Summary - Entries from December 2004

5 Topics from December, 2004

sending a geek on a guilt trip

One of the methods used by normal humans to send other (normal humans) on the "guilt trip" is to use the cliche "every time you do THIS or THAT god kills a kitten. Please, ...

php manual on your hdd

One of the strong points of PHP is its well annotated online manual, which is peppered with useful code snippets and hints. How many times have you pointed your browser to ...

Against signing online petitions

I must write this before I am drowned in "armchair activism". Armchair Activism refers to efforts to influence socio-political change through the ineffective use of e-mail ...

copy paste job

Yesterday while chatting on IRC, one of the participants pointed to the Reliance's "Acceptable user Policy (AUP)" (sic!). You can find a copy here . Interestingly, the ...

an argument for atheism

When I had gone back to my village, I had an argument with my family over existence of god. A line of reasoning that they (more precisely, my mother) took was there are ...