Summary - Entries from December 2005

7 Topics from December, 2005

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Funny quote Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is Star Wars for girls. Seen here

ImageMagick magic

I am experimenting a bit with ImageMagick . Here is a neat trick that I found. Suppose that you have an image (79.gif) and you want to make an ecard out of it, i.e a ...

Interesting quotes from "You and Your Research" talk by Richard Hamming Another trait, it took me a while to notice. I noticed the following facts about people who ...

making glossy, dark button

Since del.icio.us is down , this a note to self. How to make glossy buttons with rounded edges - I tested it out and it really works . Defined tags for this entry: ...

The joy of programming

Today, after a long time, I again felt the "joy of programming" - I was working on something absolutely trivial, but the difference this time was that I was not programming for ...

Trying out MySQL5

I have written a small article on how you can install MySQL5 alongside with MySQL4. MySQL5 has a bunch of new features and I am trying to spend some time in learining them. ...

new sig

I found 2 new ascii arts today -- for use in my sig. You can see them on my ascii art collection page Defined tags for this entry: geek stuff