A Jan Koum anecdoteVishy KurugantiFebruary 20, 20141 minsI never met Jan Koum during my 8 years in Yahoo. I met Brian Acton during his days with Yahoo! Shopping (or was it Yahoo! Finance?) There’s a funny anecdote I remember about Jan though. The year was…
The original model of western educationVishy KurugantiSeptember 08, 20132 minsPic courtesy thelaughingstork.com A history professor from Colorado State University (Jonathan Rees) wrote a hysterical anti-MOOC rant (The MOOC racket) in Slate 6 weeks ago. As I pored through the…
Hale naayi-ge hosa tricksu kalisa bahudu – ondu chikka storyuVishy KurugantiApril 03, 20131 minsPic courtesy sourceforge.net English translation of title: You CAN teach an old dog new tricks – one small story! A few months ago, I finally enrolled for a Kannada Learning class. 4 1/2 years after…
What does it take to float like a butterfly?Vishy KurugantiMarch 06, 20131 minsPic via Muhammad Ali’s Facebook Page Q: What does it take to float like a butterfly? A: [Randy Smith on Facebook] It is a humble and meek beginning as a caterpillar. Then one must willingly submit to…
The Zoo-enslaved Panther’s Ritual DanceVishy KurugantiFebruary 26, 20131 minsPic courtesy vanwageningen.net I forget where I found the extract below. But it instantly transported me to the last trip to Mysore Zoo – the description couldn’t be more spot-on. The desperation of a…
Amazon Webservices or dedicated server?Vishy KurugantiJanuary 30, 20133 minsIf your website needs are anything more than a blog (or corporate website), chances are you’d have researched options like “cloud hosting”, “dedicated hosting”, virtualization or the big daddy…
Backstory on John D. Rockefeller’s First Public DonationVishy KurugantiJanuary 01, 20132 minsJohn D. Rockefeller (Pic courtesy storiesofusa.com) My most inspired Kindle purchase in 2012 (for a ‘princely’ sum of $1.99) was The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Last night I learnt that John…
Finally… Australia to acknowledge that Aborigines were there earlierVishy KurugantiAugust 25, 20122 minsAn Aboriginal Didgeridoo player (Pic courtesy didjshop.com) Eleven years ago, my wife and I made our first (and so far only) trip to Australia. A two-week trip spent largely in the Melbourne area and…
The Fifth Elephant coming to Bangalore.. bearing Big Data GoodiesVishy KurugantiJuly 24, 20122 minsPic: courtesy HasGeek Q: What is The Fifth Elephant? A: It’s a community powered conference on the Big Data ecosystem in India, organized by HasGeek. Q: What does ‘community powered’ mean? A: For all…
Why language matters in IndiaVishy KurugantiJuly 15, 20121 minsPic: courtesy upenn.edu A few weeks ago we went roller skate shopping for our older son. We avoided all the fancy sports outlet chains (who only stock skates with integrated shoes – such a scam…
