Author: vishnugopal
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Me Mining Koal
I’m going to take a hiatus for a while. It was a surprise that I could be back this early, but since I’m here, I’m working on something that will replace (hopefully) our backend at Sig9. I call it Koal, and it’s an XML-cacheing, DB-based, Content Management System. At least, it will be when it […]
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Feynman
Notice the spelling. F-e-y-n-m-a-n. Sort of like superman and spiderman, Feynman is an ordinary mortal who tells us what being a scientist is all about. I’m quoting “The Pleasure of Finding Things out” Page 2, “The Beauty of a Flower”: I have a friend who’s an artist and he’s sometimes taken a view which I […]
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Walking Away
Going away. For a week. Taking a lot of books with me, the most interesting could be Richard Feymann’s ‘The Pleasure of Finding Things out.’ I have a feeling Vivek would really enjoyed this book. In our recent Goliath vs Goliath battle (the post about it mysteriously vanished from Sig9) he told me a lot […]
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Of Music
Suman came over today, and he brought me a CD which had a lot of old, and new, Malayalam and Tamil songs. I had (consciously or not) lost touch with music from both these languages for over a year now, and it was nice to see some old songs bringing some good memories back. (Yes, […]
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Hunter
Ladies and Gentlemen, today I dedicated my time to ze bookhunt. I had two authors in mind: George Gilder, who wrote the wonderful Telecosm which I chanced upon a few weeks back but couldn’t finish and a prequel Microcosm which I’m told is even more spine-thrilling. Both are non-fiction works by an author who I’d […]