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"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.-Denis Diderot"

Im a Mac [PC]

 
The whole of last week I was amused to see Bill Gates and Seinfeld share their lives with common folk on TV.Then via stuff.co.nz I came to know that Microsoft's "I'm a PC" advertising campaign was created on a Mac and the celebrity spruikers brought in by the software giant are all professed Apple fans, it has been revealed.

Hidden information contained in images from the ads

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Weekend Design - Teal Blue

 
randomflickersAfter a long long time, I ended up developing a blogger template for my friend Surya Prakash.  He has an excellent blog going, with some profound posts. So I decided to give his blog a much needed rehaul.  After all, what are friends for?PS: It is interesting that "Surya Prakash" means "Sun Light", and his blog has a light reference.  Me ...

9/11 - My take

 
Pic Courtesy:TIO I have heard reports, seen documentaries and tried to place myself in other people's shoes, but always left with a feeling that my emotions were secondhand, and therefore of no account when compared to the loss suffered by the families directly affected.  This morning, my good friend Surya Prakash who is a poet philosopher in an engineer's garb has expressed his thoughts succintly and eloquently, on the 9/11 topic.  To all those who have ...

Number to text function, to render the number in words

 
Today Im sharing an interesting function that you can add to your wordpress blog, to render total comments in words. All you have to do is to copy the funtion below into your functions.php file. $nwords = array( "zero", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine", "ten", "eleven", "twelve", "thirteen", ...

Chilligavva is on the gallery of Design Shack UK

 
This morning, I recieved a google alert in my mail box from designshack. I was praying, with bated breath, and wonder of wonders, the design for chilligavva blog had made it to the site... My joy knew no bounds...So the first thing I did, was to revert to the design of the winning entry as I had as per usual changed the design last night.....

Vinayaka Chavithi 2008

 
Last year I wrote a very detailed post on Vinayaka Chavithi. This year all of us went to the Omaha Ganesha Temple. The crowd was not heavy, and the rituals not as grand as I thought it would be, which was a disappointment. A enthusiastic devotee shoved hymn copies of "Om Jai Jagdish" in Hindi. Most of the crowd knew the tune, but didnt know the lyrics, and generally hummed along [Clear indication of ...