Buying a Laptop – A Guide

Laptops are soon losing their ‘exclusive’ tag and rapidly becoming a part of the daily baggage of many. This is a quick (wannabe) guide to buying a laptop, coming from my recent purchase of a Dell Inspiron 640m. It is structured as a set of concerns that the prospective buyer might want to decide upon [...]

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Sage Stylesheet – Quick Silver

Sage is an extension for Mozilla Firefox, that helps one read subscribed RSS and Atom feeds. It keeps track of read/unread feeds and seamlessly integrates within the browser as a RSS client. The good thing about Sage is that it has a very easy to customize CSS enabled front end. So the CSS file can [...]

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With Byom babu, in a stroll through time.

A fateful day, a mistyped search word and I find myself with about 10 episodes of vintage ‘Byomkesh Bakshi‘. It was a case of ‘Old wine in old bottle’ with the print being sub-standard. But hey I wasn’t complaining. The theme song that plays while the credits roll at the start, instantaneously brought back the [...]

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Lan Ban and the Media Van

Fortnight stale news:
After a long trial, fiercely discussed and furiously contested, the axe finally came down on the internet usage in the IITB campus, sometimes referred to as LAN Ban. The details of the judgement passed by the responsible authorities convey that all inter and intra net facilities extended to the hostel rooms of students [...]

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