Summary - Entries from January 2007

11 Topics from January, 2007

the mozilla manifesto

draft of the mozilla manifesto - short and sweet. Defined tags for this entry: link

fun with about:*

Mozilla family of browser supports a variety about: commands. Today I searched inside the source code to see where they have been implemented and the complete list of the ...

ingenious use of the HL engine

This looks very obvious in hindsight, but I am sure not many would have thought about this. This guy uses the HL 's source engine to produced a model of the Kaufmann House ...

autoconf

I hate autoconf. Enough said. link

blogger mindset

The web 2.0 blogger mindset "blog it and Digg it and Meme it and... we're done, NEXT". link to the quote

liferea

Liferea is almost the rss reader I have been looking for. If you are looking for a linux desktop rss reader, do give it a spin.

back from Delhi

I was out of Bangalore (had to go to Delhi) from 12th to 17th Jan and I did not have access to net at that time. I noticed that Delhi is still an iPod free city and it really ...

stuff that sucks

Small list of stuff everyone thinks is cool, but I did not find them worth the price all the electrons had to pay Second life - seriously people, what is so great about ...

{"bluesmoon": "0x1F"} Originally uploaded by bluesmoon . Valid JSON encoded birthday cake. I was expecting it to be perl-related (since it is ...

mysql slave problem

If you are seeing the line received 0 length packet from server, apparent master shutdown in your mysqld.err file (when your mysql server is a slave), check the server-id of ...

thinking big

My manager made a very good one-liner today (in context of whether we should concentrate on research or on actual implementation) Think big and implement in small steps. ...