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Monthly Archives: January 2010

I wish

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Recently while doing a Windows update for my graphics driver I got the following pop-up: If only I had a screen with that much real estate. The dream faded after the update was completed and the system restarted.

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A new e-book Reader

Friday, January 29, 2010

A company in India, Infibeam, has introduced Pi, an e-ink based book reader for the Indian market, with support for local languages and a very Kindle-like look. Lesser base storage than the Kindle, but you can extend the memory with an SD card. It can read PDFs, ePubs, HTML, DOC, JPG and some other stuff, [...]

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The Lost Art of Walking, by Geoff Nicholson

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Almost a decade and a half ago, a friend and I did something many considered somewhat batty. We walked from Juhu to Versova along the beach. It isn’t really much of a challenge, the distance being about four or five kilometers. For some reason, large swathes of the beach were empty, deserted and relatively far [...]

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