HTML mail in Thunderbird
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I am no fan of sending HTML mail. I have configured my mail client, Thunderbird to send out only plain text messages. However, today I needed to send out an article which ...12 Topics from September, 2004
Software employment
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While chatting on #linux-india (irc.freenode.net), I came upon one of the participant's blog entry about Infosys campus . Since a few of my friends works there, I have a bit ...
Search Google from command line
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As I had pointer out in my previous entry , I had not been able to search google from within my emacs environment. Hence the "need" to write a command line script which I ...
emacs goodies
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Ftrain.com has a bunch of productivity enhancing tips that can be used with emacs. I could not get the "search the web within emacs" working but I hope to write a ...
speech recognition
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I was reading through the google news item IBM Donates Voice Code to Apache , which reminded me of a interesting thread in the Full disclosure mailing list . The poster ...
checkinstall
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Installing compiled packages with checkinstall Defined tags for this entry: link
to GET or to POST
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As Macbeth would have said "To GET or to POST , that is the question". The general consensus is : Use GET when you want to give the user the ability to bookmark a page ...
mp3 blogs
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I knew that a whole different universe of mp3 blogs existed, but was never motivated enough to go out and investigate them. In my office, I have cycled through most of my ...
Interfaces for Staying in the Flow
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There is a very interesting article at on interface design , which I am slowly reading and digesting. The authors say that a good interface has the following properties ...
law of the lost idea
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The law of the lost idea states that Any idea not put down on paper/harddisk within 10 minutes of it occuring will get lost. Yesterday morning, I had thought of an ...
Go, kiss the world
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My good friend, Teju , had pointed out the link to an inspiring speech (titled "Go, kiss the world") by Subroto Bagchi, Chief Operating Officer, MindTree Consulting to at the ...