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Friday, November 14, 2008

Sensex History

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Bombay Stock Exchange trades in Equity, derivatives & debt.   The BSE SENSEX (BSE 30 index) is a index composed of thirty scrips, with ...
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Derivatives

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Derivatives are financial contracts. They derive their value from an underlying stuff. This stuff can be anything - for example it can be an...
Friday, November 07, 2008

More liquidity ratios

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Liquidity can be checked with a few more ratios : Quick ratio / Acid test ratio takes only the most liquid current assets ( cash + A/c recei...

Following the Warren Buffett Way

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Was sp impressed by Buffet's philosophy of investing, have started reading about Balance sheets and investing principles. Will post a fe...
Saturday, December 08, 2007

1001 Naans

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Dinakaran, the Tamil daily is carrying an article on the One page cookbooks tomo and I've made the book available for free download in m...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Leavening agents...

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I used to think Baking soda and Baking Powder were one and the same - how wrong ! Baking soda is an alkali. When mixed with an acid ( Butte...

Showering in the campervan

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For the past few days, I've spent most of my time in my campervan. I've slowly beginning to accept it as a living space, instead of ...
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Saturday, July 07, 2007

Volcanoes & Earthquakes Primer

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Did a chart for Ravi's daughter . Found some new interesting stuff too..
Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Pressure cooking eggs..

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Learnt another time saving technique yesterday. To make easy hard boiled eggs you just need to pressure cook for 1 whistle. i suspect a doze...
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Cooking for a crowd

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Cooked for over 7 guys yesterday. It is actually easy if a few simple principles are followed. 1. Get the base ready - Kneaded half a kg of...
Monday, July 02, 2007

Pita Bread

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Made my first pita bread today. Realised how versatile this bread can be. Recipe: Make regular chappati dough but remember to add some bakin...
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Saturday, June 30, 2007

Cooking fast...

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You can cook in less time than you take to reach a restaurant. I've long believed it, and I decided to time myself today. This week has ...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Starting on sweets...

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I've not cooked desserts as I thought they were time consuming and messy. How wrong ! Had four packets of milk leftover and decided to c...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

God, Morality and International Law

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Is God moral ? Does God stand above morality, defining for us what is moral and what is immoral in accordance with His will? If so, whateve...
Friday, June 22, 2007

A long, long, time ago....

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Long long time ago, 1500 crore years back to be exact, there was a big bang, bigger than any bang you can imagine. There was nothing before ...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

A Better perspective

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Here's another way to appreciate the immense distances and sizes of objects in our galaxy. (Images gathered from various sources and pho...

Putting Astronomical distances in perspective...

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In space distances are vaaaaast. An atlas gives us a very distorted view of the solar system because it is impossible to show the sizes or d...

The American Zombie

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Excerpts from an excellent article ... (emphasis mine) Millions of Americans spend their lives semi-conscious, unable to awaken from the d...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

BMX Mania

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I'm amazed the kind of stuff boys do on a BMX bicycle - they leap, slide, jump and seem to go over almost anything. I've decided to ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Food, Clothing and Shelter

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Epicurus , Martin Seligman and many others emphasize once the basic needs of food , clothing and shelter are taken care of, money does not b...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Momos

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Cycle Jayaraman, (the man who introduced me to the pleasures of cycling, and who took me on a cycling trip from Chennai to Tirupur - I gave ...
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Assembly line Rice cooker

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Travel & Living channel showed the way Udupi temple prepares lunch for 50,000 people . Cooking on such a scale is done in huge vats. Thi...

First rejection Slip

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Rupa & Co are not too impressed by my one page cookbooks. but they were decent enough to send it back, with a personal covering letter ....

First rejection Slip

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Rupa & Co are not too impressed by my one page cookbooks. but they were decent enough to send it back, with a personal covereing letter ...

Sour cream to die for...

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I learnt to make yogurt the last month with the delicious 'valarmathi' curd. It was simplicity itself. Add curd to lukewarm milk - t...

Parota

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Learning to cook an old dish in a new , easy way is sure fun. Kothu Parota is a often eaten dish in my studio, with Siva being an ardent loy...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Cooking Fish

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I used to think fish is fish, and once you've learnt to cook one, you've learnt to cook them all. Apparently I'm wrong. I came u...

African cuisine :: Notes to myself

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Africans like their soups/ stews slimy. Sliminess comes from dried, powdered leaves of Boabob tree or from Okra powder. In some recipes Ric...

Sudanese Recipes

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Came across an excellent site with Sudanese recipes. It is always exciting to see how different cultures mix and match. Gorraasa :: Godumai ...
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Monday, June 04, 2007

Alain de Botton

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It is always a pleasure discovering a new author. I discovered Alain de Botton through his Architecture of happiness - an amazingly insight...
Monday, August 15, 2005

Who is wealthy ?

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The source of all wealth is the amount of energy it is able to control. So wealth can be thought of in terms of energy - the larger the ener...
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

The happiness pollution

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From an email to Ramesh after a long discussion of the amount of money people are willing to blow up to keep them 'happy'. Babs, Wh...

So much more to find out....

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Science Mag talks about the biggst questions to keep us busy for the next few hundred years. I've tried commenting on some them below.....
Tuesday, June 07, 2005

The age ofthe Non Entity

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Just saw Russel Crowe being handcuffed and frog marched to a US prison for assaulting a hotel employee because he could not get a line throu...

How culture and traditions evolve

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We try to live in a changed world with an old set of rules. This causes much stress and frustration. Every society tries to find solutions t...
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Sunday, April 17, 2005

Does making more money make you rich ?.

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Hi, Kevin Kelly , one of the unschooled, irreverent authors I admire has this site I discovered recently. Here are excerpts from some books ...
Friday, October 08, 2004

Officially retired

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Finally managed to 'officially retire' at 36. Hope it lasts. Lots of free time now. Becomes boring if activities are not planned. Ha...
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Tuesday, June 01, 2004

Take two and call me to be interrupted

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Researchers in 1984 showed that on average, patients were interrupted 18 seconds into explaining their problems to a doctor.In 1999 they fo...
Monday, May 31, 2004

SoupS

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Green Pea Soup Saute the onion in butter. Add the chopped garlic - Add stock and the peas. Stir in the chooped herbs with a little salt a...

Pot in Pot cooling System

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Pot-in-Pot Cooling System. Invented by Mohammed Abba, Nigeria A small earthenware pot is placed inside a larger one, and the space betw...
Sunday, May 30, 2004

Transit of Venus

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mademyday On tuesday June 8th, the sun will be fainter than usual. On the face of the sun will be a small, dark dot. The dot is Venus, pas...
Tuesday, September 09, 2003

A Short History of Technology and the Web

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From Jeremy Allaire's article A Short History of Technology and the Web Trends fuelling the growth of the Internet Affordable per...
Friday, September 05, 2003

From the Economist

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The Economist speaks.... DVD piracy may be coming soon with broadband rising and file storing becoming smarter. How do you fight it ? ...

E Learning Stats

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The Indian e-learning market is still in its infancy at just $4 million as per the 2002 estimates, with an expected 4-year CAGR of 20-25 per...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2003

Geek Quotes

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Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. When all else fails, read the instructions. Every task takes twice as long ...
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Okay, let me start from the very beginning. 1500 crore years ago, with a Big Bang, the Universe is born. It expands dramatically. Hydrogen forms, contracts under gravity and lights up, forming stars. Some stars explode, dusting space with the building blocks of life. These condense into planets, one of which is Earth. Over time, self replicating molecules appear, multiply and become more complex. They create elaborate survival machines (cells, plants, animals). A variety of lifeforms evolve. Soon, humans arise, discover fire, invent language, agriculture and religion. Civilisations rise and fall. Alexander marches into India. Moguls establish an empire. Britain follows. Independence. Partition. Bloodshed. The license raj is in full sway. I'm born. India struggles to find its place. Liberalisation. The Internet arrives! I move from Tirupur to Chennai. Start a company. Expand into Malaysia, Singapore and the Middle East. Poof! Dot com bust. Funding dries up. Struggle. Retire. Discover the joy of cooking, giving, friendships and the pleasures of a simple life. Life seems less complicated. Pizza Republic, Pita Bite and Bhojan Express bloom !
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