This blog is mostly about my interests and stuff I come across while surfing the web.
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
I'm glad I mostly type it
Here's a pronumciation guide to the characters and expressions used in Unix. It's a few years old (dated 29th April, 1997) but Unix is much older. (Seen on Metafilter).
pronunciation guide for unix
Ever since I switched recently and for a little while before that too I have been following news about Apple. There is an interesting article on Robert X. Cringley's "I, Cringley" page about the future of Apple following the creation of a separate iPod division. Mr. Cringley evaluates it in relation to a 20 year old quote from Steve Jobs. Interesting items include "What most people don’t know is that Apple, with the assistance of Intel, a few years ago ported all its software to run on Intel’s Pentium processors." Divide and Conquer: Why Apple Has an iPod Division
Today I registered on Audioscrobbler. It is a community of people sharing information and stats on what everyone is listening to. Generated data is available under a Creative Commons License. The client is great. Once installed it quietly works in the background, gathering data from the media player (in my case, iTunes) and transmitting it to the server. My account is here.
Just like pursuing any academic goal, pursuing a PhD has its own set of requirements. One of these is the actual writing of the thesis, which I hope to do someday. Maybe then this HOWTO will help.
How-To: Write your doctoral thesis || kuro5hin.org Also, check out Jorge Cham's www.phdcomics.com
This post marks the beginning of a blog that I hope to update regularly. Of course, if I don't, then I will delete this blog after some time and this post will never have existed. Well, it may be archived on some server somewhere on the web, but then that is inevitable.