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Bug Comic

nrk — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:03:00 -0700

Bug is a funny cartoon strip. There are many comics out there, that follow the traditional joke route - set-up, build tension, and close with punchline. None do it as eloquently as the Bug Comic.The comic strip is always four panels wide, with the first panel typically reserved for just the setup text. Bug characters, cute but nameless, populate the other three. And yes, the bug is indeed cute,

The life and decline of WWW

nrk — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:26:00 -0700

The world wide web, has been one of the biggest success stories of the Internet. So much so that the two are often used synonymously. While the world wide web spawned and initially grew with the Internet, the predominant trend in recent times has been an implicit demotion of the web, in favor of the Internet. In hindsight, it seems obvious the success of the Internet would bring with it the seeds

LOST: Time loop theory

nrk — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:07:00 -0700

You would have thought LOST the series would have died quietly by now. Well, maybe it has, but the theories have not.The time loop theory site seems to have been created for the express purpose of tracking the time-travel theory behind LOST. Up until Season five, their main theory seems to have been successful in explaining a number of idiosyncrasies of the show. Season 6 seems to have thrown a

Photo gallery - Lake Geneva

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:00:00 -0700

A stroll by the Yerkes observatory, and the lake shore path at Lake Geneva.

PhD Comics

nrk — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:45:00 -0700

For a number of years now, this is one of the few email notifications I have and the only one for a webcomic.Piled Higher and Deeper, aka PhD Comics. PhD Comics is a very funny take on life in graduate school. The characters in the strips appear in short episodic bursts, dealing with work, friends, money, parents, expectations and of course their professors.The characters in strip are well

SMBC

nrk — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:07:00 -0700

And it doesn't refer to a weekend feeding frenzy. Instead it is a short webcomic, that is funny and to the point, without a cast of characters, no intricate plot and artwork that reminds you of doodles you made in middle school.And yet, there is something enjoyable about each post. There is something intelligent and topical about the posts. And through the artwork, the characters seem to easily

Swype on, Symbian

nrk — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:42:00 -0700

Woo Hoo!Nokia Beta Labs, has just announced the availability of Swype for the S60 5th Edition phones - including the Nokia 5800.Not that this gets the S60 5th platform in line with Android, or gives me much respite from phone-envy, But it is a pretty darn good step in the right direction.Just installed it on my phone and can confirm that it is indeed working. Swyped my first text message out.

Dinosaur Comics

nrk — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:56:00 -0700

Continuing with the posts about good webcomics, here is a different type of comic - called Dinosaur Comics. What, you ask, is so different about this comic? Well, for starters every strip looks exactly the same. That's right, the exact same panels in every single strip. The only different is the dialogue taking place between the characters. Imagine that, every story looks exactly the same, but

Typeracer

nrk — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:21:00 -0700

Continuing with today's trend of posting about useful sites, here is another that I just stumbled upon - TypeRacer.TypeRacer is a website where you basically race against others, by pitting your typing speed and accuracy against theirs. Every race starts off with a random excerpt, about a paragraph long and some randomly chosen opponents. The excerpts are selected from books, poems or even song

Finetune Pandora on Wii

nrk — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:57:00 -0700

Meant to put this on the blog for some time. If you have a Wii at home and want to use it to connect to Pandora, you are mostly out of luck. While Pandora has ostensibly embarked upon the path to make Pandora accessible from anywhere, Wii has yet to feel the love.But there is a way out - enter Finetune. Finetune's Wii interface, allows the bundled Opera browser to display a stripped down version

Excel Custom Number Format

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:00:00 -0700

A Tutorial on using MS Excel's Custom Number Format, with ready to use examples.

Uncanny Valley

nrk — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:25:00 -0700

Hiroshi Ishiguro is an interesting man. He is a Japanese roboticist who works on trying to create extremely life-like humanoid robots. And in doing so, he is bravely testing the depths of the uncanny valley.Which begs the question - what is the uncanny valley. This is an idea, proposed back in 1970, that states that the more realistic a robot is, the more empathetic a response it evokes in humans

The Order of the Stick

nrk — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:48:00 -0700

While xkcd and Cyanide are self-contained strips, other webcomics have taken taken the route of epic fantasy - literally. My favorite example of such serialized goodness is The Order of the Stick - a.k.a. OOTS.The Order of the Stick, follows the adventures of a team of warriors who are battling the great evil of Xykon. And while they are on this quest, they are constantly fighting monsters,

xkcd

nrk — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:02:00 -0700

If you Google “webcomics” the first result is xkcd. And deservedly so.Published by Randall Munroe, xkcd describes itself as a “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” The comic displays and celebrates a distinctly geeky view of the world, and is comfortable tackling subjects like raptor attacks, sex, computer jokes, celebrities and responding to and creating memes. While most of the

Cyanide and Happiness

nrk — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:46:00 -0700

One of the best examples of the democratization power of the Internet, in my mind, is the explosion of webcomics. Comics or funnies, had few outlets beyond a section in the newspaper or a major comic publisher. Particularly the comic strip suffered from a severe shortage of real-estate, hindering any meaningful exploration of the genre.The Internet changed all that. Now we have a wide variety of

18 rules for living

nrk — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:49:00 -0700

Apparently at the start of the millennium, the Dalai Lama issued 18 rules for living. Very very useful.Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self Respect for others Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn

Photo gallery - London, UK

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:00:00 -0700

Photos from a walking tour through London. Dreary weather severely limited available photos to choose from.

Artificial Neutral Networks

nrk — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:21:00 -0700

Net Neutrality means many things to many people. For some it means the network is indifferent to the packets that flow through. For others it represents the freedom for the little guy to take on the big corporate - and have a chance. Others view it as an unwelcome encroachment of the Government into yet another business. Still others see it as an archaic concept representing the early dawn of the

T.E.A.L.

nrk — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:20:00 -0700

Funny story on NPR about a guy who, one day, decided to embark upon a cross-country quest to correct typos. Jeff Deck, the founder of Typo Eradication Advancement League, and his buddy Benjamin Douglas, set out to not just identify, or photograph, but actually fix typos in public signs. It went well, until the duo were busted for “fixing” a historic marker at the Grand Canyon. Vandalism - was the

Photo story, Travelogue - Cornwall, UK

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:00:00 -0700

A photostory of our travel to Cornwall, England. Also my attempt at building a new UI using jQuery tabs.

5800 firmly upgrading

nrk — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:17:00 -0700

Yay - this makes me feel like a kid entering a candy store - giddy with anticipation. My phone's firmware is upgrading again - to v.51.0.006. The phone is downloading the firmware as I type, that is available as an OTA release. The official changelog includes:Improved Mail for Exchange Improved video calls Improved browser Performance improvements Does not sound like a lot, but folks have

Wave waves Goodbye!

nrk — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:43:00 -0700

That was quick. Last year, I had written about a new technology from Google, which was - as usual - going to change the world. The Google Wave. The unified replacement for email, IM and social networking with an immersive collaborative environment.Apparently Google recently pulled the plug on it.There are a number of reasons outlined in the post by Google, still more by pundits all over the

Embed Google Fast Flip

nrk — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:03:00 -0700

If you use Google News, you probably have seen Fast Flip. Fast Flip basically takes screenshots of news articles from a certain set of new sites, and allows you to browse the news by flipping through images. As a result you get to see news formatted better than in a news aggregator, but still cover news from a variety of sources.I wondered if there was a way to embed fast flip in my site. There

Gmail ID - good email ID

nrk — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:31:00 -0700

When Google got into the business of providing a free email service, I was first in line to get myself an account and play with it. At that time one had to be invited for a gmail account; and being early meant that I got myself a very good email id - a pretty common first name back home.What I had not realized at the time, was the flip side to having a common email id - the pseudo-spam.First,

Snakes on a video

nrk — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:53:00 -0700

Ok, here is something cool. Ever wonder why Youtube takes so long to load these days - apparently there is a Easter Egg hidden within every video. A Snake video game. All you need to do is:Open a video in YouTube, any video Pause it Hit the Up and Right arrows together and look out for the tiny snake as it begins running across your screen A hint - when you pause, look for a relatively dark frame

Ugliest Website of All Time

nrk — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:03:00 -0700

Who wants to see the ugliest website of all time? And it needs additional plugins to display all the media on this page. And it is, I think, about wedding gowns. My eyes!! My eyes!!

Fair use

nrk — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:52:00 -0700

The DMCA, if you haven't heard already, is a broad and massively restrictive law, that makes it a criminal offense to produce or share technologies that can be used to circumvent copyright measures. Measures like the DRM. While there is nothing wrong in that noble endeavor, the draconian powers invested in, and the broad applicability of the law make it particularly distasteful.The DMCA is behind

Android on my PC

nrk — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:50:00 -0700

The Android-x86 project is an interesting idea - to essentially port Android to run on the x86 platform (another name for most PCs out there). They publish the latest stable version as an ISO designed to boot and run PC hardware. Of course most of us may not have spare machine lying around. Thanks to the good folks over at UNetbootin, it is possible to take this ISO and create a bootable USB and

10 Metals in 3 Minutes

nrk — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:05:00 -0700

Oh this is fun! Raz Ben Ari has a bunch of innovative pieces of rock and metal on his Youtube Channel. This one goes through 10 different Metal Genres in 3 minutes. And it flows pretty well - all the way from Glam Rock through Death to Metalcore.

Photo gallery - Scotland

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:00:00 -0700

Photos from the archives. A trip through one of the most beautiful places on earth - Scotland, during July 2006.

Photo gallery - Cornwall, UK

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:00:00 -0700

Photos from the archives. A weekend road trip through the south-west of UK - Cornwall - during August of 2006.

Photo gallery - Door County

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:00:00 -0700

We went to the Door County during the 4th of July weekend. Some photos from our trip.

Photo gallery - Bucks v Cavs

Sat, 29 May 2010 17:00:00 -0700

The Cleveland Cavaliers were up visiting the Milwaukee Bucks on March 6, 2010. We had tickets as part of a team and spouses event to watch from a suite at the Bradley Center stadium.

Photo gallery - Kettle Moraine Forest

Sat, 22 May 2010 17:00:00 -0700

Photographs from a quick loop, called Nature trail, near the HQ of the Kettle Moraine Souther HQ. The discovery of this forest means we have something to do all summer.

Photo gallery - Crotonville

Tue, 11 May 2010 17:00:00 -0700

Work took me to a place called Crotonville, NY nestled by the lower hudson river. Bikes were available easily enough that I ran out of reasons, not to go on the 3 mile ride to the beautiful Croton Dam.

Short story - Reunion

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:00:00 -0700

Friends from college seem to be for ever. But you still go out of touch with some in very unexpected ways.

Short story - Untouchable

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:00:00 -0700

The dappled shade under the mango trees triggered two very conflicting emotions. Firstly, it signalled the possibility of juicy fruit. Secondly it signalled fear - he was somewhere he ought not to be, and must therefore, be very careful...

Short story - the Word of Gods

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:00:00 -0700

...seven loops of gold hanging from his ears were the only adornments on his otherwise clean shaven face and head. He seemed happy and content that first day of Spring, despite the chill in the morning sea air. After all, today he would get to speak with the Gods...

Blog - technology upgrades

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:00:00 -0700

Multiple (invisible, hopefully) changes to the blog. It used to be FTP based, but is now hosted on Google. The template had also been upgraded to Google's new Layout.

Travelogue - Getaway Jungle Camp

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:00:00 -0800

In 2004, we got away from the hustle and bustle of the city, away in a jungle camp near Sattal. Here is an account.

Photo gallery - Water

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:00:00 -0700

A gallery of water-themed photographs.

Photo gallery - Lake George trip

Wed, 27 May 2009 17:00:00 -0700

A new gallery of our trip to Lake George.

Photo gallery - Flowers

Sun, 17 May 2009 17:00:00 -0700

A flower gallery. Now my blog allows navigation via labels.

SUDOKU Solver

Tue, 12 May 2009 17:00:00 -0700

My Javascript based SUDOKU solver. Also new photo galleries.

Site updates and Delicious

Fri, 08 May 2009 17:00:00 -0700

My delicious bookmarks now automatically feed the site. Also completed the home sections of about me and sitemap. The base website is now provisionally complete.

Three new photo galleries

Tue, 05 May 2009 17:00:00 -0700

Three new galleries - landscapes, birds, and lighthouses from the eastcoast of the US.

Nokia 5800 mini project

Mon, 04 May 2009 17:00:00 -0700

New mini project of mine, where I collected all the free applications I had discovered for my phone - the Nokia 5800, along with a few of my likes and dislikes about it.

Photo galleries

Sat, 02 May 2009 17:00:00 -0700

Deployed my first photogallery, based on the galleria plugin developed by David Hellsing. This is based on the, awesome, jQuery javascript library.

Site re-launch

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:00:00 -0700

Back after a really long time, with a site redesign and re-launch. New site-wide template, consolidated blog, cleaner HTML. Most content ported from last template. Aim is to achieve XHTML compliance.

Review - Dune

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:00:00 -0700

Have been wanting to do this for a while now. Starting the review of the Dune series.

Travelogue - Rajasthan road trip

Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:00:00 -0800

My first travelogue. Our Rajasthan road trip.

Site - new beginning

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:00:00 -0800

Back after a *long* time. My own domain, finally! Lots of changes expected, starting with reverse chronological listing for this pane.