Further to my previous post on Indian tennis star Sania Mirza v/s Intia's rising badminton talent Saina Nehwal -(http://cipher1980.blogspot.com/2008/12/saina-vs-sania-real-vs-pseudo-star.html)Sania Mirza finally recovered from injuries and has made a comeback in the professional tennis world...meanwhile Saina faced a few injuries that compelled her to take break from international Badminton arena. Yet...Sania Mirza has dropped 13 places... Continue Reading →

No I am not referring to the famous Times Square building in New York City...For all of you who are fond of numbers,  a time during the day today that will be unique in itself and such pattern will never occur again...Today' date is April 1, 2009 i.e. 01.04.09 and at 16:25:36 hrs, the date and time together... Continue Reading →

Ayn Rand, the person who developed concept of ‘Objectivism’, was a staunch supporter of ‘free will’. Through her books FountainHead and Atlas Shrugged she strongly criticized ‘Collectivism’ and role of anybody/ agency (e.g. Government) who imposed restrictions on Free Will and freedom of expression. I have a couple of great videos of interview of Ayn... Continue Reading →

Recently came across this article:How To Do Nothinghttp://www.wikihow.com/Do-NothingBut I am really disappointed with the quality of content :(I think I can add a lot of 'value' to it...based on my in-depth knowledge on the topic!!!~ Kaustubh

Kosmix - Another newcomer competing (??) with Google...Google is just a little over a decade old but has earned enormous name and success since its inception. Since then there have been many 'rivals' 'threatening' to displace Google from its 'No. 1 web search engine' tag.I lost the track of the count - but remember a... Continue Reading →

This puzzle was given to me in my first job interview...the initial time given was 3 minutes.  After 3 minutes I had still not solved it, so my interviewer asked, "If given some more time will you be able to solve it? Or you haven't got any clue how to work it out?" ...I said,... Continue Reading →

Yesterday there was a book exhibition in my company that was selling books at “massive” discount ranging from 40% to 60% of the cover price.Lot of people had turned up to see the exhibition – but very few of them were actually buying any. Reason? Well, in India you can get cheap duplicate copies of... Continue Reading →