True IPL TRP Stats

Doug Hofstadter might find it amusing. But I find it incredibly annoying that when I want to read news online, I see news about news or media reporting about media or celebrity gossip about media celebrities. Talk about self-serving institutions. Being very interested in Statistics, all this recent Trash-Talk about Television ratings for the Indian Premier League got me interested in the methodology used for measuring TRP ratings.

Filed under: Computer Science, General, Mathematics

Logging Out

I have had a nightmare of a week. One of my best friends and his wife were critically injured in an accident injured while on holiday in India and I broke my left arm to undergo surgery a couple of days ago. I beg to disagree with Lady MacBeth about the milk of human kindness and must thank those people who had the compassion to help total strangers.

I am taking a break from Blogs and other garish electronic systems for a while in hope of some solitude. Ciao.

Filed under: General

My God, Its Full Of Cars !

Mountain View in California is by definition a sleepy leisure loving and rich town.  Its more appropriately called a village – for it has a single street where you can find Shops and Restaurants. What arguably makes Mountain View famous is Googleplex and maybe the NASA Ames Research Center. In this environmentally conscious hub in Silicon Valley, I have probably seen 50 people and 5000+ cars in four days.

Filed under: General

Mac OS(u)X

So I want to shutdown my Macbook Pro. I hit the power button, choose “Shutdown” and close my lid. Poof ! OSX decides its a great time to go to sleep. And after a few hours I open my laptop again in a hurry to start it before a meeting and what do I see ? The computer waking from its sleep, only to resume its shutdown process. Drat, let me boot it back. Sorry, ran out of battery sleeping all this while !

Filed under: General, Mac, Operating Systems

To Holmes, Isambard and Britannica

A terribly foppish, disconnected and pointless tale you can happily skip.

Filed under: General