I have four half-written posts, but you won’t get them today. Instead you will have to read this rant. For I have to deal with some shit in my life. Shit caused by God. Yes, God the All-Powerful. You must be thinking why blame God. Well, don’t the religious among us credit God for all… Continue reading A Useless Rant
Year: 2003
Busy with Work and Play
I had to do some work and run some errands on saturday. Then in the afternoon, all of us in the apartment played Hearts of Iron, a World War II real-time strategy game. It was part of our (my friend and I) effort to get the other two apartment-mates to start playing it as the… Continue reading Busy with Work and Play
My Life in Kashmir II
Jammu Tawi was a beautiful and clean town on slant of mountain. Rains were usual and after rain roads and streets used to glitter. Town of Jammu had a specialty. It had flowing waters on its three and a half sides…
Browsing List
You might or might not have noticed my browsing list on the sidebar. It is just below the list of books on the right. This “browsing list” will comprise of any interesting stuff I find net-surfing. Putting a URL on that list does not mean that I agree or endorse the contents of that webpage;… Continue reading Browsing List
My Life in Kashmir I
My great-grandfather, after getting fed up with high handedness of the British rulers of India, took refuge in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (here-after called state) from Qila Sobha Singh, District Sialkot [in the Punjab province of Pakistan and very close to Jammu …
My Dad in Jammu and Kashmir
So the long promised series is here. My Dad sent me his writeup about a month ago. But I have been too lazy and too busy to do much with it. He wrote it in Microsoft Word. I am going to break it up into reasonable sized chunks and post them over the next few… Continue reading My Dad in Jammu and Kashmir
Book Review: Paris 1919
In the foreword to Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan, Richard Holbrooke argues: In the headline version of history, the road from the Hall of Mirrors [where Versailles treaty was signed] to the German invasion of Poland only twenty years later is usually presented as a straight line. But as… Continue reading Book Review: Paris 1919
MT-Blacklist
Jay Allen has come up with version 1.5 of MT-Blacklist to combat spam in comments and trackback. I have installed the new version and it works great. No more errors that I got with version 1.0beta and no slowing down of the rebuild process. I haven’t been getting too much spam in my comments, but… Continue reading MT-Blacklist
Imitation Fitness Blog II
Unqualified Offerings was wondering whether I would be posting regular fitness updates. He gets half his wish: I’ll post updates, but irregularly. As I posted in my first fitness post, I am trying to increase endurance and muscle strength but I am not overweight. I had orginally settled on three different exercises: Running/walking on a… Continue reading Imitation Fitness Blog II
Happy Birthday
To Amber, my lovely wife. Many Happy Returns of the day. And don’t worry that you are old. Thirty is just the start of life. Obviously, there won’t be any blogging today as I bake a carrot cake for her and then we go out to dinner. PS. In case you were wondering where I… Continue reading Happy Birthday