While google has always served me to find answers to a wide array of programming and technical issues, I don’t recall any one tech QA site which was consistently reliable. I regularly dug out answers from google group discussions to some old bulletin...

I used 35mm film extensively since 2003 till about 2005 when I bought my first digital SLR, a Nikon D70. In those days I was pretty much brainwashed with all the digital hype like everybody else. The film workflow was lengthy. Mail order slides and B/W...

I am not a neat-freak but chaos beyond a certain point seems to hurt my productivity and mental peace. My first serious woodwork project was an utility shelf, barely 6″ deep, 2 ft wide and 6 ft tall, but it served me very well for the last three...

The twitter sidebar widget in the fusion theme of wordpress shows weird in Firefox browser, due to the encoding of the double quotes in the href attribute. For example, a link from a twitter post shows like this in source: <a...

As I made clear in a few previous articles, I hate doing boring stuff. Using machines in the gym seems just one of those. Fitness, though necessary should not be a monotonous thing. The reason I don’t like the treadmill or the elliptical or the...