OpenDNS: DNS that actually works, unlike PTCL’s or Cyber.net’s DNS.

PTCL’s, and sometimes Cyber.net’s, DNS servers bail out on me frequently. For example, today when I couldn’t get the system to resolve any host address, I temporarily switched to using Cyber.net’s DNS servers. To my surprise, I could resolve some of the more popular websites only, including google.com, hotmail.com, yahoo.com, etc. I [...]

Special Besan Ka Halwa

Cleaning my study today, I found written on a piece of paper a brief but complete recipe to quickly make Besan Ka Halwa. As I fell back into time, I remembered everything from the point where how someone went to great lengths to clearly convey the recipe across to me online to the point [...]

I could care less: The bastardisation

I suppose I was being needlessly anal when today I pointed out that someone’s use of the phrase “I can actually do shit when I am high” actually meant “I can actually do nothing when I am high”. Some wise-ass, who I should not have been talking to wasting time in the first place, [...]

Symbian SDK and Carbide.c++ on Windows Vista (glitches)

(I sincerely hope that writing about Windows does not in the least harm my overly popular reputation of being a Windows-Hater and Linux evangelist.)
You will likely run into a few glitches trying to get Carbide.c++ and Symbian SDK to run on Windows Vista. The core of the problem causing the glitches I will touch [...]

Winter downpour, and I.

Minutes before midnight, I sit partly drenched in what appears to be the first absolutely chilling downpour of winters this year. Standing on the roof earlier, under a sky covered neatly in a thick albeit somewhat transparent robe, feeling the breeze lashing against every bit of exposed body, I could have sworn I was [...]