Kiran Jonnalagadda’s Blog

A Hollywood production now promoted by comparison with the local? One up for the underdog. You know you’re a serious contender when the leader claims to be better than you.

PVR now has a ticketing machine. Choose your movie, swipe card, and it prints tickets. The things you can do when you don’t have to get each ticket printed by the Excise Department in advance.

JetStarAsia has tickets from Bangalore to Singapore at Rs 3,500 plus taxes. Where do you want to go this weekend?

Tea break at the Police Science Congress. Everyone’s wearing a suit and I’m wearing a backpack. I’m getting stares.

Dr Anup Pujari, Principal IT Secretary, Karnataka, gave an amazingly enlightened talk on his department’s eGovernance initiatives. Notable quote: “Who will police the police?” More later.

The Simputer! Live! Finally, after half a decade of hype, I get to see one live. So it really does exist after all. Now to get some specs…

NIMHANS has a pretty good convention centre, comparable to JN Tata. The hall I’m in can seat about 500, and there’s a balcony with more seats. I’m not sure if there are more halls, but this one has a number on it, so there probably are.

8.40pm and the public toilet’s locked, so folks are peeing by its walls.

Shouldn’t that read “Kannadiga” just to be certain?

‘Best-of-breed technology’ is okay. But best-of-breed people? That’s so cheap.

The cops in Dakshina Kannada (ie, Mangalore’s district) maintain a blog. From the description:

This weblog has been created by the Dakshina Kannada Police with the purpose of disseminating police news of the district to those interested. Authentic and official information of DK Police will be posted here regularly. This is just an attempt to create an interface with the press and the public at large. Your views and suggestions are welcome.

They even have Flickr accounts with their pictures and the criminals they’ve nabbed. This is awesome!

Windows never ceases to surprise me. Today it popped up a desktop icon cleaner wizard that helpfully suggests removing Firefox and Thunderbird because I’ve never used them. The similarly unused Internet Explorer can remain however.

(The banding is owing to having photographed off a CRT.)

It is no coincidence that militant and military derive from the same base word. The military is simply the organised terror arm of the dominant governing agency.

I just noticed this on Flickr’s pages for multiple sizes for a photo. Look for example at the bottom of this page.



I’m a paying user. I’m paying for the hosting. Why is Flickr trying to dictate how I may use my own pictures? I checked the Terms of Use (also linked to from the bottom of nearly all pages), but that redirects to Yahoo’s overall ToS, which makes no statement of requiring a linkback.

What gives?

Spotted in Whitefield, November 2005. Click for larger.

Anil Ambani’s personal logo? He’s not going very far, is he?

Gates, okay. But house? Your front elevation is so good, you can’t have it spoilt by a crubby car?

Testing. Will they come out lined up or one below the other? I think latter.

Edit: They came out in reverse sequence and vertically aligned. Fixed both.

Thanks to a fuckup somewhere, a message Zee sent me this morning is coming in over and over again, every few seconds. 90 copies and growing. I hope she’s not being charged roaming rates for this.

I’ve had this happen to me too when roaming, but usually only 20-30 copies. Now it’s past 100.

Popagandhi and Iza are in town for the last leg of their 45-day India backpacking tour. In random conversation last night, Iza described a particular line on the Singapore MRT where the elevated train passes close to a residential building. In order to protect the privacy of residents, the train is built such that its windows fog out as they approach the building and clear up once past. If you're sitting in the train, you see a bank of fogged windows move from head to tail.

Neat!