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Book Review: "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair

October 9, 2010September 9, 2009 by bhagwad

It’s not often that I get to read a book that is as big an eye opener as “The Jungle“. It’s on the same plane as “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and from what I read afterwards, was far more instrumental in bringing direct change to one of the largest industries in America based in Chicago – … Read more

Google Books allows eBooks download via the ePub format!

October 9, 2010September 2, 2009 by bhagwad

In an earlier post, I had lamented the large number of formats in the ebook business leading to users being unable to view their books on multiple devices, and forcing them to stay with one particular ebook provider. We had seen how the “ePub” format was the way to go as it was open standard … Read more

Book Review: Wheel of Time Series

February 6, 2015August 25, 2009 by bhagwad

For just over a month now, I’ve been reading the “Wheel of Time” series like a maniac! Hence the lack of posts recently. Usually I enjoy writing a bit before starting work, but lately I haven’t been able to help reading the books. But all that’s over now. 11 books completed (Knife of Dreams being the last till now), leaving me feeling a bit empty – as I knew I would feel before it got over. So it’s time to restart the blogging and what better than to review this awesome series.

Host your Firefox Ubiquity Commands for free

October 9, 2010August 2, 2009 by bhagwad

Today I found a neat and easy way to make your Firefox Ubiquity commands publicly available and easily accessible to all. It’s so simple, it’s difficult to believe that I once thought I had to FTP the file to my own servers and insert the rel=”command” text into HTML. Ubiquity Command hosting was never easier. … Read more

Firefox Ubiquity – Character Count Command

October 9, 2010July 21, 2009 by bhagwad

Now that Ubiquity 0.5 is out, Erik’s Character Count Command no longer works. So I have updated it and if you have Ubiquity Firefox, the command bar should have appeared on top for you. Here is the code: CmdUtils.CreateCommand({ names: [‘char-count’], arguments: [ {role: ‘object’, nountype: noun_arb_text, label: ‘text to count chars in’}], preview: function( … Read more

So Many People don’t believe in Global Warming!

January 13, 2014July 13, 2009 by bhagwad

Back in India, Global Warming (or shall we say human induced climate change? Nah – Global Warming is easier) is a big concern. Just about everyone accepts that it’s happening and that we need to do something about it – even to the extent of cutting down on lifestyle excesses. This understanding of how man … Read more

Ubiquity Commands updated for Ubiquity 0.5

October 9, 2010July 10, 2009 by bhagwad

My three commands for Ubiquity were broken with the latest Ubiquity 0.5 update. So I modified them to be compatible. Here are the links to the three updated commands: To find the PageRank of a URL To find the number of Google Search Results for a given term To open torrent pages with the search … Read more

Manually Removing Carbon Dioxide from the air

July 29, 2013July 10, 2009 by bhagwad

Some of the latest efforts in finding out how to reduce Climate Change focus on how to manually take Carbon Dioxide out of the air instead of how to avoid releasing it. While there’s no reason not to try to do both, there’s good reason for this approach. We release CO2 from millions of little … Read more

Book Review: She by H. Rider Haggard

October 9, 2010July 7, 2009 by bhagwad

My latest read has been “She” by H. Rider Haggard. I found it using Wikipedia’s list of Top 100 bestselling books of all time. I’ve previously had bad experiences with such lists from Wikipedia. For example, it listed “Citizen Kane” as the #1 movie of all time. They didn’t mention that it was also the … Read more

iPod Touch now has Walking Directions and Public Transport with OS 3.0!

October 9, 2010June 17, 2009 by bhagwad

As an iPod Touch user, I really felt left out when during the last update, Apple didn’t think we were worthy of getting Public Transport and walking directions on Google Maps. Since my wife and I frequently rely solely on the iPod Touch for our travels, this was a bummer. But with the latest OS … Read more