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Open-source, software-based GSM cellphone network

Thejo — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:48:00 +0000

Open-source, software-based GSM cellphone network – GSM air interface + Asterisk + VoIP backhaul. Commoditization of the telco network stack is well on its way.

Flickr Tagr and YQL

Thejo — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:43:29 +0000

Flickr Tagr now uses YQL to generate the list of related tags. The performance is a lot better. Check it out here.

Mysore – go there in 2010

Thejo — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:27:17 +0000

Mysore is in a NY Times list of places to visit in 2010. Yay!

Mobile phone making things obsolete

Thejo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:19:12 +0000

Slashdot discussion on an article about things mobile phones will make obsolete. I made the same prediction in 2006 in the context of an article by Tomi Ahonen.

Is It Wrong To Sleep With Your Sister?

Thejo — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:09:45 +0000

Google Suggest contest winners on Slate. Wisdom of the crowds indeed.

Tweeting too hard

Thejo — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:08:42 +0000

Tweeting too hard: Self-important, egotistical tweets = Hilarious. It really needs an RSS feed.

EC website crash

Thejo — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:45:44 +0000

The numbers in the last paragraph of this news report on the EC website crashing indicates one of two things – the reporter who wrote it is clueless, or, there has been some serious loss in translation when the people at NIC explained the problem to the EC official quoted in the article.

Dravid’s day out

Thejo — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:52:30 +0000

During his long career, I’ve never seen Rahul Dravid succumb to the temptation of having a go at anything. Last year’s debacle in the IPL, his subsequent demotion to a normal player, and questions about his suitability to T20 must have been gnawing at him. He got a word in after a brilliant performance against Rajasthan today – something along the lines of “… in South Africa, you can’t just tee off with the bat like you do in India. You need to play proper cricket”. Well played! Looking forward to more of his on and off field shots…

Candidate information from ADR

Thejo — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:17:39 +0000

The Association for Democratic Reforms has made available data collected as part of the various election watch activities. This should help people make a more informed choice. Please forward the link to as many people as possible!

Slicehost acquired by Rackspace

Thejo — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:51:34 +0000

This blog and many of my projects, code, svn etc. are hosted on a virtual private server at Slicehost. I started using them a couple of months after they launched their services two years ago. I had come off some bad experiences with shared hosting and was looking for a VPS. I’m not sure why I thought everything would be ok with Slicehost as they had no track record, but, they just seemed to get it. Well, I’ve been hosting with them for two years now and couldn’t be happier. They’ve now been acquired by Rackspace, a much larger player. Congratulations are in order. As a user I’ve rarely been in touch with them. That’s good! It means everything just works. Hopefully, that won’t change when they join a bigger company.