Summary - Entries from November 2005

10 Topics from November, 2005

A witty saying proves nothing

And a witty error message does not look funny if it happens 5 times in 5 minutes. and while I am in a ranting mood, what is the big idea in showing birthdays that have ...

Doc's Apachecon notes

Originally posted Sun, 23 Nov 2003 Doc Searls has posted his notes on Apachecon in his SuitWatch - November 20 (link gone, check the page on archive.org ). ...

Anti consumerism

Originally posted posted Thu, 13 Nov 2003 I came across an interesting essay, Consumer Angst , today. It mirrors very well what I feel about products that try to ride ...

Rage against the machine

Originally posted Sat, 18 Oct 2003 This news article at BBC has a list of things that cause loss of data. The list reads more like The Foolish Things we do with our ...

Personal ad as a periodic table

Originally posted Fri, 17 Oct 2003 This is really nifty. Good use of chemistry, DHTML and information design. This guy posted all the information about himself in a ...

Do violent games inspire people

Originally posted on posted Fri, 17 Oct 2003 Ownt has an interview with the Running with scissors' Vince Desi. The interview was posted on October 7th 2003, but I ...

echoes from an abandoned blog

Before I got myself the rajshekhar.net domain, I used to have a blog at journlaspace.com . I have stopped posting to it completely (I use the JS account to read the blog ...

A few observations (they are rather dull)

A few observations (they are rather dull) I saw an ad for United Colors of Benetton, which was a pic of some women and men standing together in small amounts of colourful ...

lunatech's immutable laws of life

rshekhar@rshekhar$ dict hypothesis From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: hypothesis n 1: a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations 2: a ...

PHPCommunity Gazette third edition

Yesterday Lig and me put out the third edition of the PHPCommunity Gazette. It has some very nice articles, do check it out. If you want to write an article for it, ...