Life is an illusion

 One half of the mankind tries to teach what ever (or what little) they know to the universe and the other half tries with all its might to keep the folks ignorant. It is easy to write such generalized far fetched observations. But I have observed that most of us have this deep desire to share our knowledge with others - if not whatsapp would have shut doors by now.  Why do we share our knowledge - life hacks (genius life hacks like how to clean metal surfaces using tooth paste ;) ), health tips - about pain, about weight loss, about diabetes and so on? To impress people with our knowledge? To help people because they desperately need our help? To make us feel better by convincing ourselves that we are good people? Or a hope that they will think she is not as dumb as we thought her to be. She knows things - like how to forward messages or how to copy urls.  Or this is also another manifestation of our need to connect to people? But we share - always - as can be seen with omnipresent sh

Read books online or download it and use it if and when needed. Free of cost of course. Isn't that we all Indians do? I am slightly embarrassed to say that now when ever I come across an interesting book, I search for its pdf hoping that I will get it free.  But the problem with free books - free fiction, not IT books, is they are old. Very very very old. Not me, not my parent, nor my grandparents were born when these books were written. Which makes relating to its characters almost impossible.  So when I came across this site , I was happy and started reading the first book which caught my attention which was work-wife-balance.  It is the story of wife balancing her work and her life. Reads like the story of any middle class woman trying to keep away imminent chaos in the hurried life. But it is full of satire and really really funny. But you can't possibly read 300 pages of that! Then I came across another site manybooks.net and downloaded a Richmal Crompton book about Willi

Continuing the tradition of "tanda helyAla.. tanda baradala", I am working on my one page collection of my works. I have been working on some maths puzzles for school kids - my reference has been 5th standard maths book of Karnataka state board. So I have added a page which generates problems on factors Worksheet on factors Factors - solution There is also another webpage which will display 2 fractions and your child should write either > or < or equal to between these.  Fractions - solution Fractions

 How will you solve a crime without the help of police? Oh, I know the answer. With the help of the media - tv channels. They will be the detectives, prosecutors and jury all in one. And an added benefit of free publicity ! Wrong answer.  You google it. Ask how to solve a crime when police won’t help. And one of the results is ultraviolet. No, not the ray - but an an organisation of nerds - who risk everything including their lives to solve the crime. And this basically comprises of a college kid, two fashion channel YouTubers and one airport worker.  And surprisingly they solve very many mysteries. That is what the Polish series  "Ultraviolet"  is all about.  One good thing is the protagonist is a woman named Alexandra (and called Ola :) ) and has a police officer as her sidekick. Unlike Mentalist, Castle where the lady police officer plays a second fiddle to main hero etc etc etc.  What I loved: at one point Micheal shouts policha before charging towards a car. So a policha

 I have been thinking what has changed in recent years to convert so many good, sane, smart, educated individuals into blind believers and die-hard fans of  populist leaders? (And now you know I am leftist pseudo secular ....) Some thing in the air? Or some kind of a virus ? (Sorry, I should not joke about that) I got the answer now. It is the social revolution. Or rather social network revolution. According to the Netflix show called The social dilemma, these human generated and AI controlled programs are literally programming our minds. They know how to tweak us and they are doing it every minute. They are not bothered about the end result - whether it is increased hatred among the society, emergence of populist and short sighted leaders, and violence. They work endlessly to profit the advertisers.  It was the scariest show I ever saw on Netflix. 

 Continuing the discussion about maths games for children , I wrote a webpage which will generate worksheet in Arithmetic with 30 sums in simple arithmetic operations. You can select which operation. And you can select upper limit. The sums generated are random. Here is how it looks like. Hope it will be useful for teachers and parents.  This was written using HTML and Javascript. Here is the HTML of the page <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset= "utf-8" /> <style type= "text/css" > .box { margin-top : 50px ; float : left ; width : 25 % ; padding : 10px ; margin : 10px ; font-size : 18px ; background-color : #ccc ; box - shadow : 2px 2px #eeeeee ; text-align : center ; </style> <script type= "text/javascript" > function showQuestion() { var typeSel = document .getElementById( "type" ).value var typeV

 If sum of two numbers is 18 and difference is 2, then the numbers are ---- and ----- This type of questions are plenty. And for all grades. There are questions on various topics on arithmetic, algebra, geometry. So if you have school going child and want to take her out of your hair for few minutes, but want her to learn something, these are the types of sites you should use.  And if your child is a basketball fan, here is some algebra and basketball for him    So the idea is, a little bit of google will show you the right game and right website for you.  Anyway, children want to use internet. So why not make it useful for them?   Here is a list of sites which I found worth looking into CoolMathGames Arithmetic Game The site is not very fancy looking but the game is timed and good     MathPlanet for Algebra I did not find games. But good lessons with videos IXL - Has good games on all topics and for all classes MathWareHouse   Has good concepts and games. Geometry page looks good Ma

 What are the life skills needed for the new generation? How can you decide who has the ability to impart these skills for today's India? A funny take by Sampath in Hindu newspaper.

 

 If you are looking for a website which gives you a quiz in C++/Java/C/Data structure without registering, you can visit my websites .  These questions are taken from my apps - but if you feel why do I download an app and waste my precious memory, you are welcome to use these websites.  I have finally tried to put all my sites/apps/blogs in one page.