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,…
A German Wedding
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…