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2011

Feb 22Online Store Anti-patterns
Feb 1The Millenium trilogy by Stieg Larsson

2010

2009

Dec 5My namebench chart. You can see the full results here Essentially, it… (2)
Dec 4Wow, Digit Magazine, consider me a subscriber!
Dec 4Some guy is selling his 3-year-old Linksys WRT54GL (3)
Dec 1AVATAR
Dec 1Fix Google Wave's Scrollbars
Nov 29Nice User Interfaces (3)
Nov 26How to tell which kind of libertarian is insane (4)
Nov 21If climate change deniers looked through chatlogs of
Nov 19Is nothing in your life portentous enough for you? We have a cure!
Nov 19The Sun keyboards in the IIT-M Central Library. Unorthodox keyboard…
Nov 17Pranav Mistry's SixthSense
Nov 17Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network
Nov 15The Invisible Hand of the Traffic (4)
Nov 13From This is historic Times, February 2009.
Nov 10I have become that which I hate
Nov 5Customer Care done moronically
Nov 5Root Canal
Nov 4BARC was hacked in 1998?
Oct 25Saving your geocities page (2)
Oct 9XRumer
Oct 9Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 6Word for that feeling when something is just so adorable you want to eat it up (2)
Oct 5Live Plasma - Music suggestions
Oct 4Evince now works on Windows (3)
Oct 3Vindication over Φ, the 'golden ratio' (3)
Oct 3A new kind of spam
Sep 30Multisync on S60 phones
Sep 28Hilarious Dina Malar Code
Sep 25I wish I worked in the government
Sep 21Today, while driving down C. P. Ramaswamy Road (4)
Sep 13Metallica (2)
Sep 2Hardware Failure. Restart Camera.
Aug 4Today, at the traffic signal (3)
Jul 2Tata Indicom, Reliance Communications, Airtel, Vodafone et al. (1)
Jul 2Dell
Jul 1A picture of the guys from my batch, taken recently when we had a…
Jul 1SBI - The only bank to figure in the list of top 100 banks. Some list…
Jul 1Canon PIXMA MP 145 Serial Number. This is in the most non-obvious… (2)
Jun 30I'm a left moderate social libertarian, according to this political… (5)
Jun 30For all the talk about tradition and culture,
Jun 29I watched half of Black Hack Down
Jun 25The Ubuntu One client doesn't follow symbolic links
Jun 23Guess who ran soup kitchens for the poor?
Jun 22A Person Paper on Purity in Language by Douglas Hofstadter
Jun 20Doom
Jun 17Pet peeves: Using Flash everywhere
Jun 17The Dreaded Question by Kurt Higgins and Zelda Devon (2)
Jun 16Automata would be my choice
Jun 16A computer hacker spy, just like in the movies
Jun 15Funny article about misinterpretations of French words in English (2)
Jun 930,000 dollars for a game!
Jun 7A funny bumper sticker I saw today
Jun 2Ads on BBC's News Site
May 22#!/usr/bin/env sh for video in * do name=`echo "$video" | tr '_' ' '`…
May 19Sandisk Sansa M240
May 16Big day
May 13Goddamn wireless driver regressions
May 13Goddamn webcam driver regressions
May 13I voted! (2)
May 8I'm convinced that America has lost it
May 8Speed Post
May 7This function is a joke. Don't you have better things to do? It's not…
May 5Not on the rolls (2)
May 1Video editing on Linux
Apr 30Evolution has officially lost it. What kind of spelling check is… (1)
Apr 30export HISTIGNORE=ls:ll:la:l:cd:pwd:exit:clear
Apr 29Don't trust the X-SPAM header
Apr 28State Bank Of India
Apr 27To script Telnet commands
Apr 24Website that extracts your history
Apr 23Geocities shutting down (1)
Apr 23Everything is dead
Apr 22Indians reselling hardware
Apr 22Is something wrong with VoIP in India?
Apr 21#!/bin/sh gnome-screensaver-command --lock sleep 3 xset dpms force off
Apr 21New Updates Notification method.
Apr 21Installing Operating Systems
Apr 18Places to avoid: BBC - Have your say
Apr 17Nvidia display drivers + Linux + 8400M GS = Desire to hang self
Apr 17Pity no one came (2)
Apr 17Antisocial Phone Users (APU) (2)
Apr 17Ripping CDs to FLAC (2)
Apr 15Man bites snake to save himself
Apr 15Simon and Garfunkel
Apr 15Mahindra Xylo
Apr 15Spambots: They follow me
Apr 13To everyone who thinks driving 35 km/h in a 50 km/h zone is cool (2)
Apr 13The BJP's support for FOSS
Apr 12OpenOffice Spreadsheet - Drag&Drop
Apr 12Unable to assist. Insufficient data. (2)
Apr 12Happiness (2)
Apr 12Graduation Day. Seemingly so far away.
Apr 12Sadness and disappointment (2)
Apr 10Lease of Life (2)
Apr 10Domain Renewal pricing chart. Okay, let me look that up. Hmm, 2 years…
Apr 9Accessing your SSH server through your WAN IP from your LAN through a ZyXEL P660 HW1
Apr 9I must be losing my mind (1)
Apr 8Dealing with electronic junk (2)
Apr 7Kill the Buddha
Apr 7Backup server (7)
Apr 7MSI 6702
Apr 5Mail server was down
Apr 1How to distinguish a fanboy from a normal person
Apr 1Today
Apr 1ZDNet
Apr 1My brother's Chemistry textbook. Hilarious!
Mar 30Google Maps with Directions
Mar 30Registered to vote
Mar 28Cloud Computing. I find this hilarious because after a game of…
Mar 27Internet Forums
Mar 27James Otis is a good man
Mar 27Degree! I has it!
Mar 23Hello Nano
Mar 22What I like about Gmail's UI
Mar 22Marc...is gone. (2)
Mar 22You know things are bad
Mar 22for i in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/*.sqlite; do echo "VACUUM;" |…
Mar 21From The Week
Mar 16BBC Headline: Banks 'concerned' over model riot
Mar 16Sounds funny (4)
Mar 16Crackpots!
Mar 16Footballer shot when he was about to score equalising goal
Mar 16Broadband in India
Mar 16Why I don't understand half-anarchists
Mar 16Unbelievable.
Mar 14Pay your copy-writers properly.
Mar 14Find The Error
Mar 14You know
Mar 13I hate Windows Vista. It sucks. (6)
Mar 13Using git to maintain a site
Mar 12Vijaykanth has a peculiar style of fighting especially with his leg…
Mar 12MySQL
Mar 11Minus
Mar 9Doing it wrong: Landmarkonthenet.com
Mar 9The START Natural Language Question Answering System
Mar 7Mother puncher. I saw this while I was in Nungambakkam trying to get…
Mar 6Rape Victim? Abort and be excommunicated (4)
Mar 6"Gandhiji's memory and values should not be violated, the auction…
Feb 27Things I hate: Lying Website Titles
Feb 27Apple fanboys
Feb 27Wonderful, just perfect.
Feb 25Fun with /dev/dsp
Feb 25Personality quiz (2)
Feb 25Oh my god. It's so beautiful! (3)
Feb 24Garfield minus Garfield.
Feb 23This reminds me of my favourite decision-making process. I toss a…
Feb 22False Alarm (2)
Feb 22ZyXEL P-660HW-D1 WLAN MAC Filter applies to wired ethernet also?
Feb 22Islam is the light
Feb 21Mugger killed by accomplice's knife
Feb 21Non-responsive keyboard (2)
Feb 21A Red Hat Fedora! Awesome. Supposedly, you get one of these free if…
Feb 20Had enough (4)
Feb 19Into the Wild (2007) (6)
Feb 18"I think he should move here [to the extravagant presidential…
Feb 17The World's Most Toxic Value System
Feb 17Malaysia sucks (5)
Feb 17Airtel again
Feb 13If it ain't broke, don't fix it. (2)
Feb 12Airtel customer support (4)
Feb 11The most brain damaged website (8)
Feb 10Broadband throttling begins with Airtel (2)
Feb 9lftp gets stuck at 'Making data connection'
Feb 9Do you find yourself rooting for the bad guy? (2)
Feb 9ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/…
Feb 9Why I like nations (2)
Feb 9Are we really that civilized?
Feb 4Technology Information (2)
Jan 28Project Pluto
Jan 28Gnome Art Page - Edit
Jan 26Hello World in C++-Epoc
Jan 24HCL Leaptops (4)
Jan 24You know (2)
Jan 21iPod Touch for 11,000? (2)
Jan 21A little common sense (5)
Jan 14La Haine. Wow. (3)
Jan 13The Man-Moth
Jan 12Pushovers (4)
Jan 11New Gnome Art Page
Jan 8"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast…
Jan 7PCI Graphics Card
Jan 7Fool religious fellows
Jan 7Dell Warranty Compensation for Nvidia Issues
Jan 7Compacting Firefox SQLite databases to improve responsiveness
Jan 5My darling Staedtler Graphite 779. Oh how I love thee! (3)
Jan 5Just charge over USB (2)
Jan 5SMaximiSe
Jan 4Memorising isn't bad (9)
Jan 2The Price of an Idea
Jan 1The best Linux wireless card information directory.
Jan 1Indian Technology Blogs
Jan 1Steadily regressing
Jan 1The cat at my cousin's place. Cats are awesome.
Jan 1A Music Video I Can't Remember
Jan 1The Bourne Series of movies
Jan 1New trainers! Though strictly, they were only 'new' two weeks ago…
Jan 1To Ralink

2008

Dec 28Project 10 to the 100th
Dec 27To D-Link
Dec 27To Netgear
Dec 26Are we running out of ideas? (2)
Dec 25Samsung SV4002H Drive Jumper Settings
Dec 22To TN 07 C 1759: (3)
Dec 20Follow up to "I made a stupid" (3)
Dec 17Recent Comments on Chyrp
Dec 17Buying and giving away hardware (4)
Dec 17It had to be done
Dec 17I made a stupid (2)
Dec 16Complaints about GNOME: Compose and AltGr
Dec 13My name is π[318286889:30]
Dec 12My Digital Camera finally died
Dec 12A BBS Text Files Archive
Dec 11The Real Reason To Buy Used Books
Dec 11A sad day for intelligence
Dec 11Why are we surrounded by fools?!
Dec 11Actor slits throat accidentally
Dec 11People lie about their reading habits (5)
Dec 10Bad Mail Server
Dec 10Google Search with Keyboard Shortcuts
Dec 9Bhuvan
Dec 9Mutating Pictures
Dec 8Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Dec 7So I upload this picture, and thought I'd search Google to see if…
Dec 7I tried a slightly darker theme today. Somehow I keep coming back to… (2)
Dec 7A little knowledge is a dangerous thing (2)
Dec 6What's wrong with Chavez
Dec 6Jesus saves, ha ha ha.
Dec 6XPS Support Numbers
Dec 6We're human beings
Dec 6Another one bites the dust. Downright scary this though one as it…
Dec 3Philip Pullman
Dec 3Incompetence (3)
Dec 2We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating…
Dec 2How fortunate (2)
Dec 2In Iceland, at the Icelandic Church's Kirkjuþing. via reddit (2)
Dec 2Count on the web to deliver the bizarre
Dec 2VirtualBox
Dec 2Grep your cache for 'image_tag_for' and replace it with 'image_link'…
Dec 2Change of theme (3)
Nov 30Tae Guk Gi. I watched this movie today. I liked it very much. On…
Nov 30Kernel module lag
Nov 30I'm happy to know that someone out there thinks Java is fast. My… (2)
Nov 29VirtualBox
Nov 28Poo
Nov 25The 500 Mile Email
Nov 24Spitting Coffee Man
Nov 22David Cope's Experiments in Musical Intelligence
Nov 21I am Iron Man. Ha ha. This is all my younger brother's fault. (3)
Nov 21Everything is under control. Freeman has received the crowbar.
Nov 21Yo Bowy
Nov 20Apocalyptica. Full story.
Nov 19Ohhhh. Goddammit!
Nov 19Pet Peeves: Pages that skip
Nov 19TV Tropes
Nov 18OMGWTFBBQ
Nov 18Old Dilbert strip. I find it hilarious.
Nov 17Boycott Novell Protesters Manhandled In India
Nov 17Dell XPS Customer Support
Nov 15From the BBC's Week In Pictures. Tell me you didn't hear the Imperial…
Nov 15Dreams
Nov 12He supervised an operation by which two Gypsy children were sewn…
Nov 12Kuntsler's Eyesore Of The Month
Nov 9Buckethead
Nov 2The UK: Where No-one Can Hold on to Their Data
Oct 30The difference between Mac and Dell users: I took this screenshot a…
Oct 30Silas Marner
Oct 30Roshan George
Oct 29Helpdesk
Oct 29The template is fucked up
Oct 29Bus driver sacked for 'Sieg Heil'
Oct 29The British have a weird sense of humour
Oct 29Why do I use Compiz?
Oct 28Ideologically, none of us should like the Bond films they are sexist…
Oct 27A bizarre day
Oct 26My desktop, as of today. Yes, I like the brown theme and am just…
Oct 25Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (2)
Oct 21Free Market Kooks
Oct 20Is this down?
Oct 20This is George, he has just noticed cockroaches in the house again. (2)
Oct 20This is George. He has just come back from work. He is tired. He is… (2)
Oct 20Peter Callesen
Oct 19Baygon
Oct 19Fast Inverse Square Root
Oct 17Elevators (2)
Oct 17Indian Railways Ticket Availability
Oct 17I got an email from Crossword Book Stores, telling me about this… (1)
Oct 17I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent…
Oct 17Hilarious - Shieffer calls climate change "climate control!" He…
Oct 11Richard Bona
Oct 10Silent voices
Oct 9Oh joy!
Oct 9Someone needs to rework their advertisement targeting. (2)
Oct 9Why dry days are bad
Oct 9Here's a cover for the previous post, since I just discovered a…
Oct 9A man of the people - Chinua Achebe (3)
Oct 9If you've been to Tambaram station, you have probably seen this ramp…
Oct 8The command line is cool again (1)
Oct 6Eduaction is they key... (sic)
Oct 5Poe's Law — Without a blatant display of humour, it is impossible to…
Oct 5Keys that wear (2)
Oct 4Yes, I know, it's a long standing issue that Google doesn't get the…
Oct 3Things I hate: Open ended support threads
Sep 29The Digg error page: No, I reached that error on purpose.
Sep 28Updating (2)
Sep 18The Wi-Fi is a lie
Sep 16Rick Wright gone on to play the Great Gig in the Sky
Sep 15Opera mini
Sep 15The Haj Subsidy
Sep 12In a shop in Gangtok, Sikkim. A year and a few months ago. I held my… (2)
Sep 12In Kodaikanal, chez Katya and Chris Douglas, friends of my parents…
Sep 12The Problem
Sep 7This is a photo I took right after the Dell delivery chaps came and…
Sep 7Coffee Shops
Sep 6Alien Feline
Sep 6A beautiful comic strip, there's something about it that I really…
Sep 5There's some chicken curry in the fridge (1)
Sep 3Chyrp (1)