Carthik Sharma

puremeteor: Best Out-Of-Office Auto-Replies – “7. I’ve run away to join a different circus.”

I couldn’t help laughing when I read Mako’s adventure with spam. What if a Nigerian email you, sincerely requesting collaboration on a project, or expressing a business interest in what you do? Well, this is what happens – your spam filter does not mark the mail as spam, while you do.

Mako’s blog makes me smile – almost always, and is now a daily read for me. How I wish he linked to individual entry pages from the title of posts. Each time I want to write about something he wrote about, I end up looking through the :

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at the bottom of the post (for which I have to scroll down, first, or I don’t see them), and then i have to figure out which of those links is the right one for the post. WordPress has spoilt me, I tell you!

Mako’s blog is powered by Bloxsom, which is not GPLed, or as far as I can tell, distributed under a free-software license but is released under the MIT license, which enables folks to redistribute modified versions. It also does not put a “generator” tag in the source of the feeds it produces, and is the first tool I have noticed that doesn’t put that feed in there (there may be more). A discussion with Matt a long time ago had concluded with the reasoning that looking for the generator tag in the feeds was the best way to identify the tool used to publish a blog. Not any more, I guess.

Alright, so Mako, want to step into the wonderful world of WordPress? Moving is easy.

P.S. This post started heading towards one destination and ended up somewhere I never intended to end up when I started writing it. Sort of like how I spend my days – lots of things are accomplished but the plan usually goes out the window – have to fix this.

.. when you discover a thing serendipitously, through different avenues, almost concurrently.

Once in a while, maybe once a month, one new things pops up into my conciousness and then hammers away at it till I acknowledge it, all in one day.

Today’s flavour is Cylon.

First, Ryan brought up Cylon at the hackers mailing list, and then as I was browsing though Inside Firefox, which is Ben Goodger’s blog, I read about the Cylons in the Gecko (mozilla) codebase. I don’t remember how I got to Ben’s blog. I think I was following a link somewhere that said that he now works for Google.

So here’s BattleStar Galactica. I bow before the Cylons.

I know better than to mess with politics I don’t yet entirely understand, but this one cracked me up. I would have loved it even more if I were French, perhaps, to see that on my shirt’s tag.

From the most unlikely of places for anything political – WorldChanging!

At Daypop. I found this funny Victorian Internet page, ranked 6th on the Top posts page. Curious, I followed the white rabbit to find this!

I swear that is Dilip in that gif there. Just watch the gif and I am sure Dilip pops up!!

Here is a pic of Dilip for reference…

I got the “victorian” image from the Victorian Internet page.

Dilip, for all those who are interested is a funny Malayali actor!