How The Bubble Burst

Just found this little anecdote which explains How a Bubble is formed and how/when it bursts. A simple explanation of the subprime crisis. — Once there was a little island country. The land of this country was the tiny island itself. The total money in circulation was 2 dollars as there were only two pieces [...]

How To Book The Tata Nano

The latest word on the Tata Nano – the people’s car (INR 1,00,000 / $2000)- is out. It’s finally here. Official Link: www.tatanano.com How to book a Tata Nano? To book a Tata Nano online, visit http://tatanano.inservices.tatamotors.com/tatamotors/ Tata has entered into some sort of agreement with the State bank of India (SBI). The Tata Nano [...]

Opera Turbo

Opera has released a new version of Opera 10 a.k.a Opera Turbo. It has all the features included in Opera 10 alpha – the new Presto 2.2 rendering engine, a perfect 100/100 ACID3 score, spell check, auto update and other goodies, plus it now also has a new feature called “Opera Web Optimization Proxy“. It [...]

Happy Birthday, EEE

There are very few defining moments in life. Buying the EEE PC was possibly one in mine. Today is the first birthday of my beloved EEE PC, I bought it on 17th March 2008 – exactly an year back. I first actually saw it on display at Croma, the day it launched. It was love [...]

Game Theory in Delhi 6

This isn’t a review detailing why Delhi 6 sucked (IMO) or where it went wrong, it’s just about how a scene in the movie illustrates an excellent example of Game Theory. There is a scene in the movie where Jai Gopal (the Black Friday dude) asks Gobar (Atul Kulkarni), the village idiot to choose between [...]