Two of my very good friends got married to each other — Susanne Boll and Utz Westermann decided to finaaaaaaalllllllllllllyyyyyyy get married on May 19th. I had the pleasure of attending this wedding with Sudha and Smriti (Suzi).  In fact,…
Protecting Ancient Indian Knowledge
Stephan Franklin sent me an interesting podcast link. India Works to Shield Traditional Knowledge from Modern Copyrights A new digital library in India is safeguarding ancient knowledge from patents, which can force royalty payments for knowledge that is common in…
Events: Unaware of events
Google released Hot Trends. In an interview, the developer of the software, Mr Amit Patel, said something interesting related to eventweb that I found interesting: “There are events going on all the time that most of us are not aware…
Interesting trip — Child Birth on a flight
I have taken so many flights but today was unique — flight DL 131 from Munich to Atlanta — just after crossing NY they announced that due to an emergency situation involving a little boy and his mother, there will…
Electricity in India?
A story in NYT brought back memories from 30 years ago. Currently I am in Germany — and 30 years ago I lived here for about two years. I remember being asked more than once whether electricity is common in…