… you end up with this: My flow is so intense that I will overflow your buffer, Corrupt your stack pointer makin’ all your data suffer. I’ve got saturated edges but your flow is sparser, Real gangstas sip on Yacc; instead you generate a parser. While you’re busy poppin’ stacks I’ll pop a cap in […]
Monthly Archives: June 2005
The Podcast experience
For the uninitiated, podcasting is like a radio show that you regularly subscribe to, the podcasting software that you use downloads the mp3s of the show for you so that you can listen to it whenever/wherever you like. The difference is that anybody can start a radio show and anybody can subscribe. That’s right, just […]
Crouching Tiger Hidden Productivity
Introduction I’ve been using Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on my Apple PowerBook since nearly a month now….. I can’t help but think “this is how computers should be”. I’m trying to understand and jot down my thoughts on why it has made me more productive and why it is such a pleasure to […]
UnderestimatedTwiki
TWiki must be one of the most underestimated tools out there. We use it quite extensively at Yahoo!. What is TWiki? Officially, it is a “Enterprise Collaboration Platform” (yawn). What that means is that it is a wiki software that is meant to be used for intranet information. I’ve used it minimally so far mainly […]
Firefox has become cranky?
Is anybody else experiencing frequent Firefox crashes after upgrading to 1.0.4 ? 0.9 to 1.0.2 were rock solid. I wonder what’s up with this latest version.
Ode to the Moonwalker
So, Jacko might leave America… he is no longer popular or admired but he’s still the King of Pop music. So, I wrote this following so-called ode on a whim. It’s up to you to decide what to make of it….. MJ has become a ghost of himself but now he can scream that he […]
Book Tagged
Both Vignesh and JD have book-tagged me, so I am obliged to present to the world my choice of books… hmm… so here goes… Total number of books I own : Around 30 techie books and 10 general books. Most of the time, I borrow books from the Eloor Library, so I don’t own as […]
How do you attain self-discipline?
The five pillars of self-discipline are: Acceptance Will power Hard work Industry Persistence Pavlina is going to start a series of posts on ‘the meaning of life’ from the day after tomorrow. Also, those 5 pillars can be remembered as “A WHIP”. It sure helped me whip myself to shape :) P.S. Rules for Survival.
An OS in the browser
Somebody in the internal lists pointed out to this – A whole Unix-like OS that runs in your browser. That is just incredibly crazy. Try vi. It works.
Ajax experts wanted
Yahoo! Bangalore is looking for companies in Bangalore who can do DHTML and Ajax (for contractual work) or even experts who can be hired. Please let me know if you have any recommendations.