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Essays, fiction, analysis, and travelogues. Writing since 2005.
A rails iPhone webapp
I now run rtorrent as my torrent client of choice on my tonido plug. I can’t recommend it highly enough, especially in conjunction with rutorrent webUI. One of the problems…
Read →Cambodian Adventures – Part 4 – The wedding at Kampong Thom
In Part 3, my tuk-tuk driver in Siem Reap (Angkor Wat) offered me to take to his friend’s wedding in central Cambodia near Kampong Thom. I had agreed. This post…
Read →How to install deluge headless on the Tonidoplug
First boot the TonidoPlug from an external hard drive, follow the directions here: http://tonidouser.com/doku.php?id=advanceduses:usbboot. I had trouble doing it, it turns out my USB hub was faulty and wasn’t letting…
Read →Cambodian adventures – Part 3
One of the difficulties in exploring the Angkor Wat and allied temples is that they are spread out over a large area. So one of the first things I did…
Read →Plugged in and customized
I received my TonidoPlug after a 6 week wait post placing order. Tonidoplug is a low cost : 100$ + 30$ shipping to India + 560INR in duties, low power:…
Read →Cambodian Adventures – Part 2
This is going to be a short one – about how I got to where I was in Part 1. A brief note on footnotes: if you are interested in…
Read →Cambodian adventures – Part 1
I’ve been meaning to write about the experiences I’ve had on a backpacking trip to Thailand, Cambodia and Singapore that I did late last year. By some accident of history…
Read →Podcast advertising: a listener’s perspective
I have a 2.5 hour commute to work every day. Hence I listen to a lot of podcasts in various genres including news, science, technology, business, fiction (fantasy, sci-fi, horror)…
Read →Sunil Bharti Mittal – Is he a strategist?
As part of a course called strategic leadership, a group of us studied Sunil Bharti Mittal. I was mostly involved in doing research on AirTel’s move of IT outsourcing as…
Read →Outsourced telecom management: new paradigm?
Telecommunications products and services are getting more complex every day. Therefore, it is not surprising that the problems faced by telecom customers is increasing as well. If you have ever…
Read →Patterns & Superstitions
The idea for this essay came to me when a friend of mine related a funny incident to me. He was trying to teach an elderly person how to use…
Read →Reference Prices in Passenger Cars – A secondary research study
As part of a course called behavioral dimensions & marketing strategies, which is a sequel to consumer behavior, ((Sequel courses, like sequel movies, are often inspired by the success of…
Read →The role of credit default swaps in precipitating the current financial crisis
In november of 2008, when the financial crisis was beginning to unfold, I was enrolled in a course called “banking, finanicial markets and systems”. This was an interesting course taught…
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