Musings – Abhay S. Kushwaha

Today I received 5 comment spams on my blog. My first blog spam!

Adam Kalsey is a well respected developer in the community. So when he wrote a blog post "Why I don’t recommend Firefox", people sat up and noticed what he was talking about. So did I. Adam makes a strong comment and justfiably so that Firefox is not ready for mass consumption yet. Those ‘average’ users […]

The Age of Essays (Through Karan). A very interesting, well researched and well written essay on essays.

Dan Cederholm writes a hillarious ode to the Breast Pocket, or BP. It comes with a nice graphic illustration just in case you had any doubts about what he’s talking about and lists the difference from … ahem … the 4-sides sewn version. 😉 Readers follow up with equally amusing comments.

Kitten-Fight. – By way of Alex King

I have been away a few days. A lot has happened meanwhile: I have shifted to Linux. Karan advised me to use Whitebox Linux. Since my only experience with Linux dates to ’99-’00 when I was managing a 27-node cybercafe with 24 machines running Caldera, and he’s not touched Windows in a *long* time, I […]

C|Net’s News.com has a story about HP’s h6315, co-developed with T-Mobile, which not only is a regular tri-band GSM phone, but switches over to Wi-Fi when it’s available, has GPRS, bluetooth, a built-in camera, a detachable keyboard and can store and play MP3s. Nokia 9500 Communicator is a similarly able phone but that’s not planned […]

Whenever we open the office, it stinks of pigeon shit thanks to about 50-60 pigeons living on the false roof of my office. We sometimes encounter bugs and other little crawlies that have somehow managed to crawl between the fixtures and fallen down in the office. My boss says it’s the responsibility of the landlord […]

I suffer from N.A.D.D.

Life never ceases to amaze me with some rather bizarre incidents popping up every now and then. “I thought, ‘I hope they didn’t bury me on my birthday’,” Lunkov told the Moscow Times after visiting his grave in southeastern Moscow. “But it turns out they did.” 😀 Update: Some other miscellaneous ones. Spider catches a […]

Mozilla Foundation turned one this week. I have been a Mozilla/Firefox user for a long time and have been a fan of Bugzilla since the first day I used it more than a few months ago. The entire project, and their products are simply amazing! Happy Birthday.

In the story Police keelhaul world’s thickest DVD pirate, The Register reports on how an Essex man walked into a Chelmsford Trading Standards office and tried selling to the gobsmacked staff. Peter Martin, Essex County Council’s Trading Standards supremo: This incident will become part of Trading Standards folklore. Okay! I had a feeling that the […]

When you mod your bike, how much do you really do it? A few internal changes perhaps. Most of us end up with plastic surgery mostly — everything superficial. But this guy has modified his bike in a rather interesting manner. Cosmetic changes aside, the hardware maestro has installed a computer on his bike, complete […]