Yearly Archives: 2004

Shooting the Common Carrier

Posted on December 20, 2004 by Prasenjeet

If you mail a bomb through the post, the law doesn’t hold the post responsible. However, if you sell porn on Baazee (now Ebay’s Indian arm), Baazee’s CEO Avnish Bajaj goes to jail. For those who don’t know about the … Continue reading →

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The Digital Bourgeoisie

Posted on November 27, 2004 by Prasenjeet

Instapundit talks about how easily accessible bits are changing the fundamentals of several industries, and finds the creeping hand of Karl Marx. For example in computer software the first indication came when the falling price of computers crossed the point … Continue reading →

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Unexpected MOOX Benefit

Posted on November 15, 2004 by Prasenjeet

I decided to try out the optimized MOOX Firefox builds today (I used the SSE-ready M2 build of Firefox 1.0). An interesting quirk I observed is that the text reflow bug #217527 that caused havoc on Slashdot goes away with … Continue reading →

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Jointness in Fallujah

Posted on November 10, 2004 by Prasenjeet

The Belmont Club and The Adventures of Chester have excellent coverage of the Fallujah campaign. What I find interesting is how well the Marines have adapted to urban combat. Of course, there was a huge body of literature on the … Continue reading →

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Superpower Baiting

Posted on November 2, 2004 by Prasenjeet

The contents of previously unreleased 14 minutes of OBL’s tape are eerily similar to what John Robb has been writing about for some time. (If you don’t read him regularly, you should.) While this shows OBL is far from being … Continue reading →

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Partisan Hats and Academic Hats

Posted on November 2, 2004 by Prasenjeet

Joshua Allen notes that Tanenbaum — in his current incarnation as the Votemaster — does not seem to be too rigorous about statistics. I was struck by this as well, while going through the Votemaster FAQ, where he accepts the … Continue reading →

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Death of a Broadsheet

Posted on November 1, 2004 by Prasenjeet

One of those end-of-an-era moments: The Times is now a tabloid (or, in their own words, a ‘compact’). In other news, folk who wish to continue hiding behind their newspapers on the Tube switch to the Telegraph. That said, having … Continue reading →

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Strategic Nationalism

Posted on November 1, 2004 by Prasenjeet

I missed this, but thanks to the wonders of the Bharatiya Blogger’s Digest er, Blog Mela, I was able to find Madhu’s screed on Indian-ness. He asks how he can strongly identify with India when on many points (go read … Continue reading →

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Liberal Rage

Posted on October 27, 2004 by Prasenjeet

After Elizabeth Edward’s “no riots if we win” (audio, mirror), it’s now time for self-confessed pacifist hippie Dave Winer to step up to the plate: …We’re so divided because of Bush that people are actually talking openly about civil war … Continue reading →

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Firefox's Slashdot Rendering Bugs

Posted on October 18, 2004 by Prasenjeet

If you use Firefox and visit Slashdot, especially as a logged in user, you may have noticed Firefox mess up the rendering on the home page and many inner pages. This is due to Bug #217527 and it seems it … Continue reading →

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