Awesome comment on this reddit story: “Times are tight. I spend my days and nights combing over Knuth's collected works to try and make ends meet. Why, just last month I found enough errors to buy myself enough cabbage for 7 meals.”
The latest version of Gnome Do rocks! A big thanks to all involved in development.
I’m gonna start re-reading Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshalle; hopefully finish both of ’em again until Caine Black Knife gets here.
I started reading Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother around 9:30ish last night. Cory gives his books away for free, under a creative commons license. I was reading the HTML version. It was so good that I literally finished the whole book at one go, at around 3am today; a fact that my eyes have been complaining [...]
Or, the part where I can’t get my mobile phone working I have an Airtel phone post-paid mobile phone connection, registered in the Delhi/NCR region. I had planned to use the same number (on roaming) in Mumbai, and hang on to it till next June, when number portability hopefully kicks in. There was only one [...]
I bought a 500Gb external hard drive recently—and for some time had been using flyback to backup my home folder there. I used to take a weekly backup, but after time, I stopped being so regular. It has been months now since I last took a backup, so I decided to start afresh. This time, [...]
I moved to Noida last September, and tomorrow I’ll go back to Mumbai. I’m still working for Imfinity, but from Mumbai. I’m going to be working from home—ideally, geographic location shouldn’t make a difference in the IT world, and I guess I’ll find out whether that’s true in the coming months. This was the first [...]
Amazon has shipped my copy of Caine: Black Knife. Estimated delivery date: 20th November. Yay!
I’ve finally uploaded pictures of my Himachal trip to my Flickr stream. Start watching from this one.