Gadgets
How India’s “Digital India” dream is being threatened by state owned Telco BSNL
Unless you are living under a rock, you most likely have watched the whirlwind tour of India’s prime minister Modi to the Silcion Valley in the US. PM Modi, a visionary in his own right, has come up with a bold new initiative to bring India on par with the rest of the world in…

Mechanical problems in my Asus RT-AC66U router, failing on/off switch
This is a classic example of the phrase “weakest link”, a 50 cent mechanical device failing a state-of-the-art electronics device. I was one of the early adopters of the 802.11AC protocol router from Asus, and I was extremely happy with its workhorse performance over the last 18 months or so. I mean, I can write…

Ultra smooth electic shaver from Philips RQ1295
What was originally an impulse purchase turned out to be one heck of an investment. I suffer from quite a rough stubble which grows really thick really fast. Sick of razor burns, I decided to buy an electric shaver at “Shavers Shop”, and a combination of good salesmanship from the girl in-charge, and my particularly…

The things that excite me
I am not sure if many of you know this, but Asterisk VOIP has consumed most of my free time lately. I am just fascinated with the fact that I could be running my own Voice over IP service in my house and have my Vonage calls routed to my work laptop, my mobile phones,…
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