January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
4 posts
October 2011
5 posts
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Metallica Delhi and what really happened today.
I paid for my ticket and saw what happened at the concert ground today. Metallica could not have got a more sane audience. The barricades had broken shortly after the gates were opened. This was long before the ground was even filling up with people. Those with slightly cheaper tickets were separated by another set of barricades and restricted to an area that was 200-250 metres away from the...
Steve Jobs - 1955 to forever.
In an exam I recently took, there was a writing section where I had to word an essay explaining whether past experiences are important when thinking about solutions to problems of the future. I explained how all solutions are a sum of what we have learnt - a background that only history is able to provide. To understand the context of any problem reasonably well, or to be able to call something a...
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September 2011
4 posts
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Automatic Termination in Lion
So I messed up my entire installation of MAMP by trying to install mod_wsgi, with apache refusing to start as I tried to undo the changes I’d made. So I could think of nothing else, but get rid of MAMP and start afresh. So I deleted my MAMP folder and then emptied the trash. I then suddenly realized that not only did I remove MAMP but also all the CSS from the previous day sitting inside the...
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Movies I Watched (Aug - Sep 2011)
Mausam ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
If you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve seen the movie. It reminds you of how you felt when you watched Drona, if you watched it.
Mere Brother Ki Dulhan ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
There wasn’t a moment where I was bored. Some real fun scenes, and even when things became serious where you’d have expected to see some rona-dhona there’s a comic twist that sustains the...
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July 2011
7 posts
A Word About Unsolicited Redesigns →
If you have good ideas and the talent to execute them and argue for them, the world will still sit up and pay attention even if you take care in your language and show respect to those who don’t see things quite the way you do.
I might not agree with the post in its entirety, but my thoughts do align with this bit. The internet gives you considerable amount of power - there’s a need to...
Crappy phone. Good phone.
Processor, RAM and GPU - All outdated compared to friends’ Android phones. Phone lags while starting apps. Very rarely, but they do crash. Apps work well during use. Usually not unpredictable. They always respond to touch. Phone doesn’t switch off randomly. Apps don’t stop or lag randomly. This makes it seem faster than it is. You don’t need the best hardware. Good software...
How Tech Companies Really Work →
LOLFLMAO
The Internet Is Not Social →
Aditya Mukherjee:
Sharing a website with a “+1″ isn’t social — sitting down with people and discussing it is. As one peels off layers of another person’s presence, that satisfaction reduces in intensity until there is nothing of the person and hence no satisfaction left. The Internet is at the bottom of the presence barrel. It’s as removed from human as removed and as artificial as artificial can...
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What Who Where: OS X Lion →
Guess who posted to ES.
June 2011
7 posts
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Gathering Thoughts
We have a grand annual event at our department which is a symposium of sorts - kind of reminds me of the times at school. When we got companies to sponsor our symposia at school, we worked through our contact list to get people to agree to spend amounts that we would find moderately useful. Sponsorship in the University of Delhi is a whole different game. Many of those who sponsor our event are...
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Movies I Just Watched (June 2011 Edition)
- Going the Distance ★★☆☆☆
For once, I didn’t dislike Drew Barrymore. Honest story; not shown like a fairy tale with events a lot more believable even though they were totally predictable.
- Ramona and Beezus ★★★☆☆
Incredibly cute movie. Yes I would use that word. Love the scenes where Ramona imagines things just like Darsheel does in Taare Zameen Par. Ramona and her dad were obviously...
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MobileNotifier and Activator
If you have Cydia on your iPhone, MobileNotifier is something you must get your hands on. It is available on the repository at “http://phajas.xen.prgmr.com/repo”. It’s iPhone notifications done (mostly) right. Disabling the default and pesky pop-up style notifications, it replaces it with more a more elegant solution that places notifications on top of the status bar. It does...
Full Feed for Give Me Something to Read →
Instapaper has this popular sister website called Give Me Something to Read which recommends good reads around the web. The website is great if you are using a device such as the iPad which has a built in web browser that lets you visit the pages linked on the website and feed.
I had a Nook lying around at home gathering dust, and I randomly popped this question on Twitter: “I need some...
May 2011
15 posts
Life turns a full circle →
I like this bit from the article:
They want the kids to disappear for couple of hours, and go to some far off place, farther than where the Pied Piper of Hamelin would have taken them.
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My aunt writes well. This one is about this generations of parents’ implicit pressure on children. The expectations and the rules of the house have changed; but parents continue to be parents. I...
Patterns by The Band of Skulls
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Movies I Just Watched (May 2011 Edition)
For the first time in two years, I have no television show to watch or catch up with. The current seasons for most shows I’ve followed have ended or are ending this week. So what do I use the time I’ve suddenly found? Watch movies of course.
I’ve seen these, this month:
- Thor ★★★☆☆
Never missed a Marvel/DC movie. This, just as all the other Marvel movies I’ve seen, is...
“So many websites feel like dumping grounds for every last scrap of possible...”
– From Jason Santa Maria’s Elements of Content Strategy
Yep, compelling is the aim. But we do visit the other kind of website too. Maybe not for every last scrap of possible content, but for some of it we do visit such websites. This is a category of websites you would check very often; like...
I spent the last 5 minutes thinking about the 5 things I’ve got to do this summer.
Roughly in the correct order, they are:
1. Finish CS193P: It’s like platform 9¾ but instead of getting you to Hogwarts, it gets you to develop your first iPhone app.
2. Build an iOS app: Because I have to build an app for my summer project in college.
3. Redesign the 2 year old design here: I want...
Thimble →
And you thought you couldn’t build Tumblr themes offline.
Kingsly John hearts @AtulChitnis →
Or something similar. This post from 2006 has got some really juicy stuff.
Privately controlled FOSS.IN, not community... →
From 2008, about how FOSS.IN tried to dictate ‘open’.
April 2011
11 posts
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
Open Letter to FSF →
I’d like to take you up on that and offer both yourself and the FSF the following advice: Stop marginalizing yourself You make a number of very valid points. When a program is distributed without its source code, users don’t have as much control as they would otherwise. Internet censorship is on the rise and presents a serious and credible threat to society. DRM is an example of false scarcity...