Last week, I wrote a plug-in for viewing Del.icio.us bookmarks in the Google Desktop Sidebar. Then I submitted it to Google, and it was being tested by them for a couple days. Then they approved it, and added it to the listing on their website as well as in a blog entry. I had already [...]

With the latest release, Google Desktop 2.0 introduced script plugins. That means that it’s now easy as ever to create sidebar panels. So I went ahead and created a Movies plugin — you specify a zip code, and it will display customized movie listings for theaters near your home. You can also filter by genre, [...]

Microsoft is at it again. This week, they sent a trademark infringement notice to a 22-year old Australian Windows developer, Adam Lyttle, who wrote and distributed a program named Windows Defender. He agreed to sign over the rights to Microsoft, since it probably was a genuine trademark infringement case. But when signing the agreement, Microsoft [...]

The excellent ladies of Soulstice had their Fall Concert today, Soulstice being the all-ladies A Cappella group here at Virginia Tech. They rock. Simply. :) On their website, I found a few samples, and you should listen to them (though they’re even better live!) Listen to Summer Sunshine and Crush from their website, soulstice.

Let’s say, all human civilization were abruptly destroyed tomorrow. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe in a thousand years, or maybe in a million. Maybe by Vogon constructor fleets, maybe by an asteroid, or maybe our own doing, such as a fatal side-effect of global warming. This isn’t very unlikely, mind you, because a large part of [...]

Jorge Cham, author of Ph.D. Comics was at Tech for a talk, The Power of Procrastination, littered with utterly hilarious moments and clips from the comics. I’ve been following the strips for at least a couple of years now, and boy, do they capture the essence of grad life. One of the few things Jorge [...]

Imagine, three of your favorites coming together in one newsworthy item: Douglas Adams, his love for Macs, and Microsoft Word bashing. :) On alt.fan.douglasadams, KÃ¥re today posted an article by Douglas (from MacUser) on his pet peeve about Microsoft Word (don’t we all have one … or perhaps, more?) The absence of smart quotes apparently [...]

Can’t read this? Or seeing misspellings?, Photos: Sthapana, Visarjan गणपती बाप्पा मोरया! पुढच्या वर्षी लवकर या! आम्ही ह्या वेळी काळेवाडी मध्ये एकदम मोठ्या प्रमाणावर गणेशोत्सव साजरा केला। संपूर्ण दहा िदवस, दररोज रात्री आरत्या म्हणत, प्रसाद खात, धमाल केली। टिळकांनी महाराष्ट्रात सार्वजनिक गणेशोत्सव आणला; आम्ही तोच सण परदेशात नेला। फरक एवढाच, टिळकांनी राष्ट्रासाठी व आम्ही आपापल्या [...]

It’s only occasionally that a website comes along and begs the question, “Wow, this idea is so obvious, why hadn’t someone done this already?” I stumbled across 43 Places the other day, and it’s an amazing idea, to say the least. It’s the perfect hangout for postcard-tourists like me; there’s a million places I’d rather [...]