Yesterday, I attended the LINDEC 2004 or "Linux Desktop Conference 2004" organized by gnomebangalore.org backed by Novell. The chief geek was none other than Nat Friedman. It’s interesting to note that the conference was held at PESIT, yep, my alma mater. We never had these kinda things w.r.t. open source when we were in collegeContinue reading “LINDEC 2004”
Monthly Archives: September 2004
22nd over
Today’s my birthday! In cricket terms, it’s the 22nd over and I’m still batting strong!! :D Ha Ha!
Design process of Thunderbird Logo
How the Thunderbird logo was designed – this is such an eye candy page for sure. And the website design is also soooo cool.
Yahoo and Creative Commons
Here’s something you didn’t know about the Yahoo search engine before – you can search for Creative Commons licensed pages using it. Very interesting.
Internet Radio
I’m doing a late-nighter at work today… so I thought of listening to some music while doing the hackathon, but I’ve got bored of the ones on my hard disk. So, how about internet radio? Well, I switched to FC2 on my office box, so I can’t use Yahoo Messenger 6 Launchcast radio, but wait,Continue reading “Internet Radio”
Recursive searching
I thought I’d take some time out and read up on Python metaclasses, so I entered "python metaclasses" in the google (yeah, google) search bar in Firefox and pressed go and guess what I was looking at – my own blog post! :-O
Gloomy Weather
It’s such a gloomy weather here in Bangalore… sigh. It’s been raining cats and dogs and as a result I got cold, cough and fever… and I’m just recovering now. However, I did manage to read ‘Ignited Minds’ by Abdul Kalam over the weekend. All I can say is wow. I’ve been inspired by Kalam.Continue reading “Gloomy Weather”
Python – Metaclasses, Decorators and other funky stuff
I really have to learn about Python metaclasses! Here’s what I’m talking about: Are decorators really that different from metaclasses.. Proposal for removing self Before I forget, something which every Python user ( including me ;) ) should read: General Python FAQ
Website reloaded!
So, I finally upload the new version of my website. It has taken a long time and I’ve stopped blogging quite some time ago as well. Now, my website and blog are "coming back to life"! I had originally planned to use WordPress, I had even hacked it up and got the perfect look forContinue reading “Website reloaded!”