Author Archives: Sandip Bhattacharya

Home Cooking: Banana Muffins

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

Nowadays, this is how overripe bananas at our home end up. This is probably one of the easiest fool-proof recipe to make. You can use the same batter for either banana muffins or a banana cake. The tried and tested … Continue reading →

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta on state censorship in India

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s brilliant article brings out the troubling state of our country today. Everyone utters the platitude that they respect freedom, but they then use the qualifier that no freedom is absolute in the most mendacious way. …In fact, … Continue reading →

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Microsoft using Secureboot to lock down ARM

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

Thanks to a tip from a colleague – Anshu, I found out further confirmation that the Secureboot issue, that I blogged about earlier, is going to bite us badly just as we expected. According to this post of the Software … Continue reading →

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Believe it or not: Gems from India’s cow lobby

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

Minutes from a government sponsored Cow promotion conference in Madhya Pradesh. (Newspaper article) Only those inside houses coated with cow dung escaped the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. There are only two ways to remain insulated from nuclear radiation, and one … Continue reading →

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Should you easily hand over those encryption keys to the law?

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

Don’t try this in India yet, but in US, a district court is about to judge on whether you have to hand over encryption keys to the law if asked. Or can you decline because that is akin to self-incrimination? … Continue reading →

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The more dangerous side of covering up women – a false sense of security

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

Brilliant article by Harini Calamur about the truly dangerous side of the recent outbreak of self-righteous people in power – asking women to be covered up for their own security. Telling women that dressing ‘properly’ will reduce chances of their … Continue reading →

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One of the highlights of the upcoming Windows 8 is …

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

.. the easing of reinstalling it. I am not joking. Here is the official blog post about this: Refresh and reset your PC As Business Insider says it well: Think about any other product that is so unreliable and degrades … Continue reading →

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The incoming Secureboot/Restrictedboot war

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

For those who aren’t aware of this, FSF (Free Software Foundation) has been running a campaign for the last few months about Microsoft’s malicious Secureboot initiative (which FSF calls restricted boot). Given the mostly Microsoft friendly corporate IT environments out … Continue reading →

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Bangalore Restaurants blog’s 2011 highlights

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

One of my favorite and highly recommended Bangalore specific food blogs – Bangalore’s Restaurants, has just published their yearly summary for 2011. For those, like us, who are always looking out for new places to try, the blog post provides … Continue reading →

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Blog merge

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

There was a time when I used to blog frequently. After the age of twitter, it reduced. But rather than keeping on writing, I focused on an issue which was a lower priority – splitting up blogs so that the … Continue reading →

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