iGoogle Artist Themes

You can now customize your iGoogle page with themes by contemporary artists. They're all interesting, but some are definitely acquired tastes. :-D

A website of colours

I'm really lousy when it comes to picking colours, especially if it's fiddling with RGB code to produce anything that looks remotely interesting. Luckily for me though there's COLOURlovers. Community users (called "lovers") post their concocted colour palettes, and can be downloaded as GIMP, Photoshop or HTML etc format. The blog posts are interesting reads, too. It's all really very nice.

More kitty fluff

Awwwwwwwww me want!!! Me want!!!

Fractal Google Gadget

Mmmmmm. More eye candy...

Wow. Hibernate worked!

On my Fujitsu laptop. Running on Debian. Wooow.

Debian yammered about starting the snapshot process (checkpointing, Hussein sez) and proceeded to write n number of pages. Once that's done, the laptop powered down, and I went out to dinner. When I powered on the computer again, what greeted me was the GRUB menu. And I was thiking "well so much for false hopes..."

Once I booted into Debian though, it started to yammer about resuming from n pages of image (checkpoint-restore, Hussein sez) and voila! It's back to exactly where I left off!

Both the checkpointing and restoring took longer than in Windows, though.


ps: Apparently Hibernate is not expected to work usually:

<obiwan> hey guys
<obiwan> 'Hibernate' actually worked for my colleague.
<ahu> .. once
<ijuz> probably some new drug
<obiwan> No, it really worked

Hahahahahahaaaahahaha! :D

Viruses never looked so good

MIT grad student Alex Dragulescu was asked to turn viruses, spams and spywares into graphics with visualisation algorithms -- and the eye candies that emerged are simply c00l. (The thing at the top is MyDoom.)

The other blog -- on Fluffy Baby Stuff

My friend Hussein was expressing his trepidation of me spouting fluffy baby rants on this blog once it comes into this world come August. (I suspect he's also rather apprehensive of having cases of TMI.)

Fear not, friend. I promise that all baby fluff stuff will be posted at this blog -- since such fluff doesn't really "fit" here anyway (think baby talk, brand comparisons of baby cribs etc). So you don't have to read all about it if you don't want to, simply don't subscribe to the other blog feed. ;-)

One thing, though: kitty fluff do belong here! Any questions?

Lost Li'l Bird

This little guy got lost and made his way into our house the other night.

It was getting quite a bit confused, chirping, hopping and flying around the house in frustration for not being able to find its way out of the house again. Eventually we had to turn off all the house lights except the porch light to guide it out again.