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Points of light

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:49:00 -0500

This year's Diwali snap got a bit late. As they say, better late than never.

Shell

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:04:00 -0500

The remains of the Officer's Club building on Alcatraz Island. The building was destroyed by a fire in 1970.

City by the bay

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:04:00 -0500

"There may not be life outside San Francisco, but there is parking."

-- Hot-selling fridge magnet at Pier 39

Don't mess with me

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:32:00 -0400

He just realized he's just a collection of Lego blocks and he doesn't like it. I took this in California Legoland. A beautiful place.

Looking up

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:41:00 -0400

Took this while on the Bay cruise in San Francisco.

International Kindle coming soon

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:26:19 -0400

This was faster than I’d expected. Starting soon, the Kindle will ship in an international wireless edition allowing downloads to the Kindle from outside the US as well as within. This is really good news.I like how the Amazon kindle page now says “Kindle: Hello World”.[via Wired]

Lula da Silva on Brazils win

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:53:57 -0400

Even Obama wouldn’t have been able to beat this one. From the BBC:The other countries made proposals. We presented a heart and a soul.I confess to you if I die right now my life would have been worth it.

Nice to see this on Google today

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:55:09 -0400

Links for 2009-09-14 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

"Ready, Fire, Aim" Market Reform - O'Reilly Radar

Storm Front Jim Butcher

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:29:52 -0400

Decided to give the Dresden Files series a try based on the recommendation of friends. It’s a fantasy series, only set in modern Chicago. The main character, Harry Dresden, is a wizard, master of spells and deals with demons and the like.I’ve always been interested in what a fantasy story in the modern setting would [...]

Thoughts on the Kindle

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:12:13 -0400

My friends gave me a Kindle as a farewell gift as I left Singapore (thanks!), and it has been a lot of fun. As an avid reader, I’d thought long and hard about e-book readers, but with so many options and such new technology, never had the nerve to pick one up.To sum it up, [...]

Broadcom STA driver in Fedora 11

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:11:43 -0400

So, the new Fedora 11 Leonidas is finally here. I stayed up to install it on my brand new laptop. Everything works out of the box, except wireless, and that only because Fedora insists on open source purity, so they won’t ship a binary driver. I did have some problems, though, so I’m just documenting [...]

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Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT

YouTube - Mad Avenue Blues
Funny :)

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Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Google Squared
a-w-e-s-o-m-e

The technobabble podcast

Sun, 31 May 2009 21:17:47 -0400

A few friends over at the techno-babble mailing list decided it would be fun to try doing a podcast. The geeks among you may want to give our first attempt a listen at http://techno-cast.blogspot.com/

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Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O - O'Reilly Radar

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Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT

India's massive general election - The Big Picture
Amazing photographs

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Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Genius - The Modern View - NYTimes.com

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Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Cat Amasses Half A Million Twitter Followers
God help us all

Mind stopping

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:18:45 -0400

In an ancient Buddhist monastery in china, there was to be a competition to decide who follows in the master’s footsteps. Each monk that wished to come forward was to write a poem showing his understanding of Zen. The most advanced student, whom everyone expected to win, wrote the following:The body is the Bodhi TreeThe [...]

Land of fancy

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:34:00 -0400

The only update this week as I have to travel. After grand canyon, we arrived in Sin City. More snaps from Vegas coming up next week.

The Ent

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:26:00 -0400

The closest thing to an Ent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ent) I've ever seen.

Flying

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:26:00 -0400

"There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."--Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The open road

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:26:00 -0400

Can't deny that roads are one of my favourite subjects!

Spiral 2

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:26:00 -0400

Another view from the middle of the spiral staircase in the watchtower. American Indian art decorates the walls and ceiling.

The Alpha and The Omega

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:06:06 -0400

I am not God.– Sachin Tendulkar, April 16, 2001I was winding down work on a regular evening; but I remained glued to my desk following the match on Cricinfo — till the little master got out, disappointingly, before making a century. Nothing remarkable about that, really. Except that I’ve been repeating that pattern in one [...]

Where Chrome is headed

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:02:54 -0400

Really long time since I posted. To those who’ve been checking back, extremely sorry – I’ve been deluged with work, research and job hunting among other things.What brings me back from the writers’ grave is the release of Google’s Chrome browser. On their blog, they called it a fresh take on the browser, and thats [...]