Ok, maybe not for every scoundrel, but for every two! The title is from the supposed letter that Abraham Lincoln wrote to his son’s teacher. (Actually it was not authored by Lincoln, but the author is unknown). This memorable line flashed in my mind after a near disastrous experience today. I was in a cab [...]
Developing Sign-In with LinkedIN using OAuth for the LinkedIN API
January 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I am attempting to develop a Sign with LinkedIN functionality for my VBulletin powered Oracle forums. VBulletin by default ships with Facebook integration which allows for Single Click Login for Facebook authenticated users. Since majority of users on Club-Oracle are business users accessing the site from their offices, LinkedIN was the obvious choice for integration. [...]
How the Planets got their names and How our planet earth got it’s name?
December 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Movies are a mass medium. And that gives them one great advantage. That is, being able to heighten the audience’s interest in a particular theme or subject. After watching previous year’s movie, “Clash of the Titans”, I decided to visit the movie’s imdb page. What struck me interesting was how most fans were objecting to [...]
A Bill to promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation – Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
December 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry potter and the Deathly Hallows, part 2 I love the way many politicians can spin things. How they can say the worst possible things and still make you feel good about [...]
Mission Impossible 4 Ghost Protocol: Amazing or Appaling?
December 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
What makes a movie good? The answer is undoubtedly different for different people. The answer also depends on the audience’s movie experience as well as taste. However if one is to make a commercial cinema of the scale of Misson Impossible 4, one must please the majority of the audience. So the movie has to [...]
Is the Indian Growth really slowing down?
December 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It’s December 20th and the Indian Stock Markets are in mayhem. IIP numbers (Index of Industrial Production) for the month of October, which came out recently, were at a negative, which itself is a first for India since the past several years. The rupee is downsliding in what seems to be a free fall, hurting [...]
E-Commerce Sites in India: The Good, the bad and the Ugly!
December 11, 2011 By 2 Comments
It was the widely speculated Y2K year when I had first seen the ad on television which went something like this, SKumars Dot Com… “Sunehra akshar haath me, Kaamyaabi laaye saath me… ” (The Golden letter in hand, brings success with it). This was when the Dot Com bubble had reached India and SKumars had [...]
