http://www.rpmduplex.net/rahul/blog Rahul Pratap's Weblog Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:58:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My obsession with ID3 tags and the bafflingly uniform punctuation, spacing and title-casing (as in the popular music industry where it is very common to find that all words are initially capitalised even if they’re functional words, i.e. articles not beginning the title, conjunctions and prepositions of 5 or fewer letters, ... http://www.rpmduplex.net/rahul/blog/?p=101 I don’t know about you, but most of my near-spiritual journeys begin with the decision to employ the screwdriver kit to dismiss an irritant. I know the symptoms now like a sage knows a good stump and an anthill knows a good sage (think Hindu mythology and the story of Sukanya). The irritant ... http://www.rpmduplex.net/rahul/blog/?p=100 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat ... http://www.rpmduplex.net/rahul/blog/?p=99 Borne from thoughts that have long been bubbling in the swamps of my mind and which were persuaded into more consideration by a conversation today, this entry is about diversity and the importance of its representation as a notion, even an ideal. Outside of the objectivity I hope to maintain ... http://www.rpmduplex.net/rahul/blog/?p=98 Without even the slightest apologetic explanation for how long it’s been since I last posted, I abruptly resurface here to post, as I have in the past, a poem that speaks little of my life in the present, but which merits a presence here simply because I wrote it and ... http://www.rpmduplex.net/rahul/blog/?p=96 My first entry to be touch-typed! Composed mostly at the Park Hotel, Chennai on November 24th 2006, apparently among the finer things about being a travelling employee of Microsoft. Even before I went in for my Visa interview at the US Consulate, I had planned to quickly and unfeelingly blog ... http://www.rpmduplex.net/rahul/blog/?p=95 Human intervention is cruel despite its best intentions. Nature is unkinder still, but has its excuses. This is the story of a kitten selected by nature and her own mother, in seemingly routine but unfortunate collusion, to die. And of lessons learnt by a 23 year old man in motherhood ... http://www.rpmduplex.net/rahul/blog/?p=94 I don’t usually publish my poems on my blog but I figured it would be just the place to introduce a new one to the world, what with it being far more visited than the Written Works page of my website. Never mind that my new life in Microsoft has ... http://www.rpmduplex.net/rahul/blog/?p=93 This was a fact at some point of time, and if my attempts at verifying it today didn’t reveal what I have long been suspecting is the steady deterioration of the quality of Google’s search results, I’d be able to more confidently state it. Bear with me as I go ... http://www.rpmduplex.net/rahul/blog/?p=92 Today I wish my state in all its sorriness to be recorded. The great thawing of thoughts and feelings and fingers has indeed at least commenced. Being back home in India employs every word I expected it would to watermark my every waking thought - specifically, alive. And yet, the ... http://www.rpmduplex.net/rahul/blog/?p=91