Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • India Wins!!

    India has won the first test against South Africa by 123 runs, and has won back cricketing fans who had waned away after the one day performances in the past year. On another happy note, Delhi HC has convicted Manu Sharma in the Jessica Lall murder case. Immense happiness comes.

  • You’ve Got Mail

    Brrr!! It was cold. It was 2 degrees below normal. She had still not grown accustomed to “Dilli ki sardi”. Kolkata was so much better during winters. Shweta quietly peeked out from under her nice and cozy quilt. With her eyes almost closed she fumbled around for her laptop and switched it on, absent-mindedly. The…

  • Google Wishlist

    Following this wishlist from Pandia fellows, I came up with one of my own. So what do I want from Google in 2007. Here you go: Allow comments on all official Google blogs and answer them. Keep up the work on Google Patent Search. Expand coverage, jurisdictions and search options. Maybe add intelligent assignee optimizer…

  • Google’s Patent Search

    The inevitable has happened. Google has finally launched a patent search engine. You can check it out at http://www.google.com/patents For long I had wished that Google gives a better patent search option, and it has finally happened. Complete with advanced search options including assignee, inventor, IPC classes, and date limitations it is gonna be one…

  • History & Bullshit!!

    Had this mail converstation with my friends today. Read from the bottom upwards. Sudeep wrote: Hey Goyal, your thoughts remind me of this chapter we had in our hindi text books. Its written in Duryodhanas words and he narates his side of the story. He says exactly what you said here. He says to Arjun…

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