Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • General Post

    According to the Met department, it has been the quickest the Monsoon has hit the Indian Capital in more than a century. Well, I don’t know the weather record, but the rains have sure made for the best summers in this part of the country in many many years for me.. Anyways, this weekend has…

  • Tata Sky Sucks

    I have been a great fan of the Tata Sky service for the past one year. The picture and sound clarity is worth the additional money for the installation and the premium one pays for the monthly subscription. However, the events over the last week or so has left a very bad taste in the…

  • Gmail spam filter gone nuts!

    That’s an email from the Google Alerts not spam!!

  • STN vs GenomeQuest

    … or why STN is going to fail. DGENE and USGENE recently introduced an option to limit sequence searches (BLAST) by % match. But I think it might just be too little to late for them. For too long now STN has enjoyed the benefits of monopoly in the field of patent sequence searching. However,…

  • I am back

    … after a brief hiatus. I have been away for almost a month, mostly due to increased work load. But I am firmly and surely back again. I recount below some of the more interesting things that have happened over the past month. 1. BarCamp Delhi 4 was attended. It was my first BarCamp and…

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