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.
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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Looking forward to in 2008…
Monday, February 25th, 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 [...]
Murakami
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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!
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
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
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Tor is offering one free ebook a week—good ones, and with very nice quality PDFs. Sign up now.
Copy/Paste
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
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…
Resolution
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
No more buying of books till I get my ‘to read’ count below 40…
World Book Fair, Delhi
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
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 [...]