The STAR exchange is a stock exchange listing companies with good governance. That’s a good criterion to list by, given the accounting we read about. This exchange has managed to outperform the conventional counterpart (Borsa), BTW.
A blog on tech gadgets. Love it!
A quick round-up on the Indian bloggers’ lists:
Other methods like Blogchalk India yield too few hits. If you want to go beyond these lists, Google searches like indian blogger are probably your best bet.
Now, if you earn dollars, you can keep the dollars. Interesting that this move comes at just the time when the dollar is falling.
Here’s a new problem with the online format of GRE tests: leaks! Bad enough that they’re expensive, tough to write, …
Intel vs Hamidi raises the issue of whether sending an e-mail could constitute “trespassing”.
To: Rajnish Kanojia
Subject: Would love to talk/meet up. Mail me.
Under the staircase of Bandra station lies a two-storeyed apartment. Dupleix layout, single room. East-facing, with elevated entrance.
It’s 8:00am. The man on the ladder is a boot polish-walla. He’s picking up his box, getting ready for work, while his colleague watches. Their families is still asleep in the single room. And in the room, along with them, is a rather cramped storage space.
I wonder how many live in such conditions. Of course, it’s much better than the slums around Mahim. Still, it looks like a rather difficult life.
Yet people manage. I asked a driver a few months ago why he’d migrated to Mumbai. “Livelihood,” was his simple answer. At the end of the day, there are far more well-paying jobs in Mumbai than most other cities. Despite the ridiculous rents and cramped spaces.
W3C runs a HTML validator service. Quite useful. I managed to find several flaws on my site’s HTML (particularly wrong nesting.)
Incidentally, this kitchen hosted my latest attempt at making pasta. I found a simple pesto sauce recipe, and ended up spending about Rs. 500 for the ingredients. We managed to eat it. Barely.
