Archive for August, 2004

St. Louis

Monday, August 30th, 2004

There’s always something strangely satisfying about going back and visiting a place that is dear to you - a place that you call “home.”
Take, for instance, the city of Hyderabad (AP, India) (and Secunderabad - they are twin cities), where I grew up. I spent 11 of the most formative years of my life […]

Rotten Sensationalist Newspapers

Friday, August 6th, 2004

There hasn’t been one day that passed without me lamenting the lack of a quality Indian newspaper with a decent online edition. Dailies like the Times Of India (which really should be called the ‘Tabloid of India’) are not only among the worst websites, they also happen to excel at publishing what can only be […]

My First Computer

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

If you know me well enough and in particular are quite familiar with all the computer hardware that I have used, I wouldn’t blame you for being startled for a moment at the title of this post. As unlikely as it sounds, the Dell Dimension 8400 desktop that I took out of its packaging and […]