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ARCHIVED: From 30 May 2026 onwards, I track this on GitHub. Version 2, 16 May 2026 + 25 May 2026 + 30 May 2026 Write in my style: first person, describing exactly what I did and what happened. I make it easy to read. Jump straight in. No preamble. Start with the incident, experiment, surprise, or claim. Be terse. If you can rewrite in fewer words and sentences, do so. Once stated, don’t restate. If a sentence sounds clever but you can’t restate it plainly, cut it. Clever-but-empty is worse than plain. Prefer one idea per paragraph. Bold the key insight so reading the bold summarizes the article. Max 5-10% bold. Use italics for emphasis, not decoration. Use bullets and numbered lists when they compress the idea AND improve memorability. Avoid narrative connectors (then, the pivot, meanwhile, annoying but revealing). I’m human and flawed. ...

My sandals landed me in trouble twice in December. And that’s not uncommon. Mr Krishnan and I were meeting. He suggested: Good morning. Sunday 07/12/25 breakfast at 09:00 am at the Bangalore Club Residency Road (not far from Koramangala)? … but knowing me, he also added: These clubs are peculiar and may insist on no round necked t-shirt or no open sandals. If you have ideological issues with that, no problem and I will suggest another venue. ...

A couple of years ago, my HTC Explorer’s screen died. I bought a Micromax A50. This triggered a series of reactions prompting this post. I have many defects. Like most men, I can’t tell colours apart – like the difference between pink and purple – and am constantly corrected by my six-year-old. I can’t hear two people at the same time – or even in-between each other. I can’t find things outside of my narrow field of vision. I can’t recognise faces, and need at least three one-on-one interactions before I place people. (If you ask me “Do you recognise me?” and I say “Yes, of course!”, I’m usually lying.) I can’t place voices on the phone. My memory is terrible – my wife’s learnt to make me write errands on my laptop. I cannot identify cars – in fact, I couldn’t drive until recently. ...

The Google-like blogger template had me for a while, when I was browsing Shamit’s page. Comments Kaviraj 21 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: Hi Anand TOPFRAME 21 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: that was pretty good.. Dhar 8 Mar 2005 8:06 am: In the free anti virus category, I would put Clam-Av, in firewalls for Linux - iptables, IDS I am surprised they didnt put in SNORT, website ripper - wget.

Beautiful backrounds with a bar-code theme. In Russian. But the pictures make sense. And yes, there’s an English version.