don’t want Dowry” all over the country. It is a platform where brides can find out grooms who are against the dowry culture prevailing across India Read more

Bringing in Multiple Events to Google Calendar and other Cool Stuff

Last updated on: April 20, 2006 at 11:16 pm By Desh Kapoor

Google Calendar has some cool features.. one is that you could create a number of calendars and add what you want to! This way you can segregate stuff by color codes (all events in any one calendar you add on the left take a different color and show that way on the main calendar). So potentially you can have one calendar each for as many organizations that you belong to.. and view all or some as and when you want to... You can have the calendars selected but not view them.. and view them when you want.. and uncheck the box to unclutter the calendar at other times! Here is one way to bring in the birthdays from other calendars! This post also gives a PERL script to upload multiple events! Read more

History: Software Engineering

Last updated on: April 20, 2006 at 9:16 pm By Desh Kapoor

Computer scientist Friedrich Ludwig Bauer coins the term "software engineering" during a presentation at the 1968 NATO Software Conference. "The whole trouble comes from the fact that there is so much tinkering with software. It is not made in a clean fabrication process, which it should be. What we need is software engineering." - F.L. Bauer, 1968. Read more

Joke of the Day: Lawyers

Last updated on: April 20, 2006 at 9:16 pm By Desh Kapoor

Did you hear about the terrorists who took a courthouse full of lawyers hostage? Read more

Vision

Last updated on: April 19, 2006 at 12:49 pm By Desh Kapoor

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. Read more

links for 2006-04-19

Last updated on: April 19, 2006 at 2:23 am By Desh Kapoor

AirScooter II Ultralight Vehicle Going back to the future of rotor craft design is the basic concept of the AirScooter VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) vehicle by AirScooter Corporation of Henderson, Nevada. "The original Sikorsky rotorcraft helicopter concept was based on a coaxial (tags: helicopter cool wishlist) Read more

Gandhi's Seven Blunders

Last updated on: April 18, 2006 at 2:21 am By Desh Kapoor

I am not a particularly great fan of Gandhi, but this is a good piece of some useful wisdom from him I got from this blogger. A few weeks before he was assassinated, Gandhi the Mahatma had a conversation with his grandson Arun. He handed Arun a talisman upon which were engraved "Seven Blunders," out of which, said Gandhi, grows the violence that plagues the world. The blunders were: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Read more