Standing near the PVR Multiplex (The Forum, Koramangala) Ticket Booking Windows along with the BLUG BoF gang yesterday, and suddenly the status screens flashed. Then we saw it -- "This page cannot be displayed!"


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[ Context: Photography ]

After yesterday's goof-up with the photos I shot with Nikon at Geoffrey's, I started reading more about Cameras in general, and SLR Cameras in particular. Found some good explanations: SLR , TLR. TLR sounds interesting, though I found it's a technology that didn't gain much popularity and not many people use it today. ( Read more... )

[ Context: Programming ]

Wrote a Perl script after a while. Whoops! Had to look up perldoc and google to quickly gather examples of different things I was trying to do. Didn't take much time apart from that taken up by lookup itself.

The code in the script looks like this right now:

} elsif ($ln=~m/^!\s+(#\S+)\s+\d+\s+(\w+)/) {
Now, it needs to ( Read more... )

[ Context: Web, Communities ]

Joined orkut. Got the invite from machinshin.

A lot from the LJ crowd seem to be there. If you are in my list of Friends on LJ, and need an invite, let me know at: manish at livejournal dot com . Here's me on Orkut.

BTW, there's not much to make available as 'premium features' (context)...

[ Context: Web Tools, Google ]

OK, you've seen Beagle -- cool tool!

Google has come out with Google Desktop (beta, obviously).
The requirements are: "Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+".

And ever since, on Slashdot and otherwise, many people have been spotted wondering why Google has been 'Windows Centric' with all these things (another example: ( Read more... )

[ Context: Society ]

Just how much screwed is screwed society?

Couple told to become siblings

:-|

[ Context: Programming ]

< palomer > I think the performance of C++ would actually
improve with a good garbage collector
< mauke > C++ is a language, it doesn't have a performance
< Swish > you're implying the programmer doesn't know how to
manage memory as quickly as a generalized piece of code
< Swish > I'm ( Read more... )

[ Context: Humor, Misconceptions about Technology ]

Laugh your way!

Read this:
Is Your Son A Computer Hacker

So... are you one? ;-)

[ Context: Technology, Patents ]

"Kodak owns a patent which describes a way for a piece of software to "ask for help" from another application. What they are claiming is that Sun violates this patent when Java byte code uses the Java engine to run the code. This may really upset the industry, because not only Sun uses this technology for Java but ( Read more... )

So Thunderbird is everywhere and people seem to have forgotten Sylpheed-Claws ...

:-|