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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Gentlemen, search your souls

Friday, March 23, 2007

The gentleman’s game just turned ugly. It has been confirmed that Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach was murdered, strangled to death in his hotel room after Pakistan were knocked out of the world cup. Sport almost by definition is competition sans malice, rivalry sans warfare. We play, watch and love sport because it’s essentially a [...]

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Echoes of the Great Song, by David Gemmell

Saturday, March 17, 2007

As you perhaps can tell, I’ve come to appreciate Gemmell a lot. I find his style of fantasy writing refreshing; in a world where almost all fantasy writing is all about good battling evil, his writings blur the distinction between the two and set the reader into new directions of thinking about them. This novel [...]

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The Swords of Night and Day, by David Gemmell

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Although this is the last book of the Drenai series (none of which I’ve read) – it’s a perfectly fine read on its own. One really has to thank David Gemmell for keeping his series books more or less independent. This fantasy tale revolves around the resurrection of two legendary millennia-old heroes to fight the [...]

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CS grad student’s inductive law of compulsive failure

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

You can never get anything right the first time. Every next try is the first time you’re trying to get the previous attempt right. By induction, no matter what you try to do, you’re doomed to failure :)

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Obi-Wan’s cloak sells for 54,000 pounds

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

…according to the BBC. “If you sell me off I shall become more expensive than you can possibly imagine.”

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Wisdom from Stroustrup

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

There are just two kinds of languages: the ones everybody complains about and the ones nobody uses. – Bjarne Stroustrup, designer and creator of C++, in an interview to Technology Review.

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