Avaktavyam

Engaget posted an editorial about what is wrong with Palm and what they need to do to fix the situation: Dear Palm: It’s time for an intervention. It is very revealing that a lot of the comments on that editorial are from Palm users who have lost faith in Palm. I have not [...]

eBags really cares about customer service and is the best site I could find for shopping for backpacks and related accessories.

Memorization has been devalued too much in Western pedagogy. This is especially problematic in the context of learning Sanskrit.

Yesterday my wife and I had dinner at Madras Palace, a local Indian restaurant. I had a paper dosa and decided to eat it the way I was taught to eat food during my stay in Pune last summer: I used my right hand exclusively. No utensils. That earned me a few [...]

As much as I liked the theme I selected to give a style to my blog different than the default style, I had some issues with it. I took 20 minutes today to make it more appealing to me. I especially disliked the font selection and I was not happy with the way [...]

I’m detailing here a bad experience I had with trying to get eBags to honor their price matching policy.

I’ve written before about my pitiful dosas and how I learned that I really need to spread the batter. I’ve since bought an actual tava… which does help but not that much. I’ve also experimented with rava dosa and found the batter to be thinner. It requires a different kind of handling… [...]

I’m detailing here a procedure to make Firefox more secure by using a different profile for sensitive browsing. The solution presented is trivially implementable and does not require anything complicated from the user.