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Introducing Gout - A GPLed two way contacts sync between MS Outlook and Gmail
But first a rant... Because you can't punch +Larry Page in the face
My earliest mobile phone was a INR ~8K Nokia Series 40 feature phone - the beautiful, solid and functional-to-the-last-screw-and-pixel Nokia 6300. Within a year it was stolen and I bought yet another INR ~8K Nokia Series 40 feature phone - the delightfully compact and typically ( Read more... ) -
Oxford Bookstore - Spammers
There must be a name for establishments that add you to their mailing list and (a) provide no way for you to get out of the mailing list (b) ignore repeated protests/requests to be removed.... "Spammer" does not appear adequate ( Read more... ) -
Blackberry Curve / Javelin 8900
So I lost my cellphone. Again. The last three phones I have bought have all been replacements for phones lost/stolen in various parts of the world. Given this track record, I guess upgrading to a BlackBerry doesn't quite come through as the most sensible thing to do. But what the hell. One has to fight one's own rationality once in a while. The ( Read more... ) -
The Hindu online version comes to the 21st century
Well... a first teeny weeny baby step.
Today: http://thehindu.com/
Tomorrow: http://beta.thehindu.com/
From their website:
"The redesigned website of The Hindu was launched on Saturday, August 15, in beta.
As the website of a 130-year-old newspaper of record, it retains its core values of independence ( Read more... ) -
Quality of proof reading on www.nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/nyregion/02laguardia.html
I am sure this would be fixed quite soon, but the language and content gave me a headache just now. WTF.
" The ticket agent noticed his strange behavior and alerted officials for with the Transportation Security Administration, who soon approached the man and separated him from his bag."
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Making a point
"In a previous life (before Akamai) I was a complier guy, and for my Master's Thesis I showed that just by adding NOPS you can improve the performance of the SPEC benchmarks by up to 9%. This was in reaction to the common practice (at the time) of publishing compiler papers presenting complicated complier techniques to achieve performance ( Read more... ) -
"Browse Here and Buy Online" Book Stores
One often comes across pleas like "don't go into a book store to check a product out and then come out and order from some online store - it does the physical store no good while you aim for that 5% discount ( Read more... ) -
Picture a not-so-robust wrist watch
I rarely wear a wrist watch. So I did not really notice when my 8 year old Timex went missing. Until my flat mate fished it out from the washing machine filter. as dead as a parrot. Quite unlike another piece of eletronics I own, which has heroically surived a couple of visits to the tumbly.
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