Friday, May 27, 2005
A screenshot of my new box. Even with all these apps loaded, there’s still more than 500M memory free… amazing considering I had half that total on my last box 
Tags: chaff
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Read this. A technical overview of something that I developed for an SMS Yellowpages solution that will hit my city soon.
Feeling a bit more energetic today, so decided to sleep a little less. All I’m seem to be doing these days is sleeping, reading (A good amount of John Ringo) and studying: ordered in the ratio 1000:1:0.1. Will see you guys when life returns to semi-normal.
Tags: chaff • development • me outside
Friday, May 20, 2005
British MP Delivers Blistering War Critique:
“Now, one of the most serious of the mistakes you have made in this set of documents is, to be frank, such a schoolboy howler as to make a fool of the efforts that you have made. You assert on page 19, not once but twice, that the documents that you are referring to cover a different period in time from the documents covered by The Daily Telegraph which were a subject of a libel action won by me in the High Court in England late last year.
“You state that The Daily Telegraph article cited documents from 1992 and 1993 whilst you are dealing with documents dating from 2001. Senator, The Daily Telegraph’s documents date identically to the documents that you were dealing with in your report here. None of The Daily Telegraph’s documents dealt with a period of 1992, 1993. I had never set foot in Iraq until late in 1993 - never in my life. There could possibly be no documents relating to Oil-for-Food matters in 1992, 1993, for the Oil-for-Food scheme did not exist at that time.
“And yet you’ve allocated a full section of this document to claiming that your documents are from a different era to the Daily Telegraph documents when the opposite is true. Your documents and the Daily Telegraph documents deal with exactly the same period.”
I saw this on TV live, and it’s the most amazing defense testimony that I’ve seen to date. John Galloway is a vociferous speaker, and he put the senate commitee in a good damn fix.
Tags: politics
Thursday, May 19, 2005
An incomplete checklist on what should make it to a perfect CMS:
Tags: development
Monday, May 16, 2005
The reason why I’m not posting anything :-). Wish me luck!
Tags: chaff
Monday, May 9, 2005
Google Web Accelerator is mucking up some web pages: The moral of the story though is to properly read the spec. Use GET requests only for simple retrieval actions (idempotent ones), not for deleting messages or other such requests. Use POST for that. Google seems to be following the spec. Very interesting set of comments follow that article.Tags: design • development • web
Sunday, May 8, 2005
This is a very sensitive topic, sensitive mostly cause it’s personal, and so I’m reluctant to write this here. I have a policy (since time immemorial) to keep this blog as less personal as I can. While I’ve deviated along the way, mostly this blog has been about philosophical connivings that have little to do with the outer me. The inner me is well… weird enough that it needs rants (like this) to vent off some ill-used steam.
Anyways, this topic has been preoccupying me for some time now. So I’ll start, as usual, with a definition.
No first, the etymology. This phrase wasn’t coined by me… I first heard it out of DP (aah, another character who’s had but a brief mention in the blogs here, and yeah well… for reasons mentioned above, it’ll stay that way), so I’ll attribute it’s origin to her. However, I’m sure, the concept existed way before she first so elegantly put it into words.
A special friend, is of requirement one of the opposite gender (oh, unless you’re homosexual, in which case, it’s necessarily one of the same gender) who walks the fine line between a friend, a beloved, and a sibling. She’ll stray between those lines a lot, often enough and far enough that these distinct relationships will blur and blur more until you’ll never be able to figure out any fitting defintion. You’ll love such a person… obviously: you’ll be genuinely fond of her, you’ll be proud of her, you’ll adore her, you’ll take care of her, you’ll want to hug her sometimes; you’ll laugh and cry with her, and you’ll try your best never to not lose contact with her. Like Dil Chahta Hai says about a particular relationship: it’s something that cannot be put into words, but which becomes so so important to you.
On the surface, the phenomenon may look like a fabulous (fleeting) infatuation rolled into fondness and some grounds for friendship, and for doubters, it can never be proved otherwise, but you should be able to realize love when you see it 
I’m not a person with many close friends, but I’m pretty sure I’ve never had a ‘special friend’ until a few months ago. And just for feeling what I feel now, I’m insanely grateful that I have her.
Tags: musings
Twitter: Performing surgery to get Kannel to install on OSX. Every other program seems to choke on a nonstandard MySQL location ala Macports. 4 days ago
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Developing Nations License: Seems to be a very focused license, and I’m thinking of adopting this for my projects. 
Monday, May 30, 2005
Playlist: Downloads, free legal downloadable music. Some of them are NICE.
Talkr converts blogs to podcasts. Combined with this, it makes for a very sexy innovation. I’ll look to integrate this soon.
Friday, May 20, 2005
Google: Personalized Homepage. After you’ve customized it, try dragging the boxes around!
Temporary admin for your Limited User account: This sounds like a much needed “sudo” for Windows… One of the most ironical things is that for XP Home and Professional, a non-administrative account (a limited user account) is essentially useless since it’s so crippling whereas in *nix, you can run pretty much anything as non-root. Having some sort of su (“Run As…”) or sudo can ameliorate several security concerns.
SCons looks like a very superior build tool. A rethink of the Makefiles drama was long overdue
Friday, May 6, 2005
Unofficial OpenBSD ports: Currently trying out the openoffice one… I can’t live without having a decent writer.
A History of the GUI, excellent read.
Seems like Tiger is not all roses after all…
Didn’t know PCQ Linux was enough of a major distro that it gets reviewed… I remember this was my first intro to Linux way back. =)
End of the Traditional Operating System?: A very interesting article on Xen.
I was searching around for forum software… the criteria? It has to be fast, clean and opensource… Vanilla seems to be nice. So does bbpress, I especially adore the tags feature… see it in action over at the Wordpress forums.
Thursday, May 5, 2005
Oyzterbay: I love diamonds (and modern jewelry). Dear Oyzterbay, please hire a better webdesigner when you get the time
The Kingdom of Heaven Is Near: The cinematography seems so much like that of the Gladiator that I instantly knew it was a Ridley Scott movie. Is it a good thing or bad to be that distinctive?