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Everybody is familiar with the usual bouts of anxiety that manifest themselves as dreams (or perhaps, nightmares) of academic disaster. Although dreaming of going to class naked seems to be popular, that never happened to me, whether in dreams or for real. However, numerous times I’ve dreamed of finding at the end of [...]
I got new that the computer animated series ReBoot is coming to the big screen. Yay!
Dell is expanding support for Linux.
A short reflexion on space exploration and the tragedy that struck Scaled Composites on July 27th, 2007.
I found a book in a bookstore labeled with a Devanagari word I could not initially recognize. Was it the name of an ancient author? The name of an obscure philosophical school? No, it was something much more familiar.
There is an insidious form of tunnel vision that can develop when studying Nāgārjuna’s philosophy. I found myself afflicted by it.
A White Bear recently wrote about her seekrit vice: the reality show Age of Love. Since I have not watched the show, I do not have an opinion about its contents. However, A White Bear’s observations about the contents of the show are compatible with what I would expect to find, if I [...]
I’ve noted recently how Dell is wasting time promoting its wares in Second Life. Well, today I’ve caught sight of an article on Slashdot titled “Are Marketers Abandoning Second Life?“. The article notes that indeed marketers are abandoning Second Life. Why? Because the number of Second Life users put forth by [...]
I had problem with getting dates to show up properly in both systems. I searched a bit and found that neither support DST. A bit more search showed that PHP (the language in which both are implemented) has all the functionality to provide DST support. For the developers of Wordpress and MediaWiki, [...]
I’ve been making dosas at home for a while but my dosas have always looked rather fat compared to those you can get from people who know what the heck they are doing. By “fat”, I mean that my dosas were thicker than normal. I thought maybe the problem was my batter or [...]
