Expressions - Bhagwad Jal Park
My thoughts, haikus and freelance musings
Finished reading “The Age of Innocence” last night and it’s left a kind of bittersweet impression in my mind. Several components struck me – aspects of the book that give you a unique perspective of what the author was trying to convey. Interestingly, this was one of the few books by a woman that I’ve … Read more
The End of Arthur Just finished reading the last of the four books on Arthur by Howard Pyle: “The Story of the Grail and the passing of Arthur.” As with all books narrating this section of the Arthurian legend, it is profoundly sad. As we read about the way Lancelot behaves with the King we’re … Read more
The story of sir Lancelot and his companions – An Overview This is the third book in the four book set on the Arthurian Legends by Howard Pyle. As I noted in my previous review of the third book: The story of the champions of the Round Table, Pyle’s magic is in detailing the large … Read more
The Problem Update: (29th October 2009): This guide holds true for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala as well. The only difference is how to restart the hal correctly. I’ll be examining that and posting it here. Update: (29th April 2009) I was facing these problems using the 64 bit version of Ubuntu 9.0.4 Jaunty on a … Read more
I’ve always loved the Arthurian legends and read whatever books I can get my hands on concerning them. The whole image of those days when knights errant went in search of adventure and enchantments – and damsels in distress were a plenty. Of course, it’s a highly romanticized version of how things really were, but … Read more
Getting the number of Google search results Update (July 16th 2009): I’ve updated the command for the new Ubiquity 0.5 Parser (Version 2) For us SEO practitioners out there, we often need to check how many pages are returned by Google for our search term. We do this to find out what the competition is, … Read more
Update (November 28th 2009): Now that Mininova has been forced to lose most of its torrents, I’ve removed it from the list. It will be sorely missed and we all mourn its demise Update (July 16th 2009): I’ve updated the command for the new Ubiquity 0.5 Parser (Version 2) Having implemented a Ubiquity command to … Read more
Update (July 16th 2009): I’ve updated the command for the new Ubiquity 0.5 Parser (Version 2) As a writer, I frequently need to check the Google PageRank (PR) of pages. My old solution was to have a plug in that gave me the PR of the site I was on. This required me to actually … Read more
It’s no secret to anyone who has been following this blog, that I’ve had some nasty surprises in the US. Right from cell phone contracts to the lack of roadside shops, I have often been nonplussed by the way things are done here. The last incident however, took the cake and the icing on it … Read more
Explains how computers have spoiled Chess and how need to move onto another board game called “Go”