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Thoughts and Rants

Random thoughts about nothing in particular

At TED

In Design, Technology, Thoughts and Rants on 23 February 2006 tagged alpc, conference, connexions, gapminder, hans rosling, infoviz, nicholas negroponte, ted, ted2006 with Comments Off

Day two of TED conference (where I’m uploading pictures as soon and often as I can). This conference was meant to be the change of pace from the many design conferences I tend to go to. TED stands for Technology Entertainmend Design and has just an incredible speaker lineup (which I really can’t do justice). [...]

Anniversaries and Valentine’s Days

In Thoughts and Rants on 9 February 2006 tagged anniversary, love, valentine's with 1 comment

We all know V-day is an over commercialized “holiday”. The chocolate, flowers, presents, all the pink and red everywhere … even if it is a sweet day to remind ourselves to show our affections, it’s a little much to take from the stores all saying “buy our stuff!”. Today a friend mentioned that her and [...]

Ending Conversations

In Thoughts and Rants on 25 March 2005 tagged instant messaging with 4 comments

Ever do that thing where you say a joke and everyone laughs nervously but either don’t really get the joke or think it’s not funny? The nervous laughter is inevitably followed by awkward silence. In the land of instant messaging, laughing seems to be a convenient conversation stopper. Check your history or log files and [...]

Instant Message Organization

In Technology, Thoughts and Rants on 30 November 2004 with 4 comments

Instant messaging has become pretty common place now. As more people I know get accounts, managing the number of contacts starts to get a bit daunting. Trillian, which I mentioned earlier, helps maintain some sanity with their meta-contacts and merging of the four major IM protocols. Still, I don’t like deleting contacts (anyone that might [...]

Girl Power

In Thoughts and Rants on 19 August 2002 tagged love with Comments Off

I watched the director’s commentary on Starship Troopers last night. Mostly, it was for humour value because my friend Fahad had heard the director Paul Verhoeven gets really excited during the commentary like an old lady at a bingo game. Anyhow, there were a few repeated themes. One of which had me thinking more than [...]