Frugal Innovation is the driver for UID - Nilekani

On the front page of Eco Times today ...

Frugal Innovation is the new mantra !!!

Got this new app "evernote" installed on my mobile ... quite cool ... it allows me to create notes, take pictutes, record voice and video from my mobile and also upload all of these to a website which I can then access from my laptop. I think I can also email the stuff directly to blogspot and it gets automatically published ... well lets see if this post comes up on my blog.

Note from Evernote by udayand

the cupboard is almost ready

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New breed of coffee shops

Coffee shops like these [ café coffee day aka CCD, barrista, mocha etc ] have mushroomed all over indian cities over the last 5-6 years.

These are the new hang-out joints for the cool, contemporary college crowd. A far cry from the coffee-house on college street, kolkata opposite presidency college where we used to hang out between classes.

Its really a world apart - the ambience, conversation ...

The adda of the college street coffee house was intellectual [ or 'aatel' the cynics would say ] where folks contemplated the state of indian economy [ those were the pre-liberalization / pre-manmohan singh days when VP Singh and Chandrashekhar ruled the roost ], analzed the last movie screened in derozio hall or debated the latest moves being brewed (pun not intended) by IC & SFA recruits in preparation for elections ... Conversation in a CCD today revolves around who has the latest model of nokia cellphone, the love life of kareena kapoor or who last got chucked out of "splitsvilla" the latest reality show on MTV. Not being judgemental, guess its just a sign of priorities and tastes of a new generation.

The change is not in the coffee shops per se but the new breed sipping "latte" within.

Testing imap settings on win mobile5

This is a check as I move from pop to imap to access my gmail account fro my mobile ... I was having problems with pop which is also why my blog was neglected over the past few days !

That's my birthday cake :-)

Video blogging ?

Test for uploading videos on my blog ... Thats Deep in action by the way !!!