KDE on Windows...

Installed KDE on Windoz Vista...

Jus' for the heck of it...

Installed digiKam too... Gotta play around with it.

Can't afford anything other than the free PDF reader from Adobe, leave alone Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom. :-(

Adobe converts the US prices to Indian prices by multiplying with the exchange rate of the moment. All their products invariably will remain way too expensive for someone like me as long as the exchange rate is above one :-(

Stock markets halted...

Apparently for the first time in the history for hitting the upper circuit... Just what an election result can do...

Talk about fundamentals... :-)

The bulls, and speculators are back... big time... at least for the time being.

Java to Scala...

Interesting, and cool... :-)

    boolean nameHasUpperCase = false; // This is Java
    for (int i = 0; i < name.length(); ++i) { 
         if (Character.isUpperCase(name.charAt(i))) { 
             nameHasUpperCase = true; 
             break; 
         } 
    }

in Java to

    boolean nameHasUpperCase = !name.toLowerCase().equals(name);

in Java to

    val nameHasUpperCase = name.exists(_.isUpperCase) 

in Scala.

From the article "How Scala Changed My Programming Style" by Bill Venners.

Stock market...

Stock market experts are one too many, on TV, here in blogosphere, in print media... I also have doled out unsolicited advice on the market conditions to people who are generally too gullible to take me seriously.

If the BSE index is up, and Dow Jones is down, the economies are not linked, if both head south or go up, markets are linked. Interesting. It is linked, then it is not linked, linked not linked, not linked linked, linked not linked. Repeat fast enough.

The current theme is whether the market has bottomed out or not... One day it has, the next oh, it ain't... it has, it ain't, it has, it ain't...

Bloody irritating... even blogging about it.

Intel powered... Harpic...

Intel powered Harpic, Intel powered MDH Masala... WTF!!

Of late, the "Intel powered" tag line in television ads about laptops with an Intel processor inside comes before the ads themselves. So if an ad for the Harpic or MDH Masala which does not have a tag line is followed by a Compaq or HP laptop ad you will get to see this nice blending effect.

Intel powered Harpic... Cool... I guess it will ensure that Harpic, and MDH have WiMAX capability out of the box pretty soon.

Interesting!

Question of type and character...

I have a soft corner for cursive fonts. But of the non-cursive types, I am not too sure what I like more, serifs or sans-serifs. :-(

In short, I like most types of types. :-)

But, type rendering on Linux still pisses me off. When will it become at least tolerably good? Being an armchair critic is much easier than trying to implement a good font interpreter all by myself, anyway. :-)

Small is beautiful...

May be.

But I do prefer my laptop to be at least 14.1". Watching videos on PDAs and mobile phones is not my cup of tea.

I wonder where all these convergence and miniaturization is taking us. Some people are buying into it (literally), and some people are making a bunch of money.