I came across an article today that makes me break the LiveJournal blogging hiatus. The article starts with a question, "Do players of virtual worlds have rights [applying to their virtual personae]?"

In the process of answering this question, it goes into a very interesting discussion about rights - what they are and how they come into force.

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Back in 1997, my friends and I headed to Nirula's at Connaught Place to have some pizza in celebration of our passing out of school. It was lunch time on a working day and a lot of people in suits had descended to have lunch. We noticed one particular gentleman wearing a suit, having stuffed parathas... with a knife and fork ( Read more... )

It's one thing to acknowledge the existence of non-software geeks - art geeks, CG geeks, gaming geeks, literature geeks - and a whole different thing to chat with them every day at lunch or over coffee or in meetings.

My work may get boring some times, but my workplace doesn't :-)

Just spent the last half an hour or so looking around LJ, trying to figure out what's changed. Well, it looks quite a bit different from what it did a couple of years ago, which is a good thing. It means that LJ is not abandonware ( Read more... )

That's perhaps the reawakening-from-a-coma equivalent of a "Hello World!" post.

Viva LiveJournal!

vlangber writes:

Joel Spolsky wrote a famous blog post back in 2000 called 'Things You Should Never Do, Part I,' where he wrote the following: '[T]he single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.'
Sometimes readers take this to mean that rewriting software is a mistake, ignoring ( Read more... )

With a combination of impulse, cost-sharing and pent-up demand, my parents ended up buying a 32" LCD TV. They've got it up on their wall and are very happy with the way it looks, not to mention the big step up in screen size from the old 21" CRT.

Apart from the form factor, though, the pros don't go too far. This is a short note of issues or things ( Read more... )

When I bought my first lens (18-200mm VR) I asked for a UV filter to go with it. It was the Right Thing™ to do. I had to "protect" my lens, right?

The second I bought was on a bit of a tight budget. Lots of planning and saving went into it. Then came the incidental expense. $40 for a 52mm multi-coated filter. Wham! That's what Mumbaikars call a ( Read more... )

Last week, my entire photography setup went through an upgrade and that means a lot of exploration and experimentation to get up to speed with things. While I'm looking forward to an extended shooting opportunity to get into the flow, sporadic shooting through the week got me started. Here are some notes from the experience.

The Camera: Nikon D90


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