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Month: June, 2008

hacking Sleep

21 June, 2008 (07:38) | lifehacks |

I’ve struggled with sleep issues for most of my adult life. The issues are all over the disorder map, so discussing them all would take a while, and would inadvertently give out more personal information than i’d like. (nah, Just kidding, I’m an exhibitionist of the nth order).
Observation 1: On the rare occassions that I [...]

Brain FREEZE

2 June, 2008 (20:05) | musings |

o__0
I’m looking at a mountain of text in front of me: Roger Pressman’s “Software Engineering: A practitioner’s approach”. Yes, the seminal work in the field of Software Engineering. or so they say. Now the reason this feels like a mountain of text is because I have an Engineering paper by the same name in less [...]

Hardware design by BMW

2 June, 2008 (14:09) | musings |

Hardware design by BMW
Originally uploaded by vimalg2

I read that a certain design wing of BMW is responsible for the curvy black
and white design for my Acer Gemstone series laptop.
Ogle away, folks
Macbook’s got nothing on this baby. (yes, its flamebait, I know)

echo Nokia E51 > wishlist

1 June, 2008 (18:43) | musings, opinion |

Nokia E51

One magnificently engineered telecommunications device.
A classic Nokia with all the attributes that made Nokia ubiquitous with ‘cell phone’ several years ago when I was just a kid.
Great battery life, excellent reception, a tactile keypad that’s a joy to use, and all the rest of the ‘features’ that today’s kids take for granted. This is [...]