Once you recover from being sick (be it just a slight fever and cold), everything seems to be so optimistic, for a time.
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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Writing Formats
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
I am a plain-text maniac—I try to keep as much of my life in plain text 1 as possible. I write everything posted on this site in Markdown syntax, and manually export it to HTML before posting. I keep records of my reading/etc in org-mode. I abhor MS Word files, and if I have to [...]
Abebooks
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
I ordered a couple of books from Abebooks.com on Monday, and they’ve already been shipped from the vendors. Loving the service, no Indian site has been this prompt. Just have to wait out the 20-30 days’ international shipping time now… The books were cheap, including the shipping cost. Am also loving the Dollar’s slump against [...]
Rails is shitty
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Rails is shitty from c.l.l—“100% magic with 0% design” is probably why it’s so popular as well.
Sharing
Friday, January 18th, 2008
More than half of my shared items are xkcd strips… I just can’t resist.
PHP people
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Are there any decent PHP programmers in Delhi/NOIDA? Drop me a mail and we’ll chat…
Recent books—Daryaganj and more
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
I went to Daryaganj again last Sunday and bought me some new books. Eon by Greg Bear (finished reading) The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart (hardcover) Hyperion by Dan Simmons Smith of Wooten Major and Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien (almost done) Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger A Long Way Down by [...]
Prevent Emacs from touching your whitespace
Monday, January 7th, 2008
I’m modifying some existing code (PHP, uggh) that is not that well laid out. There is judicious use of both tabs and spaces. Indentation is a mess. Emacs helpfully corrects all that automatically; which would be cool 99% of the time. In this case, all this automatic cleanup screws up the diffs for my version [...]
Sennheiser HD 201
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
OK, I spent quite a lot of time looking around today, and finally bought myself a brand new Sennheiser HD 201. The sound quality is really good, it covers my whole ear so I don’t have to deal with a lot of ambient noise, and it’s light. I think these are the best headphones for [...]
Breaking stuff
Saturday, January 5th, 2008
I’ve managed to somehow break my headphones (Philips SHP805), so now it’s time to find a new pair.