Dead Sleep

“Dead Sleep” by Greg Iles – after a long time I came across a thriller which I have been unable to put down. The story revolves around a female photojournalist who sees a painting of her sister who was kidnapped 13 months ago. the twist is that the paintings are a series and it is rumoured that the women are not sleeping BUT dead !!

Besides the book has sentences like “Do as I say, not as I do!”, “Every person is shaped by the choices they make for their survival”

Mozilla 1.0 Rocks

Ah! finally got it for both Linux and Windoze 20Mb whew! Have not really put them thru their paces BUT at first glance most of the annoying buglets seem to have gone … … Unfortunately dynamic fonts are still not supported (well atleast on the Linux version) Those of you who have been waiting for

mod_rewrite RULEZ!!

Had his particularly vexing problem of how to point domains to their websites without creating a vhost for each one of them, also it should not need a httpd restart. I needed this because *all* the website files are not in physical directories BUT a database Now only if I can make BIND work such

Concentric Circles

Night of 18th Sept 1993, A day prior to my birthday, I had flown to Mumbai to meet Swati, since all the money was spent on the air fare we were staying at Rashid Mansion, Dockyard Road in the house of Rayomond S. Framose – fondly called Rayo by most. Swati had taken the keys

Commercial Linux based web developer products

Have been experimenting with a wide variety of web developer tools for Linux mostly commercial, PHPed 3, Zend Studio 2.5, Quanta Gold 3 and somewhere down the line the Crossover Office 1.0.1 Though each of them merit a complete review the most satisfying from me was IE5.5 on Linux. Except for a few gifs not

New paint, new flooring, new furnishings – weeee I have a new house. Slept in my own bedroom after a gap of almost 10 days. Not very strangely it was a satisfying sleep no aches or pains, as Swati jokingly puts it – it is because we see ourselves the first thing in the morning.

is one girl I would like to see *how* she grows older… … Right now she seems to have all her fundas just perfect!! Reading parts of her journal reminded me of Swati when she was 18, gawd!! I can’t believe I am twice that old now… … if you are reading this then I

Reality Check!!

Went to the clinic after a gap of almost a month, the main reason being that my current chamber has been assimilated by the municipal corporation in road widening, yeah it was legal and everything BUT the law states that the law can take away anything from you… Also there was too much to be

Just a link

to a nice story …. https://vv8.jetc.org/vvs9/9-06.html for all you star trek fans out there – link provided by , he advised reader discretion so I will pass it on … … I guess, this is as hot as it should get … … Notably several formats are available for downloading the earlier episodes including PDB.

I want a Robot

Nope – Not what you are thinking – I want a real Robot. I stumbled upon a series of links while browsing for interesting trivia. https://www.robotbooks.com/beam_solar_robot_kits.htm and https://www.xs4all.nl/~sbolt/edz.htm really captivated me. I know all about Lego MindStorm and some day I will have the complete lot BUT somehow the simplicity design combined with the genius