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Archive for December, 2006

Dec 29 2006

Happy New Year

category: General author: Ashwin

Well, 2006 is almost over. It was a good year for me personally and professionally. One of the top notes being was finding out that I was going to be a father early next year. We are very excited to welcome our first child into the world. There are many milestones throughout ones life and [...]

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Dec 19 2006

Cruel and Unusual?

category: Perspective author: Ashwin

Let me get this straight. We have states within the union that execute prisoners for crimes that are considered heinous or overly “criminal” in nature. But the fact that one of these executions caused undue cruelty to one of these prisoners is reason enough to find a new way of terminating the lives of those [...]

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Dec 12 2006

It’s All Fun And Games

category: Gaming author: Ashwin

Until more than just your poor TV, window or other household items start getting hurt by people swinging those Wiimotes with too much gusto and involved in some destructive gaming. I saw a picture of a boy with the Wiimote shaped welt across his face when his cousin lost control of the remote. And now, [...]

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Dec 08 2006

What Code Doesn’t Do

category: Humor,Shorts author: Ashwin

6. Code cannot be cracked by an 8 year old kid in a matter of seconds Sorry, no. Just no. # A hilarious list of things dispelling what Hollywood thinks that code and “hackers” are capable of doing. I gotta especially agree with #10; when I first saw Independence Day, I had to call BS [...]

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Dec 04 2006

Translate It

category: Humor,Shorts author: Ashwin

5. A normal person wouldn’t steal pituitaries. # Some ‘interesting’ English subtitles used in films made in Hong Kong.


Dec 04 2006

The Linux Equivalent Project

category: Shorts,Technology author: Ashwin

A lot of people would consider switching over to Linux as their desktop OS of choice if they could get access to the kinds of applications they currently use in Windows. There are a lot of applications that provides functionality similar to their Windows brethren on Linux, but finding them is key. The Linux Equivalent [...]

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