Friday, September 30, 2005
I was tagged to write a 55-word story, and so, here’s one. Rather unconventional, though. Seven paragraphs, seven sentences each, and exactly fifty-five words. Might seem random to you, though it does have an intended meaning. Hunger. Safety. No control. Strength. Peripheral. Unpredictable. Survive. God. Prosperity. Patterns. Cognition. Society. Vindictive. Settle. Randomness. Power. Rule of [...]
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Neither the captain, nor the coach Will the other’s duty encroach Though they bat on the same wicket All for the good of Indian cricket Like two children Bob and Alice Being taken to the principal’s office Sternly told to bury the hatchet All for the good of Indian cricket Words they’ll have, thats for [...]
Sunday, September 25, 2005
I love exploring close-up shots on the camera. Can you guess what this image is? (Quite simple actually, if you’re like me; answer at the end of the post) Of course, the best thing to use the macro mode on are flowers: Here’s another extremely close-up shot of a plaque of “Om” given to me [...]
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
I’ve been really busy working on a research paper which is due this Friday but its thankfully drawing to a close. I found some time today to buy a new camera – something I’d been thinking about for a couple of months now. Its the Canon Powershot S2 IS, and its a real beauty. I [...]
Monday, September 19, 2005
My latest fascination for the last few days has been my mother tongue, Hindi on my computer. I’ve always been reading Hindi websites on and off, especially news sites like BBC Hindi. As for creating documents or typing in Hindi, I had done it very rarely using hard coded fonts like Shusha. The urge to [...]
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Of all the shows I remember from good old days in India, I have the fondest memories for the Hasya Kavi Sammelan that used to come on Doordarshan around festival times, especially around Holi (I think a similar show plays weekly on Sab TV these days). Shashwat and Avyakt got the idea of starting a [...]
Thursday, September 15, 2005
In a recent interview with seattlepi, Bill Gates of Microsoft has this to say about security: Software in general, whether it was from Microsoft or somebody else, was not set up for an environment where all the computers were connected together. The comment quite profoundly reflects Microsoft Windows’ approach to networking. Through its history, Windows [...]
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Two hells that made me ROTFL. The first, a piece of graffiti written exactly halfway across the Massachusetts Avenue bridge that leads to MIT. The second, Sun’s surprisingly aggressive advertising campaign for their new x64 servers against Dell (click on the image to download a high-quality PDF of the ad). In fact, they had even [...]
Thursday, September 8, 2005
Thats what MIT should really be known as. There is an aura of work around here – even if you think you don’t have much to do… work materializes out of thin air; which is one of the reasons I haven’t been able to post for so long. Another one is that I don’t have [...]
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