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I felt this article growing upon me as I returned from my last trip to mumbai. All those phrases and play-of-words that suddenly took shape in my head, as swiftly as the clouds that appear on a hot summer afternoon and pour their hearts out, now elude me. There were some rather juicy things I wanted to say to the world then. But its been such a ( Read more... )

fellow bloggers who look in here occasionly: a happy new year to you all :-)
no lame excuses from me for being so absent from the blog world. i'm kind of caught up.
will be back to more active blogging soon.

...and time to get really good ideas is the shitbox, early in the morning.
ps: with apologies to the sensitive.

marks an epoch. doesnt it?
Lenovo Buys IBM's PC Business for $1.25 Billion (Update7)

the sun goes down the other side of the hill. there is a straight line in the sky. its a cloud. you could mistake it for a neon sign hanging in the sky. the setting sun has lit it up. the sun goes down. sunset. the glow of the neon sign slowly lessens. and then after some time is just resembles the ambers in a furnace. waiting to go out.

here is a tip for folks installing required patches on any machine. these things have a tendency to procastinate. you go and try installing the patches and the system gets too enthusiastic. it nudges you to keep installing more and more patches under the ruse of dependencies. me thinks installing patches must be akin to slow music, champagne and ( Read more... )

...and perfectly cold and beastly weather today. esp when the common cold virus has made itself at home in the throat.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/04/south_asia_painful_memories/html/1.stm

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