lunatechian (lunatech-ian)

Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its fragrance in the desert air

Nothing teaches us more about life than death itself. Journalist Beate Lakotta and photographer Walter Schels asked 24 terminally ill people if they could accompany them during their last weeks and days. From these vigils came a series of insightful descriptions and photographic portraits taken before and after death.

This sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they had died is a challenging and poignant study. The work by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days, reveals much about dying - and living

Link: Life before death

I had to do some fiddling around with putting unicode characters in html text. Basically, I wanted to put the √ and ✗ characters in the html doc I was prepearing. I found these links useful

• Unicode Characters and HTML Numeric Character References - check out the Unicode Character To HTML Numeric Character Reference Converter tool on that page. It is useful when you have some text (possibly copied from a web page or another document) and you want to covert this text into HTML numeric character references, so that you can insert it into some HTML you want to create or edit.
• Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications - A big reference of characters

In January last year, President Hu Jintao reportedly ordered officials to regulate the internet better and "purify the online environment" ensuring that online information is "healthy" and "ethically inspiring".

Seen on BBC's website

low expectations when it comes to the salary

It has been a long time since I stopped playing new computer game - I have not yet played the Half Life 2 (the one that was released on the Source game engine). I rarely follow any new game releases and YET this game demo has me mesmerized.

The game that I am talking about is the Crayon Physics Deluxe which has a demo on youtube. The game allows you to draw objects and those objects become part of the game. The goal is to create objects that propel a ball toward a star. I know, this sounds pretty simplistic, but check out the demo before you make a judgment.

Links:

• slate's article about the game
• a prototype of the game available for download

Have you played the Max Payne game? Then can you "connect" with this comics ?

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This incident happened a few days back.

Secne: I walk into the office at 1:30 PM
Colleague 1 : Hey Raj! We were worried about you, we thought you might have gotten sick.
Me: No, I am doing good. I wanted to finish off some office work before coming in to the office
(silence for 2 seconds)
All around laughter.