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Weekend at Mangalore

Submitted by hpn on January 5, 2009 - 13:40

I was at Mangalore for last two days, being part of an event organized to discuss the situation of water in the region. The prime focus of this edition of the program was to get audience familiarized with some aspects of technology that would help them log about the changes happening around them in the overall management of water, and record their opinions, their take on all of this.

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Spam lands Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh in trouble

Submitted by hpn on December 30, 2008 - 09:08

It was a surprise this morning to see an article on Deccan Herald which seems to add so much to the strengthening notion that people writing in media still do not cross check their Internet findings.

Not that I'm a big fan of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh, or that I have any interest in political stuff surrounding it. But take this: a website called sangh.com is linked by rss.org to what it calls the "media" section. Sangh.com, running on an apparently old version of PHPNuke (which says a lot that the website has long been neglected from its maintainers) has cartload of spam linking to adult sites.

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Tata Internet Services disrupted

Submitted by hpn on December 20, 2008 - 22:48

People using Tata Indicom Broadband (and several other services here in India) seem to be affected by heavy packet loss in their Internet connections. When I called up the Tata Indicom Customer Care almost in what seemed to be the umpteenth time I was calling them in last two days, I was told about some "submarine cable damage", "main server issue" and few other such things. Earlier they had a reason to believe it was a local issue and they said they will get it rectified in "6 hours".

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Passion Fruit

Submitted by hpn on December 18, 2008 - 00:15

Each time I visit Nagesh Hegde's place, I get to carry home some rare fruits and at times some rare vegetables.

During one of the visits to his place, he gave me this fruit (of which I duly took a photograph as Mom cut it into slices back home) and told me that it is known as the "Passion Fruit". It grows on creepers.

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