Polar Singularity

> Me: Whatever I do is between me and my conscience. Who are you to tell me? [a moments silence, droplet’s falling in the bucket from the soaked roof in my sleep] Them: We are your conscience! Conscience is a moral faculty. This voice within is not intellectually reached,…

Google Code Project Hosting

Just found that Google released a Project Hosting [http://code.google.com/hosting/] service for open source / sandbox project deployments at Google Code – something like SourceForge [http://www.sf.net].…

The World's Most Addictive Game

The Box Game [http://66.197.187.149/~magipcom/mostaddictinggame.html] is said to be the world’s most addictive game. U.S. Air Force pilots have been known to average a score of more than 60 seconds. Sweet!…

WordPress Update

I’ve finally updated the blog to WordPress [http://www.wordpress.org] 2.0.4 (latest). I was earlier running version 1.5 with a custom mod of the Orange Sky theme and a couple of plugins. The update process [http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress] was quite straight-forward (files,…

Menwhopause album is out

Yesterday I received a nice message from Satish, the manager of the desi rock band – Menwhopause [http://www.menwhopause.com/], that the band has released their new album “Home” and it can be downloaded online. You can also catchup with these guys through their blog [http://blog.myspace.com/menwhopause]…

How I saved over $4000 on software?

Is the “free software [http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html]” revolution a myth or a temporary trend? I don’t think so. Being a technology evangelist myself, who’s been involved in software usage & construction for over 10 years, I feel that “free software” has a tremendous…