And here I thought injunctions against any combination of unshaven legs with skirts were part of Personal Grooming 101. Apparently I’m mistaken. At least as far as Sri Lankans are concerned. Or I should say some Sri Lankans, to be fair. It’s the sort of thing that makes you go, No. Just… No. A not-too-distant [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Sights unseemly
Posted in Nonsense on August 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On Waves, Feeds and Timelines
Posted in Computing on August 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »
If you’re like me, you’ll be regularly checking various places on the web and on your computer for new events such as: emails, news, Facebook updates, Twitter, articles on subscribed websites etc. If you’re like me (and here you and I may differ), you may want your entire personal event timeline in one place.
If only [...]
Ugly Duckling
Posted in Computing, Tongue in Cheek on August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the first things I did when I entered the Computer Department of my university (some years ago) was to crack into the accounts of my colleagues. There were 47 others. I managed to crack about one in five without any hacking knowledge. Many of them had used their names with birthdates or years. [...]
Book thief
Posted in Me, Nonsense on August 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The one and only time I stole something with premeditation, I stole a book. It was a book written in 1930 and printed in 1956. In its day, it had cost in all 32 rupees. Quite apart from the subject matter, it consisted of a 1000 pages written in a style that is lost to [...]
I’ve got it! An Intraweb! Oh wait.
Posted in Computing on August 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
How does one create and maintain a corporate knowledgebase without burying everybody in a blizzard of Word documents? Content management system? Document repository? No. Just create a miniature version of the Internet within the corporate intranet. Well not the whole Internet. Just those services that people use to write things on: one Blogger, one Twitter, [...]
