Thursday, September 28, 2006
I recently came across the Greenpeace Apple mock site. Greenpeace claims that Apple is lagging behind the rest of the industry in terms of green policies – specifically, toxic elements in products and the lack of worldwide takeback programs for hardware. They have a series of requests for Apple and a set of actions that [...]
Friday, September 22, 2006
Bloodlines is, by far, the worst Star Wars book I have ever read. The book is part of a new 9-book series called Legacy of the Force, only two of which have been released so far. It’s set in the future when Han Solo and Leia’s kids have grown up. The New Republic is being [...]
Friday, September 22, 2006
Freakonomics is about how social and economic factors powerfully influence decisions that people make, and how data can throw light on a phenomenon that is otherwise inexplicable or misinterpreted. The authors go through a few case studies, among them – economic incentives for teachers to cheat on their students’ exams, the rise and fall of [...]
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
So this is how liberty dies. Overnight.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
I’ve really come to love checkgmail, a perl-based tray application that allows you to monitor and manipulate your gmail account. The killer feature is that the notification window gives you options to delete a message, mark it as read or report it as spam. Very, very useful and fast for messages that you don’t want [...]
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
So, I decided to install Linux on my Powerbook G4 12″. Why? (Feel free to skip to the real install notes while I rant!) Recently, I’ve become slightly bored, slightly bugged with OS X. Nothing much wrong with OS X, just that I tend to do most of my work on Linux, and switching context [...]
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Tagged via antrix. Book that changed my life – Conversations with God (Part 1), by Neale Donald Walsch. I read this book in my early undergraduate years… and nothing has influenced more strongly than this my model of the world. Book you’ve read more than once – Nearly every book I’ve really liked. One of [...]
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Is it sadistic to be amused as two developers fight?
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Today, you’ve thrilled the world. You’ve added battery life, capacity, movies and games to the iPod. So the teeming fans can waste their time in ever-more productive ways. You’ve made the iPod nano go pink, and anyone with the remotest inkling of taste go pale. The girls will sigh, and the boys will cry. You’ve [...]
Thursday, September 7, 2006
Apple has announced upgrades to iMacs and Mac minis. There’s now a 24″ iMac which is just awesome. Something that not many people have noticed – the iMacs have NVidia cards now, unlike the previous generation of Intel iMacs which had ATI cards. I wonder if this is the result of the AMD/ATI merger. Any [...]
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