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Monthly Archives: May 2004
The Day After Tomorrow
I saw The Day after Tomorrow over the weekend, largely because it’s been ages since I saw a good ol’ fashioned break-things-up disaster movie. This one had great eye candy, lots of great steadycam shots, a few good moments but … Continue reading
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New Microsoft Developer Toolset
Microsoft has Rational’s developer toolset firmly in its sights with its updated Whidbey roadmap. Modeling, code analysis, testing and test management — and even source control. Yes, good ol’ Visual SourceSafe is getting its guts ripped out and will be … Continue reading
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New Book from Mil Millington
Way to go – Mil Millington of Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About fame has published his second novel.
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Great SF Short Stories Online
I saw this on Boing Boing and it’s worth repeating: Hugo-Nominated Short Fiction for 2004 is available online. Especially recommended are Jeffrey Ford’s The Empire of Ice Cream – it’s a shame to label this beautiful genre-defying story SF. It … Continue reading
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Elections 2004 — These Unthinking Proles
Tavleen Singh in the Indian Express: On the day of the election results, I happened to travel on a flight with a leading light of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. When I asked how he reacted to India having an Italian … Continue reading
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Elections 2004 — The UnShining
Great quote on why the NDA stumbled in the elections: Wired: “What ‘India Shining’ are we talking about? We are dying hungry here,” said Santram, a farmer just 45 miles from the gleaming new malls of the capital.” NDTV’s Rajdeep … Continue reading
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Old, Slow Lady of Mount Road
The Hindu Business Line had a story about the price of Gmail today. Among other things, they covered Gmail’s privacy woes and how Gmail accounts are up for sale on eBay. The curious thing is that most papers had covered … Continue reading
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Blogger Relaunched
Google now has an official weblog. The Blogger relaunch happened over Sunday night/Monday morning India time. Good new stuff include comments and post-level pages. The default templates are now glitzier. Categories and custom non-html templates would have been good to … Continue reading
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New Blogger Version Soon
New Blogger release on Mother’s Day. Mm, RSS feeds would be nice to have.
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GMail's Conversation View and UI Scalability
On April 4 I wrote: What’d really kick ass: a desktop app communicating over HTTP to my Gmail account (like Outlook Express communicates with Hotmail). Dredging through long conversations over a browser will not be fun, I assure you (anyone … Continue reading
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