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→ SJ resigns: I wasn’t this sad when Superman died

Kaushik — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:41:16 +0000

If you haven’t already heard, Steve Jobs of Apple resigned today. The quote that truly sums up his contribution (from Gruber’s article):

Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself

Techcrunch has this nice piece on Steve Jobs-the person (forgive the cliched title). Loved this line:

He’s a buddhist with a temper.

NB : The title of my subject was initially: I wasn’t this sad when Batman died. Then I thought to myself, who are we kidding, Jobs is only resigning and it would be overly melodramatic to compare the two. So I chose Superman :)

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→ Programming is..

Kaushik — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:13:19 +0000

lol this is so true. especially like these:

Carefully composing e-mails to other programmers/mailing lists/non-technical folks

Digging through public code repositories to see “how [some open source project] does it”

Figuring out how to shoehorn together codebases that weren’t designed to coexist

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Starry Eyes LIVE by Ellie Goulding

Kaushik — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:33:12 +0000

if you liked the background score on the parkour video i posted recently, you’ll LOVE this video by the same artist.

its a live recording of the song “Starry Eyes” at -what is probably- a dutch radio show? a youtube commenter has this to say of Ellie Goulding:

I would go see Ellie Goulding live. I’m a straight guy, from Texas. I listen to metal. I’m hardcore. Whatever. She’s a great musician. Her voice alone. If I closed my eyes and listened to her, I’d think I died and I was in Heaven. She could sing me to sleep every day. I’d die happy. Just sayin’.

this dude has a very valid point: this woman’s voice is simply utterly fantastic. enjoy

→ rare and beautiful celebrity photos

Kaushik — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:10:49 +0000

really liking this blog. you should check it out… contains rare and beautiful pics of celebrities (don’t be deceived with the name).

a couple of favorites from their gallery:

(hover over the images if you’ve been living under a stone and would like to know who these wonderful people are/were)

all images courtesy: “this is not porn” blog

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→ inside Dropbox’s offices

Kaushik — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:14:10 +0000

TechCrunch recently did a video interview of the Dropbox hub. who wouldn’t want to work for a company that has LANs of Starcraft 2, jam sessions, TT Tables, DDR machines and lets you build your own desk (that last one alone is enough to hire some of us nerds).

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→ just testing

Kaushik — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:39:47 +0000

just wanted to test the pages links to plugin and my permanent url combo. ignore please and yes i’m still alive on the internet

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Even smart men say stupid things

Kaushik — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:05:27 +0000

David Heinemeier Hansson says the IT Department is coming to an end.

He has never worked in an “IT Department” before
He’s been watching too many episodes of Outsourced
He doesn’t talk to his elderly relatives
His elderly relatives live in Silicon Valley

I have great respect for this guy.I mean, the guy created “Ruby on Rails”! but really? IT Department coming to an end…?

Gruber man from DF points us to a neat quote of Upton Sinclair:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

[Full disclosure: I currently work in an IT Department. But that's precisely why i'm so sure there needs be an IT Department. David should try attending calls. He would shove that foot so far down his throat].

great photography doesn’t have to come only from DSLRs

Kaushik — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:37:15 +0000

Redirected to New Blog

to compete with Free, make it easy!

Kaushik — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:59:48 +0000

How to compete with free via Daring Fireball The message for us web designers couldn’t possibly be more poweful than this:

There is something that competes with free: Easy! Simple trumps complete.

Phone Disk: connecting your iOS device like a real disk

Kaushik — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:23:52 +0000

another freebie Mac OS software (free till December 1st). this software is quite similar to the previous software i posted – “SyncPod”, but this offers true disk mode or so it says. definitely worth a try. considering it’s free :P.

click here to get PhoneDisk for Free (offer valid till 1st December)

mistakes in photography

Kaushik — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 06:24:16 +0000

redirected to new blog

SyncPod: transfer all content from iPod/iPhone/iPad to Mac-now for free

Kaushik — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:01:38 +0000

if you’re on a mac and reading this before the 1st of november, head over right now to iSkysoft’s Facebook page.the giveaway is only for fans so go ahead and like them. as a sign of gratitude they’ll email you a license key for their SyncPod software.

this is brilliant if you want to transfer music, videos, photos, and audiobooks from an iPod/iPhone/iPad to a Mac without getting bogged down by iTunes and it’s twisted synchronizing ways…

big guys moving to wordpress

Kaushik — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:17:58 +0000

first MSN Spaces and now Adobe. wordpress becoming the de facto standard of blogging. yet another mental note jotted for those times when i’m thinking of moving to tumblr….

Pick the right cellphone post-paid plain in Kuwait

Kaushik — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:34:01 +0000

Great Post from the Anything Goes Blog (by 3baid) on how to pick the right post-paid connection in Kuwait. I was looking to switch from pre-paid to post-paid sometime back and was basically clueless. This is exactly what I was looking for.

TV Shows Scorecard for 2010

Kaushik — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:33:49 +0000

Scorecard of shows that got Cancelled/Renewed.

Teenage Engineering OP1

Kaushik — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:09:27 +0000

So now I know what I want for my next birthday:

Indian Cuisine at a Glance

Kaushik — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:40:07 +0000

Found this doing the forwards… Click the picture for an expanded image.