I said in a related post that I would read the Dune series till the 3rd book and then get back to the unfinished(read boring) Garden of Rama novel. Alas, I have not been able to stop the series from taking over my reading schedule and I am not even sorry for it. So the [...]
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Review: Crystal
There are some restaurants that you go to eat food and hang out and then there are the restaurants that you go to really eat! I mean like eat without worrying how much its going to cost and without worrying about how the food is going to be like. One such place is Crystal on [...]
Full Story »Reading Now – Heretics of Dune
The Dune saga continues after the end of the last of Leto’s descendents. The tyrant (Leto 2) is long gone and Arakis is turning back into the desert planet that it was. The giant worms are returning to the rest of planet, no longer confined by water as in the time of Leto 2. Sheeana [...]
Full Story »Google Chrome for Linux
Does anybody know when the Linux version of Chrome is coming out? And do not tell me to go download Crossover Chromium (cause I already did). I am really waiting for Chrome to come out for Linux. I really want to see how Gnome will handle it. Will it look as polished? I have seen [...]
Full Story »Hyderabad – Kamakaze Pedestrians
This is an extremely biased review of the city based on the 2 days that I was there. So in the event that you happen to love the city for a reason unfathomable to me, you can save your energy and not hit out against this review because… I just don’t care for your point [...]
Full Story »Review: Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term
Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) is expected in about a week here. I am definately going to upgrade have upgraded to it. albiet after about a week or so of the release, since I am pretty risk averse. So, I thought that this would be a good time to do a long term review of Ubuntu [...]
Full Story »What Americans Should Do
Here is a little humour that all Americans could use considering the amount of stress that they must be under. If you had purchased $1000 of shares a year ago in: Delta Aitlines, you would have $49 today AIG, you would have $33 today Lehman Brothers, you would have $0 today But if you had [...]
Full Story »Letters from Iwo Jima
I finally saw Letters from Iwo Jima yesterday. The movie was extremely well made and the depictions of the time and life of the Japanese was very well done. The conditions on Iwo Jima (from what I have read) were shown well. Ken Watanbe was good as usual. I wonder how Client Eastwood was able [...]
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