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Interesting
Did you know that in sh, ksh and bash, the following are equivalent?
$ echo hi >test
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Random Australian Open ramblings
The official Australian Open site says this about Kiefer and Grosjean's game (emphasis mine):
Kiefer vehemently protested a line call before an extraordinary 12th game when the German lost control of his racket and it landed in Grosjean's side of the court. The Frenchman was less than pleased after Kiefer was credited with the point, but managed ( Read more... ) -
Thousand desires
This is a song from the movie Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi-a movie that I liked a lot. It's a beautiful song. Apologies to those who don't know how to read Hindi.
बावरा मन
बावरा मन देखने चला एक सपना - २
बावरे से मन की देखो बावरी हैं बातें - २
बावरी सी धड़कनें हैं, बावरी है सांसे
बावरी सी करवटों से निंदिया दूर भागे
बावरे से नैन चाहे बावरे झरोखों से
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Green Bank
Green Bank hasn't changed. The cafetaria people still don't know what constitutes vegetatian food, it's cold, GBT is impressive (I like the 140ft more though), and I locked myself out of my apartment in the night again. -
Yuganta
I am reading a book called Yuganta (by Irawati Karve) nowadays. Yuganta in Hindi (and Sanskrit) means ‘the end of an epoch’. The book is a collection of essays on the Mahabharata.
The essays are based mostly on different characters in the Mahabharata, including Bhishma, Gandhari, Karna, Yudhishtira, Krishna, Draupadi and Kunti. In each essay, ( Read more... ) -
Good code is a work of art
I read two instances of beautiful (or clever) C code on comp.lang.c over the past few days. Livejournal seems like a good place to make a "bookmark" for them, and tell others about it.
First, a C palindrome:
/**/char q='"',*a="*//**/char q='%c',*a=%c%s%c*/};)]d-062[b=]d[b ( Read more... )
