What can you say when the event organizers arrange for a rock-star to pick you up and then settle you in a cozy place ? A “Thank you” seems to be out-of-place.
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- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovationauthor: Jon Gertner name: Sankarshan average rating: 4.10 book published: 2012 rating: 4 read at: date added: 2012/05/14 shelves: review: […]
- A Bright Spot in Outcast London (1884)author: Olivia Bennet name: Sankarshan average rating: 0.0 book published: 2009 rating: 0 read at: date added: 2012/05/14 shelves: review: […]
- Free Speech in an Open Societyauthor: Rodney A. Smolla name: Sankarshan average rating: 3.50 book published: 1992 rating: 4 read at: 2012/05/13 date added: 2012/05/13 shelves: the-arts, once-again review: […]
- Seventeen Equations that Changed the Worldauthor: Ian Stewart name: Sankarshan average rating: 3.00 book published: 2012 rating: 3 read at: 2012/05/13 date added: 2012/05/13 shelves: technical-loquacity review: […]
- Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall, #2)author: Hilary Mantel name: Sankarshan average rating: 4.44 book published: 2012 rating: 0 read at: date added: 2012/05/12 shelves: to-read review: […]
- Not Fade Away: The Life And Music Of Buddy Hollyauthor: John Gribbin name: Sankarshan average rating: 3.50 book published: rating: 0 read at: date added: 2012/05/12 shelves: to-read review: […]
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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- » How I live on $7,000 per year Early Retirement Extreme: — The choice nobody ever told you aboutNote: You can find a breakdown of my $7,000 budget in the frequently asked questions. I have been living on $5-7,000/year for about a decade now. This includes 5 years as a single and 5 years being married. Do you avoid a lot of the expenses that many of your peers spend money on, such as technology and meals out? I would think so. I usually go to the mall t […]
- Hindi and Urdu: Sa’adat Hasan MantoThis is MUHAMMAD UMAR MEMON‘s translation of an article by SA’ADAT HASAN MANTO. The translation first appeared in The Annual of Urdu Studies. The Hindi-Urdu dispute has been raging for some time now. Maulvi Abdul Haq Sahib, Dr Tara Singh and Mahatma Gandhi know what there is to know about this dispute. For me, though, it […]
- Two decades of productivity: Vim's 20th anniversary (via Summify)Shared by sankarshan Two decades of productivity: Vim's 20th anniversary http://smf.is/1zILOR (from Schestowitz, and Manish Sinha) Running vim inside a terminal running inside a vim The Vim text editor was first released to the public on November 2, 1991—exactly 20 years ago today. Although it was originally designed as a vi clone for the Amiga, it was […]
- IBM Open-Sources Potential 'Internet of Things' Protocol (via Summify)Shared by sankarshan IBM Open-Sources Potential 'Internet of Things' Protocol http://smf.is/1zILP4 (from Techmeme, Glyn Moody, and 2 others) The openly stated goal from IBM is to produce a completely new world-wide web - one comprised of the messages that digitally empowered devices would send to one another. It is the same Internet, but not the sa […]
- Scaling down the Mac Pro (via Summify)Shared by sankarshan from Rahul Gonsalves, and 1 other The Mac Pro is a beast. The case is huge. It hasn’t seen an external redesign since 2003 or a major internal redesign since 2006. It’s nearly 50 pounds loaded. It’s only updated whenever there’s a new generation of Xeon CPUs from Intel, which only happens about every 18 months.… […]
- Google+ Now Has Retro FiltersThe success of Instagram has shown that photo filters are very much in demand with the general population. Facebook is rumored to be working on its own retro filters, but Google has beaten it to the punch: today the company introduced a wide range of creative filters to Google+’s Creative Kit. The filters (called “Effects”) include looks that mimic daguerreo […]
- » How I live on $7,000 per year Early Retirement Extreme: — The choice nobody ever told you about
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- sankarshan: http://t.co/pOSnEvEg
- sankarshan: Photo "untitled" by Matthias Leberle #500px http://t.co/4FzPOe6m
- sankarshan: Photo "I come from the land of plenty" by B K #500px http://t.co/kEhCk0Ae
- sankarshan: Photo "Do you love me ?" by Marine Szczepaniak #500px http://t.co/e9ia6jQ5
- sankarshan: @vinayakh Hehe! The breakfast is a nice spread!
- sankarshan: @freegeek since you are eating your way through the city, sample The Bhoj Company on Sudder Street near the fire brigade. :-)
- What I talk about on identi.ca
- sankarshan: Why does offlineimap work nicely when MUAs get connection drops slurping mail off the IMAP ?
- sankarshan: Yes. Changing the calendar setting to Gregorian solved it though.
- sankarshan: http://bit.ly/zezl4z Openness and appearances - interesting thread from the Mozilla marketing list
- sankarshan: How does one tell Kmail that I wouldn't prefer to see 'Sanivara', 'Sukravara' etc on the UI ?
- sankarshan: Translate "Hello, world!" automatically via the Web browser http://bit.ly/znXQ3y
- sankarshan: ishida >> blog » HTML5 adds new translate attribute http://bit.ly/wTFMHq
- Word of the day
- gambit: Dictionary.com Word of the Daygambit: a remark made to open or redirect a conversation. […]
- gambit: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
- Random Quotes
- Norman Douglas"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes." […]
- Lois McMaster Bujold"The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives." […]
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