The Richard Gere – Shilpa Shetty kiss

Yesterday, I read in the newspaper that Richard Gere’s kissing of Shilpa Shetty has triggered protests over what the moral brigade sees as an affront to Indian culture. They have even demanded that an FIR be filed against the actress for defiling her person and thus insulting her culture for the sake of money.
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I’m becoming GOOD

During college days, I had always dreaded the concepts of “multithreading” and “race conditions”. I never grasped these ideas back then. I had been doing some reading on these topics lately and discovered that it is not rocket science, after all. I was even able to implement a mutithreading model in my current project. My [...]

A cool feature in Mozilla Firefox

I discovered this one by accident. Well, I needed to refer to RFC 1939. So, I started Firefox to do a Google search. But, instead of typing “rfc 1939″ in the Google search bar of Firefox, I typed the same into Firefox’s address bar and pressed enter as below:

Much to my surprise, Firefox actually [...]

Work, pizzas, caffeine and ‘Exploiting Software’

Of late, I’ve become very busy at work with little time to spare, so much so that I hardly blog these days. Friday came as a refreshing change to the busy routine. I so much wanted to attend the Good Friday church service. But, as I had worked till midnight on Thursday, I couldn’t get [...]