Category Archives: Trivia
Apple’s Tablet!
Watching the live feed now…..event is on…
“Last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it” says the WSJ
10.24 AM: Steve says “We want to kick of 2010 by introducing a magical and revolutionary product today”.
And there you go..
10:30AM “What is the battery life like? We’ve [...]
Let’s go exploring :)
Happy New Year folks! Glad you are back. So where do we go this year?
With too many friends and acquaintances flouting their new year resolutions, I was under too much peer pressure to come up with a couple of em. But I miserably procrastinated, and lo 2010 is 1 week old and I don’t have any [...]
Pirate Latitudes and Superfreakonomics
I guess the most awaited books of the year. Pre-ordered both on Amazon.
Michael Crichton was my first favourite author. If Great Train Robbery and Eaters of the dead are any indicators, Crichton does period dramas with elan. Pirate Latitudes was discovered as a complete manuscript in his files after his death in 2008.
The Pirate Latitude [...]
Zoo ‘n d rain
Like the leapord, the rest of the city was blanketed inside the heavy showers – sleeping. And I for one found out that Leopards are solitary animals except during mating season. Then again if you sleep for sixteen hours a day, you’ll mostly end up solitary, ha lonely.
Visiting Trivandrum Zoo after close to a decade, [...]
Compiling RAM Drive
I remember the IIT geek who taught us C Programming in third Sem. He would go on and on about debugging in the time of punch cards and about how lucky we were. Little did that poor soul know about a Visual Studio in the making.
Ramadorai and early days of TCS profiled in Economist; in [...]
Thus spake..