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I recently wrote about…

• GNUnify’10 etc
• Rabindra Rachanabali and Bangla fonts
• A web-calendar for events – does that sound nice ?
• “I want a Fedora DVD, don’t know what to do !”
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Word of the day

• cozen: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
  cozen: to deceive or obtain by deceit. […]

Random Quotes

• Dame Rose Macaulay
  "It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them." […]
• Will Rogers
  "The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know." […]

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Recently posted on my other blog

• And sometimes you do
  end up smiling (note I did write smiling instead of smirking) on the predicaments. For instance, it is just the mid March and, instead of the Ides of March we have the beginnings of the hot season. Curiously enough, we had a spell of shower today and predictably enough the weather went all over the [...] […]
• There are times when you recall the surroundings
  It turns out that I completed 5 years at the work-place recently. It is a bit of a jumble because the employment contract and status during the times I joined was a bit of a mess and, so it was a surprise. It also struck me that through all these 5 years I have seen folks [...] […]
• Annoying ice-breakers
  “What are you up to ? Long time no see” was the constant refrain that I heard yesterday at GNUnify’10 when I dropped in. I have never been able to respond well to the “What are you up to part ?”. Most of the times I am doing stuff that is either deeply internal to [...] […]

What I recently said

• sankarshan: @nirbheek as in the Gmail WebUI ?
• sankarshan: @bluesmoon yes indeed.having to do with add-ons what one gets out-of-the-box in pine is a bit annoying.
• sankarshan: @bluesmoon so can I but since I generally end up using TBird it'd be good to have that.Along with bounce/redirect in-built.
• sankarshan: if only TBird allowed one to bind specific email accounts when sending mail to specific addresses like mailinglist and so forth
• sankarshan: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/india/2010-March/001106.html - interesting mail on the OLPC India mailing list #olpc
• sankarshan: @runa $deity above. you are still awake ? :)
• sankarshan: having heard so much +ve stuff around it I finally got time to read up on https://openhatch.org/ Good stuff and very neat UI bits.
• sankarshan: @rahulsundaram that kind of an add-on would be interesting.
• sankarshan: @quaid Indeed.I realized that within two dents from @mairin :) My mistake.
• sankarshan: @mairin Agreed.In a different context @sayamindu was talking about http://scratched.media.mit.edu/ a while back.

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