Monthly Archives: February 2008

Temeraire

I’m happy to have ordered a box set of the first three Temeraire books… They’re so much fun that I finished the first two in the last three days, sacrificing quite a bit of sleep in the process.

Looking forward to in 2008…

A very incomplete list.

March — a nearly week-long trip to Manali… I love mountains :)
April — will fit in a Mumbai trip somewhere around here
May — plannin’ on running away somewhere on weekends, just to escape from the infamous Delhi heat… a couple of Mumbai trips maybe?
June end-ish — probably going to this beautiful spot… [...]

Extra?

Leap years are freaky.

Murakami

I’m about a third through Dance Dance Dance, and it’s strange how similar each Murakami book I read is. He seems to be re-writing the same characters, and probably improves them over time. I really like his books, but I’d love to read his last book if he perfects his characters by then…

GNOME Do!

GNOME Do is my favourite Ubuntu app right now. I have always felt jealous that Linux users didn’t have anything as good as Quicksilver for Mac; well, now we do 1. I’ve been meaning to write about GNOME Do for a month now, but could never describe it properly. It’s best understood when seen, so [...]

Tor

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Copy/Paste

Sometimes, I want to force everyone to use Emacs, and put this bit of magic into their default site-start.el:

(defun yank ()
(interactive)
(insert "Copy/Paste isn't allowed!"))

Life could so much simpler…

Fanfic

Steven Brust’s released a fanfic Firefly novel: wow shiny!

Resolution

No more buying of books till I get my ‘to read’ count below 40…

World Book Fair, Delhi

I went to the Delhi’s World Book Fair (2008) on Sunday, and here’s the result:

My pile is on the left, my roommate’s on the right. It was huge, I could’t even see all the stalls. I had a hard time deciding what to leave behind, but finally limited my spending to around 2k. Prices were [...]