Darcs

Lambda the Ultimate reports on Darcs. It is yet another de-centralized (has the advantages similar to Bitkeeper's where one can develop disconnected since each tree is equivalent to a repository) version control system. One thing to note is that it is written in Haskell and is based on the "thoery of patches" from quantum mechanics. I tried to go through the theory and my brain dumped core big time :D.

Toddlerpedes

The blog of wierd things reports on toddlerpedes. Check out this comment on it too :)

On KISS

Read a talk by Adam Bosworth and a follow-up by Sriram Krishnan.

Better news aggregator..

In line with the previous post some days ago I felt that I needed a better news reader than what the bloglines web interface provides. So in desperation I decided that a bloglines backend for gnus might be the right answer so that I get all the standard news reader functionalities like scoring, reading news offline etc for free. I did some elisp hacking and came up this. Unfortunately nobody has responded to my queries :( Maybe the idea is too stupid and there is some other way to get the desired functionality with gnus which i do not know :((

You know you are reading too much on bloglines when..

one fine day your manager comes up to your desk and says

"saara internet padh kar ho gaya kya"

and keeps on repeating this everytime he sees you browsing after that. Information overload is so much real :)

Back..

from a 10 day Diwali vacation in Nagpur with no Diwali homework :) (back in school we used to get homework to be done during the holidays and I used to procrastinate it till the last day :)) Every time I go to Nagpur I can't help but rave about the roads there. It has about 5 times better roads than Bangalore and about 10 times less traffic. If you want to experience some driving pleasure this is the city to be. It hasn't been so rosy all along. There was time when the roads were an absolute nightmare but the last 4-5 years have really seen a lot of development..nice wide and smooth roads, good footpaths with trash bins at regular intervals, 2-3 flyovers over some busy roads, flower beds on some road sides..Recently PSPL has opened an office in Nagpur and it has succeeded in getting atleast 3 of my seniors to the city(they are about 80 odd strong there now). One left IBM ISL, one Sasken I think and one IBM IRL. Apart from that Nagpur now has a Westside, Pyramid, Big Bazaar and also a Cafe Coffee Day :) Real estate prices aren't low but are still reasonable..Megha's sister bought a duplex with 3 bedrooms for about 15-16 lacs. Probably a good time invest in some land there in anticipation of some more IT companies opening up.