Dear ‘Dr. Doom’

Some chap calling himself Dr. Doom (I thought Adithya had dibs on this name) posted some stuff on my shoutbox that I felt deserved a reply in the form of a post. I wonder if he will see this.

Dr. Doom : Hi, I found your blog when I was searching information about CS. I have a few questions. Can you answer them please?

Use the Email Me link.

Dr. Doom : Your blog is really good btw. I don’t understand the veeraswamy clip. You south Indians are a bit strange.

I’m surprised that you speak English. Where are you from?

Dr. Doom : Sir, can you answer my query regarding CS? Also, I am not sure if you have noticed but your about page has been hacked by some hacker called rAgHa :/

Email me and I will reply in detail. And yes, I know what the contents of my about page are. It is intentional.

March 7th, 2010 | 5 Comments

Flash News!

I just heard this on the news:

BSNL has changed its name to BLOL to more accurate represent itself.

February 27th, 2010 | 2 Comments

200M GET

Can’t believe I’m on /b/ waiting on the 200M GET.

And the 200M GET is:

February 22nd, 2010 | 6 Comments

When In Rome

Extract from IM conversation:

s: well then when in rome, do the romans
s: err do as the romans do

Good suggestions, both of them.

February 10th, 2010 | 3 Comments

The Google Wave Experiment Is Over

Remember this?

Any new product from Google was bound to have a lot of interest in it so for a few months we were obsessed with Wave trying to see what it can do and what it could/would be used for. Invites were rare and coveted defeating the entire point of the service which was to collaborate/share/communicate.

Early users like me found that not many people I knew had been able to sign up for the service and so could not give it a chance.

The problem this time was that Google did not make Wave because there was demand for the product in the market. This was something new. Well, not quite. The concepts already exist in the form of forums and email groups.

Google basically reinvented the forum albeit with less features like quoting, subforums, moderation and added scripting and bots and gadgets. When I first tried out the service I found it confusing, cluttered and lacking in any specific purpose. Sure, you could embed videos and media and things and make it a colourful and interesting visual experience but would you really use Wave for this over a social network? Do you really see yourself and your friend/contacts doing stuff like what you see in the Wave ads?

I always thought that Wave wasn’t unique enough. It felt like an AJAXified forum with a lot of multimedia features and that simply wasn’t interesting/useful enough right now. If some of these features move into social networking sites and emails I would welcome it but using Google Wave as an application is just too vague a concept.

Now all the interest has died away and you see no more mention of it anywhere. Let us leave it to die a dignified death from disuse and work on something else.

February 8th, 2010 | 1 Comment

How can you get away with this?

Seriously, how can you get away with this? Oh, the lengths that we go

And http://weather.nic.in directs to Yahoo!’s weather page. Pathetic.

January 25th, 2010 | 3 Comments

Star Wars Band Names

Found at GeekDad:

The Rolling Clones
AeroSith
JABBA
Death Cab for Chewie
Rage Against the Empire
Godspeed! You Galactic Emperor
Pink Droid
Wu Tang Intergalactic Banking Clan

December 31st, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Forum

Yes, it’s back. Again.

http://ampli5.org/forum

November 18th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Web Roundup

In my daily quest to keep myself amused I’ve run into the following:

RationalWiki
http://rationalwiki.com
What do you get if you mix Wikipedia and Uncyclopedia? You get RationalWiki, a skeptical view of things like religion with lots of conspiracy theory bashing.

Autobiography of an ordinary man
http://narendrashenoy.blogspot.com
The dramatic and hilarious life of a certain Narendra Shenoy.

Facebook Spamming
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/01/how-to-spam-facebook-like-a-pro-an-insiders-confession

November 8th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Google Chrome Wants To Be Colourful

Have a look at the new themes for Google Chrome.

http://www.youtube.com/googlechromethemes

Because that’s what users want the most, right?

October 23rd, 2009 | Leave a Comment

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