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Fragile Bits
I am sure like my family yours too has black and white, perhaps sepia toned photographs of people from another time. These might have switched hands a couple of times down the decades and their original keepers are long gone.
I have been wondering about the contrast of this with the longevity of mementos from the life of a digital native: digital ( Read more... ) -
Lesson in candidness
I was driving a dear 10 year old friend to my place and as we approached the house...
He: Do you know that man (pointing to somebody taking a stroll)
Me: Nope. I don't know many people in my neighbourhood
He: (Thinks about it for a second then looks at me straight) Are you lonely?
Pause at the gravity of the question.
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Impressions from India
Having recovered from jetlag I decided to pen down impressions from my recent trip.
India Unbound:
Thats the name of the book I fortuitously picked up from my Dad's bookshelf.
It tells the story of the India waking up from the slumber of a mixed economy to a capitalist frenzy.
I gained a few eyeopening insights that deserve another post but here's a ( Read more... ) -
Criminal Intent
Since I haven't owned a TV in a decade I get my TV series in heavy doses on DVD. I've been pretty hooked to Law and Order:CI and before I was past the first season I started to see broad patterns on how to convert a hunch into incriminating evidence.
You have to be as cool as detective Goren to get that hunch but that really is only half the battle ( Read more... ) -
In India
I'll be visting the old country in the 2nd and 3rd weeks of May.
Will be in Calcutta and B'lore.
Just drop me a line if you want to meet up.
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Listening to the Dalai Lama.
Thanks to a Tibetan friend of mine I got to attend a public talk by the great man in Seattle ( Read more... ) -
Break on through to the other side...
After 1.5 yrs here I am finally coding in Kernel!
You could say I got shortchanged having waited this long (given the job desc) but for now I am a happy camper.
Bring on the blue screens! I am playing with the big boys now :D
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Zen on 16F
On my 6+ hrs flight back from NYC yesterday I was seated next to this lady who stitched diligently for the entire duration.
That got me thinking: When was the last time I did anything for half a dozen hours straight. (except maybe a marathon debug session)
At the end of it I told her how impressed I was with her random act of attentiveness and she ( Read more... )