Mahesh Subramaniya

Wishes for V.A Shiva the Inventor of Email software

I just finished reading Smithsonian’s effort on celebrating the one of the important innovator of our ages Mr.V.A Shiva Ayyadurai, whom most of the people wouldn’t have aware of.

Though, he is right in certain aspects like Intellectual Property, Innovation, I do not agree with his point of taking a break in studies to get a taste of a real world problem. One doesn’t need to take a break to understand the problem, if the person is living with it. And only one who lives, understands the problem and only when one understands, shall have an urge to find a solution and only when one have urge to find a solution, will innovate.

But in contrast, people who gets opportunity to study is not always innovating and not all innovators study degrees. This mix is certainly rare and one such person is Shiva.

My wishes to Shiva on this memorable event.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Program (SICP) for your kindle / mobile reader

This is one of the most wanted book for me to read (out of my curiosity, I’m not a college student though), but somehow I didn’t feel much to spend on this book ( used costs ~30+ USD). Fortunately that I could land at Josh Huckabee’s post on his effort of converting the MIT’s content into the PRC format. 

Also, I came across the Hacker’s news post to get it in the ePub format, which requires Calibre to convert and load into the Kindle device.

Happy Kindling…