http://farook.org Ramblings of a solipsist Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:34:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just finished reading PTerry's Nation last night and it was quite the experience. Shakespeare, in As You Like It if I'm not mistaken, says that there are seven ages to man. There seems to have been, at least so far, three stages to PTerry's writing ... http://farook.org/2008/11/07/the-stuff-nations-are-made-of/ I have been reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation series lately though I have taken a break to quickly finish Terry Pratchett's Nation before getting back to the next novel in the Foundation series. (Yes, I know, I should have read the Foundation series a long time ago! ... http://farook.org/2008/11/05/finding-the-foundation/ I love my country. In fact, I came back to Sri Lanka at a time when I had the opportunity to stay permanently in the US because I loved my country (and my family, of course :p). And since coming back, I have not taken up ... http://farook.org/2008/11/03/sri-lanka-vs-qatar-the-differences-and-the-tragedy/ I've been on the Internet since the mid '90s and have had my own domain since early 2000. So I've been around quite a bit of time and there's a lot of content by me (and about me) all over the place on the Internet. Not ... http://farook.org/2008/11/01/back-to-googled-hits/ When I talked about Cassandra Clare yesterday, I believe I mentioned that one thing that didn't sit well with me was the whole plagiarism thing. Now don't get me wrong, I think she's plagiarised stuff (in my opinion, which is not that of a lawyer, of ... http://farook.org/2008/10/29/of-profiteering-plagiarism-and-parody/ I've been on the Internet a long time and all this time, I've never (except during the early stages and even then only sporadically) used a handle, pseudonym, nickname or what have you. I've always been Fahim and it's been easier to do things that way. ... http://farook.org/2008/10/28/the-multiple-life-syndrome-and-other-stories/ Sri Lanka, unfortunately, hasn't yet caught up to the concept of customer service. Most businesses in Sri Lanka operate under something along the lines of "this is my/our business. You can purchase our service from us if you want and if you don't go somewhere else. ... http://farook.org/2008/10/11/customer-service-sri-lankan-style/ Google has their own browser! Yes, you heard me, a new Google browser has hit the streets as a beta :) And what's more, it seems to be mostly faster and better than the existing crop of stable browsers ... The new ... http://farook.org/2008/09/03/polishing-up-the-chrome/ I have been a staunch defender and advocate of Windows Vista since it came out. I had been using Vista since the early beta days and I'd always found it to be better than Windows XP in many different ways. In fact, some people on various ... http://farook.org/2008/08/26/of-bygone-vistas/ As I mentioned yesterday, I had looked around for a new small business accounting package and had finally settled on Quicken. But the hunt didn't stop there :) Now that I had settled on Quicken, I needed a way to transfer my ... http://farook.org/2008/08/22/quickening-not-just-for-immortals/