Temple of Lord Muruga in Bangalore

on Sunday, February 12, 2012
Came across this temple of Lord Muruga in the Web.   A new temple - part of it is still under construction as of this date.  Impressive and modern construction.  There is very little information about it in the Web and even it's address isn't clear.   All that was available when I first saw it was that it was in BEML layout.   There are at least two BEML layouts in Bangalore that I know about: Brookfield, and Rajarajeswari Nagar.

This Shanmukha Temple is in BEML Layout, Rajarajeswari Nagar, Bangalore.   Here is the maps link.

Lord Muruga is called by a plethora of different names, popular of them being Shanmugha, Subramanya, and Karthikeya.

Dissertation as a book

on Saturday, October 29, 2011
Was surprised to see that my doctoral dissertation, End-to-end abstractions for application-aware storage, was published as a book. Encountered it accidentally while searching for something else.  Even more surprised to see that the "book" is being sold by Amazon and Barnes & Noble for a cost of 69 USD.  The publisher ProQuest has gotten rights from my University for publishing dissertations as books, and I seem to have given my acceptance as part of the dissertation submission process to the Graduate School.  However, it's not clear how they came up with the sale price.

Flipkart sells it for more than 4000 rupees.

Yet to see a copy of this book.

Oh Maldives ...

on Sunday, October 2, 2011
Pretty good shot out of my simple point-and-shoot at Maldives.  Amazing crystal clear water and white sand makes out a fantastic color.  Never seen such beaches before.