Past couple of days have been slow around here, with my end of term exams, my new job at Racked Hosting, and my faulty hardware. I’ve been quite busy, and realised there is no reason to make updating Geekaholic a stressful and deadline-oriented …

Boy does it look ugly, except for some parts. A more detailed write-up later in the day. …

On the 8th of May, I was drawn to chatter about a new hangout for Indian tweeters: #indiatwits at irc.freenode.org. I decided to give it a shot and see what the fuss was all about. Things just snowballed from there (get the whole time line over at th …

In reply to a tweet about wanting PUSH-based construct for web applications, @prasnation pointed me to Comet, which Wikipedia defines as a “WWW architecture in which a web server sends data to a client program (normally a web browser) asynchron …

There is a very nice saying from the movie The Dead Pool: Opinions are like assholes. Everybody’s got one and everyone thinks everyone else’s stinks. Blogging is a glamorous way of sharing your opinion. On the big stage. Where many …

I’ll start with the punch-line: Decentralisation is not the solution to scale a service like Twitter. Those who suggest it are not getting the bigger issue. Twitter is not about the service, but the experience. Its ability to initiate conversat …

Google Reader caches the feeds that you subscribe to, not from the time you’ve subscribed to it, but from the time the first person (to ever subscribe to that feed) subscribed to it. I am guessing this works the other way around, with the feed …

Jonathan Snook raised the point of CSS resets, and being a designer of his calibre, deserves to be heard when he says anything. I certainly do, and respect his opinions. However, when he said that he doesn’t use a reset for his projects, I did …