Why Google Wave Fails to Impress

I just got my Google Wave invite, and this being one of the most sought-after things in recent weeks, I am beginning to wonder if Wave is just more hype than utility. I have several reasons to not like Wave, and I’ve listed some of my reasons below:

First and foremost, it introduces another activity that [...]

Thoughts on India’s Nuclear Deterrent

Of course, the cartoon above is somewhat fallacious in a scientific context, but has significance in the political context and exposes how organizations like the DRDO, scientific leaders and erstwhile governments have been in cahoots over India’s nuclear capability and how we project ourselves as a nuclear state. I have been following the recent controversy [...]

Nothing like an Old Text Book

This is one book I’ll cherish with the best of them. It was the direction vector for the design thinking I had evolved a few years ago, when doing general design calculations, sizing and performance calculations for general aviation concepts.
A very personal dream I have had is to make an airplane of my own, designed [...]

Violence and Human Society

It is instructive to think of human society these days to be evolving to a period of greater collusion, with tendencies towards violence distributed evenly in societies, rather than grouped into certain conflit zones. This defies the data we have available presently on areas like the West Bank, The Gaza Strip, Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan, but [...]

Temporally Tardy Thirty Six

Over the last weekend, I got myself a Digitech RP50, which is a guitar effects processor. Essentially, it takes the sound produced by the electric guitar and does fancy things to it, in predictable (although sometimes unpredictable) ways. The model I own is not the best in the business, being a modest entry-level version by [...]