Summary - Entries from February 2006

13 Topics from February, 2006

RFC 1984

RFC 1984 is Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the Internet. Defined tags ...

on disagreement

The below is not my writing. I picked it from the comments left at " The Importance of Having Friends Who Disagree ". Somethings I have observed,which are ...

i joined the gym today

I joined the gym today. Yahoo! provides free gym memberships to all its employees and after a year of making excuses, I joined up today. Some observations I joined ...

BarCampDelhi

BarCamp is being organised in Delhi. BarCamp is a new kind of technology 'unconference'- organized by attendees, for attendees. It's an open, welcoming, once-a-year ...

zen stories

Some picks from 101 Zen stories . Arranged from best to good (in my opinion) A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a ...

state of union tonight

I did quite a bit of thoughtful writing tonight. I created a Personal Manifesto and cleaned up my list of Recommended Books Defined tags for this entry: My take on life

a principal of good user design

I am quite sure this guy is talking about emacs and vi war Similarly, I have heard people argue against a tool that they ignore based on the fact that it can do too ...

42 spotted in the wild

Did Shakespeare inspire Douglas Adams for the answer 42 ? Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor drink thou off; When presently through ...

mediawiki configuration tip

The problem with MediaWiki is not the lack of documentation, but the lack of well organized documentation. Here is a useful bit of information I found out. Suppose you ...

GNUnify 06

Last week, I had gone to GNUnify , a conference organized by Symbiosis(SICSR), Pune. I had spoken on webservices together with Gopalv and Premshree . An ...

Political freedoms and laissez fair capitalism

orthogonal - statistically independent, if things are orthogonal, then one thing can change without affecting others Political freedoms and laissez fair capitalism ...

pay for email considered harmful

AOL, Yahoo and Goodmail: Taxing Your Email for Fun and Profit The justification is that if people have to pay to send email, they won't send junk email. Apparently ...

we apologize for the inconvenience

Had a problem with the server . Thanks for sticking around. Normal broadcast will resume from today. Defined tags for this entry: My take on life