Thick-headed imbecile that I am, I’m finally beginning to understand some stuff. I think I understand closures now—just a little bit. Re-learning things I though I already knew is hard… I’m currently playing around a little bit with Javascript—a language weirdly powerful enough to make me re-think my programming style, but not too different from [...]
Thanks to Sunil’s downloading these, I’m halfway through watching the original SICP lectures!
For lack of anything better to say, lets talk about some books I’ve read this month. Writing this down lets me pretend that there’s some justification for the colossal amounts of time I keep wasting. The books, in the order I’ve read them: Crime and Punishment Kafka on the Shore Mad Ship Ship of Destiny [...]
Adobe unveils Apollo, and I’ll have to see a few demos before I make up my mind whether it’s worth playing around with.
I’ve never really tried my hand at writing fiction yet. I’ve wanted to, for a long time. But I just can’t get started. Writing fiction (or trying to) is slightly scary. When not bound by facts, what an artist creates is bound to be more about him than anything else. The fictions we create give [...]
Forsan et hæc olim meminisse iuvabit, which translates to “Perhaps even this will one day be pleasant to look back on”, is a nice motto to live by.
Douglas Crockford’s ‘Advanced Javascript’ lectures are great! Download them from the YUI page…
Backed-up the site, and then upgraded to WordPress 2.1.2 and Simplr 3.0. Had a couple of minor issues at first, but all should be fine now. Let me know if anything’s weird.
Memories of Ice is yet another gem by Steven Erikson. Quote: “Has it not occurred to you that clinical examination of oneself is yet another obsession? What you dissect has to be dead first — that’s the principle of dissection, after all.”
Transliteration is Blogger’s cool new feature. Just amazing. What it does is simple: you type in Hindi stuff phonetically in English, and it converts it into proper Devanāgarī characters. So, by typing in ‘Ankit’ into Blogger’s post page, I get ‘अंकित’. On the fly. Simply too cool. Writing in anything other than English is too [...]