I had long been fascinated with all things African. It is the only continent where you hear more about genocides than any actual development. It is quite unfair because there are actually peaceful nations in Africa and a lot of creative development goes on there because of the poor infrastructure of many nations.
I have been reading a lot of Science Fiction/Fantasy books lately (as you might see on my list of books read).
If you see this error when you (as I have) been innocently downloading a 2 MB attachment from a client - fear not (or fear the worst) as this is the dumb little gmail that is creating a havoc in our lives. Apparently, they have made a mistake in attempting to solve the problem of spammers and have disabled hundreds of accounts. This is what we get in trusting google (the home of the uber-nerds) to be smart enough to not do such mistakes.
I am watching BBC now early morning (12.45 a.m.) and I see that Shashank has a powerbook infront of him for his performances. I am touched to see my beloved to playing such an important part in another of my loves: carnatic music (though I am very curious to know why he would need it when other performers carry on fine without any gadgets).
Pradeep has been plying me with a heavy dose of Microsoft parodies that had me laughing in splits. So, in gratitude, and for your daily dose of humor, I guide you to Pradeep’s excellent directory of such ads/ parodies.
…work on Intel Celeron and have “Basic Memory” of 640K. And I, again, have no blasted camera to capture the “Kodak Moment” when the LED Display at Exit G of Tanjong Pagar MRT froze during boot-up. I suspect it to be a Windows problem =D
On a related note, the Wikipedia entry for Singapore MRT is comprehensive while the del.icio.us tags woefully has no tags for singapore mrt =(
After the untoward incident happened to Xiaxue, I considered the need for backing up my website automatically, so that I am not left with backups that are three years old. My search for good backup systems took me automatically to del.icio.us, where a tag search resulted in Full Sync.Full Sync is everything I wanted. Automatic Backups, checks for changes, regular expressions to eliminate certain folders from backups, and free. So here is a small tutorial on how to use FullSync for automatic backups.What FullSync is not:It works only if you have FTP access to the remote server where your website is hosted. Otherwise you are better off putting task reminders in your mobile phone to backup your website every week.
I came across Lena when I did Image Processing and Neural Networks in NTU. A very intelligent friend of mine knew the source of the photograph and told me that it was the photograph from playboy.
I was hooked. I mean, when was the last time science and playboy came together? I was very curious to know the full story. Now, Lenna.org has the full story and a link to the original picture (the picture contains nudity).
And what’s more, she is alive and the old sexy looks are gone and in place is a glow and beauty that grows with age! Welcome back Lena!
P.S. There is an internet censor body in Singapore! I wasnt allowed access to one of the links in the lenna.org pages. Gives me this:
Due to Media Development Authority (MDA) regulation, this website that you are trying to access is a restricted website.
Deepak has put up a tragicomic and informative article on recovering your data if you “accidentally” format your partitions or delete data. I quiver with fear even imagining doing it!
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