Digital Wealth

Gurbani searching on the mobile used to be tough. Symbian and Android phones do not support Unicode with Indic support, which is required to use gurmukhi websites. Opera Mini allowed us to read gurbani, but entering search text is a different matter. I have developed a web page that allows you to do this, but [...]

This sleepy Saturday afternoon I logged into my blog, saw there were two comments awaiting approval, noted both were SPAM. So, I marked them that – and purged them permanently. There was a warning sign that I should have made note of, but did not until after the permanent deletion. Instead of two, 20 comments [...]

I recently came across a list of seven rules for beginning programmers. I could agree with only one of the rules – each procedure should have a purpose, an input and a defined output. However, programming is an ecosystem of related disciplines, and the rules ought to control not just coding. Here is my attempt: [...]

Bruce Schneier (a leading US computer security expert) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFY) advise leaving your wi-fi network open: meaning, not use encryption protocols such as WEP or WPA2. This allows neighbours and passers-by to use it while in urgent need, and increases societal cooperation. EFY states: “If you sometimes find yourself needing an open [...]

This post is based on an interview with Piyush Singhal who cleared PMP recently with a 90+ score. Okay, so you are thinking about going for the Project Management Practitioner exam, and do not know where to start. Let’s get you started. Below is a project plan for clearing the PMP certification. The first thing [...]

Many of us have more than one internet connections these days. I have a wired broadband connection (slower but unlimited), and a 3G connection on my mobile (faster but limited to 2GB) – which can be used on the PC via Nokia wifi tethering (Joikuspot). I want my PC to use both at the same [...]