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A change of address

Balaji — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:54:27 +0000

A note for folks who subscribe to the blog via RSS:

Thanks to the Google-Borg buying out Feedburner, I’ve had to change my Feed URL slightly. The new address is http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Balajis_Blog . Please update your subscriptions accordingly (and hopefully you won’t take this as the oppurtunity to unsubscribe from my blog…)

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Not even Prof. Muller can save you now

Balaji — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:06:16 +0000

I’ve been listening to the “Physics for Future Presidents” Lecture Series and was amused to hear Prof. Muller state that while he does watch SF movies and can reconcile most of them with existing scientific theories, he simply could not wrap his head around “The Core” – which as I remembered, won the award for worst movie physics ever. You can read about other movie physics offenders here.

PS: I highly recommend the lecture series – it’s entertaining and a great introduction to critical scientific thinking about recent developments, without requiring the listener to have a science background. iTunes link here.

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A Homily about the Lazyweb

Balaji — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:46:21 +0000

If there is one thing the Lazyweb has taught me, it is this –

You are NOT a special snowflake.

Feel free to add more lazyweb lessons here

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The Universal Filing System?

Balaji — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:28:09 +0000

It struck me that the amount of content that we publish about our lives today on the web is simply staggering.

We write down our bigger ideas and thoughts in blogs, twitter the random everyday things, link to the things we like, take photos of places and things we see, converse with friends on social networks and record all the conversations that we have about these in Instant Messenger logs.

It seems to me in our own unplanned, chaotic and sometimes unreliable fashion, we have brought to life the Akashic records of Hindu philosophy – a record of all human knowledge and experiences.

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It’s like slow torture..

Balaji — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:28:37 +0000

I’ve just realized that for some time now, I’ve been making a new post to this blog about once a month.

It’s almost as if just as this blog appears to be dying a painless natural death – I come along and drag out it’s agony a little further

I have to do better!

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Awwww

Balaji — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:21:59 +0000

I’m a sucker

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A minor landmark

Balaji — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:06:30 +0000

Oh btw, the last post on Orkut was the 100th post on the blog.. heh, I actually made it this far – I surprise myself

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PC aficionado!

Balaji — Sun, 28 May 2006 07:33:42 +0000

Well since I’ve finally begun adding to my game collection again, I’ve crossed the 50 game mark – woo hoo!

And that means I now qualify as PC aficionado as per Gamespot .. check it out:

I totally rule

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All caught up

Balaji — Wed, 17 May 2006 12:40:58 +0000

Well I’ve finally managed to catch up on my backlog of links to post, so I went back to all my Geek News sites today after a fairly long break. And I actually managed to stop at Page 3 of Digg

Fresh links tonight in my blog – woo

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I’m back

Balaji — Mon, 15 May 2006 07:29:11 +0000

Not that anyone missed me , but I have been pretty tardy in posting stuff on the blog.

Work has been pretty bad these last few days but I think I should be getting caught up to some extent today (and till tomorrow).

The main way I plan to get caught up on my backlog of posts (no, not this one); mostly my daily links, is that I will not be visiting any of my favourite Geek News sites till I get all my saved sessions (using SessionSaver) posted.

And then I have to remember to stop clicking on the next page in Digg till I see a story I recognize and say to myself “Ah, I’ve gone through all the stories that have been posted since I last read Digg”