I just discovered that it takes one click in Windows 7 to pack all my wallpapers, sound scheme, and Aero color scheme into a single file, and another click to load it onto another Win7 PC. Given that information, I just had to create a pack of my own. Lo and behold, here’s a themepack [...]
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A story with a moral
July 12, 2009 – 5:13 am
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“I am going to just go back to India. I’m just not responsible enough to do anything worthwhile.”
As I stood sweating in the hot summer sun waiting for the 3PM Tom’s Creek A to arrive, I could not seem to find words degrading enough to describe myself. This was my second day in [...]
Editing Wordpress pages using blogging tools
February 26, 2009 – 4:44 pm
I’m a heavy user of TextMate, and use the blogging bundle to create and edit posts. I’m also a heavy user of Wordpress Pages that enable wordpress to be used as a CMS. The one issue that always bugs me with any new Wordpress installation is that you cannot edit pages from XML-RPC blogging tools [...]
The social loop between my foot and my mouth is now complete
November 24, 2008 – 8:02 pm
Since my body and mind are refusing to do any productive work today, I thought I’ll spend some time to post this thought that has been ringing in my head for quite a while. As is pretty clear these days to any social media specialist, there is a very strong personal identity management aspect to [...]
A note on the Delhi blasts
September 13, 2008 – 3:50 pm
I read the news of the blasts today, and it brought back bad memories. I was in Delhi the last time the city was victim to an act of terrorism of an even greater scale. This is what I had to say about it then. I just wanted to post a note on this blog [...]
Read-Write Culture, Lawrence Lessig, and why he should be in the Congress.
February 16, 2008 – 8:35 pm
A few days back, I stumbled onto this TEDTalk by Lawrence Lessig. It’s by far the most convincing description that I’ve come across of the state that our culture and law finds itself in today. Watch it and decide if you’d like to vote for drafting him into the Congress.