Indian passengers ‘harassed’ by Dutch – True or False?
Abstract: “What would you do when a dozen people talking in an unknown language, having the racial profile as South Asian, all Muslims, talking and passing excitedly on cellphones in a plane, changing the seats repeatedly, and don’t repeatedly listen to the flight attendent’s orders when Air travel world over has been placed at heightened threat level? Discomfort a few people for few hours or put your entire plane to risk?”
Pluto – No longer a planet
In an interesting move, a large body of astronomers collected under the aegis of IAU (International Astronomers Union) decided to demote the status of Pluto to a dwarf planet, instead of regular planet. It means our solar system has only 8 planets and not 9, as we studied till now. Read the rest of this entry »
Banning Coke and Pepsi? You must be kidding, my dear Indians
I read the reports of Indian states banning Pepsi and Coke, with great dismay. Not that I don’t support the use of healthy drinks like Coconut drink and properly purified fruit juices (do they exist in Indian??), but I don’t think banning Coke and Pepsi has any scientific validity. Read the rest of this entry »
What I did in the last 2 months
Since, I was not blogging I must have been doing something in the last two months. Oops, nothing meaningful comes out. Anyway, I’ll summarize what I did.
First, and most importantly I defended my thesis (on June 5th… google for what happened on June 5th) without offending my dignity. So, they allowed me to pass and here I am – Balaji Viswanathan, M.S. The defense was slightly strenuous and lots of technical and math questions. Pretty grilling indeed. Read the rest of this entry »
Back to Biking
After a gap of 2 years, I’m again back to biking thanks to the biker-friendly area of Redmond. I was a pretty much enthusiastic cyclist between the age of 12 to 21 and pretty much used cycle during all of my high school and college. I had a pretty good race bike in my college and drove it more than 10K miles in 4 years. I loved it a lot and miss it greatly. I’ve always dreamed of driving around the world in a bike (though it might never come true, I can at least try to go for longer bike tours). Read the rest of this entry »
I’m back to Blogging
Hey Guys… Sorry for the long hiatus. I’m now goin to restart my vigorous blogging habit. I’ll write detailed posts on what was happening in the last 2 months to me and to the world, in general.
In short, my status changed from a Masters student to a Software Design Engineer in the Windows core team of Microsoft with me successfully defending my Masters thesis in June.
I was pretty lax in my communication (through blogs, orkut, mails and phone) and now I’m gonna pack all my energy to get me back to the communication forest.
