Youthanasia : Taking away the internet

The Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, is turning the Internet lights off to force students to go to sleep early and be fresh as a flower for the class the next day. Reminds me of what I sometimes sing my 3-year old to sleep.

Pray, now what will happen to those night-out coding fests ?

In a a previous post, I indicated how UWM was threatening to take away Internet connection as a form of punishment.

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Barcamps over the world: BCB3/Minnebar

I think I am kinda special. Not quite like Paris Hilton special, but getting a chance to attend two Barcamps separated by 8000 miles in a span of 3 weeks has got to be some kind of special stuff. I think the big guy above is smiling at me. Invest in my equity. This is an article outlining some of the interesting differences I saw between the barcamps in Bangalore (BCB3, 31 March -April 1, 2007 ) and Minnesota(Minnebar 2007, 21 April). This is not an article intended to compare or pass a judgement. Just throwing up some observations, fwiw . I am not offering explanations, I am not a socio-anthropology by training. Some of these do not require a degree to arrive at the reason of causation, but I want to keep this blog close to what I saw, not what I think. At most, some "could-be"s. Both the barcamps have a local flavour and preservation of local flavour to me, is inherently good. Consider food, for example. A predominantly South Indian buffet spread for lunch ...

This thing called Minnebar

The drive from Milwaukee to Minneapolis/St.Paul is about 320 miles, each way. Takes about 5 hours, you can do it in 4.5 if you push it a bit. The drive cannot really be called scenic, unless you put it in compare mode against Ohio, I guess. I really wanted to see a barcamp outside India and there was no way I would this one in Minneapolis (since I was already in the area.) So I got up at 3:46 am. The rest is sweet memories. Minnebar (pronounced minibar) is in its second edition. It is a BarCamp organised by enthusiasts in the twin cities of St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota. You can see the pictures here. William Gurstelle literally blew us with his presentation on explosive underground technologies: potato guns, pumpkin throwers, tesla coils. He is the author of 5 books on how to increase the entropy of the unverse by factors of 10 or alike. In some sense, the starCamper, if there be one was David Hans...

Work at a call center

A nice article on the Jeff Bezos school of management. I am a strong supporter of this ethic. It just makes the world a better place.

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