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An eclectic mix of thoughts and views on life both in meat-space and in cyber-space, focusing more on the informal observational/inspirational aspect than academic rigour.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Web Comics Redux

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If you have been paying attention to the side bar labelled Web Comics , you would have realised that it has been steadily increasing in size...
Friday, November 28, 2008

iRex Digital Reader 1000S---Arrived!

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Without much fanfare, my iRex Digital Reader has arrived. Check it out: The text is pretty sharp in spite of having only 16-levels of grayn...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Waiting...

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And so begins a three-day lull period, except for the fact that it is not technically lull, since I actually have to do non-trivial stuff, ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

c|3n1z3|\| 0f t3h c|_u5+3rz

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It is somewhat official---I am semi-officially known to be a denizen of ``The Cluster'', and am one of the ``cluster-folk''....
Monday, November 24, 2008

The Daily WTF

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Something fun to read: The Daily WTF . Essentially a web site containing various stories about horrific programming errors that should neve...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Semester Close

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The semester close begins innocently enough just about a month before it actually begins. You don't realise much, until the time sudden...
Friday, November 21, 2008

Kiltie Band on Youtube!

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Here's a clip of the band that I play in, and the rendition of ``Fight for the Glory of Carnegie'' on homecoming weekend with ol...
Monday, November 17, 2008

``Pretty Typing `Part Deux' With Small Bugs''---Working... Sort Of...

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I have managed to port the script that I used for my portal such that it can be a more general purpose prettifier. This means that I can s...

``Pretty Typing''---It Is Really Nice...

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It all began because I didn't want to type “ and ” for the stuff that I write in my own portal , that and the need t...
Friday, November 14, 2008

On Helping People

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It has been such a long 24 hours, possibly one of the longest 24 hours that I have had in a while. With deadlines looming so close, there...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Two-day Crunch Down

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Today marks the beginning of the crunch down that is going to span two days. What an irritating thing really, having so many things that ar...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Dead Fantasy

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Woah, scary: Dead or Alive meets Final Fantasy in this indie flick. It has little/no plot, but it does feature the main heroines from both ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Mother

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Something really sad/interesting/touching from the cesspool of the Internet: For some reason, I have this sudden impulse to run back to my m...
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Sunday, November 09, 2008

All Xubuntu Are Intrepid Ibex

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How strange it is to bat an eyelid, and find that the week has passed us by ever so quickly. One moment we were trying to rush through the ...
Friday, November 07, 2008

Intrepid Ibex Xubuntu on Edythe-EEE

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Take a look at this screen capture: This is the stock Xubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) that I managed to get installed on Edythe-EEE. The insta...
Thursday, November 06, 2008

Michael Crichton—Dead

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Yet another iconic figure has fallen to the natural course of life. Michael Crichton was one of my favourite authors, and probably can be s...
Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Patched Jeans

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So I finally got off my ass and patched the articles of clothing that were sporting various rips and tears in the seamwork/fabric. My jeans...

Caribbean Queen

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And another nice piece from Billy Ocean: And here are the lyrics: She dashed by me in painted on jeans And all heads turned 'cause she w...

Suddenly

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For some odd reason, I woke up this morning with the words "suddenly, life has new meaning for me" stuck in my head. Check it out...

Fixing Tags…

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Am fixing some things on the blog…I wonder if it is all going to work.
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