Thursday, September 23, 2021

Dawnshard

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This is an offshoot novella from the main Stormlight Archive series. It takes 2 minor PoV characters from the main series creates an adventu...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Midnight's Children

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I think I might be shifting gears from lots of movie posts to books . Well, technically its only the third book I'm going to mention ri...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Fixing firefox quickfind

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Ever since FF2 I've been hampered with the quick find. Now, its a pretty handy feature but, why the hell would I need a find where I can...
Saturday, July 19, 2008

Down Under

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I've been trying to picking up any non-technical books that are available at our office library. And Bill Bryson's Down Under was o...
Saturday, May 10, 2008

The Search

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I recently finished reading John Battelle's "The Search", which chronicles the rise of search as a valuable business asset and...

Iron Man

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Bringing comic heroes to the movie screens seems to be all the rage now. And the latest, to hit the screens was Iron Man (well, technically...

Wet monkey theory

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You put n monkeys in a cage with a banana (or any food that is of interest to the monkeys) and for some defined period of time discourage t...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Second System Effect

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The second system effect is described in Fred Brooks 'The Mythical Man Month'. It is simply defined as the tendency of the designer...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

IRC woes

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Recently I've realized my long lost love for playing trivia quizzes on irc. I started off on irc://irc.criten.net/#triva when I was wit...

Weekend Hitchcock Marathon

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Last weekend (Feb 23, 2008) I had the misfortune to be left alone in the apartment I shared with room-mates in Bangalore. And being my lazy ...