Index to "Notes from Me" : 2000 - 2006
Year 2006
4. 17-Dec-06 : War ; Economic Crimes or The Excesses of Capitalism Taken Too Far
3. 20-Sep-06 : Our PM back-pedals again ; The World Bank defines Governance
2. 25-Jul-06 : Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Hizbullah, Lebanon, Syria and Iran
1. 05-Feb-06 : The Pitfalls of the American Dream ; The Right to Laugh At Gods ; India's Foreign / Energy Policies ?
Year 2005
12. 23-Aug-05 : Supreme Court extremely unhappy with the Government
11. 22-Aug-05 : Independence Day Speeches
10. 14-Aug-05 : A formal policy on Hijacks; The Iran Gas Pipeline
9. 12-Aug-05 : Another look at Jinnah
8. 11-Aug-05 : Should the PM resign ?
7. 17-Jul-05 :The wrongs of commercialism / capitalism -- yes, in Singapore as well
6. 14-Jun-05 : Jinnah and all that ....
5. 12-Jun-05. Financial Institutions
4. 09-Jun-05 : More on Advaniji's Actions and Pronouncements
3. 06-Jun-05 : Advaniji's About Turn
2. 27-Apr-05 : More on India-Pakistan Bhai-Bhai
1. 23-Apr-05 : India-Pakistan Bhai-Bhai
Year 2004
USA and Iraq [last updated 26-Sep-04]
6 06-Sep-04 : Heart-rending tragedy in Russia
5 19-Aug-04 : A grouse about Banks offering account opening on the Internet
4 13-May-04 : Acoustic Cryptanalysis: On Nosy People and Noisy Machines ; Is India Losing the Outsourcing Edge
3. 02-May-04 : "Disgusting"treatment of Iraqi prisoners ; Restrictions on the Export/Import of Indian Rupees ; 15-Apr-04 : The Supreme Court makes history on the Best Bakery Case ; 13-Apr-04 : Iraq/CPA/Fallujah
2. 21-Mar-04 : Is it truly "India Shining", Is "Feel Good" Justified ?
1. 24-Jan-04 : A stick abroad and a credit card at home ; Don't count on a truly democratic election in the US ; Ban, Burn, Destroy -- Governance has been abandoned to mob intimidation at the price of free speech
YEAR 2003
10. 07-Nov-03 : New Peace Moves ? ; Should the US turn around and walk out of Iraq ? ; Democracy in the Middle East ?
9. 08-Sep-03 : What is to happen next in Iraq ?
8. 12-Jul-03 : Some recent articles worth reading
7. 25-May-03 : IITs and other institutions may face difficulties raising funds
6. 18-May-03 : SCO tries to act tough on Linux as well ; "Instant Mix Imperial Democracy" ; Terror and More Terror
5. 04-May-03 : Kashmir, again, and again, and again.
4. 13-Apr-03 : Has the war ended ?
3. 30-Mar-03 : How not to fight a war
2. 09-Mar-03 : The Globalisation of Revenge
1. 24-Jan-03 : Human Cloning -- why the opposition ?
YEAR 2002
26. 22-Dec-02 : Government's One Foot, Several Mouths ; CNet's listing of the 10 biggest hypes of 2002
25. 13-Oct-02 : Sabre reaches milestone in migration ; Being Indian abroad ; December 1971 : Indira Gandhi's correspondence with Richard Nixon ; Same-Language Subtitling ("Karaoke") as a means of improving literacy
24. 29-Sep-02 : Passivity does not a nation protect
23. 22-Sep-02 : The Myth about the Coriolis Effect on water draining from a sink
22. 15-Sep-02 : The Data Security Oath [The Hippocratic Database] ; Vajpayee's reply to Pakistan
21. 01-Sep-02 : BT loses HyperLinks suit ; SAP India makes its largest deal ; More critical Internet Explorer flaws (bugs)
20. 25-Aug-02 : Strong Words from T. N. Seshan ; Finally the PM speaks up on Modi's criticism of the CEC ; The Union Cabinet returns the ordinance on electoral "reforms" to the President -- very bad, very bad.
19. 19-Aug-02 : Narendra Modi asks students to email him ; The Election Commission, rightly, rules out early elections in Gujarat ; Will the Kashmir elections be the farce that Musharraf has called them ?
18. 11-Aug-02 : The US is finally watering down "Operation TIPS" ; The Election Commission has serious disagreemnts with the Gujarat Government.
17. 04-Aug-02 : The Dangers of WebMail ; Hollywood comes Hacking ; Are Tech Companies going to expense Stock Options ?
16. 28-Jul-02 : Is the US going the way of the USSR / Eastern Europe ? ; What brand, capitalism ?
15. 21-Jun-02 : We trust Pervez at our peril ; Why would Hotmail clear my Sent Messages folder ?
14. 26-May-02 : Will there or will there not be ? ; "Roses in December"
13. 05-May-02 : The Emperor *was* naked
12. 28-Apr-02 : Gujarat
11. 21-Apr-02 : The Children of Kashmir
10. 07-Apr-02 : Embarrassment over "We Have The Way Out" ; Israel and Palestine ... and the US
9. 24-Mar-02 : Power Line Communications ; More Articles on the Godhra/Ayodhya/Communal Tension in India ; The US Government's new stand on International Aid -- welcome it ; The Nuclear Weapons Policy Review -- I agree with the US here as well.
8. 09-Mar-02 : The Enron-Cheney-Taleban connection ; Alternate ViewPoints on Godhra and the Gujarat Riots .... and Ayodhya
7. 26-Feb-02 : "Spoofing" Web pages ; Varsha Bhosale on the "outrage"
6. 10-Feb-02 : Friends of the US concerned about its unilateralism ; Unmasking radical preachers (in South-East Asia)
5. 03-Feb-02 : Sears to build a huge SAN for CRM ; Review of "Options for Kashmir"
4. Junagadh and Hyderabad, Jammu & Kashmir
1. 14-Jan-02 : Faster Delivery of Dynamic Web Pages ; Terrorists in Singapore
YEAR 2001
30. 30-Dec-01 : What should we (India) do ?
29. 23-Dec-01 : Is that IT ? ; What next on the "War against Terrorism" ? ; What about India and Pakistan ?
28. 09-Dec-01 : Microsoft's Passport Technology ; America's War on Terrorism : Some Quotes
27. 04-Nov-01 : The WayBack Archive ; The War on Terrorism continues ....
26. 21-Oct-01 : The Roots of Rage -- Fareed Zakaria attempts to probe the source of anger against Americans.
25. 14-Oct-01 : Agility counts (about programming methods) ; A lingua franca for the Internet (about programming languages -- also of interest to non-techies) ; When Five 9's aren't enough : Visa's payments processing system ; What faces the US in its war against terrorism ?
24. 23-Sep-01 : Why the delay ? ; Windows Fault Tolerance : an oxymoron ?
23. 15-Sep01 : Some subsequent scenarios following the WTC attack
22. 09-Sep-01 : The US DoJ drops request to break up Microsoft ; What does the future hold for HP-Compaq ?
21. 02-Sep-01 : Sabre to move to relational database on Himalaya servers ; SIA walks away from Air India
20. 09-Aug-01 : The Government's behaviour ; Imaging with AntiMatter
19. 05-Aug-01 : Can you download "distributed computing" software to your office computer ?
18. 29-Jul-01 : Meet Ankit Fadia ; IBM unveils specifications for HTTPR
17. 15-Jul-01 : Microsoft changes it Licensing Terms ; Indian School of Business kicks-off Operations
16. 01-Jul-01 : Microsoft's Product Activation technology could cause problems ; Microsoft wins appeal, but is it free ? ; Lucent and Nortel talk of retrenchments and losses
15. 26-Jun-01 : Microsoft to shutdown ListBot ; Compaq to switch from Alpha to Itanium/McKinley ; RedHat to position RedHat database
14. 24-Jun-01 : Microsoft's hole in IIS open to hackers ; Is the Death Sentence the best form of Justice ?
13. 17-Jun-01 : Microsoft "incredibly sorry" about goofed fix ; Anatomy of a DDoS Attack ; re my leaving Oracle
12. 10-Jun-01 : Questions arising from the school slaughter in Japan
11. 03-Jun-01 : N. R. Narayana Murthy on the future for Infosys and Trends in IT Services
10. 27-May-01 : InterPlanetary and InterStellar Networking ; N. R. Narayana Murthy speaks to Wharton Students ; USA loses its seat on the UN Human Rights Commission
9. 20-May-01 : Survey on IT Salaries in India
8. 13-May-01 : India - Back-Office to the World ; In India : Students find Job Offers being postponed/revoked ; Microsoft Slogan Humour
7. 06-May-01 : Pigeon Internet ; "Son of Star Wars"
6. 29-Apr-01 : Wake-Up Call for Cell-Phone Makers ; Managing Tons of Data ; Kanwal Rekhi on Immigration
5. 15-Apr-01 : eXtreme Programming ; PwC and Scient announce more lay-offs ; Security flaw in DSL modems
4. 01-Mar-01 : When Web Sites Attack !
3. 04-Feb-01 : Pranks fool Computer Security Experts ; What's in a name (at Microsoft) ?
2. 28-Jan-01 : The Internet Architecture, Availability and Security ; Sun and Microsoft part ways on Java
1. 14-Jan-01: Katherine Harris's irresponsible behaviour
YEAR 2000
25. 24-Dec-00: BT still looking at protecting its patent on HyperLinks ; IBM and Seitel to build a 1-Petabyte SAN ; 3G Auctions could trigger a Banking Crisis ?
24. 17-Dec-00: Linux MPP/Supercomputing ; The US Presidential Elections (my comments)
23. 05-Nov-00: Companies not learning from IT Snafus ; Not protecting or verifying Keys ; The Top 500 SuperComputers
22. 29-Oct-00: "MBA"s don't favour DotComs now ; Security Risk with BankOne's Internet Access
21. 15-Oct-00: Internet Security ; Another Meltdown ?
20. 24-Sept-00: Will WAP Take Off ? ; Indians establish themselves in America
19. 10-Sept-00: Time-Sharing (Distributed Computing) over the Internet ; DDOS through IRC ; More Security Issues
18. 03-Sept-00: Supreme Court criticises Karnataka State Govt ; The Concorde disaster reminds us of how vulnerable we are ...
17. 20-Aug-00: New Format ; Veerappan and 2 CMs ; News Links
16. 23-July-00: Book Sale by National Library ; More Microsoft Holes ; Delhi HC notice to IAC,AllianceAir
15. 16-July-00: Will Yahoo revive Tech Stocks ; IE 5.5 angers Web Standards advocates
14. 09-July-00: Singapore Civil Service Pay Hike
13. 02-July-00: Elian Gonzalez returns home ; More Security Holes in MS IE, Outlook ; Sena for Marathi in Mumbai ; BT wants royalties for the HTTP Links
12. 25-June-00: A few Security issues ; The Net Economy is Maturing
11. 04-June-00: NY Cops find Indian Handcuffs interesting ; Webby Awards ; Internet Security Threats
10. 28-May-00: Hijacking of flight by Bihar MPs ; Salaries of Singapore's Best
9. 21-May-00: 7500 Emails ; Delhi refuses to pay the Taleban
8. 14-May-00: A "wacky" TV Serial ; Index your PC
7. 07-May-00: "I Love You" ; Asia's Best Management Schools
6. 30-Apr-00: "Airframe" and the Software Industry
5. 23-Apr-00: Drought in Gujarat, Rajasthan ... ; Elian Gonzalez ; Rain at Jurong Bird Park
4. 16-Apr-00: "Mission to Mars" ; The Cronje Affair
3. 09-Apr-00: Tech Stocks (incl. the closure of the Tiger Fund, and Julian Robertson's letter to his investors)
2. 02-Apr-00: The Telecom Sector in Singapore
1. 28-Mar-00: The first issue, introductory. Investing in Singapore Stocks ; Internet Shopping
Additional Articles :
1. Bihar MPs Hijack Plane (from Singapore's Tabloid The New Paper)
2. Julian Robertson's Letter (from Singapore's The Straits Times Online)
3. Comments on Ministers' Pay {in Singapore} (from Singapore's The Straits Times Online)
4. Singapore Top Pay (from Singapore's The Straits Times Online)
5. Sena For Marathi (from Rediff.com)
6. Singapore PM Justifies Pay Hike (from Singapore's The Straits Times Online)