Monthly Archives: August 2008

Stover

I finally own Matt Stover’s two earlier books: Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon (bought via Abebooks). Can’t wait to start reading!

SVN one liner

Useful one-liner that removes all Thumbs.db files from your SVN: svn rm `find . -name Thumbs.db | xargs`

Dell parts

I was going through some of my old cameraphone pics, and came across a really neat picture I had taken that shows all replacement parts sent over by Dell to fix my laptop. It’s worth taking a look at, so I posted it on Flickr.

Chick lit

Was roaming around Noida’s Sector 18 Friday night. A Network 18 reporter came up to me holding a book (plus a mic), and very cheerfully asked me whether I read ‘chick lit’. I immediately said ‘No’, of course. Without thinking. She gave me a really disappointed look and walked away looking for other interview candidates. [...]

Bradbury

I finally ordered Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes yesterday. I think it’s been five years now since I decided to buy that book—somehow I’ve managed to always put it off till now. Have too many expectations now, hope it’s great.

Current desktop (2008/08/18)

My current desktop configuration… More on its flickr page.

Notebooks

Got a very nice mini-notebook yesterday (A6 sized). Am beginning to feel like a stationary-geek…

Blogs DNA

Sandip has been blogging quite a bit about technology over at Blogs DNA.