Archive for March, 2007
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Karnataka budget 2007-08: News and Analysis
Posted on March 17, 2007 | 1 CommentThe finance minister of Karnataka – Yediyurappa just presented the state budget highlighting the ban of arrack and lottery. For news and analysis on the budget, read on. Also, see my post on why there is curiously high interest in Karnataka budget. The following are automatically generated from Google News by carefully selected search terms. Most of these should be relevant, but there is a chance that some are not. For 2007-08 Budget click here. Also available is the medium term fiscal plan. -
Gangajal Hindi Movie with Ajay Devagan:Old plot, new refinement
Posted on March 17, 2007 | 13 CommentsGanga Jal IMDB Link Year: 2003 Writer: Prakash Jha Director: Prakash Jha Length: 150 Category: Drama Rating: 4 out of 5 Though it is based on an age old plot of a police officer fighting against crime, Gangajal takes it to a new height in how it is executed I wish this move were not as violent as it is – baring that, it is close to a perfect movie. In this movie inspired by the Bhagalpur Blindings, Ajay Devgan plays an IPS officer who takes on the local gangster – Sadhu Baba, and expectedly, wins. In this he is... -
RSS Feeds within post in wordpress – Horray!
Posted on March 15, 2007 | No CommentsAdd RSS content from delicious, etc. within your post. Great possibilities to customise I had been looking for some way to add my del.icio.us links into my posts and this was proving to be impossible. I finally found the perfect solution using a combination of Adsense Delux plugin and feed2js RSS reader. Using Feed2js to get RSS feeds Feed2js is a simple to use application through which we can publish rss feeds in our webpages. Doing this is also very simple. One just has to give feed2js the url of the rss feed. It allows for many customisation including whether... -
Tools & Practices for finding, cleaning & organising references
Posted on March 14, 2007 | 1 CommentGetting and organising good references is the key to creating good bibliographies for academic papers. This is a time consuming and effort-intensive process. This post discusses some tips and tricks to make this process easier and more productive With the dramatic growth of information technology and the internet in particular, information in the hands of researchers has increased dramatically. We now have an opportunity to collect information at rates unthinkable one generation before us. But getting the best out of this information glut requires careful strategies for collecting, organizing and retrieving information. This article reviews a few tools and practices.... -
Speed up citations with bibliography managers
Posted on March 14, 2007 | No CommentsSurprisingly few students use citation managers though it can make life so much easier I am always put off at the thought of creating bibliographies with their innumerable dots and commas and italics, and a grammar complicated more than that of German language. I really have no idea why people came up with such complicated formats such as Chicago, APA or MLA. For my first paper that was headed towards publication I followed the style guide. After one year, I realise that I made many mistakes and the process in any case had taken a long time and was frustrating.... -
Indian Parliament & Legislative Assemblies search engine
Posted on March 14, 2007 | No CommentsSearch debates, policies, laws, parliamentary questions, and other issues relating to policy, politics law and governance in India. Covers Indian Parliament and State Assemblies For those with an interest in policy issues, following what happens in the parliament and the legislative assemblies can be crucial. All state governments and the Government of India have reasonably information websites these days. But it is a little painful if we have to look for a new education initiative in over 50 websites one by one. On the other hand a generic search in Google or other search engines will give a lot of... -
Search engine for Constituent Assembly debates in India
Posted on March 14, 2007 | 11 CommentsIndia's Constitution is far-sighted and among the most interesting Constitutions of the world. It was framed after extensive discussions at the Constituent assembly. These debates throw an interesting light on issues that led to the Constitution, the way it is. I have often wondered why certain provisions exist in a certain way and have turned to the debates in this assembly. To make it easy for me to search these debates, I have created a search engine using Google custom search engine and the transcripts of the debates provided by the Parliament of India. -
Associating refworks record with multiple folders
Posted on March 11, 2007 | No CommentsAn article or book typically fits many categories – it is possible to put one record in multiple folders in Refworks I just discovered a facility in Refworks to put a record in multiple folders. Take a book like India: Development and Participation; I will want it in my ‘development’ folder and also ‘India’ folder. I used to think that I had to duplicate it each time I wanted to put a record in multiple folders. While this would have served the purpose, it becomes a problem when I wish to make editions to the record. Suppose I wish to... -
Union and State budgets, India: Websites, documents, tools
Posted on March 11, 2007 | 8 CommentsThis page gives links to websites of State and Union governments in India with detailed information on budgets. Brief descriptions of sites are given. Despite the importance of budgets, very little information is available about them in the Indian context. The Union budget gets a national coverage and information is widely available. Much less is know about state budgets. The good news is that most state governments now have websites, often with extensive information. As a first step, I’ve put together information on all of them in one place. I updated this page to reflect the websites in February 2011.... -
How to unsubscribe from Syracuse University mailing lists
Posted on March 7, 2007 | No CommentsFor some odd reason, the Syracuse University mailing lists have a complicated system for unsubscribing. It took me months to figure it out. Though the system is simple, the user manual is practically unreadable. In case you’re looking to unsubscribe yourself from any mailing list of SU, this is how: No matter which mailing list you are in, send a mail to listserv at listserv dt syr dt edu. In the body of the mail (not subject) write “SIGNOFF LISTNAME” i.e. if you are subscribed to list “x” (the name that appears in the from address before “@”), just type...
