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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Thoughts on Macworld

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

It’s finally official, I guess Apple’s reality distortion field is wearing off for me. This was the first Macworld that I slept through since 2004, and no regrets. The most interesting thing to me was that they got a pretty awesome movie rental service out. Includes all movies, at a pretty good price and reasonable [...]

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Thinking outside the slice

Friday, January 11, 2008

So this morning I was told by someone that they had a slice of bread and half a slice of cheese for breakfast. Half a slice of cheese. I don’t know about you, but this novel idea left me dumbstruck. Maybe its because I’m a computer scientist and I tend to discretize everything; or maybe [...]

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FBPNN: Steve Bucknor to win Medal

Monday, January 7, 2008

Yesterday evening, the nation of India watched yet another display of Just In Time Harakiri™ from their cricket team. The fans’ anger, however, was partly directed at the game’s referees, whose actions a viewer mailed in and charitably described as mentally retarded. Indian authorities and fans have complained bitterly not only to the ICC, but [...]

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Don’t lower your standards

Thursday, January 3, 2008

It was disheartening to read of two girls being molested in Bombay on new year’s day. Far more shocking was to hear that the Police Commissioner of Mumbai was dismissive in his reaction and asked the media “not to blow this out of proportion”, because such things “can happen anywhere.” There are just so many [...]

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