A few interesting things:

Yesterday I was in Harihar a smallish town north of Bangalore, on the NH4 past Chitradurga and Davangere (I like all these names!) . I was demonstrating the Fluoride course from the website (go to indiawaterportal.org, go to Tools and Techniques and look on the right sidebar) at a training session for headmasters and some other folks. The demo went okay, we found a bunch of issues with the course but there seems to be a felt need for it so that motivates me to fix it and go back into the field with it. I saw absolutely zilch of the town besides the railway station, the hotel room and the place where I did the demo. I always wanted to do a lot of travelling and while I enjoyed going to this place to do the trip, I guess now I know why frequent travellers (on work) are not so hot on travelling.

Then a few of us from work (the usual suspects) went one day to the Google office in India to twist their arm to help us with doing internet marketing of the portal. They were nice and were very willing to help (atleast that's what they said). The office has a cool thing going at the reception which I've read about before. Its a projection on the wall that scrolls search text picked randomly from among the presumably billions of searches that are done on google everyday. A very nice effect.

We also started talking to a community radio group for the possibility of working together. They are called Voices, and they run a community radio station called Namma Dhwani, links here and here. Check out their signature jingle here, its pretty cool. Its an interesting experiment and there's recent legislation that should help community radion to take off in India, but I've also heard some scepticism about the potential.

Okay I have a challenge in front of me: Priya has never shown much interest in my blog. And today she was gushing about the blog that someone mentioned in a previous comment -- (the one that has a photo of Japanese Rajni fans). So now I have taken on the task on writing stuff on this blog that will attract her to the blog. I need help ! What are the kind of sites that would attract her. Readers of my blog -- help !!