Shankar Ananth Asokan

Category: Just Like that!

  • Hot Water Effect on Grade 1 Plastic Bottle 🙂

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  • Blink!

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    If you rewind life’s experiences you would note that most decisions are made at minimal time rather than planned and informed decision. While some attribute it to luck and some to experience Malcolm Gladwell attributes it to what he calls ‘Thin Slicing’: our ability to gauge what is really important from a very narrow period…

  • India – Top Websites

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    Below is the list of top websites (Top 20) in India as per Alexa as queried today. All websites are known but what surprised me is the IRCTC website on number 19! Google India google.co.in Indian version of this popular search engine. Search the whole web or only webpages from India. Interfaces offered in English,…

  • JA Bonus Miles – Do they make sense?

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    Jet Airways offers 500 bonus miles for booking online and 250 bonus miles for Web Check-in. All of my colleagues make good use of this bonus miles. It happens one day that I am in front of JA Airport office and book my ticket online with my Laptop, do a web Check in and then…

  • The Mathematics of E-Ticket Booking

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    Due to sudden change of my travel plans I have to travel to Madurai from Chennai and not from Bangalore as earlier planned. It was really that tough to find a ticket during the Diwali season. Some how I managed to find a ticket at www.redbus.in in Sangita Travels 10:15 bus. The ticket was price…

  • Ticketless Travel

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    How to travel in train with no hard copy of eticket It happened that we have to travel from a small town by train to the nearest airport. While we booked the tickets online (thanks to wireless internet services) it was not possible to get a print out of the ticket due to power outage…

  • Information at the speed of thought

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    I wonder how information availability has improved over the years. Flying on a plane I imagine why is the world always shown as north pole up and south pole down while it really doesn’t matter which side is up. It is not only in maps but also outer space images where the world is always…

  • Time Dilation

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    The non linearity of time as mentioned in my blog dated 10 Sep 2008 https://shankarananth.com/?p=83 is indeed a explained phenomena with a different approach. Time dilation is that phenomena and is explained by Einstein with his Twin paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox Curved time as mentioned in my earlier blog is something not to do with this.

  • The Perfectionist

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    Perfectionism, is a belief that perfection can and should be attained. In its pathological form, perfectionism is a belief that work or output that is anything less than perfect is unacceptable. At such levels, this is considered an unhealthy belief, and psychologists typically refer to such individuals as maladaptive perfectionists. Positive aspects Perfectionism can drive…

  • Dell Hell

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    Few weeks back my sisters Dell Notebook (Inspiron 1525) did not keep up system time and hence approached Dell Support. As per instructions given by their engineer she had downloaded BIOS 16 Upgrade and have run it. After this the system was not even able to boot. It gave the message “Time-of-day clock has stopped”.…