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, …
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, …
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 …