There was no electricity for 3 additional hours on Sunday due to a blackout – no electricity for more than 7 hours that day . Work gets affectly badly but do the concerned persons really care? When I was working on NTPC, Simhadri power plant many years ago, the chief minister of the state wanted it to [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Cradle scheme for baby girls in India
February 25, 2007 – 6:35 am
India Acts to Save Female Babies – by starting a cradle scheme to adopt baby girls, who will be otherwise killed by their parents. Nothing is going to change unless atitudes in Indian society change and that is not going to happen soon. At times, I feel my parent’s generation , who grew up in newly [...]
Is your domain name safe?
February 24, 2007 – 12:32 pm
One assumes a domain name is safe with an ICANN approved registrar, and when you pay the domain registration or renewal fees, the domain is actually renewed or registered. But it seems this was not the case at RegisterFly, one of the larger  registrars. Money paid for domain registration by customers seems to have been used [...]
Google’s Applications are no threat to MS Office
February 23, 2007 – 2:34 pm
Google has introduced a paid version of its web applications for small businesses. While it may become popular in USA and countries with cheap and reliable internet access, it is unlikely to be a threat to Microsoft Office or any other offline application. In large parts of the world, internet access is either not available or expensive [...]