“Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing.” –Clive James
Isn’t that so true?
In life… and definitely while programming software! ;)

Earlier this year, I visited CeBIT - my second time - and was once again awed by it. The scale, the planning, the integration, the execution. There are lessons to be learned here. It’s easy to see why CeBIT is described as the world’s largest technology fair.

So, what’s new in the world of technology?
Hmm… in […]

Somtime ago, I upgraded WordPress from version 1.5 to 2.x. The official instructions are simple and clear. Basically the steps include backing up your databases and files, downloading and extracting the new Wordpress package and running the Wordpress upgrade program via your browser.
However, it didn’t work for me.
Running upgrade.php seemed to work and even gave […]

Last week I needed to burn a couple of CDs - an activity which I haven’t done too much of. My SUSE 9.3 install, running KDE gave me a couple of options under Multimedia apps for CD/DVD burning: Gnome CD/DVD Creator and K3b. Since I’m more of a KDE person, I tried out K3b.
According to […]

Sometime ago, I flew on the recently launched Kingfisher Airlines. The aircraft had a distinctly new and fresh feel. Quite refreshing really, and no pun intended ;) In-flight entertainment was via a personal TV, which is basically an at-seat, individual monitor that offers a choice of a few channels, distributed from a central system. As […]

I’ve been planning to do this for a while now, and its finally happened. SharadWare is now powered by WordPress. For a little over two years, I’d been using Movable Type. I’ve got nothing against MT - it’s a great product and my heartfelt thanks to it’s creators.
So why did I shift? Well, multiple reasons…
MT […]