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bad speling killed the dog

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:49 +0000

Woman inadvertently confesses to bestiality. More funnies available here.

ads by Salvador Dali

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Tue, 03 May 2011 21:30:33 +0000

TV ads for chocolate, Alka-Seltzer and wine by Salvador Dali.

from warren ellis

in today's odd news: Scientists use Calvin Klein cologne to lure jaguars

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:16:07 +0000

Biologists Rony Garcia and Jose Moreira from the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Jaguar Conservation Program rely on Obsession for Men, a cologne known for its complex scent, to help lure jaguars in the Central American country.

Note that this scent works on jaguars. There is no research of its effects on cougars .

The discovery that Obsession for Men acted as a magnet for jaguars was the result of an experiment by the WCS's Bronx Zoo in New York. The WCS was looking for ways to get cheetahs in front of camera traps, and, after several years of testing with different fragrances, found spraying the musky Obsession For Men near the heat-and-motion-sensitive cameras drew the cats for longer than other scents.

Links:

Scientists use Calvin Klein cologne to lure jaguars at Yahoo! News

casio's g-shock watch

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:46:38 +0000

New entry at my site - a review for my watch, Casio's G-Shock MT-G Atomic Tough Solar Watch, which I love. Read more here

Higher Order Perl

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:25:53 +0000

I am in love with the book Higher-Order Perl, especially the technique in the Chapter 2: Dispatch Tables.

GPL still matters

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:48:35 +0000

Today morning I came across this piece of writing - Does GPL still matter?. The whole article is based on a few anecdotes from CEOs and marketing droids. They have gotten quite a few points wrong in the article.

GPL is a developer friendly license. The basic premise of the GPL is that the user should not subtract from the freedom he gets when redistributing software. GPL is not restrictive. It merely insists that whoever takes from the common pool must contribute back to the pool.

I would like to point to these 2 articles in support of GPL -

nice facebook error page

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:59:00 +0000

So, if your user agent is curl or lynx, you will get this facebook error page.

You are using an incompatible web browser.

Sorry, we're not cool enough to support your browser. Please keep it real with one of the following browsers:

Mozilla Firefox
Opera
Safari
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Flock

ILUG Bengaluru Meetup - Saturday 21st February 2009

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:12:07 +0000

Linux User Group, Bangalore have a meetup at the ThoughtWorks office on Saturday 21st February 2009, 4:30 PM onwards. The details of the meeting are here. There are 2 talks lined up- "Introduction to the Android Platform" and "Device Mapper - How it works and why you should be using it". And there will be a key signing party as well.

Go, check it out and help revive the LUG meetings at Bangalore.

good joomla template

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:09:06 +0000

Check out SpaceGlow joomla template by Bernard Esterhuyse. It is nice, however, more importantly, it is GPL-ed. I have been checking put a lot of joomla templates for my site, but all the joomla templates that I came across shared an important defect. Even though the template authors mentioned that the template was GPL-ed, they usually had a link to their own sites in the template, along with the request (or order), not to remove that line.

The Spaceglow template is really GPL-ed. This will allow me to hack it up further.

RIP John W. Backus

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:34:22 +0000

The "B" in "BNF" is gone. NY Times has a nice artilce about him and his noteworthy quote is tucked in at the end

Innovation, Mr. Backus said, was a constant process of trial and error.

"You need the willingness to fail all the time," he said. "You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don't work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work."

Link: John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies - New York Times

the mozilla manifesto

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:55:29 +0000

draft of the mozilla manifesto - short and sweet.

ingenious use of the HL engine

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:03:01 +0000

This looks very obvious in hindsight, but I am sure not many would have thought about this. This guy uses the HL's source engine to produced a model of the Kaufmann House by Frank Lloyd Wright. Using the Source Engine, as opposed to more traditional Architectural Software, allows the use of dynamic lighting and a real-time walkthrough of the scene in high resolution.

Links: the HL map for Kaufmann House and a walk through available here

having trouble reddit's rss on bloglines ?

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:47:27 +0000

If you use Bloglines and you have not been seeing any updates from Reddit on it then try to get your reddit feed from this rssmix feed. I have no idea why Bloglines is not showing updated feeds from reddit.

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:27:43 +0000

I was just reading a very interesting article from Jeremy Allison of the samba team called The Land of "Nothing for free". A very interesting quote

My panel was rather uncontroversial, Microsoft, Bruce Perens and myself being on our best behavior. The only sparks that flew where when Microsoft made it abundantly clear that they would use their patent portfolio to prevent the spread of GPL software. Section seven of the GPL (the implicit patent grant of the license) now looks like the most prescient writing Richard Stallman has ever done. If you're not familiar with it I'd suggest you read it and understand why using the GPL to protect your Free Software is so important.

The article is old, but do check it out.

General Tips & Strategies for Dining Out

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:23:43 +0000

General Tips & Strategies for Dining Out - excellent tips for people who are trying to lose weight.