I have always considered myself a technology freak. I’ve always thought of myself as the guy who wanted the latest and greatest computer, the mobile phone with all the features, the smallest-sized but largest capcity MP3 player, the very best digital camera… the list just goes on. To some extent, I’m still there. I whistled [...]
An Indian student in an Armenian university recently fell from his dorm window and died, allegedly due to to negligence by emergency services and university administration – who prevented his friends from giving him first aid, asking them to wait until an ambulance arrived… which was 45 minutes later. This has led to huge protests [...]
I have been looking to a way to link Thunderbird and Growl for showing me mail notification messages for a while now. Thanks to this post, I was able to get it working today. One issue I faced that I have four mail accounts in Thunderbird and I don’t care about three of them, but [...]
I’ve never really heard of this, so I’ve decided to call it the Mac Dimmed Dialog of Death. Happened to me for the first time today since I got my Mac, 14 months ago. I was always told that Mac OS X also crashes on occasion, never believed it till now. I was working on [...]
This is an excellent book about building a web application. Quite different though, from most books you’ll find. It is (as far as I know) an online-only purchase, you pay and get a PDF. The folks who wrote it are 37signals, a company that makes web-based enterprise management applications. I know them mostly from their [...]
My introduction to the world of programming was via BASIC, C and C++. Along the way of course, I learned other stuff, including Java with its common theme of “Everything is an object”. I could never get this concept of everything being an object, and hence I’ve never liked, and have always struggled with Java. [...]
The reservation and the quota system have long been a subject of debate in India. With the recent announcement of imminent increases in reservations for IITs and IIMs, the topic is very much in circulation again. Yet somehow, there’s a difference. Unlike the passionate and vociferous response to the Mandal Commission, the voices this time [...]
I was in the city this afternoon with a couple of hours to kill and my camera in hand. It was a really cloudy, gloomy day, really bad for landscape photography, So I decided to try a composition experiment and take photos of people taking photos of other people. Some more of these here.
Microsoft has recently launched a site for open-source related blogs and news. The first post I saw when I got there was from the project manager for Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab, Kishi Malhotra. His first post introduces himself and his work: My full name is Harvinderpal Singh Malhotra and somehow “Kishi” was chosen as [...]
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