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Public bookmarks, Private tags
Sep 24, 20061 min read

Public bookmarks, Private tags

Has anyone come across a bookmarking site that allows us to make bookmarks public, but attach private tags to them? Here's the use-case: Tags in my opinion are small bits of information that we att...

Guest lecture in Christ College
Sep 16, 20061 min read

Guest lecture in Christ College

I had been to Christ College today as a guest lecturer. The students were fine arts students, mostly in their final or pre-final year. This was the first time I was giving a talk to such an audienc...

Java and pattern matching
Sep 15, 20061 min read

Java and pattern matching

I had a very simple requirement. I had to escape certain characters in a string using a backslash. Backslash is a very tricky character. Escaping involves preceding the character to be escaped with...

Comments from Sir TimBl and Grady Booch
Aug 31, 20061 min read

Comments from Sir TimBl and Grady Booch

...I hope that we as humanity can learn to use this information space to understand each other, that we can form ourselves into groups in lots of interesting ways so that between us that sort of ju...

Difference in interpretation?
Aug 07, 20061 min read

Difference in interpretation?

I like blue. This has nothing to do with me being in IBM. I have always liked blue. Now let's say you hate blue and like some other color, say yellow. What is the reason behind this? Why do you lik...

Want a Linux flavor for human beings?
Jul 25, 20062 min read

Want a Linux flavor for human beings?

My first experience with any Linux flavor has been usually bad. But this one wasn't. I had heard about a long time back but somehow could not use it. The requirement of the Internet for installatio...

Flock - a Web 2.0 browser?
Jul 16, 20062 min read

Flock - a Web 2.0 browser?

I have been trying for about a month now. And I am stuck to it. What I liked: 1. Blogging support - I am making this blog entry from within Flock. Also there is Technorati publishing support and al...

Hackday @ IBM
Jul 16, 20061 min read

Hackday @ IBM

The power of blogging was apparent. IBM had its first unofficial HackDay. What was impressive was that the contest and the details spread through blogging and then got publicity because it was reco...