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08/20/09--23:53: Shorty (chan 1278664)

Short URLs are all the rage. Everybody knows how they work — they might have some favourites too — so I won’t get into the whole “if you’ve been living under a rock” routine. If you have been living under a rock, Wikipedia explains the concept pretty nicely. It’s not such a big deal, but Twitter [...]


08/30/09--21:37: Process (chan 1278664)

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 is, of course, after I have decided what to write about. I believe [...]


09/08/09--02:08: Linked List (chan 1278664)

Linked lists are something I considered (past tense. I’ll get to it in a minute) almost a necessity for every weblog to have. After all, directing traffic towards interesting things is what makes the Internet go around. We cannot find things worthy of our attention all by ourselves, so jumping through linked lists is one [...]


09/14/09--01:37: Tumbling (chan 1278664)

Part of spending a lot of time on my own is that my mind is full of a lot of things. From the asinine to the important, some of these don’t need to be written down. But at the opposite end of the spectrum, some of them do, if for nothing else but put down [...]


09/22/09--03:52: Web Applications Are Not the Future (chan 1278664)

Web applications are pretty amazing; amazing enough to convince a company like Google to invest all their money and efforts into developing them exclusively, and start wooing enterprise customers towards using them. They have a lot to offer, least of which is anywhere access to data and operating system independence. Most desktop applications today have [...]


09/24/09--22:09: Change — Big Change (chan 1278664)

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 from my life, it’s the most (or at least, should be) [...]


10/05/09--00:47: Lancaster, and Lancaster University (chan 1278664)

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 negative outweighs the positive, and past experience has taught me that there are more chances of being disappointed. So when [...]


10/13/09--06:36: Lancaster, and Lancaster University Part Two: First Week (chan 1278664)

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 description I came up with to explain them to my parents is [...]


10/25/09--03:41: Staying Apple (chan 1278664)

It was one heck of a week for the consumer section of the computer industry. Apple’s revamp coming just two days before the launch of Windows 7. Both the releases were good in their own space. They injected some excitement into an industry that lost its sheen a couple of years ago and has remained [...]


11/17/09--16:38: Näkemiin Räkä (chan 1278664)

It’s not like me to write tributes. It’s not like me to admire sports persons either — I don’t believe someone deserves admiration just because he can throw or run farther and faster than others. But this one comes from the heart. I admire him not only because he’s easily one of the greats (if [...]