Absolute Random Thoughts

This weekend we went to Mount Cook , mainly. Mainly because we stopped on the way at Lake Tekapo, then started on the following morning from the Lake Tekapo all the way to Lake Pukaki and onwards to Mount Cook. It was a day trip, one which we are going to repeat in future but [...]

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Running at a continuous pace is invigorating. I feel the wind blow around me, the road, the cars, people, dogs, supermarket trolleys careening in the close car park, the cloud formation, while the mind takes attention off from the process of running. It’s not easy when you run. The first few days were difficult. Most [...]

This afternoon, I started using Flockr. It’s a great tool.
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Playing Chopsticks: Travels Through China by Sally Hammond, New Holland Publishers, Sydney
This book is about China — a travelogue where an Australian couple went with a tourist group to China for an extensive travel. You can read about China through the eyes of people who mingled with the regular folks, sharing their stories and hanging [...]

Here are two news items and one comment (unrelated) from a website:
[Picked up from the following site:
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=23&theme=&usrsess=1&id=166188]
Injured witness speaks
Statesman News Service

KOLKATA, Aug 12: Mr Bijan Biswas (25), an employee of the McDonalds
Family Restaurant on Park Street, was a witness of the blast that took
place this morning due to a faulty air-conditioner. Mr Biswas while
speaking [...]

There seems something wrong with Kolkata, systematically. Again, barely a month has passed when an explosion in a restaurant at a city rocked the hospital. This was a non-descript, shack maintained in a government hospital compounds and had poor, virtually absent safety norms.
If poor and shanty eating places have illiterates that have no idea of [...]

Sina’s post on wireless networks for health in SSA
Adesina Ileyumi is a good friend and has written a nice article in eHealth magazine about wifi in the context of health care delivery in Subsaharan Africa. Much of what he has written is also applicable in an Indian context as well. I have summed up what [...]

Darwin awards are posthumous, typically for individuals who have committed some voluntary acts that they have been successful enough to remove themselves from the human gene pool forever. Doesn’t seem that the penchant to move ourselves from the human gene pool does not only exist at individual levels, but as well extends to organizations, as [...]