Say hello to a NaNoWriMo winner. I wrote a 50,000 word novel within the last 30 days. For the last 30 days I have been writing without thinking a lot. So this post might be plenteous. I don’t have a single reason why I participated in the competition. Here are some: * I wanted to [...]
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F1 has been hardly hit by the financial crisis. Honda has pulled out and many team are facing the pinch. The F1 regularoty body has introduced a slew of changes to reduce the cost of racing, increase overtaking so the game is more fun and less expensive. F1 rules are really complicated, there are many [...]
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I was getting a weird error whenever I invovked Ruby interpreter. Like ruby script\server or ruby script\console. The error message ended with “no such file to load — digest.so”. I reinstalled Ruby, but the error came back. I learned from a Google groups message that the error was due to AVG quarantining the digest.so file. [...]
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One of my pet peeves while copy pasting is that the formatting gets copied always. Like, if I copy a text which is BOLD and I paste it elsewhere the text is pasted in BOLD. This is really annoying when you copy text from a web page or a document that I did not prepare, [...]
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Dell has been selling Ubuntu loaded computers for long time. I think it is a very important move for Linux desktop. But Dell seems to be using Ubuntu to its advantage rather than passing the cost savings to the customers. Today I found this deal in deals2buy.com. A Dell M1330 loaded with Ubuntu (30 day [...]
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I spent the spring break in Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Washington DC. I was working with the web branch team to create RSS feeds for a few sections of the websites. The RSS feeds had to manually generated for two reasons. The website uses a CMS that didn’t support RSS natively. Many sections were not [...]
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At spock,com – you can search for people. Type in any persons name – it lists their city, photo, related people, news and any other related links. Spock has crawled the web and created ready made profiles. The website was launched in August’07 to provide “richest people search experience on the web.” Once you find [...]
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I wasted many hours in shopping for the right product. Once a desire to acquire something comes to my mind I start debating its need. The minute I convince myself that I need the product or service. I start the process of “hunting for the right product”. Of course there no such thing as “right [...]
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Ubuntu 7.10 more affectionately called Gusty Gibbons was released today. It is phenomenal how a open source community can consistently deliver new OS releases. I have not used a lot of Linux distributions, but Ubuntu has improved consistently. I can say with confidence that it is ready for the masses. I encourage everyone to try [...]
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