India agree deal on Grand Prix. That means a Grand Prix in New Delhi in 2009! Yeah you will have your fair share of conditionalities that need to test positive. But still the very thought that this is happening is exhiliarating. From a personal point of view, I really hope it is in the [...]
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F1 in New Delhi
Posted in Formula 1, India, News, Sports on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
IITK Website Hacked AGAIN!
Posted in Hacking, IIT, Web on June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Just as I was ruminating over the done deal of IITK website hacking, an alert netizen points out that the website has been hacked again. This is straight from the website.
ɱcDonalds buys IITk for 40 80 Billion USD (Perhaps our new bid will catch your attention. Yesh, We’re loving it still!!)
I guess this is [...]
IITK Website hacked
Posted in Hacking, IIT, News, Web on June 4, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Yes its true! The official website of IIT Kanpur has been hacked by apparently a McD fan. Click on the screenshot to see a bigger image.
The IIT websites, atleast the main pages, are never put to any important use. So not much harm should be incurred, if you ignore the embarrassment of the sysads [...]
Launch of Swiss Dossiers
Posted in Blogging, IIT on May 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As has become the de facto standard now, one ought to start a new blog dedicated to one’s internship. So let me board the train too. So here is announcing the Launch of Swiss Dossiers @ http://swissdossiers.wordpress.com. Everyone is invited.
For the sake of completeness, I have a two and half month internship at EPFL [...]
Confessions of an Urban Indian Youth
Posted in I Me Myself, India on April 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In one’s lifetime we meet only a few select people who make impressions on us, that instantly mould us. Mohit, my mentor at IIT in my first year, was one of those rare people I got to meet. A man of extraordinary brilliance, infinite humility and above all a vichardheen who keenly sought answers [...]
With Byom babu, in a stroll through time.
Posted in India, Society, Television on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A fateful day, a mistyped search word and I find myself with about 10 episodes of vintage ‘Byomkesh Bakshi‘. It was a case of ‘Old wine in old bottle’ with the print being sub-standard. But hey I wasn’t complaining. The theme song that plays while the credits roll at the start, instantaneously brought back the [...]
Lan Ban and the Media Van
Posted in Computers, IIT, India, Life, Society on March 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Fortnight stale news:
After a long trial, fiercely discussed and furiously contested, the axe finally came down on the internet usage in the IITB campus, sometimes referred to as LAN Ban. The details of the judgement passed by the responsible authorities convey that all inter and intra net facilities extended to the hostel rooms of students [...]
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