http://www.vijayp.ca/blog A software blog... A travel blog... A fun blog! Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:33:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry if the title of my post sounds like it belongs on a splog, but I'm pretty excited about this. Apparently, the Lonely Planet folks wanted to help out those who are stranded in Europe, so they're giving away their iPhone guides free, until today. You can buy them on ... http://www.vijayp.ca/blog/?p=84 For a while, I've been needing to create a little app out of some python scripts I'd been hacking on so I could have others use them easily. For those of you not familiar with it, py2app generates the equivalent of a statically-linked binary using python files and the transitive ... http://www.vijayp.ca/blog/?p=62 I spent 10 days in Vancouver during the Winter Olympics; my time there was certainly one of the most enjoyable experiences I can remember. I had intended to keep updating my blog regularly, but alas, the best I was able to do is to keep a few notes and ... http://www.vijayp.ca/blog/?p=43 I wrote this post last week, more on my Vancouver experiences soon! -- I'm currently on the plane to Seattle, the first stop on my February/March adventure! After spending about a day in Seattle with friends, I will be heading up to Vancouver to partake in Olympic madness for about ten ... http://www.vijayp.ca/blog/?p=41 In an interesting piece (the title is more controversial than the content), Don't Give Money to Haiti, Felix Salmon makes the point that large sums of money thrown at a corrupt government in short order will probably not be beneficial. As an example, he points to Red Cross money collected ... http://www.vijayp.ca/blog/?p=36 I just reinstalled my computer, and was having issues: After installing Adobe Creative Suite 4, the Updater (which generally updates software _too_ frequently) checked for updates and then kept proclaiming that none were available. Since my install DVDs were very old, I didn't believe this, and more recent updates were ... http://www.vijayp.ca/blog/?p=32 I recently published an article in Venturebeat about Google's Chrome OS. Here is a copy of that article: What are Google’s real motivations behind Chrome OS? Posted: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:59:09 +0000 Chrome OS is Google’s latest entry into the consumer space. It is designed to be an operating system that runs ... http://www.vijayp.ca/blog/?p=28 (Before I get too involved with the story, those of you who followed my old blog in an RSS reader might have noticed that my old posts looked new again. That's a one-time artefact of this transition and won't happen again!) Alas, this blog entry does not detail an inspirational 30-week ... http://www.vijayp.ca/blog/?p=22 I'm in the process of moving this blog, and in doing so, needed to generate a good random password for a MySQL account. This is the command I used on my Mac (using the terminal). Replace the '10' with the length you want! dd if=/dev/random count=1 bs=2k 2>/dev/null | ... http://www.vijayp.ca/blog/?p=17 I've finally made a website for myself: Vijay Pandurangan This is the first step in a list of things I've been meaning to do for a while, including moving this blog to a better platform, so stay tuned for changes!. Incidentally, I've posted two of the papers I wrote about Bangalore and electronic ... http://www.vijayp.ca/blog/?p=16