genderless technology

Why one must ask is technology gendered ? Are 1s and 0s, gendered ! Technology, if we look at only digital technology would count as one of crucial blocks of enabling all [of all colors, of all sizes] to take a pot shot at being successful [in various degrees]. It is hilarious to see how old school individuals who run our country want to empower every class by giving them subsidies [jobs, ration] and not fostering an environment where all can achieve self respect by working towards individual goals....

March 9, 2010 · 2 min · 244 words · Me

Road : the movie ! What was it about again ?

Just watched Road the movie at PVR priya ! For one i am a fan of weekday movie watching … Much better the crowd is less and i can hear everything real loud and clear. It turns out that this movie with all its “starbucks” lines is clearly meant to be an art movie of the US and European audiences. It is highly improbable that a kid in middle of Rajisthan is talking about this particular brand and over it actually moves on that easily from his current dhaba employer....

March 9, 2010 · 2 min · 349 words · Me

Jailed in FreeBSD

Well, working on freeBSD right now some immediate learnings for most linux users Ports is as good as apt-get [and i would say much better, when i started installing stuff] You will need to start with installing vim and bash to make your life a lot easier So the target was to install python and nginx, both of which are very easy to install once you understand how the whole ports collection system works....

March 8, 2010 · 1 min · 174 words · Me

Dragflick gods : Abbas and Taekema

Now this Hockey world cup has one convert in me ! I saw what pakistan’s Sohail Abbas can do with his dragflicks … he is god when it comes to that skill. Taekema is as good, in the first Holland match it was fairly obvious why you need quality penalty corner players. I am surely not like to be the one who defends when either of them is taking a potshot at the net....

March 3, 2010 · 1 min · 88 words · Me

Technology driven MPD : Karthik calling karthik

So i watched this interesting hindi movie today Karthik calling karthik, which should also be be called the watered down Indian version of the cult book & movie ‘Fight club’. [Stop here if you don’t want to know what the movie is] Unlike say fight club where i would say that the plot was beyond most of us ! This movie tries to explain itself too much and loses out on what could have been too easily....

March 1, 2010 · 2 min · 336 words · Me