From the department of too-many-generalizations-from-too-little-data again: a little bit of armchair theorizing about BitTorrent (especially public BitTorrent trackers) as a reliable distribution mechanism. Let me clarify that I’m not talking about reliability in terms of whether the data arrives without errors or even whether the data is really what it …
Wrapping up the series with some thoughts on two things that bug me about modern standards-based Web design / CMS: Why is Base HREF dead? This probably reveals just how old-school a HTML coder I am, but I can still remember the days when Base HREF was a Big Thing. …
Drawing conclusion from the actions of a single individual is not very good research, but draw your own conclusions from this little anecdote. My boss at work till very recently owned a Nokia N95 – despite all it’s gee whiz features, he primarily used it for two things – phone …
In the weeks leading up to the launch of this blog, I had a single colour in mind – a particular shade of green that proved surprisingly fickle to catch and indeed, I was envious of those who had found it. In case you were wondering, here is that colour …
*Pulls out giant roll of paper, starts reading…* "I’d like to thank my mother, my father, my wife, my camera for not screwing up like it usually does, the statue that stayed still… " But seriously, this is the absolute high-point of my brief photographic career – having not one, …
I have always had mixed feelings about linkblogging – on one hand, I read a lot and it seems natural that I would come across interesting articles that other folks might enjoy. In the back of my mind however, I think of linkblogging as slagging off from the more "real" …
I think I’ve worked out most of the kinks in moving the blog to it’s new home, so I thought I would spend a little time talking about some of the challenges and ideas behind this shift. But first a little bit of history – I originally started blogging on …
This post is aimed at the folks who subscribe to my blog via RSS (If you don’t, why not start now? 
) If you are seeing this, then it means I have managed to flip the switches in the right order and big changes have happened! Come take a …
I had seen tweetstats a while back, but Biz Stone recently tweeted about it again so I gave it a shot again and it is just as cool as I remember it :-). So here’s my tweetstats graph and some analysis (( I could give you a URL to see …
As to where I first came across a recommendation for Richard Rhodes’ books on Nuclear bombs, my memory fails me. But few books I have read stretched me like “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” and “Dark Sun” have. For someone who prides himself on being able to read a …