We are often just one attitude away from success
  -- Anonymous

For some reason, I was under the impression that uploading a new upstream release would place the package in the NEW queue. I was proved wrong because I was able to upload ELinks 0.12~20080527-1 to experimental yesterday and I am a DM who can't upload NEW packages ( Read more... )

Why is it that women in most hoardings (especially those that advertise clothes) look twisted, are turning, and sit, stand and lie down rather uncomfortably?

TFTD 1: To a large extent, what defines you is really not how you think but how much you say and do what you think.

TFTD 2: Humanly, it is almost impossible to be not interested in curious about people who show an(y kind of) interest in you.

There is wheat flour, you add water to it, knead it and make some rotis out of the dough. And once in a while a lump of dough is left out, so you stash it away in one corner of the fridge in a sad nondescript plastic bowl (or stainless steel bowl if it is lucky) with a plate covering it ( Read more... )

I seem to be generally fascinated by all things that have alcohol, so I made a couple of liqueurs at home the other day ( Read more... )

On this Indian independence day, I wish that you be free, always :-). While I celebrate the day and proudly sing janani janma-bhUmischa swargadapi garIyasi, I believe we still have a long way to go.

Today, the radio has people telling what freedom means to them. To me, freedom is not merely an absence of constraints, but it is action having ( Read more... )

Ramakrishnan wanted some extra shelf space and was giving away a few books that he had. Being a vi user, the emacs and lisp manuals weren't of much interest to me, so I picked up Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig.

There is a sub-chapter titled Architecture and Law: Force (10.7) in the book that talks about the US Digital Millenium Copyright Act ( ( Read more... )

What I've felt
What I've known
Sick and tired
I stand alone
Could you be there
...

Last night I watched Gillo Pontecorvo's La Battaglia di Algeri with English Subtitles. The movie is about the Algerian FLN revolution against the French. A brilliant and very well made movie. Must watch ( Read more... )

I just realised that I've become grumpy in the last few months.