So, it's a usual day at work. I'm browsing the New York Times website, and I come across David Pogue's latest wacky video posting about a neat little program called Delicious Library, that lets you catalogue all the books, videos, music and games that you have. An Excel sheet should do, you say? Not if you have to enter the information manually (of ( Read more... )

Evidence: Sooperb cover of Dylan's classic "All Along The Watchtower".

Serious adrenaline surge, this!

Pick a chord at random in a circle of radius 1 unit. What do you suppose is the probability that the chord intersects a concentric circle of radius 1/2?

Carter Beauford has to be best drummer I've ever heard. His work is unbelieveably crisp and precise, with amazing combo's of the snare and the top-hat. The number of variations and combo's that he has on every song that Dave Matthews Band plays is mind blowing! Check out this video of him drumming to Ants Marching (my favourite DMB song :)...

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About a year ago the French Prime Minister, M. Dominique de Villepin, introduced a law in the parliament of that country to change labour laws as applicable to people under the age of 26. Thanks to a previous socialist government, a 35 hour working week was imposed on the French economy. Market forces took care of the effects of that law, as ( Read more... )

The Hindu has always been a fairly left-of-center publication. However, off late, it seems to have veered off into another region of redness. Witness, this article in the Frontline magazine affiliated to The Hindu. Besides the fact that many numbers and accusations are thrown around without citation, the very last piece is most telling, especially ( Read more... )

This one makes me flail about like an epileptic :)

Watch Carter beat them drums, I say!

All you can do is eat that humble pie.

Indulge my driveling for a paragraph: The music I enjoy the most is the type that I can go back to again and again - but only because there are so many variations, in speed, beats, nuances that it keeps my attention. Like Money. I can never get over the awesome sax solo portion, followed by Gilmore doing his magic. The song clearly has stages, but ( Read more... )