November 2008
6 posts
“The country’s antiterrorism effort is reactive and episodic rather than...”
– India’s Antiterror Blunders - WSJ.com Amazingly accurate analysis of why India is in this mess today. (Found via Kaushic).
Nov 28th
Nov 20th
WatchWatch
I.O.U.S.A. - Documentary on the US Federal Debt (30-min version)
Nov 17th
Using JInterface to communicate between Java &...
I figured this stuff out this morning. JInterface ships by default with the Erlang distribution. JInterface implements the Erlang VM wire protocol and hence you can create pseudo Erlang-ish VMs using Java. Erlang code running on a different VM can then send/receive messages to the processes running on the Java node and vice versa. Here’s the code (if you cannot view the GitHub gist embed,...
Nov 12th
Making of Guitar Hero World Tour →
Nov 8th
The Reckoning - From Midwest to M.T.A., Pain From... →
Just shows how much of a complex and interconnected world we live in. This reminds me of what my mom mentioned a few days back on the phone. Life was much simpler (not necessarily awesome, but simpler) in India in the 80s when it was more or less isolated from the rest of the world.
Nov 1st