Vikram's "Muse"

“And this one thing is what gives the confidence, however out of place this confidence might seem, to be absolutely unworried about the permanence of this bond. How can you somehow lose your reflection?” - Vikram

Adam is Trying to Relax – Browsers aren’t letting him…

This resonates big time with what I have been thinking about in terms of browser and related technology. Relax, Everything Is Deeply Intertwingled Firefox (finally) gave me undo in my < textarea >, which is tremendously useful. Please don't stop there. Let me save. Actually, save automatically for me. Let me search. ...

Google Maps Beta

Nice use of browser technologies. Not completely natural UI though - you need to "center" on an area before searching in order to get results relevant to that area. I clicked on Los Angeles and then searched for CalTech to get some useful results. Google Maps

Miguel in town, Nat posts some cool Beagle demos, Update on Beagle for windows

Went to a cool Eritrean place for dinner and to hang out with Miguel (and a bunch of Mono fans) since he is in town for a few days. Interesting discussions ensued about whether "Thick" applications were getting outmoded by "offline-aware" "Thin" "Rich" web-applications. * phew * In other news, nat's ...

Mapping FTP/Webdav to a local drive

While I have often found webdrive very useful I just found a free alternative. Novell® Novell NetDrive is a free tool from Novell that allows you to map a windows network drive to FTP or WebDAV resource. It also allows you to connect to a Novell ifolder server.

June 6th 2010
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Not very live from WWDC…

Figured I would throw my hat in to the ring and forecast what the enigmatic turtlenecked leader would announce tomorrow, and of that - what might be of particular interest to  me... 1) Mac OS - "Hobbes" : I would buy a copy of the new version of Mac OS if ...
May 22nd 2010
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The propensity to dream…

The sun broke out of the clouds then, and it filled the world with sunshine. A few small earthern lamps had filled a boy's hearts with hope in a dilapidated temple decades back. The same brightness and warmth now pervaded the hearts of everyone magnified - from the boy to ...
May 14th 2010
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Things I overheard from myself: Cosmetic Testing

I understand the reasoning behind why animal testing needed to be banned. A question that popped in my head this morning was - if animal testing is gone, what is the alternative? How do cosmetic (and other) manufacturers test to make sure their product does not have short and long ...
May 14th 2010
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Things I overheard from myself…

I like thinking. Except when things at work keep me insanely busy to the point of exhausting every mental pore - I love thinking. In the shower, under warm covers, driving along green tinged roads and even while waiting for certain meetings to end, I am constantly thinking. Intensity might ...
June 11th 2009
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Instant Translations in Bing

The Bing instant answer feature powered by Microsoft Translator went live yesterday. I wanted to highlight some tips and caveats. On availability: This has currently been rolled out to all English and Spanish speaking markets. Other language markets will follow shortly. You get the instant answer if your to: ...