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This useful piece of information landed in my inbox today.

It is summer time and March-April is the season for diseases like chickenpox. It is a highly contagious disease and can spread rapidly specially in closed spaces. Please find attached some information on chickenpox, its vaccine and Herpes Zoster which is also caused by the same virus so that you can take adequate precautions.

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Artistes’ Repertory Theatre presents Yayati by Girish Karnad.

This production premiered the playwright’s own translation, at the opening of Kannada Rangabhoomi-Namaskara on October 24 2006, at Ravindra Kalakshetra. A powerful script with a powerful cast!

Raza Hussain, last seen in his highly acclaimed performance as Tipu Sultan in ART’s popular production of The Dreams of Tipu Sultan, plays Yayati. Sukhita Aiyar plays Sharmishtha with Veena Appiah as Devayani, Kartik Kumar as Pooru, Mythri Surendra as Swarnalata and Anjalika Kapur as Chitralekha. Directed by Arundhati Raja; Set & Lighting design by M. S. Sathyu; Costumes by Jayanthi; Music by Sankarshan Kini also on Tabla and vocal by Dipti Rao.

27 & 28 February at the Ranga Shankara.

Tickets: Rs.100/- available at the venue from 27 Feb or call 32930847 for advance telebooking (tickets to be collected by 6:45pm on day of show)

Don’t miss it!

{ Tip from Sandeep }

From the official source – Bangalore BarCamp 2.0:

BarCamp is an unconference – organized by attendees, for attendees. It’s an open, welcoming event for geeks to hang out with or without wifi and smash their brains together. It’s about geekery and having a focal point for great ideas.

When: Saturday-Sunday, December 2-3, 2006
Where: ThoughtWorks’ office, Diamond District, Airport Road

I’ll be in Bangalore, but am undecided about my schedule and hence about my presence at this camp.

Here’s a pretty useful world time zone map.

World Time Zone Chart (PDF).

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Bangalore – 560 042

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Email: chocolatejunction at gmail.com

• Open from 10AM to 8PM on all days
• Taste free sample of chocolates
• Indulge in a wide variety of chocolates
• On display, a private collection of Bonsai
• Some bonsai for sale too

Roadmap to Chocolate Junction:

My friend SriVidya had sent me a few cooking recipes. While I can’t try any of these at home – I have been banned from entering the kitchen after I managed to set a brand-new pressure cooker on fire trying to make popcorn (hey, I followed instructions on the cover to the dot) – maybe you can give them a shot.

Grab the recipes.

1. Vegetarian Rice Dishes
2. Indian Recipes
3. Desserts

And don’t forget to invite me!

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Eeeeeks!

I have constantly been on the lookout for a quick and painless way to host Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. I have found a “quick and painless” solution in slideshare (slideshare.net). slideshare let’s you embed embed a presentation on your blog (like I have done below) or share it as a standalone link. Tagging lets you discover other interesting presentations and lets others discover yours. There are some pretty interesting presentations hosted on the site.

The site’s interface is clean, but it’s not intuitive – at least the first time you use it. You need to look around a bit to figure out what to do. I know, I said it’s quick and painless and it certainly is, but only from the second usage (when you already know how the interface works). There’s no auto-browse feature to move from one slide to the next; you need to manually browse through the slides. But is that a useful feature to have? Most auto-browse systems are either too fast or too slow and only end up causing user frustration. There is a full-screen option to make the viewing easy on your eyes.

Here’s a sample embedded-in-your-blog presentation from my Business Law course. It’s prudent to have a quick glance so that you know more about how the banking system works.

Immediate update:

I wrote too soon! It’s a good idea to get your facts right before you blog. The full-screen option is available only through the standalone link. It’s NOT available through the embedded object. To see this feature in action, check out Bankers & Customers + Dishonor of Cheques.