Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Is there something about the air in Bihar? Is it forever doomed to be ignored by its rulers? Rediff writes about Nitish Kumar: Vowing to change “the worst ever work culture due to Rashtriya Janata Dal’s misgovernance for past 15 years”, he told reporters that he would have a one-to-one meeting with senior bureaucrats, including [...]
Monday, November 28, 2005
Blogsville, The Internet – New scientific evidence shows how spammers may have helped a large number of patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Active brain function, scientists say, greatly help reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and may even help reverse it. However, societal efforts to stop us from using our brains have greatly increased in [...]
Friday, November 25, 2005
Scott Adams recently released a free PDF of his book, God’s debris. Its a wonderful book with a number of new ideas. Just one read won’t quite be enough for me, though. There are a lot of new ideas in the book – new ways to think about life. It kind makes you think the [...]
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Enjoying a movie to me is all about two things… the dialogue and the pauses between the dialogue. Maybe thats why I really appreciate so few movies. I watched Gladiator after a long time today, and its still as wonderful a movie as I remember it – every slightest touch in the movie speaks of [...]
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
This was an Archer that I had missed. One of his best, which makes me unhappy that I’ve only just read it; but happy that I left it for this time, when I really have little else this good to serve for entertainment. This book easily becomes my favourite Jeffery Archer. I’d rate almost every [...]
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
I’m almost embarassed to admit it, but I’ve taken to using Lynx very often. For those who don’t know, Lynx is a text browser. All you get is pure ASCII. No images, single font, single size. I use it mostly for reading research related stuff. I’ve found (empirically) that it offers quite a few advantages. [...]
Monday, November 21, 2005
The Boston Museum of Science is running a Star Wars exhibit until April next year. I stopped outside the museum to watch some Padawans exercising with their lightsabers. You refer to the prophecy of the One who would bring balance to the Force. You believe its this… boy? You have learned much, young one Kill [...]
Saturday, November 19, 2005
A friend of mine, whom I convinced to switch to a Mac is now switching back to Linux on an Intel-based laptop. Although it took me a long time to come to this conclusion, but I find myself agreeing that with his requirements, Linux wins hands down in favour of OS X. Since I’ve pretty [...]
Friday, November 18, 2005
I just got a window on my screen saying, “Firefox has downloaded an important update and must restart”. I clicked on OK, and FF happily shuts down, starts up and says, “Firefox is installing updates and will start up in a few moments.” And it did. I was running Firefox 1.5 RC2 and the update, [...]
Thursday, November 17, 2005
…there was LOGO. Anyone remember this drawing software that was the first software schools used to teach all those long years ago? The one that actually fit into a 360KB 5.25-inch floppy disk? Turns out it’s been reincarnated as a Java program. I used to think of the drawing process as Yogi Bear making marks [...]
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