Musings - Abhay S. Kushwaha

I had to call a client in US. This is what happened in a series of emails.
Me: Could you let me know when I can call you?
Client: How about 6 PM EST?
Me: Uh… that’s a bit late for me (3:30 am my time). Could we do it a bit sooner?
Client: Sure! How about 3 PM [...]

Some random links that have been lying around, waiting for the next post…

2000 year old Date Palm comes Alive!
Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?
40 (And Growing) Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Post Your Picture on the Internet
Keyboard Stuff:

Typewriter -> Keyboard Mod… Whoa!
A $80 keyboard
Optimus Keyboard

Is American President Bush a Sith Lord?
Picture of Everything
Venice in MS Paint [...]

Thanks to Ricardo for giving me the inspiration for this post’s title.
There are now, to my knowledge, 4 active blogs from Sylpheed-Claws developers:

Colin
Hoa
Paul
Ricardo

Of the two more known to me, Alfons seems to have shut down his blog and looks like Thorsten has a girlfriend again.
A whole lot more SC user blogs are going [...]

After a super job of correcting IMAP, Colin has started work on printing in Sylpheed-Claws. This was perhaps one of the biggest issues in SC and it’s wonderful to see him getting his hands dirty on this. Paul tells me this was the first commit after v1.9.12 (released today) too.
Whoo!
Now only if Thorsten [...]

I’ve not worked with him much but boy, does this guy have a sense of humour! I’ve wanted to work with him for a long time but opportunity has never presented itself. We chat once in a while. This conversation happened a couple of days back.
Client: dude… where is (name omitted)? im gonna kill him
Me: [...]

One of those moments…
Client: They are certain to notice.
Me: Yes, they are doing that. I noticed them noticing me and I noticed that they noticed that I noticed them noticing me.
… duh.

Welcome to the world of blogging Paz!

When Vinish upgraded to WP 1.5 and then applied a theme, I too gave in and selected this excellent them called Orange Sky by Nao. Had to do some editing of the template files to make a few things working but I like what I have here. I might even keep it for some time.
PS: [...]

So now I’m a contributing member at The Razor9.

The razor9 is best described as a ‘collective blog’. A bunch of people, from all over the place, dropping in posts / links / information .. and random thoughts.

This was started some time ago by Karan and has been lying in dormancy for most of its existence. [...]

I have noticed that in work hours, I reply to all my business mail within 10 minutes of receiving them. It has not gone into 11th minute since the last 3 days that I started noticing it. That has to be good by some standard.

Maninder at office sent me over to Company Bypasses Cookie-Deleting Consumers story.

The New York company on Thursday unveiled what it calls PIE, or persistent identification element, a technology that’s uploaded to a browser and restores deleted cookies. In addition, PIE, which can’t be easily removed, can also act as a cookie backup, since it [...]

Well, not really. I don’t remember when I signed up for the account but I never really used it till recently when I showed a friend some of my pics. So I set up three sets:

Pluto’s Photos (my dog)
Office Parties
Me & Mine

I quickly filled up my 100 photos quota and was about to upgrade to [...]

So I finally got some time on my hands and spent the last 30 minutes in backing up the database, the old files and upgrading the blogging software to WordPress 1.5 from 1.2.2. For the uninitiated, no, I did not re-design the blog—the default look of WordPress has changed. Be assued however that I will [...]

Written English conversations provide for a lot of funny moments.

I have been putting off doing some upgrades to my system here at office for some time now. I guess now is the time to go ahead and do them:

RAMI had 512Mb RAM a few weeks ago (266Mhz) but I saw that WinXP was using 500+ Mb of page file all the time and a [...]

Internet surfing will be tracked by the FBI with a non-intrusive method.
Sing it to you
Painting - Pure Talent
SnowDays is my favourite. And a cousin called Snowflake Maker
The Flathead Calendar 883
Paint.Net - A MS Paint replacement developed in association with Microsoft in .NET.
Google 2004 Zeitgeist
Commercial Cat Cloning
Windows XP 2 - The inside story
Flash Games:

Season’s Beatings and [...]

Going through my blog today, I noticed many of my posts are nothing but individual link dumps—suggesting a link blog. It’s not one and will never be.
Individual link posts are useless. They get lost in the clutter. Nobody remembers the posts, and the title/description used could be witty enough to be something that has nothing [...]

One thing that I’m finding increasingly happening on blogs and something I just don’t get is the need to make predictions. You go anywhere and somebody is either predicting or pointing to such a prediction either agreeing or disagreeing.
I call this The Soothsayer Effect.
But really, what’s the point? It’s so darned easy to predict something [...]

Since this is a week old news, I’m sure everybody who has a blog knows by now that according to BBC, blog is the Word of the Year.

More patent insanity. This time it’s for landing pages that appear when users initially start their browser at public hotspots to enable them to log on, select items such as bandwidth and billing options, etc.
Recently Jim Rapoza also wrote about two stupid patents on eWeek as well.
This is getting pretty ridiculous.