Note: this post isn’t too user-friendly, so beware.
I’ve heard that Macs have a nice global spell-check system. I’ve never used a Mac, but having a single spelling checker at the OS-level seems like a good idea. You won’t need to train the spell-checks embedded in each application individually.
I used to have a hack on Windows [...]
I read Stephen King’s On Writing a couple of weeks back. This book had been on my to-read list for years—I don’t even remember now where I first heard about it. Somehow I never got around to ordering it, and when I did finally get my own copy some six months back, somehow I couldn’t [...]
Prélude: Every once in a while, I get the urge to write something ‘serious’. I always feel embarrassed afterwards, but what the hell, I’m posting this anyway.
I wouldn’t go so far as to call myself an atheist—other people can claim that honour. Atheism is serious, and religion is something I don’t care for enough to [...]
I know a lot of things, but ask me what I know and I’m at a loss at what to say.
We’re the Google generation—all the information in the world is just a search away. I think we can’t help being affected by that.
I know a lot of things, but don’t have a lot [...]
Google mentioned that they’re going to unveil a ‘gift’ for it’s Indian users—I was hoping it would turn out to be an Indian version of Google Finance but it seems to be Google Labs India, which is an India-centric version of Google Labs.
They have released an Indic (Hindi) Transliteration tool, which is the same as [...]
We’re defined by our limits: what we can not do and what we will not do.
There are so many things I can’t do, so most of the times I end up thinking about the things I can do. While it is a much more comforting endeavor, it does not tend to lead one onward in [...]
I write everything on this site in emacs of course. I finally got around to organizing the myriad Emacs Lisp hacks I use into a common file: presenting posts.el.
Features:
Commands for converting Markdown/Textile into HTML.
Key bindings for the same.
Rudimentary (and buggy) Markdown syntax highlighting for emacs.
Functions for easily typing some unicode characters (via).
It’s not pretty, [...]
I’ve never really tried my hand at writing fiction yet. I’ve wanted to, for a long time. But I just can’t get started.
Writing fiction (or trying to) is slightly scary. When not bound by facts, what an artist creates is bound to be more about him than anything else. The fictions we create give away [...]
Transliteration is Blogger’s cool new feature. Just amazing.
What it does is simple: you type in Hindi stuff phonetically in English, and it converts it into proper Devanāgarī characters. So, by typing in ‘Ankit’ into Blogger’s post page, I get ‘अंकित’. On the fly. Simply too cool.
Writing in anything other than English is too hard. [...]
Another screencast, this time on how I write my posts, using emacs:
Looking at it, I cringe at the way I’m typing. I must be screencast-shy or something. What the hell, don’t have the time to re-create it. Though I didn’t have a script prepared, so this is pretty good on the first shot.
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