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If a template is all you can offer

I tweeted sometime ago that “if a template is all you offer, you really don’t have much to offer”

Let me explain.

For the purpose of this post, the term “customer” can mean anybody you interact with — not just…

Net Neutrality

One of the reasons we — the consumers or the end-users of the internet — are relatively unaware of the meaning of Net Neutrality (NN) is that, we have always had it good and took NN for granted. We were not aware of internet being any other way.

Social Postage

Lack of burden and responsibility is making social media a trashier place than it ever was. This article speculates why it is so and how it can be fixed.

Main article

To “cc” someone means to “carbon copy” someone. There were times when, if I was…

Why I moved to Medium

I had previously hosted my blog on Wordpress hosted version, using AWS’s EC2 based hosting service, which in turn used a Wordpress Multisite AMI from Bitnami.

Everything went well. Until it did not.

Minimum Wages

I am very confused by Obama’s speech on Federal Minimum Wages (FMW). Though I am not completely neutral to political ideologies, let us assume I am for the purpose of this discussion (hence I wont question whether minimum wages are required at all). I also do not have the expertise to say what is the…

Poverty — How is the line drawn?

A friend of mine asked me a question. With his permission, I am quoting the question as well as my response to it.

Explain why BPL in India is 55, as opposed to $3,961 for family of 4 in US? Aren’t the basic needs roughly the same?

Travel: My most favorite place in the world (ahem, America)

Big Sur

More often than not, we tend to like a place, a song or a movie by the memories it brings, more than their own attributes. They remind us of a particularly good time, a person we hung out with…

Security Theater

Much has been talked about the elevated (okay, obsessive) sense of security that has been put on transport security in general, airport screening in particular.

I have never experienced air-travel in the US prior to 9/11, but people say security was extremely lax, you…

The war has just begun

Its season again to track the budget.

A budget proposal is essentially a document to propose how and how much the US government will spend money for the next fiscal year and how it will manage its debts. The next fiscal year is FY2016, which is the time between…