Wednesday, August 22, 2007
If I had known that what I’m doing would one day be labeled by one of the world’s biggest companies as “Tafiti”, I can assure you I would have reconsidered a foray into research. So Microsoft has debuted a beta of Tafiti (which means “do research” in Swahili). I can’t run it yet – of [...]
This book is a novel about a doctor who delivers his wife’s twins himself, but decides to give away the girl because she has Down’s syndrome. The doctor’s nurse takes the girl away and raises her on her own. The writing is excellent, I enjoyed that independently of the plot. My tastes have changed slightly [...]
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
As usual, I trooped down to the Indian High Commission and had a good time. Here’s a nice article on how India has done in 60 years. As usual, clicked a few snaps at the High Comm. The flag hoisting. Mini Rang De Basanti being acted out :) The President’s address delivered by the High [...]
This just in: Earlier in the day, Apple released a 32MB Keyboard Software Update v1.1. In a brief set of release notes, the company said the software allows its new aluminum keyboard to take advantage of the special features. I once had a computer with a 40 MB hard drive. And now keyboard firmware updates [...]
A very interesting book about people who tend to prefer their own company over others. When I first saw this book, I was surprised to see the subtitle – why do loners need a manifesto anyway? – but my doubts were answered soon after. Even before I’d read the first page. The first three people [...]
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Yum just updated pidgin to version 2.1, but I got the following error. $ pidgin libnm_glib_nm_state_cb: dbus returned an error. (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files pidgin: symbol lookup error: pidgin: undefined symbol: purple_core_ensure_single_instance Turns out pidgin 2.1 has a dependency on libpurple 2.1 which somehow got past the package [...]
In terms of chronology, this is the oldest authorized Star Wars fiction novel. Written by the writer of the KOTOR games, it describes a period even before the Old Republic when the Sith and the Jedi were numerous and warring against each other – and the story is about how the well known Sith principles [...]
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