Two good posts

1. Om Malik writes in GigaOm, how Morality is not a group effort, rather
an individual choice.(on the news that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo — are teaming up with human rights groups and other organizations to set up a Global Network Initiative that will help “avoid or minimize the impact of government restrictions on freedom of expression.”)

2. Excerpts from a speech by Watson(co-discoverer of DNA, remember Watson and Crick?) :

1. Talk to your opponents - A lot of scientists are afraid to share their ideas. But by cooperating with Maurice Wilkins, a scientist at a rival lab in London, Watson and Crick learned of experimental evidence that enabled them to clinch their discovery. The person who actually took the pioneering photograph, Rosalind Franklin, never shared her research, and died before the 1062 Nobel Prize was awarded to the three men. “Generally it pays to talk,” says Watson. Oh… and, another rule:
2. Never be the brightest person on the room; then you can’t learn anything.

....and more..

Student Feedback

Here are some chosen comments from the student feedback
I received :

(i) How was the pace of the course?
Pace of the course was like Adam and Eve
wandering in the garden of Eden.

(ii) What topics did you like/dislike in the course?
It doesn't matter what do I like or dislike in the
course. If it is in the syllabus, I have to do it.

Ubuntu

Thanks to Anand Vivek Srivastava for the tip-off, I got
the Ubuntu CD shipped to my home today. It installed
like a breeze. I remember getting Linux installed on
my machine in my college days. It used to be a real
pain in the a**. I used to call upon all the geek gods,
who could waste some precious time on me.
Anyways, let me celebrate the good times now !

Business Idea : Restaurant chain : "The Free Lunch"

The Free Lunch
A restaurant chain.
Lucky customers, based on
a Russian roulette/wheel of fortune/ whatever
don't have to pay for their meal.

time

बहुत टाइम वेस्ट भया, अबहुँ न कीजे मोर ।
काल करे सो आज कर, काम काम चहुँ ओर |
सियावर रामचंद्र भज हरि शरणम् |

bahut time waste bhaya, abahun na keeje more.
kaal kare so aaj kar, kaam kaam chahun aur.
siyavar ramchandra bhaj hari sharnam.

Meaning of Drona

Goldie Behal is all over the place to publicize his
upcoming film, Drona. Jaiprakash Chauksey comments
that meaning of Drona is not what Goldie is proclaiming
to be. Wiki to the help, and here it is :

Drona was born a brahmin, in modern day Dehradun (a modification of dehra-dron, a clay pot), which implies that he was not gestated in a womb, but outside the human body in a droon (vessel).

So, Drona means a vessel.

Further, here is the complete story of his birth :

The story of Drona's birth is recounted dramatically in Mahābhārata, Book I: Adi Parva, Sambhava Parva, Section CXXXI.^[1] Bharadwaja went with his companions to the Ganges to perform his ablutions. There he beheld a beautiful apsara named Ghritachi who had come to bathe. The sage was overcome by desire, causing him to ejaculate. Bharadwaja captured the fluid in a vessel called a drona, and Drona himself sprang from the fluid thus preserved. Drona would later boast that he had sprung from Bharadwaja without ever having been in a womb.