Associated album here. I suggest looking at the album while reading this post.

So today we went to one of Delhi's oldest markets, Chandni Chowk ("The moon intersection"). There is a lot of shopping to be done for the wedding, especially with respect to clothes, and so we were off. After a fun and crazy ride in an autorickshaw, we arrived in the market area. Unless you have been to India, you have never experienced a market like this one. Read More...

At the very least, I suppose it's a good thing that my uncle has DSL in his home. The big problem with it is that I only get out 30KB/s to the US, so many of my routine tasks (reading engadget, checking e-mail, publishing this blog) can take a long time to complete, especially if I do all of them at the same time!

I also find it hilarious how poorly written the articles that I wrote on the plane are. I'm going to leave them uncorrected to document this.

My watch says 11:21 EST, but I had no clue if that was AM of PM until I opened up my PowerBook just now. Nearing the end of my flight to Delhi, and I guess it has been okay. Getting wine, champagne, or brandy with meals on a French airline is a nice touch. And interesting challenge when compared to flying Air India for a trip like this is the language barrier. There are understandably French-speaking people of Indian origin on Air France flights, and though they may (or may not) speak Hindi, one language they do not speak is English. As you can imagine, when flying Air India through London,this does not pose a significant problem, since British English & American English-speakers can usually almost understand each other :-)

Since it is still Saturday somewhere in the world, here is my pick for SotW. Smultron (free, GPL) is a useful, full-featured text editor, with features that emphasize writing code. For the Linux/KDE-heads out there, I would compare it to be most similar to Kate, but without the integrated terminal. Read More...

Hi everybody. I'm making this post extremely offline, way up somewhere over France on my way from Paris to New Delhi. Read More...

I must admit, I'm quite a fan of the folks at Woot, and I am impressed with their Woot du jour: a 20 GB Playstation 3! They even threw in free shipping before Christmas. Wow. I had the option to purchase one (actually got the page loaded at 1:01AM), but it wouldn't really make any sense for me, at least at this time.

RapidWeaver ($39.95) was a part of the MacHeist software bundle. Since I have some time now, I've been exploring some of its features and getting to know this piece of shareware better, and I must say that I am thoroughly impressed. Those of you who know me well know that I am not the sort of person to shy away from coding a website by hand, but RapidWeaver does a phenomenal job of making website creation a piece of cake. Read More...

Just had my last final for the semester, and it went really well. Now I need to relax for a while then pack for my trip.

Woohoo!

As you may remember I had previously e-mail Feral asking about why Republic was running so slowly on my Mac Pro. It turns out that Republic is in fact a PowerPC application, and Intel Macintosh performance is abysmal using Rosetta. Considering that performance was so extremely bad, let's see if they decide to make a Universal version of this game or not.

On a positive note, Command & Conquer: Generals is now available as a Universal Binary, and runs smashingly. Now if only Knights of the Old Republic would become Universal…