Archive for January, 2006

Good Virii? P2P innoculation?

« 11 January 2006 at 2:01 am | 3 Comments
Techy, Ideas/Work | Tags: Idea Anti-Virus »

This morning, while driving to work, I was thinking of how bluetooth virii spread … basically … how does any computer virus/worm spread … while at it … how do germs and the flu virus spread in humans?
Isn’t it all some basic form of p2p? One infected person/system/phone passes it on to few others, they […]



The Original Keyboard

« 10 January 2006 at 2:11 am | 1 Comment
Cool people, Techy | Tags: Funny »

Arrrgh … i maintain a decent folder, with images that have been posted to the blog and another folder with images that I want to post but haven’t found the time yet.
Unfortunately, this post is an example of a failure in such a system.
The original post was done on 12th April 2005 and is found […]



Get rid of PDFs on the web

« 10 January 2006 at 2:07 am | No Comments
Techy, Nuisance, Ideas/Work | Tags: PDF Adobe Nuisance »

It’s about time … get rid of PDFs from websites.
Adobe has bloated their PDF Reader client software so much that I prefer not to open PDF files on websites or, in an extreme case, when I don’t have a choice, I search for the url in Google and then use Google’s “View as HTML” option […]



Good to be back home

« 6 January 2006 at 12:15 pm | No Comments
Personal | Tags: »

I’m in Bangalore right now (notice the lack of blog posts!)
So tonight, it’s a little after 10pm, and almost everyone’s off to bed … when my mom wants a pain-killer tablet … and we are fresh out of them.
I was the young person around (and awake) who could quickly shoe up and rush out to […]




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