Sunday, December 19, 2010

India's Aircraft Carrier INS Vikramaditya (Admiral Gorshkov) [Weekend viewing]

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Was going to post something else today, when I chanced upon this video of India's future Aircraft Carrier, INS Vikramaditya , formerly a...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Suggested weekend reading - Science, Spirituality, Engineering, Self-Help ityadi [2010.12.19]

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Some articles of interest I came across this week. Indian Nuclear attack on Rawalpindi - Likely fall-out of a retaliatory Second-strike ...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Great Indian Scientist Dr. Vikram Sarabhai: A Documentary [Weekend viewing]

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An interesting documentary made on the life and works of one of the pioneers of Indian Science, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai. Thanks to his untiring ...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Suggested weekend reading - Science, Engineering & Technology [2010.12.11]

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A collection of Science and Technology-related articles and reports that I found interesting. Do read them.
Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Take Hi-resolution detailed pictures with your cheap cellphone camera

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Had to send someone scans of an article today. With no more college, did not have access to a free scanner :D & doing it from a commerci...
Friday, November 26, 2010

#Barkhagate - The buck does not stop here

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Over the past couple of days, one has been witness to an incessant barrage of finger pointing (the Social media version of it) at NDTV Gro...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Open & read any PDF files on the Internet with Google Docs [and other reading tools]

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While browsing through the Internet, I often come across articles or reports that is made available in the form of a PDF file . Adobe Reader...
Sunday, November 07, 2010

Legends of the Indian Air Force - Air Commodore Mehar Singh [weekend viewing]

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Stumbled upon this awe-inspiring documentary made on the life and times of Air Commodore Mehar Singh . It has a simple, sedate yet effective...
Saturday, October 02, 2010

www.aame.in - my new Blog address

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Have changed the address of the blog. No particular reason go for the change except for the fact that I felt like changing it ;). Any way, t...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Establishing a sustainable model for Electrically operated transports

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Bumping an old post - watch. Shai Agassi , ex-President of SAP AG (PTG) spoke at a lecture series organized by NDN in his capacity as ...

Google's unwise spam/bot verification process

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Needed to create an alternate e-mail account to transfer a certain group of e-mail types from an existing account to another to try and end ...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

ZERO DAY: United States Air Force website hacked [defaced site]

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The screenshot should tell you all - The United States Air Force had one its website defaced. Click the picture to view a larger-sized im...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Exercise Garuda: Indian Air Force in France [French report]

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The Indian Air Force, in June, embarked on a trip to France to take part in the Grauda series of Air Exercises with the French Air Force. Th...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Dakshin Gangotri Station: Pride of India [Antarctica] [suggested weekend reading]

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India, in 1983, marked its permanent presence on the snow-covered continent  of Antarctica with its first Research station - Dakshin Gangot...
Monday, August 09, 2010

Stumpy, Elephant mascot of 2011 Cricket World Cup - making a statement

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Not much of a cricket fan, least of all the utterly dull, languorous 5-day Test match format [ its connoisseurs are stuck in a time warp - t...
Sunday, August 08, 2010

MMRCA Aircrafts in flight [weekend YouTube watching]

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With the results of India's MMRCA acquisition programme just about a year away from being announced, it would not be a bad time to watc...