Digitally Toned

We, me and Shobha had been waiting eagerly for this evening. Setup reminders in TV, turned on NASA TV in my computer by 5 PM. It sure was a nail biter. Shobha cried. I almost did. Ahh... what a wonderful landing. No, I will not get into the politics of...

Well, that should not be a special news from someone from Kerala. However, it is different in my case. I have been living alone as Shobha is visiting Kerala. We just finished our new kitchen and I am still in the process of stocking it and getting familiarized...

I still love rain: I landed on the 22nd to the midst of a severe spring depression in the Arabian Sea. Really torrential rains for almost three days without a pause. A very nice reminder of the monsoons. Yes, it was disastrous, with large amounts of crops...

For a few years, we have been toying with the idea of getting permanent sterilization. However, since we have come up with a quite efficient plan of contraception and abstinence, this was not in the forefront of discussion. Last year, we asked our primary...

Full transcript and video here. http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGBbKG

There was one time, when I would have accepted a Delphi project over pretty much any other. However, last several releases of Delphi has made me change my mind. Every release of Delphi after version 7.0 had been a total disappointment. Whatever is the...

I was off my rocker for more about 10 weeks now. Well, it is actually a recliner. Still, one of my asses favorite resting places. We started a rather long remodeling project earlier last year. Well, the full story of that probably will follow. Early January...

The commercial shows the car in the desert, climbing a hill, etc. The sound says, "you may never drive it in a desert or climb 70 degree slope... [] but someone might. Knowing that we cannot engineer anything less" thus spoke the new Mercedes...

US is getting ready to shoot down a defunct spy satellite. Read here. http://www.space.com/news/ap-080214-spy-satellite-shootdown.html . The funny thing is that US was causing so much noise against space arms race discussions put forward by Russia and...

Codegear today announced their developer survey for Delphi product line. See the announcement here http://blogs.codegear.com/nickhodges/2008/01/31/39017#comment-18925 . Being a long term Delphi user, and my strong opinions about the recent releases from...

David I of CodeGear has written a blog lamenting about the amount of innovation is lost through software piracy. The thing I noticed was the familiarity of this argument with the one that is put forth by RIA. Then he brings in some statistics to prove...

I am member of several mail groups, and have quite a few friends eager to show share some extremely informative or hilariously funny message with me. I usually don't mind getting forwarded messages when the content is related to my primary interests...

This is what Madam X (her own impersonation, I suggested Mrs.X) told us about what her computer tech told her. Madam X is an artist, who has been using Windows XP for a while, and wanted to buy a new computer powerful enough to do serious graphic works...

Yesterday ESA finally confirmed that the Northwest Passage has opened up and is free of ice year round. A couple of weeks ago, I was watching a program about global warming and this guy was predicting the opening up of Northwest Passage and that being...

On Tuesday, when I was evaluating CodeGear RAD Studio 2007, I noticed that if I turn off my McAffee Anti-virus, I get the build done in about 20% of the time it otherwise will take. (E.g 3.9s to .7s.). On Wednesday, while I was booting up the computer...