I was recently browsing DSLR camera reviews, and observed that Digital Camera Resource site has an extremely helpful little section at the bottom of its reviews. One applauds both the thoughtfulness (you don’t invest in something like a DSLR by reading just one review), and their self-confidence without which no site would directly link to [...]
We’re proud today to bring you a story that confirms what our most loyal readers have long suspected – we have sources and connections at the highest levels. In our efforts to bring you the best fake but possible news, we decided to follow up on a rumour at the head honcho’s office – thats [...]
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
I use TiddlyWiki to maintain a journal about my daily research work. It serves very well because all the journal data is kept in a single html file, which is viewable on any platform using Firefox – hence it’s far easier to put in version control. Anyhow, one thing was lacking – I wanted a [...]
From a recent article about the Shilpa Shetty issue in the UK: British celebrity culture is tolerant: ethnic minorities and homosexuals feature prominently. And it is democratic: no discernible talent is needed to enter the aristocracy of celebrity. If there’s better way of targeting both democracy and aristocracy in such a compact fashion, I don’t [...]
I recently read about the environmental artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who’s art mission seems to be to greatly change a landscape (usually through fabric) – for two weeks. After that, everything goes back to normal. Interesting projects include wrapping the German Parliament, the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris, and installing over 7,500 saffron fabric [...]
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Reproducing here my rather longish comment on this rant on LinuxDevCenter about there being so many Linux distributions. I think you ignore the benefits of having the thousand and one linux distros around. First, all of these distros are in the end attempts to do something _different_. Puppy Linux was one of the first ones [...]
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
From the latest Joy of Tech, this guy is totally me!
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
It’s just been announced minutes ago. Apple is no longer Apple Computer, Inc. but Apple, Inc. I had a bad feeling about this. When a whole MacWorld goes by and you see no mention of a Mac, things looked that way. In fact I was composing a post in my head with the title “Wasn’t [...]
One of the books that I’m really thankful I’ve read. Without doubt, a wonderful read for any Indian cricket fan. John Wright describes his whole stint as Indian coach; starting from his selection as coach to finish. Few can argue that since John Wright, Indian cricket has improved in a number of ways – professionalism, [...]
Quite an interesting read about the history of physics. Falk starts from ancient Greeks who theorized that Earth was the center of the universe and everything was made from earth, air, fire and water and progresses to modern day theoretical physicists who talk in terms of string theory. Throughout the book, there is a common [...]
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