Author: Amit Goyal
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Beauty, In Slow-Mo
It seems to be a season of retirement for my favourite players. First Agassi, then Schumacher, and now Riquelme. Anyways, here is a small tribute to the greatest midfielder of our times. I must confess right at the start that I have an extremely soft spot for Argentine players. Right from Maradona and Batistuta to…
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Patents 2.0?
Only recently the USPTO suggested a peer review mechanism to ensure that bad patents are minimized. Wikipatents, launched on August 28th, aims to contribute to “the US patent system by commenting on issued patents and, soon, pending patent applications.” This comes on the heels of the IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard backed Community Patent…
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Desicritics, F1 and MS
I am now a part of Desicritics.org and will henceforth be cross posting sports related posts there. My first post on the Sunday Moza F1 race is up there. Check it out. Also this is the first post using the MS Live Writer. Hope this works 🙂
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Dehradun Trip
Friday night – Office party. Bansal majorly drunk. Me drunk. Sleep at 2AM. Saturday morning – I wake at 4AM. Take bath. Try waking Bansal. Bansal says, “Wake up Modi.” Woke Modi up. Try waking Bansal. Bansal says, “Call the driver.” Called the driver. He says he would be there in half and hour. Wake…
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Weekend Well Spent
So what is a perfect weekend like?? Lemme see. Saturday – Meet a close friend. Chat, listent to good music, have good food, drink a bit and enjoy. We did aal except the drink bit. We did drink but what we had was the question. A good Goan port wine. This is the good bit.…