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This blog will no longer be updated. Kindly remove the RSS feed from your readers. In the words of Jim Morrison: This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the endSo long, and thanks for all the fish!

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Inspired by Vivek, I have decided to migrate this blog to Wordpress. I had been playing around with Wordpress for quite some time and now that they have an import feature, there was no reason for me to say no to a powerful blogging software.So please update your RSS Readers and visit me at my new Wordpress Blog

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Currently on project at Switzerland. Did some sightseeing on the weekend and here are the snaps.

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The Technique:Open image in GIMP or any other photo manipulation program. Select from Menu: Layer -> Colors -> Hue-Saturation. Click the radio button of the colors you DON'T want in the image. Set their saturation level to -100. From Flickr Technique

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For quite some time, I have been unable to update my Flickr photostream for a simple reason. My camera was undergoing repairs at the authorized Fuji repair center. While I had given the camera to the repair center quite some time back, they were dragging their feet as the part (Power Circuit Board) was not easily available in India.One mail to Fuji guys and they swing into action. Harmeet, the

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Some people I know, use the email Subject line to draft the complete email. I recently received an email with the subject: If anyone has access to analyst reports on Videocon Industries/links where I can access these reports, can you please forward the same to me urgently - Thanks EOMFor some strange reason I find such emails very irritating. Is it because they convey a sense of "I am too busy to

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Cowards of the Year: They came, they saw, they caved in. Fast Company profiles 10 antiheroes who turned their backs on what they knew to be right. And guess who tops the list?AjaxWrite: The look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based AJAX platform.The Rorschach Test

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Here is a list of highly recommended of graphical novels. I have a few of them (marked with an *), am looking for others. If you have any of those and wish to exchange, drop me a line. If you feel there are others which are worth reading, let me know via the comments section.Bone by Jeff Smith (*)Concrete: The Human Dilemma by Paul Chadwick (*)Contract with God by Will Eisner (*)New York the Big

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Tsomgo Lake, Indo-China Border, 12400 ft.Hotel Nor Khill, GangtokMore photos from my Sikkim Trip here.

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Collage of night of celebration after three days of training at E&Y Senior Consultant School. Some more snaps from S.O.A.R have been uploaded here.In the meanwhile, I finally managed to lay my hands on Will Eisner's Contract with God and New York: The Big City. Currently reading Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art and Charles Burns's Blackhole.Will be proceeding on a long

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Slow, languid, relaxed, melodic! No wonder, Kind of Blue holds the record for being the best selling Jazz album of all times. Even a beginner like me could easily follow the whole album. And the best part, unlike albums released today, each and every piece is worth listening to.Ashley Kahn in his excellent book Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece points out, "Copies of the

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Sometime back, Jake or Sumo, had raved about a new Graphic Novel series Y - The Last Man. And as I read it, I can see why.In the summer of 2002, something simultaneously kills every mammal possessing a Y chromosome - including embryos, fertilized eggs, and even sperm - with the exception of Yorick Brown, a young amateur escape artist, and his Capuchin monkey, Ampersand. So far, I have finished

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The Login ScreenThe DesktopMy ComputerFirefox The new Mac look and feel on a Windows desktop courtesy of Potrait of a Kite.

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Around July last year, I decided one of my major priorities for the next 6 months would be to get in shape. My logic was simple: a body is like a machine. If a machine can be hacked, so can the human body. All it requires is will and dedication. Project Hack the Body was underway.A quick visit to the neighbourhood gym revealed how badly out of shape I was. I was 5'6" and weighed 81 Kgs. My Body

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Overheard in a Bombay local:Passenger 1: God! I have a bad headache.Passenger 2: Kahan pe? Sar main?

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Currently listening to John Coltrane's Blue Train. Besides being first album that Coltrane released under his own name as a bandleader, it was also his personal favourite. While all tracks are amazingly good, do listen to the high energy Locomotion and the rhythmic Blue Train. While many people love the slow I'm Old Fashioned, I found it a bit out of place in this fast paced bebop album. Other

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My friend Sumo has an interesting contest running at his blog. In Sumo's words: I have run out of shelf space for my new books and am in no mood to pack them off in cardboard boxes. Over the next few weeks, I am going to give away some of my books to caring book-lovers. The books are going to go out as prizes to the series of quizzes that are going to be posted here. And I get to be the judge :)

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Via News.com:In a bit of unintended humor, Wall Street closed Apple's stock Tuesday, the day the company unveiled its first Intel processor-based computers at Macworld, at $80.86.That may mean nothing to the average person, but techies will no doubt catch the accidental reference to Intel's 8086, the 1978 processor that spawned the x86 architecture that PC users are so familiar with.

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Sumo Man, this one is for you!Q1. According to Swedish folklore, they were a race of short people (probably escaped slaves) who used to live in Scandinavia. They cultivated land which others felt could not be used easily and lived in homesteads called hackehemman. Name this race that eventually died out.A. HackersQ2. This hacker enjoyed a particular Russian author's seemingly absurd yet

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Was checking Google Video for some stuff and was surprised to complete Hindi movies uploaded by people. Some of the movies you can download are:Dilwale Dulhaniya Le JayengeMunna Bhai MBBS: CD I, CDIIKoi Mil GayaSwades: CD I, CD IIApharanDisco DancerNeal and NikkiMr. ya MissEk Khiladi, Ek Hasina: CD I, CD IIYou should add the file extension .flv to the end after downloading. You will also require

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Single Trivia Question: Whose email ID was recently revealed to be chunkylover53@aol.com?

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Just read the back cover of a book titled Armor and got hooked immediately. This is the blurb for John Steakley's masterpiece: The planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable, the water poisonous. It is the home of the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered.Body armor has been devised for the commando forces that are to be dropped on

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Continuing with yesterday's post related to Password Cracking, here are some more utilities that you may find useful: (via Digg)MessenPassMessenPass is a password recovery tool that reveals the passwords of quite a few Instant Messaging Applications.Asterisk LoggerAutomatically reveals the passwords stored behind the asterisks ('***') in standard password text-boxes of Windows.Protected Storage

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Nothing is more irritating than finishing a book (Hyperion) and finding that you have to read another to complete the story (The Fall of Hyperion).That crib aside, Hyperion is an extremely well written novel. Dan Simmons tells an engrossing tale by interlocking the stories of 7 travellers who are on a pilgrimage to the Time Tombs on Hyperion. They are on the way to Hyperion to make a request of

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Because knowing all passwords is cooler than trying to crack one.Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on Philippe Oechslin's faster time-memory trade-off using Rainbow tables. This program can crack 99.9% of passwords of length 1 to 14 containing uppercase letters, lowercase letters and numbers. This happens because of two weaknesses in the way LM Hash is implemented:- Passwords longer

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Just finished Vernor Vinge's excellent True Names. Currently reading A Fire upon the Deep by the same author. Others in line include:John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider & The Sheep look upAlfred Bester's The Stars my DestinationDan Simmonss' Hyperion Douglas Coupland's Microserfs

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Sometime back Anand posted about DrDivX and I decided to give it a try. I have so far been a big fan of GordianKnot, but lets face it: GordianKnot's interface is really a pain in the rear part of the anatomy. After downloading and installing DrDivX, I realized it requires DivX codec.As I prefer Mplayer as my default media player, I had to download the package from DivX.com and during the

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Riya's face recognition technology allows automatic tagging of your photos. According to their website, Riya can recognize & tag faces, signs and events.The software looks damn cool. It is rumored that Google has expressed an interest in acquiring the company. Beyond home users, this kind of automatic face recognition software would be a big help to organizations like Interpol, CIA, FBI etc. Or

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Twofifty.org is an interesting application that lets you keep track of the IMDB Top 250 movies that you have seen. [via Anand]The set of IMDB Top 250 that I have viewed is available here.

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Often I need to draft quick notes to myself. These could be a set of interesting links that I plan to explore later, a list of actionable items or maybe simply a set of important dates I need to remember. Sometimes these notes need to be edited at a later point in time. These days I have started using Gmail for this purpose. I compose a mail and save it as a draft. The Subject line is usually a

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GRR Martin's eagerly awaited A Feast for Crows is out. Currently in the process of finishing that. The last few weeks have been good. Got time to finish:Neil Gaiman's American GodsNeil Gaiman's NeverwhereJonathan Stroud's The Amulet of SamarkandJonathan Stroud's The Golem's EyeMalcolm Gladwell's BlinkTerry Pratchett's Reaper ManEdward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats (not too impressed with this one)

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There will be no updates on this blog from 1st Nov to 10th Nov. Will be taking a nice lil vacation. :-)

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Anand had posted sometime back about the 1940 classic His Girl Friday (174th in the IMDB Top 250 movies) being in public domain and available for download from Archive.org. But at 3.3 Gb for the MPEG2 format, it is a whooping download.Yesterday, while browsing DVDs at the local mall, I found a copy of His Girl Friday and it was for just 99 bucks. I also picked up Sonny Chiba's The Street Fighter

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1. What is the claim to fame of Sir Christopher Standish?2. His father served as a cabin boy to Christopher Columbus, discovered desert mesa which became known as "Walker's Table" and was later killed in a fateful pirate raid. His son married Christopher Columbus' grand-daughter Marabella. Who are we talking about?3. Connect the following: Jimmy Wells, Melville Horton, Prince Pepe, Matt Matton,

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Q1. What is located at a large country estate at 1407 Graymalkin Lane in Salem Center, a city in Westchester County, New York?Q2. This group originally consisted of five teenagers: Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Warren Worthington, Hank McCoy and Bobby Drake. How do we better know this group?Q3. Erik Magnus Lehnsherr is the sole member of his family to have survived Auschwitz. But we know him better

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On your Windows desktop, right click your mouse and choose Properties from the context menu that appears. Next select the Appearance tab and then click the Effects button. In the pop-up window that appears, select "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts:" and then choose ClearType from the dropdown menu.Click OK and Apply your changes. You will find a dramatic improvement in the

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2000 people have sailed the globe1400 have climbed Mt. Everest450 have been into Space180 have been to the PolesTo date, there have been only 32 successful attempts at rowing Solo across the Atlantic. My friend from Reliance days is attempting something truly phenomenal. Starting in December 2005, Bhavik will attempt to row 5000 kms across the Atlantic Ocean, from Spain to Barbados. While I am

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http://reader.google.com/

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If the original story be so riveting, Frank Miller's adaptation will obviously be brilliant. The best dialogue from the Graphic Novel:Persian Emisarry: One hundred nations descend upon you! Our arrows will blot out the sun.Spartan (sardonically): Then we will fight in the shade.

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Humans tend to repay favors done to them. The act of accepting a favor makes us want to repay that “debt” in a suitable manner at the earliest possible time. This works across cultures, across geographies and across time too.In his book on Influence, Cialdini mentions experiments carried out by Dr. Dennis Regan. Dr. Regan had volunteers working in pairs on a research project that purportedly was

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Once a human mind has made a commitment, it tends to remain consistent to that commitment. If such a commitment is made publicly, the person is even more likely to stick to that commitment. Thus, you can increase compliance to your request, if you were to somehow extract a commitment to a cause/idea before making the request. This makes it an important tool of Influence.According to Cialdini,

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Over the next seven days, I will post about the various techniques of Influence. We start of with the Scarcity Principle.The principle is simple: humans covet that which is scarce. The desirability of things goes up if they are not easily available. This principle can often be used to influence people’s behavior and gain compliance from them.Shackleton’s Way has a beautiful example of the usage

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Sun chief takes a few hilarious pot-shots at rivals. From the article:Shortly after introducing servers based on Sun's new UltraSparc IV+ processor, McNealy showed a slide picturing him in jeans and Ellison in characteristically sharp attire. "That suit! You can buy 14 of our new servers for that suit," McNealy quipped.

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Like Pandora, this site is for Books.

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Netvibes:- Browse, modify, and import your RSS feeds. - Import, download and listen to podcasts without any additional software.- Check your e-mail on one or many Gmail accounts.- Stick web notes and weather updates.WritelyWritely is a web word processor that provides simple and secure document collaboration and publishing on the web using only the browser.PandoraHelps you discover more music you

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Dealing with email overload? Stever Robbins offers some really helpful tips.

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For the first time in 10 years, Hayao Miyazaki has agreed to an interview. In a rare interview, he talks to Xan Brooks about life, universe and everything.From the article:There is a rumour that when Harvey Weinstein was charged with handling the US release of Princess Mononoke, Miyazaki sent him a samurai sword in the post. Attached to the blade was a stark message: "No cuts."

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Hotaru no haka: Grave of the FirefliesIf a movie has been reviewed 477 times on Amazon and has received an average rating of 5 stars, then it certainly needs to be watched.

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Yahoo is apparently coming out with a new Beta version of Y!Mail. Features include three-pane window with folders in the left vertical pane, mail list top right, and a message preview pane below the headers, an ability to drag and drop mails to different folders, key board shortcuts and new context menus. If you have a yahoo.com address, get invited to try the Beta.

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Google Blog SearchCondename Microsoft Max

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Can anyone suggest a good open source / free RSS reader application for Windows XP? I rather liked Feed Demon but I dont think I can shell out $30 for an RSS reader application yet. Also Sage is not good enough.

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365 Tomorrows is a collaborative project designed to present readers with one new piece of short speculative fiction each day for one year. Check out their archives for some nifty stories.

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From Flow: The Psychology of Optimal ExperienceYet we have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, master of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.This is what we

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From Daily Kos.While they were evidently simply quoting Bush but the way the phrase was structured made it perfect for a double entendre. Hats off to the Irish!

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Derrick Story, author of Digital Photography Pocket Guide, has listed his top 10 Digital Photography tips. Most of them are the kind that make you go, Aha! The Slow Motion Water tip, in my opinion, is the coolest of the lot.

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For those who need help getting organized: PocketModAccording to the site:The PocketMod is a new way to keep yourself organized. Lets face it, PDA's are to expensive and cumbersome, and organizers are bulky and hard to carry around. Nothing beats a folded up piece of paper. That is until now. With the PocketMod, you can carry around the days notes, keep them organized in any way you wish, then

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Very Addictive: N GameArrow keys to move left and right.Shift to jump.Space to begin the game.Enjoy

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Google Talk, in its current state, is hardly something I would expect from the Google stables. While openness is always welcome, GTalk hardly has anything special in terms of features. Trying to connect the various dots, here is what I perceive to be Google Talk's real purpose:Google Talk is not really meant for the desktop. Google recently acquired Android, a start-up developing applications

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The Top 100: Hilarious!

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Wired talks about the various Anime series and how US mainstream media is just picking these up. The part I liked the best was:One possible successor to the throne caught the eye of Lycos 50 two weeks ago. It's another martial-arts comedy, called Naruto, that premieres Sept. 10 on Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block. The site noted that the popularity of the series in web searches has

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20% of Americans think that the sun revolves around the earth.How would the Vi editor look if it were designed by Microsoft? Watch a computer think before making a move in chess.The problem with Google TalkGoogle Hacked?Everything you need on a USB drive.Folding a shirt

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... Google acquired a Telecom company?Wi-Fi plans, Google Talk and Dark Fiber purchases... would they make any more sense?

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Had been to my old haunt: Paperbak (at Thane) to pick up some new books. If I have not pitched Mahesh's shop earlier, let me do so now. If you live in/around Thane and are desperately looking for books, just email Mahesh at paperbak at vsnl.com and you can be sure he will get them within a week or so.Anyway, onto the books. Flow had been recommended to me by quite a few people. Was lucky as

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For the first few days after the launch of Google Talk, I had a wierd problem. I could log into GTalk from office but not from home. Whenever I tried from the laptop at home, Google Talk would give the error message "Could Not Authenticate to Server".What made it really strange was the fact that the office laptop was behind a firewall/proxy combo while the home laptop was directly connected to

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Close your eyes and think of someone very close to you. Now imagine someone:- Piercing this person's ears with hot rods- Puncturing this person's eyes, gouging them out- Inflicting burns on his body using cigarettes- Breaking his bones and teeth- And after torturing him in this brutal fashion for over 22 days, shooting him dead.This is what the Pakistani army did to Lt. Saurabh Kalia of the 4th

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Chand Man... For you!Q1. Shildon Glashow, Gerald Weinberg and Steven Feinberg are all Nobel laureates in Physics. When they were schoolmates in the Bronx High School for Science, they regularly wrote for a science fiction magazine called ETAOINSHRDLU. What is the origin of this rather weird name?Q2. Johannes George Bednorz and Kane Alexander Mahler of IBM won the 1987 Physics Nobel Prize for

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Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.If you know the service is gonna be down for more than a couple of hours (as is the case with Gmail currently), kindly let the users know. Telling them to try again in a few minutes is simply wrong.Rant aside, does anyone have any idea what is wrong with Gmail and why it is down

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Claude E. Shannon first used this word in a 1948 paper. Shannon's bit is a portmanteau word for binary digit. What is the word? While working on a project constituted by Sun and Apache to create a web server for Java servlets and JSPs, the team would often meet in a conference room named ______. They later used the name of this conference room as the name of the project. What project? What

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Some useful links for the photography enthusiasts:Wikipedia: Photographic Terms PageLuminous Landscape: TutorialsJodie Coston: Photography TutorialsBBC: How to take good photographsGood TutorialsEarthbound Light: Photo Tips ArchivesDPreview: Photographic Composition TechniquesAgfaPhoto: For the total beginnersKen Rockwell: How to do anything photographic

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Net connectivity at home is down. So no posts for a long time. Hopefully should be up in a couple of days. Meanwhile, check out some new images that have been uploaded to Lightsensitive.

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Should Google buy Skype? If yes, for how much?This thought was triggered by this post from I, Cringely.And yes, Uma,I am very much alive. No, the monsoons did not get me. Thanks for asking. :-)

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Josh Kaufman started a discussion on Personal MBA which according to him is an entrepreneurial approach to business education. As a part of this project, Josh has now come out with 40 titles that cover general MBA topics in an efficient manner. I am currently reading David Allen's Getting Things Done which is already mentioned in the list. Are there any good books which you have read and can be

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Given my interest in Graphical Novels, I found this Photoshop modification real neat:The Original Image: Animesh KumarModified Image: Comic Book StyleThe small thumbnail doesn't do justice to the technique that helped create these images. Check the 1024x768 sized image of Animesh and Ranjit to get a feel for how realistically the script produces Comic Book images from real photos. The creator of

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Aha... for the first time, a submission of mine was accepted and posted onto Slashdot. Cool!

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Ladies & Gentlemen, The best thing since sliced bread; Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space is now available as a free download thanks to the good folks over at Archive.org. Guess the story will be on Slashdot by the end of day. Start your downloads before the Archive.org gets slashdotted.For those not in the know, here is the wikipedia entry for Plan 9 from Outer Space:Plan 9 from Outer Space is a

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I am sure most of us, at some time or the other, have had this experience. You go to a book shop, find a book that interests you. This could be for a variety of reasons: you have heard a lot about the author, the blurb seems interesting, every one seems to be reading it these days. Whatever!You spend some 500 - 600 bucks on the book and once you start reading the book you realize that you are not

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A box of matches, a power failure, a camera and an idle mind mixed together. What do you get? A long exposure shot with the burning matchstick being moved around in random fashion.Dying to try this out with a Diwali sparkler!

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Got two classic Frank Miller Graphic Novels: The Dark Knight Returns and The Dark Knight Strikes Again. The Dark Knight Returns is believed by many to be Miller's best work ever! Miller's tale is dark and set in the near future. In this series, the caped crusader's demons and obsessions completely submerge his sane alter ego Bruce Wayne. And Batman, a violent obssessed vigilante, poles apart from

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Spotted on two T-shirts outside Vashi Station:1. I think, therefore I am single.2. Not all men are foolish, some remain single.Have you had any Aha! moments with T-Shirt one liners?

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There are times when you need to take a shot at low shutter speeds without a tripod. By hit and trial I have found that I manage stable shots upto shutter speed of 15 (or 1/15th of a second). At shutter speeds lower than that, I invariably get some jitter. Here is a way to deal with the problem:Place the strap around your neck, extend it till it is taut (see figure above). Place arms as close to

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Neil Gaiman's critically acclaimed The Sandman is original, sophisticated and artistically impressive. Unlike most other Graphic Novels, it exists outside the superhero genre and beautifully combines elements of mythology, world history, mystery and fantasy. And each issue features amazingly surrealistic covers by Dave McKean. If you can lay your hands on The Sandman, go get it!On an unrelated

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Just finished another graphic novel: X-Men: Phoenix Endsong. Now I know why some of my friends rant and rave about X-Men. The ink work is amazingly beautiful. Click on the Read More link below to check a sample of the ink work.

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From the Google Video Upload website: Your work deserves to be seen.You've made a great video. Now who will watch it? Whether you produce hundreds of titles a year or just a few, you can give your videos the recognition and visibility they deserve by promoting them on Google - for free. Signing up for the Google Video Upload Program will connect your work with users who are most likely to want to

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The Photoblog: lightsensitive.blogspot.com

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Came across this website via Chirag's blog. From the Huhcorp main page: Our consulting ideas will entice and excite you. Our professional design solutions will give you the confidence to succeed. And our web site will make you think we know what we're doing.Our name will confuse you, but, you have to admit, the logo design is pretty cool. And we're good at turning regular words into "e-words,"

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Sometimes we could all do with an extra hand...

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No more creating multiple accounts on Flickr just to upload new photos!Thanks to Tech God Binu, I now have a Pro Flickr account. The professional account has a 2 GB monthly upload limit with unlimited photosets and other hazaar options. This should be more than enough for my needs.

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For those who use the Firefox browser:Outfoxed enables you to use your network of trusted friends to determine what's good, bad, and dangerous on the Internet. Outfoxed allows you to use the opinion of your friends who are experts in certain areas. For example: you might want to use Nilesh's opinion when buying a digital camera or Beatzo's when looking at movie review sites.Beyond that,

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Here are some more pics from my photography expedition the last Sunday:

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Lazy Sunday evening; been raining in Mumbai for the past two days. Nothing like the overcast skies to take some nice photographs. Here are some new snaps:High resolution (1024x768) images available on my Flickr page.

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What I am listening to these days:Buddy Guy & Junior Wells: The Real Blues Charlie Parker: The Birds Best Bop on Verve Dave Brubeck: Greatest Hits Howlin' Wolf: The Chess Box SetJohn Coltrane: Coltrane Plays the Blues John Coltrane: Giant Steps John Lee Hooker: The Very Best of John Mayall: The CollectionLouis Armstrong: What a Wonderful World Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

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Sumo Man somehow felt I would not go through with this. So just to prove him wrong, here I go:Total Books I Own: Without including the eBooks that I have, should be over 500. Including eBooks, should be over 5000.Last book I Bought:One Hundred Years of Solitude (by Gabriel Garcia Marquez) and India: A Wounded Civilization (by V.S. Naipaul)Last Book I Read: The graphic novels Sin City and

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These days I am on a Graphic Novels spree. Just obtained Alan Moore's V for Vendetta and the Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's excellent manga Neon Genesis Evangelion. Ah, if only I had a little more time!

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Had been waiting for Frank Miller's Sin City for quite some time. Finally, have managed to obtain a copy. While graphic novel fans have known about the glory of Sin City for quite some time, most people have heard of this rather recently because of the movie. Miller won both the prestigious Harvey Award as well as the Eisner Award for the yarn Family Values. Miller's black and white artwork in

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Watchmen, the only graphical novel to have won a special achievement Hugo Award, is the creation of Alan Moore (Writer) and Dave Gibbons (Artist). The title refers to the Latin Quis custodiet ipsos custodes or in plain English Who watches the watchmen?The entire story is built using fictional documents: news reports, journals, comic book story and articles on/about the Watchmen. It often goes

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I have no idea who or what runs India Daily, but a badly written automated bot might not be a bad guess. Was browsing through their Technology section wherein I came across some totally wierd articles: From an article titled Manipulating weather with the help of extraterrestrial electromagnetic radiation– a new phase in contemporary cold war [Link]: Many countries have secretly put in devices on

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If JK Rowling was responsible for reviving children's interest in books, if Wachowski brothers were responsible for getting people back to the big screen, then Binu has to be responsible for getting me interested in TV once again.His post on Ankhein is something you gotta read! From his post:Sad that you can't get to watch Plan 9 From Outer Space? Relax, there's something on DD National just for

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Ashok Banker's Demons of Chitrakut is the third in series of his Ramayana books. I had read and thoroughly enjoyed the earlier two: Prince of Ayodhya and Seige of Mithila. So, when on a recent visit to Paperbak I saw this book available, I immediately purchased it expecting to spend a least a couple of hours engrossed in finishing it.I am almost through the novel and it looks like I was mistaken.

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Source: O'Reilly Digital Photography HacksYou have seen those flattering professional photos with soft lighting. While you can achieve the same with softening or diffusion filters, these cost money. O'Reilly's Digital Photography Hacks explains a simpler way to achieve a similar effect. A simpler way to achieve a similar effect is the use of a pantyhose. Stretch a piece of beige colored pantyhose

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