Author Archives: SridharTuraga

Deny all and lie low

It was Yahoo, then facebook and now Google Buzz … every one wants to be twitter+facebook+mail+everything … they want to grab all our contacts and content … and force us to share with default settings, complex privacy controls, hard to follow “follows” etc. The way Google Buzz automatically added friends and enabled public access toContinueContinue reading “Deny all and lie low”

Great speech … so what?

Great speech by US President Obama receiving the nobel prize. Something like … “I believe in peace, but need to wage war when it is just” “I closed Guantanamo to uphold values” “Reducing n-arms is center piece of my foreign policy” “US will lead the way for climate change” YAWN. YAWN !! Except for theContinueContinue reading “Great speech … so what?”

Death march is good news

Telecom / mobile service providers in India have now started on the proverbial death march … that will leave half of them in ruin. It’s obvious that with every new player entering the market lowering the tariffs to unsustainable levels … it may only result in lowering of service quality across the board … badContinueContinue reading “Death march is good news”

Authentic Punjabi Khana

HSR Layout is very nice place to live, except for lack of good places to eat out. So when we saw a banner “Manasarovar – Authentic Punjabi Khana. Opening soon” … we got there too soon. We drove by peeping in possessively hoping for the best. I went there this weekend first week since launchContinueContinue reading “Authentic Punjabi Khana”