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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Everything is Miscellaneous
Monday, May 28th, 2007
David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous talk has some fun moments.
The Unconsoled
Sunday, May 27th, 2007
I had started reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled last year, but didn’t get into it much. I felt it was a bit intriguing, but too weird for me to take up at that time. Last week, when I was late for work one morning, and looking for a book to read while commuting, I finally [...]
Wordnet and Emacs
Friday, May 25th, 2007
Something else I did to pass the time. This is going into my posts.el file, with the keybinding C-c w.
(defun get-current-word ()
"Returns the current, or the last entered word."
(save-excursion
(backward-word)
(setq start (point))
(forward-word)
(setq end (point))
[...]
Reader stats
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
I just went over to the Trends page at Google Reader, and here’s what they say:
From your 148 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 2,502 items, starred 0 items, and shared 12 items.
I was shocked for a minute, then I realized most of the items I’ve ‘read’ are from the [...]
Google Experimental
Saturday, May 19th, 2007
Check out some up-and-coming Google features at the Experimental Search page.
The Timeline view seems very interesting, but it does not seem complete just yet, and I don’t particularly know how it works. There results are quite sparse, which is surprising.
The Keyboard Shortcuts feature is cool. Use j, k to navigate, o or Enter to open [...]
New UI
Friday, May 18th, 2007
I’m un-decided about Google’s new interface. Google Analytics’ new interface, on the other hand, rocks.
Epic Fantasy
Saturday, May 12th, 2007
Stephen Donaldson’s essay on Epic Fantasy is a must read.
An excerpt, where he’s talking about Tolkien:
He restored the epic to English literature. Roughly a century after the epic became an impossible literary form, he made it possible to write epics again.
But — a crucial but — he [...]
The Elegance Paradox
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
The Elegance Paradox is this: to create elegance requires entirely inelegant preparation, but nobody should be able to see that. How many times have you said to yourself “that person makes it look so easy.” [via Reddit]