Moved to Octopress blog

As you would have observed there has been a lull in me writing any blogs.

Though Blogger is good, its tough for sharing code and more so, the clutter Blogger gives is mind boggling, at least for a minimalist like me. I don't want to spend too much time in styling and decorating my page. I would rather spend time in fine tuning the code and the post than styling the layout, etc. So, I moved to GitHub hosted Octopress setup since January this year.

My new blog site can be found at http://P7h.org.
Please do have a look at new site and if possible please check from time to time for new posts there.
I did write a few more posts too since the time I moved there.

Keep learning and be happy!

Aaron Swartz Memorial at New York

Aaron Swartz, a very accomplished and a highly talented nerd committed suicide last Friday, i.e. 11th January, 2013 at an young age of 26 years. So many people have written so much about him. Check the complete Wikipedia page and check the References section of his Wikipedia page for more info and other articles written by his friends. He has left wonderful impressions on Reddit, Creative Commons, SOPA, Markdown, RSS, web.py to name a few of his outstanding contributions.

Aaron's memorial was held on Saturday, 19th January, 2013 at Cooper Union, New York. Here is the complete set of recorded videos from his memorial which are hosted on livestream. There are totally 6 videos which you must checkout to understand what are his contributions and how talented a person he was and what impressions he has left people with, even such an young age.
If you are hard-pressed for time, then ensure you at least check the message from Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, partner of Aaron, embedded below. It is really inspiring.

Rest in peace Aaron!!

The Dark Knight Rises ultimate trilogy trailer

Wonderfully put together ultimate trilogy trailer of "The Dark Knight Rises", Christopher Nolan's Batman series.

Christopher Nolan's taking is brilliant as always. Apart from him, Hans Zimmer's background score is excellent. I concur with the comment in the below Youtube page which says: "Without Hans Zimmer this trilogy wouldn't be nearly as epic as it is". If you have any doubts, you should check out the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of The Dark Knight Rises on Amazon or Flipkart.

The only thing I missed in this trailer is the voice of Bane i.e. Tom Hardy.

Update on 05th April, 2015: After a fair bit of time here, I have moved on to GitHub hosted Octopress blogs. Please find me on http://P7h.org henceforth for all new updates.

Wikipedia entries for K & R and Steve Jobs

Wikipedia entries for Dennis Ritchie [C and Unix creator], Ken Thompson [Unix creator], Brian Kernighan [worked with K & R during Unix creation] and Stuart Feldman [make creator] put together is just 1/5 or probably 1/10 of the Wikipedia entry for Steve Jobs.

This is definitely nothing against Steve. He is a great visionary.

But, he is a product guy who visualized the product, the actual hard work was done by so many unknown Engineers.

We have come to accept and approve narcissists more than great creators and excellent human beings whose work changed the fate and direction of the world. This is not a good sign for the new generations and needs a change.

Update on 05th April, 2015: After a fair bit of time here, I have moved on to GitHub hosted Octopress blogs. Please find me on http://P7h.org henceforth for all new updates.