[silk] Rainbow Rising

2009-10-01 Thread Udhay Shankar N
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7264/full/461600a.html Optics: Droplets set light in a spin Miles Padgett Fusilli pasta is made by extruding dough through an appropriately shaped hole. A new method for making similar shapes in the optical field of light involves passing laser beams

Re: [silk] Silk-meet in BLR (Oct 17-21)

2009-10-01 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
2009/10/1 Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM, freeman murray fcmur...@gmail.com wrote: hey everyone, We're welcome to meet at Jaaga (http://jaaga.wikidot.com) if people would like. Its pretty central and there's food and beer near by. Sounds like fun -

Re: [silk] Silk-meet in BLR (Oct 17-21)

2009-10-01 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/1 Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM, freeman murray fcmur...@gmail.com wrote: hey everyone, We're welcome to meet at Jaaga (http://jaaga.wikidot.com) if people

Re: [silk] Silk-meet in BLR (Oct 17-21)

2009-10-01 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Divya Freeman Udhay Kiran Karthikeyan Vinayak Hegde Venkat

Re: [silk] Alternative careers

2009-10-01 Thread Valsa Williams
The ex chief of the Navy, grows exclusive vegetables flowers in his Delhi farmhouse. He makes more money now and is a happier person ! On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: Udhay Shankar N [01/10/09 07:10 +0530]: Deepa Mohan wrote, [on 10/1/2009

Re: [silk] Alternative careers

2009-10-01 Thread Badri Natarajan
Also, several people with law degrees who don't practice law. Interestingly, they all appear to be from the same graduating class. I can think of at least Alok and Gautam - any others? And any stories to tell? Alok left us after during our first year, despite our best efforts to hang on to

Re: [silk] Etiquette here

2009-10-01 Thread Rajesh Kumar
Hi Deepa, I'm still waiting for the answer to why did you give up the practice of medicine, given that it is at least five years of rigorous training? You may have missed that mail among the other important ones. Since I am not aware of a way of pointing to another mail in Gmail, please take a

Re: [silk] Somebody from the past (at least for people who love / hate when they hear CiX) - Introduction

2009-10-01 Thread Rajesh Kumar
Hi Venkat, I like you already... What an example of a new member on the list *not* top posting. It took me a while to really get this! I have goofed up a few times, but those instances are rare. I still follow the pattern that I started with - no short forms, no smilies. -- Regards, trrk

[silk] only one alternative? (was has the time come to move away from google?)

2009-10-01 Thread Giancarlo Livraghi
If I may... one more question. If bing is microsoft (out of the frying pan into the fire) is ask the only worthwhile alternative to google? (I am doing my best to stay away from yahoo.) I haven't quite figured out, so far, what ask is and how it works. It seems to be related to excite...

Re: [silk] only one alternative? (was has the time come to move away from google?)

2009-10-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 01:21:06PM +0200, Giancarlo Livraghi wrote: Any words of wisdom? I frequently chain Scroogle in front of Google, and nowadays Tor. I suggest using meta-engines. Long-term, p2p search is the way to go. No practical crawlers and queary scather/gather yet exist, though.

Re: [silk] Silk-meet in BLR (Oct 17-21)

2009-10-01 Thread Pranesh Prakash
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Re: [silk] Silk-meet in BLR (Oct 17-21)

2009-10-01 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: Abhishek Hazra [30/09/09 22:27 -0700]: For Amar Chitra Katha fans (or for anyone interested in Indian Mythology and History) Oooh, lovely, thanks for those Amar Chitra Katha links. Halbe was always one of my

Re: [silk] Silk-meet in BLR (Oct 17-21)

2009-10-01 Thread divya manian
Adding silk-lurker Deepak Jois to the list: Divya Freeman Udhay Kiran Karthikeyan Vinayak Hegde Venkat Pranesh Deepak Jois

Re: [silk] only one alternative? (was has the time come to move away from google?)

2009-10-01 Thread Biju Chacko
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Giancarlo Livraghi g...@gandalf.it wrote: If I may... one more question. If bing is microsoft (out of the frying pan into the fire) is ask the only worthwhile alternative to google? (I am doing my best to stay away from yahoo.) Yahoo uses bing too nowadays.

Re: [silk] only one alternative? (was has the time come to move away from google?)

2009-10-01 Thread divya manian
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Giancarlo Livraghi g...@gandalf.it wrote: Any words of wisdom? I google mainly for webdesign/tech information which I think delicious.com covers very well. I use it like a curated search engine, but their search could be a LOT better than what they offer

Re: [silk] Alternative careers

2009-10-01 Thread Radhika, Y.
i know of at least 2 who left consulting jobs to become teachers at much less pay. they did this in the U S though. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Chris Kantarjiev c...@dimebank.com wrote: I've recently come across a third example in as many months of someone who has left a longish high-tech

Re: [silk] only one alternative? (was has the time come to move away from google?)

2009-10-01 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Biju Chacko wrote, [on 10/1/2009 11:13 PM]: Yahoo uses bing too nowadays. Business reasons apart, I suspect that one driver of that decision is that Qi Lu runs bing these days [1]. Udhay [1] http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_23/b4134040743599.htm -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay

Re: [silk] Silk-meet in BLR (Oct 17-21)

2009-10-01 Thread ss
On Thursday 01 Oct 2009 9:30:02 pm divya manian wrote: Adding silk-lurker Deepak Jois to the list: Divya Freeman Udhay Kiran Karthikeyan Vinayak Hegde Venkat Pranesh Deepak Jois Is there a more precise date than Ot 17-21st? shiv

Re: [silk] only one alternative? (was has the time come to move awayfrom google?)

2009-10-01 Thread ss
On Friday 02 Oct 2009 8:28:01 am Udhay Shankar N wrote: Biju Chacko wrote, [on 10/1/2009 11:13 PM]: Yahoo uses bing too nowadays. Business reasons apart, I suspect that one driver of that decision is that Qi Lu runs bing these days [1]. Udhay [1]

Re: [silk] Silk-meet in BLR (Oct 17)

2009-10-01 Thread Udhay Shankar N
ss wrote, [on 10/2/2009 9:16 AM]: Adding silk-lurker Deepak Jois to the list: Divya Freeman Udhay Kiran Karthikeyan Vinayak Hegde Venkat Pranesh Deepak Jois Is there a more precise date than Ot 17-21st? Saturday, October 17th, at http://jaaga.wikidot.com/ Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar