I'm about to write something that I basically never do: a review of a CD. But, in classical Milind style, I'm first going to preface it with some navel-gazing about why I basically never do these things ( Read more... )

Finally, in a fit of non-procrastination, I have put up the photos from our India trip. They're not sorted yet, so there are just 450+ of them in one large directory. I hope to get them all sorted into sub-albums this afternoon some time. Until then, check them out here.
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So still no India stories, as my lazy self hasn't gotten around to getting the pictures off my camera and assorted CDs. But I have yet more post-India stories! Actually, I just wanted to claim that I owned jet-lag (or is that "pwn3d j37-l49?"). Two days after getting back from India, and I am pretty much completely over it (and I was pretty much ( Read more... )

I think my full-fledged India write-ups will likely wait until I've sorted through all the pictures I took (I was shooting at 3MP and filled up all my memory cards twice. I'm pretty sure I took somewhere north of 500 pictures) and jogged my memory. But there is an interesting story from my trip back home yesterday.
First, a bit of background: ( Read more... )

Well, there it is. I'm back from India, having spent approximately 40 hours in transit. There is much to write and much to see, but that will probably wait until I've gotten over jet lag.
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And I'm off to India for three weeks. I'll catch up with everyone when I get back!
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This may be possibly the most "Journal-like" update in quite a while. For those of you who don't know, I'm out in Livermore, California for the summer, working at LLNL. I'd tell you what I'm working on, but then I'd have to kill you. Ok, not really - I'm working on source-to-source compilers. But that's not nearly as cool ( Read more... )

RIP, PowerPC Macs.
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It occurs to me, after writing the post immediately prior, that I often start out on posts/essays/ramblings/rants like that with great momentum, and a sense of purpose. Eventually, though (by paragraph 4, or so), I run out of steam. It's not that I get bored with the topic. I just get bored with writing in general. I no longer feel like putting in ( Read more... )

Today, Wachovia apologized because a couple of banks that eventually became part of the company used to own slaves. Leaving aside whether or not an apology was appropriate (I'd have to say it is: your company accepted slaves as collateral. That's some sick stuff), it actually set me to thinking, as I am wont to do, on a bit of a tangent ( Read more... )