I wanted to chronicle my first week experiences (along with my first time ones) at Lancaster, more for personal recording of the things that happened and what I thought about them. The Lectures I started with my lectures and lab sessions, and the d …

When I set out for Lancaster, I set out with no expectations. I’ve learnt that having expectations don’t help. Either the subject meets those expectations and you’re satisfied, or it doesn’t and you’re disappointed. The …

Earlier this year, I began to re-arrange my life around things that should have been priorities but weren’t, for various reasons. One of them was my education and my degree. While it was the least affected out of all the other aspirations I had …

When we write about what we think, we turn something abstract and chaotic into something tangible and understandable. I’m no great writer by any stretch of the imagination, but I try to bring some credibility and character to what I write. That …

I am one of those people who thinks that regardless of the talent and contributions to the sport, Michael Schumacher did more harm than good to Formula 1. He was the spoilt brat of the grid, who got the freedom to do pretty much anything he wanted wh …

Hype, is never used in a positive connotation. Hype is used by people who know that their product lacks real substance and cannot hold the fort on its own. We’ve seen companies use the “hype” to keep people interested, usually the o …

The beauty of life is that it is never too late to fix or change things. There is always time to restructure if something isn’t working. All one has to do is recognise the opportunities, and just run with them. Maybe “opportunities” …

A friend. I’m actually pretty proud of this one. …

I gave a talk at Wordcamp India ‘09 today, and thought about sharing the presentation with people who showed interest in it, or couldn’t make it. SlideShare was being a pain, but I finally managed to upload the presentation in the native …

With the most conventional way of announcing things these days, I let everyone know about my first real job1. It’s been about 3 months I’ve been with the company, and we’ve almost come to the end of a major project. I thought it des …

Today in the technology industry, there are mainly two departments: management and development. Management includes the head honchos, the public relations, and generally all the people who are not involved in the technical side of things. Development …

Regular users of Firefox must have noticed that when they type in a few words in their location bar (instead of a URL), Firefox automatically performs a Google search. If Google is sure about what you’re looking for, it’ll redirect you to …

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 …

It’s not the classes themselves, but what we’re taught that annoys me. This semester was decent, because it involved Data structures and (rather boring) assembly-level programming. But it seems the higher we go in our education, the more …

I’m sure everyone by now has read the infamous Vista sucks… article. I don’t know if it was a deliberate attempt at trying to catch attention, or they really believe what they wrote1, but I really don’t think putting Vista 10t …

Facebook went down today for a couple of hours, citing ‘maintainence’ as the reason. They were down for a couple of ours for ‘me’. I don’t know about the others, since it said ‘your account is not available’. …

It’s truly rare to see a young coder/hacker. While I started when I was 16, not everyone is ‘geek’ enough to do so. Partly to do with this is the whole not cool factor, but a good part is to do with the fact that languages are many, …

Ning had been out for quite a while the whole of today (26th evening for my eastern readers). Readers in that time would have seen my blog going all whack, because all my scripts are stored externally using Steve’s excellent Jscripts repository …

Edit: As the comment by Pete goes, Blogger has added an orderby query string, that can take two values, namely published or updated, depending on how you want your feed ordered. This cuts out Pipes out of the equation as of now, and hence remove the …

Update: There is no need to do this anymore. Check out the update on this post. It seems like at every step of the way, the fact that feeds are becoming ‘the’ way to get information and updates, it turning out to be true. It’s ju …

It has surely been an amazing year for blogs, the Internet, The Last Word, and me. Looking back now, I’d really like to chronicle all the things that made a difference and I’d like to share with everyone. What started off as a relaxing …

As it turns out, I’ve now been tagged by two people. The first, good friend and a hacker in his own right, Efendi. And the other is our very own Avatar, staying on top of everything with the word ‘blog’ in it! He demanded this post …

The notion that something done alone is done well, isn’t really selling well. If you make something that communicates in just one mode, or works with (or for) just one thing, chances are people will lose interest quickly. This is not a rule, an …