I just spent half a day at ComicCon 2012 in Delhi today. That’s the annual Comics convention and celebration, held for the second time in India. Here is a link to some photos with descriptions of the event. ComicCon 2012
Anonymous web. Anonymous ftp. No one really wanted to know who you were. If you wanted to identify yourself it was even more cool to use a pseudonym. Today, you are being profiled with such fine-grained control on the web, it’s scary.
At last, the first smart phone for creative people is here: The Samsung Galaxy Note.
Circle This
What is the one, exclusive, killer-feature of the Samsung Galaxy Note that endears it, right out of the box, to creative professionals like me? The pure simplicity with which I can open any web-design or user-interface screen, encircle elements and [...]
Am looking for a web-designer to work full-time with me.
You should be young and hard-working, and you wish to work with me because you love design and the web.
Web-Designer (1 or 2 openings)
You’re going to work on some rather exciting projects in:
Website design
Web user-interface design
Your Location of Work:
South Delhi.
Your Qualifications
Minimum: a certificate, diploma, or a [...]
I’m looking for a graphic-designer willing to work with me full-time.
You should be young, hard-working, and you wish to work and grow because you love design. You are going to work with me at the cuttin’-edge of design, as we move away from the creative restrictions of the 20th century, into the brave new-world of [...]
Saturday-afternoons in Delhi are beautiful in January, especially with the golden sunshine of winters, and less traffic. So, like on most lazy Saturday afternoons, took my six-year-old on a trip to his library in my car. The distance from Greater Kailash 2 to his library in South Extension is six kilometres (3.7 miles). As we [...]
Osho has a tendency, where something he says,
usually a long time ago, hammers home.
Stays and grows with you, like a thorn in the side.
First you take no note of it, as it sounded fun and casual
back then, and at best forgotten.
Then you discover it stays there as a harmless residue.
Soon you discover it starts to [...]
Am excited about the major design overhaul, am trying to complete between jobs on the entire niyam.com website. What a fun and adventurous experience! Can’t say much at this stage. Stay tuned.
Realistic paper-textures! They look so cool in the background of sophisticated website designs, mobile-applications, desktops, in brochures and print-production design, and for interesting user-interface design. Better than using just a plain white background, or a background with black-to-white gradients that often remind me of retro-1980s design. I prefer realistic-looking paper that is subtle, and use [...]
I just bought myself a Samsung Wave mobile, a stunningly beautiful phone with engineering that’s even more delightful. I had my wallet out of my pocket, seconds away from buying a Nokia E72, when I spotted the Samsung Wave. Wallet back in my pocket, went home to research if the Wave is as promising as [...]
Ancient algorithms in my contemporary world
Sometimes, late into the night when I enter my bedroom, I find it plunged pitch-black in total darkness. The experience is rather delightful. The sense of space suddenly disappears. I don’t know what’s ahead, above, sideways, or below. I just know I am there but I can’t see anything about [...]
‘Flight’ is a music-track I composed, arranged, mixed and produced in 2007. The music emerged towards the end of an intense three years of active meditations. ‘Flight’ is authored using 100% Free and OpenSource Software (FOSS). More specifically, used a Linux-based OS, called UbuntuStudio.
Excerpts from ‘Flight’ were later used as background music for a short-film [...]
Mobile-Towers May Be Endangering Species of Birds Across India and Threatening Bees.
How do you poach customers in a battle for survival and marketshare? An Indian mobile-telephony company, Aircel, may have hit upon a new idea for big-game hunting. Aircel has partnered with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) India, in a strategic campaign to save the [...]
Look carefully. The Na’vi people portrayed in James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ sit cross-legged on the ground, hold hands, and rotate their bodies from their bellies in a circular movement. All this in a deeply-meditative trance under the guidance of their chief Shaman and High-Priestess.
Mandala Meditation
The sequence closely resembles an actual technique of meditation, devised by Osho [...]
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Whew! I’ve finally made it to ‘Really Bad Parenting Advice’. Am sure when my kid grows up he’ll be real proud of me. Check this out: this cheeky website’s used a photo of me telling a dinosaur story to my little kid, with a hilarious twist. ReallyBadParenting.Com
Reminds me of the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon where [...]
Physics in the 21st century is finally beginning to speak the language of mysticism. Dr. Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, who speaks of Science unravelling not one, but several universes, or ‘multiverses’. The first time I heard this term and its explanation was not in this century, but the previous, and not from [...]
Here I am on a manic Monday, only to discover the best way is also the greatest way to start every day. Watch the video in your office cubicle with the sound-volume turned way up.
Effective from 10 August 2009, please note my new conditions for delivering talks, and conducting seminars and workshops for academia:
Speaker-fee: Rs 5,000 for each talk between 45 to 90 minutes.
Speaker-fee for beyond the NCR (National Capital Region): Rs 10,000 per working-day, for upto 180 minutes of talks. Each subsequent talk or time-slot of 45 to [...]
Are you fed up of receiving unwanted sms-text messages on your mobile-phone? Have you received any within the last 24 hours? If your answer is yes, your problem is far deeper than you’d like to acknowledge.
Harassment
For instance, do you realize with each passing day, the menace of unwanted SMSes bombarding your mobile-phone is only set [...]
