Srinath Krishna

AI and Fractals

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

TIL about Hinton’s Paradox where Geoffrey Hinton’s prediction in 2016 that we won’t have any more radiologists in 5 years isn’t just true but also that we have now more radiologists than ever. And of course, AI has integrated into every workflow of radiologists.

And this reminds me of another fantastic article that I read last year about how Cancer has a surprising amount of detail by @owl_posting. The world has fractals all around us. As we zoom in further and further in whatever we do, we get specialized and we collectively improve what we as a species can do and our expectations of ourselves get better. AI helps address the grunt work and a smart human uses AI to automate the grunt so that they can focus on the more important stuff to advance ahead.

Those are the people that survive.

Adam Wiggins and the firehose

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Adam Wiggins, the founder of Heroku announced today that he’ll be researching on how to combat the information overload that we all have to deal with on a day to day basis as part of his time at Ink & Switch. I’m super stoked about this tbh. Adam is an amazing researcher with a keen eye for solving problems elegantly and I’m looking forward ot seeing how this evolves.

Ex-Something

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Admittedly, this is controversial but I’ll die on this hill, nevertheless.

People have long careers and work for a bunch of companies over time. A lot of people put the ex-$prev_company tag on their profiles. I like to think that they do it for visibility and to boost the possibility of their profile showing up to recruiters (if they’re searching for new roles). I don’t really blame them - it’s the nature of the game and you have to play the game that the algorithm mandates.

However, it’s not a surprise that some of us do it for virtue-signaling.

My opinion is you’re doing more long-term damage to yourself and your career by having an ex- in your tagline. Sure, you should include that in your CV or experience but you don’t have to define yourself by it.

Companies are stints, your individualism matters and who you are and what you bring to the table matters more than the fact that you were an employee of Google, 5 years ago!

Tailwind and LLMs

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The first casualty to agent driven development is Tailwind which is laying off 75% of its workforce since traffic to its docs have reduced, in spite of it being the most prominent CSS framework. This is not good and there are many more in the boat and we’ll see a few happening through 2026.

I also chanced upon this linkedin post by marcj who is switching entirely to closed source. And I don’t really blame him or any others who take this route.

Tailwind might have been bailed out by Google but is this sustainable? Sponsorships work but they don’t accurately capture market demand and is often just adequate to keep the ball rolling.

Gating agents to pay before accessing a specific framework would work and Stripe has support for this too but this is akin to getting a subscription to Netflix and then pay the producer of a movie a small fee before starting to stream.

A better alternative is to have model providers who train LLMs foot the bill. As much as I don’t like it, we’ll get to a point where LLMs will also prompt with ads in say comments or metadata that is spit out for humans to be aware of paid services that a given framework offers. At least, these will be scoped and not targetted or blanket ads like a search engine would surface.

We’re slowly getting into the territory of LLMs being a public good. LLMs are incredibly efficient in many every day usecases and we’ll get to a point where it would likely be hard to deal with life’s chores without a LLM. At which point, would LLMs be state-owned? Or is there a future where LLMs will be private owned but everyone would have access to one through subsidies?

Interesting times.

Introducing Chaxport and Conversations

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I love talking to LLMs to understand my worldview and there have been instances in the past year where I’ve had the LLM literally roast, critique and challenge me with interesting conversations. I’ve also had a few conversations thinking about abstract things in life. I realize that some of these conversations are very intriguing and I’m beginnig to share these in conversations.

AI and OSS Renaissance

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I love all the wonderful stuff that people share on socials about what they built over the holidays. AI assisted coding has certainly opened up the possibility that people who have a specific itch and had no idea how to solve it now have this magical tool to solve their usecase.

I’ve long enjoyed writing simple CLI tools with the UNIX philosophy in mind since I started writing code. These could be as simple as a function my shell rc or could be a long-winded utility script that gets invoked on the terminal.

But I’ll be honest - I suck with frontend. Not for lack of trying though. But LLM assisted coding has been a godsend for me personally when it comes to building tools with nice UX. I still default to writing CLI tools but there are many problems that are better served by a better UX. More importantly, these tools help me learn UX frameworks and patterns.

What’s yet to be seen is the impact this will have on the indie hacker economy. A lot of people make good money by writing a piece of software that solves a particular problem. When the cost of building software goes to 0, these are likely the first people to get affected. What stands between them and a user of their tool is sheer will and a few hours to build what they want.

My only hope is as people build more tools, they open source it as well. The world is better with an OSS renaissance and who knows, this wave of AI tools will usher us in it.

Non-determinism in LLMs

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Everyone knows that LLMs are inherently non-deterministic and harnesses, MCPs, RAG, skills etc. all try to paper over this.

But this non-determinism is a feature. And the developer community is slowly beginning to embrace it. This was well elucidated by Martin Fowler on his recent podcast on The Pragrammatic Engineer. He akins this to the field of mechanical engineering with engineers building tolerances into what a structure can withstand.

Computer Science Engineers actually have an example closer to home. Not too long ago, Google ushered us all in with the MapReduce paper and the core of this architecture was GFS which inherently assumes that all underlying hardware components are unreliable. And this has prompted the industry to build strategies like replication, fault-tolerance, SRE practices around the fact that systems are fallible.

Perhaps, our industry can consider this as a watershed moment before the mother of all uncertainties becomes more mainstream - Quantum Computing.

Stripe++

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

After ~4 years, I wrapped up my time at Stripe just before this year’s BFCM.

Rahul on building with AI

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

This tweet from Andrej Karpathy has been doing the rounds and I felt this quoted tweet from rahulgs was on-point based on my experience working with LLMs. The frontier is moving quickly for writing code at the least and the more harnesses and tools you provide for your engineer and the more context you provide your models, the better it is going to get over time.

Security is still an very important and sadly overlooked part at this point.

Incentives for LLM

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Every interaction with the LLM to generate tokens requires subsequent prompting for tweaking. One-shot is doable but is it efficient?

Consider this - you want to generate a blog with multiple pages and you prompt your way through over time. And unless you, the prompter are prudent about reducing code-duplication, the LLM will always tend to duplicate code.

It’s very likely that LLMs of today don’t have anything in their system prompts to optimize towards code-dedupe. This also is hard owing to limited context windows.

In a world where LLMs are aware of tokenomics, even with the right system prompts, will they naturally tend to deduplication? A smart LLM that tries to optimize for the revenue of its maker is more incentivized to generate more tokens, thus favoring more duplication.

Karpathy on coding with LLMs

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Of course, everyone is talking about this tweet by Andrej. I do feel this at times - there’s just a lot to keep up and honestly the best way I’m making progress is learning a thing or two every day and accepting that I can’t be knowing everything in one-go and trusting my future self to figure it out.

Having a bunch of pet-projects/problems to work on and putting these tools to use to work on these helps over time.

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Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

What matters?

Elgato HD60X and Linux

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I recently got an Elgato HD60X from FB Marketplace in the intent that I’ll be streaming more. This device is truly magical and sleek.

Visit to Tiruvannamalai in 2025

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

After about 8.5 years, I visited Tiruvannamalai again during my visit to Chennai in 2025. The last time I visited was in January 2017 - in fact I did my first Vipassana session in Dhamma Arunachala. I have a lot of fond memories of this place and I enjoyed my time at both Ramanasramam and the Arunachaleshwarar temple after the meditation session.

Moving on!

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

After ~5 years, I decided to move on from Salesforce last week. Before mentioning where I’m heading to and what led me to that decision, I wanted to take a moment to write about my time at Salesforce and reflect a bit.

Do it!

Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT

I turned 33 earlier this year. Not a huge number by any margin. I aspire to grow older and wiser over time and live as long as humanly possible.

Moving to Zola

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

As with anything else in the world, change is a constant. Moving on from the world of Hugo and Golang, this is my attempt in trying to blog more as I move to Zola.

SPB Sir and My Music

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Where do I even start? It’s been more than 5 days since the dreadful news came on Friday morning that SPB Sir is no more. I’ve been trying my best to process this loss - I personally do not know him, I haven’t met him, he doesn’t know me, but yet where did all this relationship begin? (tere mere beech mein kaisa hai ye bandhan)

Clojure Abstractions

Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

I’m proud to admit that I’m bitten by the Rich Hickey bug. As many in reddit convey, I strarted watching a video or two during my commute to work and a lot of things made so much sense that I decided to give Clojure a try. Of course, I’m not at the level where I want to run my fingers in Rich’s Bob Ross like hair. :P

What are my first impressions? There are many positives already about Clojure. I’m not a Lisp aficionado and have always despised the need for many many parentheses in a program. But Clojure, although it has a healthy dose of parentheses is different from Lisps in many regards. It’s much more simpler and consistent that Common Lisp, I’ve heard.

But the striking feature of Clojure for me so far is Programming to Abstractions. Most OO programs and C programs do not program for abstractions but to implementations. Java took a different spin on it by introducing interfaces that lets one focus on programming to conform to certain interfaces. That gave us the extremely rich and elaborate Collections library of Java. Clojure takes it to the next level since it creates intermediary structures of a certain type (say seq) and completely relies on abstractions.

Python programmers have a different name for this. I believe it originated from the Ruby world - Duck Typing. Duck Typing dictates that if something can quack, it’s a duck. Of course, IRL this is a blatant lie. I can quack too but I’m not a duck. A car has a steering wheel but it’s not a cruise boat or vice versa. While this appears to be an issue, it’s not that big a deal in an environment that strongly promotes writing small composable libraries.

Chernobyl - HBO Series

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

I recently had the opportunity to catch a series on HBO. No it’s not Game Of Thrones! :) On a side-node, I haven’t seen a single episode of GoT and don’t intend to, especially after everyone lambasted how bad the series was.

The World Cup

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

If you’re a cricket fan, you better had been keeping track of what happened at the World Cup this year. It was one of my favorite world cups since 2003 and I kept a tab on the scores and games for almost all the matches. This was also the first world cup since 2003 where I had a subscription for viewing the world cup. (I had the subscription for 2011 when in India but since the World Cup happened in India, I couldn’t really follow much because … work)

The Commute and Observations

Fri, 24 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

I take public transport to work. It’s something that I’ve been doing for about 6 months now. This might not be newsworthy to many folks and if you’re living in a metropolitan area like New York City or Hong Kong, taking public transport to work is an integral part of one’s day.

Absolutely on Music

Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

This was a book by Haruki Murakami in conversation with Seiji Ozawa, the former director and conductor at the Boston Conservatory of Music. The original book is in Japanese and the version I read was translated in English by Jay Rubin.

Article Notes: Change How You Perceive Time

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT

The article talks about how to better use the pomodoro technique for productivity.

++Wordpress == Hugo

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Finally mustered some courage and got over my laziness to create a post on a statically hosted blog. I had been having a (largely idle) wordpress blog for a while now. In fact, I remember getting there from a long route from static HTML back in those days, a custom wordpress site and a tumblr site.

Announcing bankruptcy

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT

As far as finance is concerned, bankruptcy is probably the lowest point in a company or an individual’s life. The dictionary defines bankruptcy as such,

Today I'm wise, so I am changing myself

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT

The title of this post is part of a quote by the famous 13th century Persian poet, Rumi.

Another go at writing on the web

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Over the last few years, I feel the word “blog” and “blogging” are being slowly phased out thanks to the explosion of social media (and the associated ADHD). Like any millenial who grew with the web from the late 90s, I’ve explored many platforms online for writing (ranting) over the years and as with any media, viewership dictates whether a medium thrives or not. I hope this post would make a good justification of why blogging isn’t dead yet and will still continue to thrive.

Spotify - Things to Improve

Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT

I’m a huge fan of Spotify and have been using the Premium feature quite regularly since December 2014. The reason why I chose Spotify over other available services during that time were

The concept of Idea Debt

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT

A couple of days before, I was perusing through my Feedly as part of my daily routine and an article about Idea Debt came up through Hacker News. It was a rather 3-4 minute read article that I put off and it lay there as a tab not to be returned to until today. I’ve had this habit of opening tabs of articles from different sources only to determine that they’re pretty long for me to read at that moment, only to be Pocket-ed and stowed away forever. In addition, there are a bunch of videos/articles/interesting posts that are lying in my Facebook saved list. These await the return of their master who’ve let them rot forever in the Interwebs. And the fact that I stumbled upon the concept of Idea Debt was purely coincidental but I doubt if it was true.

An epiphany moment

Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Occasionally, people stump into a perilous pit only to be surrounded by pessimistic and dismissive emotions. Almost every human would have gone through this phase at least once in their lifetime. There’s no single reason that led to such self doubt but a series of incidents which would be pretty hard to trace back.

The moment of Bhogi

Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

The festival of Bhogi (போகி) in South India is celebrated on the last day of the month mArgazhi (மார்கழி). The first day of the next month, thai (தை) is celebrated across Tamil Nadu with much fanfare and is also well known as the festival of Pongal (பொங்கல்). Pongal is also known by other names such as Sankaranti across India.

Scribe TM Krishnas talk on indiapostlivecom

Sun, 06 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT

I happened to come across T. M. Krishna’s talk about his latest book – A Southern Music – A Karnatik Story. I’ve been looking forward to read it but haven’t got a chance yet, but came across this interview of sorts where he outlines what has gone into the book. I started viewing the video but after a good 10 minutes into it, I realized that this needs to go into writing too. So here I am re-seeking the video again and trying to capture the essence of it through this blog post.

sudo reboot

Sun, 09 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Of late, I feel people have waned away from blogging thanks to more contemporary social networks some of whom insist on limiting you with 140 characters. While microblogging has been successful, I myself have been very erratic in using it as I have been with every other service. (Talk to me of ever being an early adopter and not being a constant user.) That has been the case with Twitter, Identi.ca, Google+, Buzz, Quora. The only social network that I frequent quite regularly is Facebook, perhaps because of the fact that I’ve resorted to being a consumer of news and not someone who can produce something interesting. While it pays off to learn about my friends’ lives, it certainly is a huge task to keep track of what every acquaintance is up to. The reason I’ve stuck so long with Facebook is that I took some efforts to trim down on whom I follow and whom I not, through the Lists feature and that has been working like a charm. So why did I stop using each of those services? That’ll diverge from the motive of this post and that’s for the future.

The body and the mind

Sun, 09 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT

I recently subscribed to Netflix for the sake of House of Cards and one of the first videos that I saw was a TED talk by Dr. Amy Cuddy. When there are people who despise TED talks, I personally like some of them, if not all. I find them interesting because it is an avenue to know about people and how they are touching others’ lives. This talk by Dr. Cuddy is one that I found interesting and worth sharing.

Analysis of a brilliant rendition Jalajaksha

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The long weekend spent in Santa Barbara bore fruit, thanks to my pal, Karthick Santhanam. During our drive over Camino Cielo, we were dumbstruck, partly by the beautiful mountains and partly by Dr. L. Subramaniam’s virtuoso on the violin. For people who don’t know about this acclaimed artist, he is one of the pioneers in the world of music and is one of the very few artists who is adept with both the Carnatic and Western styles of playing the violin. For people who need a taste of what he is capable of, please listen to this. Apologies for the lack of sync between the audio and the video!

Google the spark in the jungle of social networks

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Thanks to one of my friends, I got my Google+ invite on June 30th. I woke up and found an invite in my inbox and immediately, I signed up. Having seen the screenshots and videos of it, I assumed it to be better than facebook and the rest.

The Smart Phonedler

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Greetings! In today’s world, anything without an “i” as a prefix, hasn’t got much value to it. The ahambhaavam (sense of I – ego) has an altogether different meaning these days. It’s all about whether you possess a coveted iDevice or not and if you don’t, or if you are even remotely nonchalant about its existence in your neighbour’s pocket, you’ll be looked down with disdain. It’s hard to not be amused about how cellphone companies cash in on people’s ignorance and thrust on them, pieces of silicon with a highly polished LCD screen. Furthermore, you’ll have to shell out thousands every month, just for some sparingly genuine usage of mail and the exceedingly trash talk on facebook and the like. And before I proceed, this shall be applicable to all you android junkies, windows phone wizards, blackberry bosses, bada brigadiers and any other smartphone user. Also, a piece of word to people who know me. If you think this is a case of sour grapes just because I lost my iPod Touch and am scared as hell to get another device, then, in a way, you’re right; but I’m happy that I found it out early and through the hard way that I don’t need a smartphone in my life, at least for now! 🙂 It is a bit annoying and sad to see people deluded into getting smartphones mainly because his next cabin mate has got one! A classic reenactment of the cap seller and the monkeys story.

World Cup Checked

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Ever since I started watching cricket (the 1996 world cup), I’ve always dreamt of India winning it. I wanted to cherish the emotions and feelings that would’ve ran through Kapil’s Devils in ‘83. And here it is! After 15 years of wait (for me), the World Cup has come home.

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Pictures showing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010.

Gulf of Mexico – Oil Spill

My tribute to the game called Cricket

Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

All these years you wanted to watch cricket, but you had exams of all sorts scheduled perfectly alongside the matches and all that you can do is peep in occasionally to watch that bottom bar for the score and if you overstay your welcome in to the TV room, you experience a bad feeling about tomorrow’s exam and your legs automatically take you to the study room!

An elegy to my lost iPod Touch

Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Day: 2nd May, 2009

Time;: about 15:00 hrs

Place: 401K Vijayanagara to Vidyaranyapura bus

Situation: A crowded bus and I’m going to a relative’s place.

Outcome: A good 30 minutes into the journey, I come to know that my iPod has been stolen!

The Present:

IPL 30

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Hi folks!

So, another edition of the Indian Premier League is under-way and the three games so far have been awesome. The first ball of the IPL fetched the wicket of Manoj Tiwary of KKR but yet KKR won, thanks to some excellent batting display by Owais Shah and Angelo Mathews. Deccan missed a golden opportunity and hopefully they’ll bounce back. The next match saw some brutal hitting by the Mumbai Indians and of course a spirited run chase by Rajasthan Royals led by Yusuf Pathan. The next match, Delhi won pretty comfortably. Sad that Viru didn’t get many runs.

Thaai Thindra Manne lyrics

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

தாய் தின்ற மண்ணே
இது பிள்ளையின் கதறல்
ஒரு பேரரசன் புலம்பல்

A beautiful January 2010

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Pardon the gap since my last post! I was waiting for something substantial to write about! Pardon me if this post is reaaaally long! I couldn’t help it!

Bachelors and houses

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Hi folks,

Well, so this is another of my rantings. Every bachelor would have certainly faced this problem. And we, as part of shifting our house, are certainly feeling the heat. First of all, let me answer some FAQs in your mind..

A series well won

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Merry Christmas to you all! The new year is round the corner and it is the time to make resolutions (if any). If you well, ask me about mine for the new year, I would blurt out “/etc/resolv.conf”. (Why blood??? Aah.. Same blood..). I wish you all a very happy new year and puthu varshathulayaavathu konjam nalla pullayya irungappa. (enna maadhiri.. :P).

Why did Copenhagen fail to deliver a climate deal

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Why did Copenhagen fail to deliver a climate deal?

Vettaikaaran engira avathaaram

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Spoiler Alert (for Vettaikaaran)! Don’t say I didn’t warn you!!! 🙂

So, the last 4 days have been nothing short of fantastic! It all started on Saturday, the 19th. We @ Starent went on a combeny outing to Prakruthi Resorts. Wa! Had a gala time there. Played volleyball after a very long time!

Reduce your Carbon Footprint

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Reduce your Carbon Footprint!!!

Stateless State Heads SSH

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Don’t get fooled away by the title. This post is in no way related to __S__ecure __SH__ell. I’m agitated over the series of events that happened during the last couple of days primarily due to the splitting of A.P. and issues that had followed suit. Guess this blog would be a place to vent out my anger! All baaeedd words are either *ed out or spoonerised. Guess you can easily make out the words! 🙂 BTW, this will be my first blog in Tamil (colloquial, so don’t shoot me with an errata. All errors and mistakes are intended!). And I don’t think I would make reference to anyone (just to save myself :P). You can crack it. Not a big deal! Anyway, let’s begin.

My favourite tools

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

So, I was musing about what to blog next and had this idea of posting all the utilities/programs/services I frequently use and of course thank the person who influenced me with the software. I’m rather obsessed with many of these tools and if you think a tool you use is better than what I use, ping me @borncrusader at twitter or identi.ca 🙂 We’ll debate about it and possibly I’ll learn about the tool you use too. 😛

My Freetime work

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Hi! This is my first post at tumblr! Excellent name I should say. 🙂 Guess it is inspired from flickr.

Trip to Coorg

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

So, we finally made it to Coorg/Kodagu on the 21st of November, 2009, Saturday. It was definitely a trip to cherish. We started from Bangalore on Friday night in Rajahamsa (:P KSRTC bus – eppadi ellam paeru vekkaraainga) and reached Coorg by about 6:15 on Saturday morning. We were received by our Guide/Home-stay provider Mr. Bopanna (This guy is a multi-millionaire in Coorg :o). We started clicking photos on our way to Cheliyandene from Madikeri. We saw the Kaveri river in her full bliss flowing under the sun who was trying his best to wade his way through fog and mist!

Bangalore Beckons

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

So, I’ve moved to the so-called “Garden City” of India. To be frank, no gardens here! Bangalore is as polluted as Chennai. 😀

Confidence and Flash An Ode to Adobe and Macromedia

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

An event, 4 years back! Year 2005! I am at the Anna University Counseling. Toppers around me. Words of my mom ringing in my ears - “Take Aeronautical…” Words of my cousins - “Take ECE…” Words of Arul Sir - “Take CS…” I enter the hall with my dad. I get a spare terminal. ECE in CEG ruled out. A choice between CS in CEG and ECE in MIT. I went with ECE in MIT because it was closer to my place.

ActionScript Tutorial #1

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

So, you want to develop a cool “Mouse Trailer Dust Sparkle” effect as in here. This costs 1$. Here’s a tutorial which will tell you how to do it. I’ve accomplished it using a MovieClip with a small circle. You can just replace it with your own. Here’s the code.

Where is modernisation leading us to

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Another news for the media to bombard and make it a national issue. Over the past 3 days, all the news channels have been focusing on the harassment of the so called “modern women” in a pub in Mangalore. Members of the Sri Ram Sena entered a pub in Mangalore on Saturday, the 24th of January and attacked the women dancing there. The media has then started to blow this out of proportion. Journalists like Sagarika Ghosh and Barkha Dutt have been conducting chat sessions titled “Is India not ready for the modern woman?” or something else.

Republic of India Jai Hind

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The eve of Republic Day! January 2006! It’s been 60 yrs now! India has moved a lot of strides in these 60 yrs now, thanks to visionaries who made it possible. The next 60 is in our hands to make India a super power.

Microsoft Windows 7 and Open Source

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

You might be wondering why I have chosen such an eccentric title for this post. Microsoft and Open Source don’t go with each other. And if you are a Windoze bunny, you might have probably downloaded the beta version of the next installment of Windows, i.e Windows 7. If you haven’t you can check the screenshots here. If a first glance at the screenshots make you gape in awe, then you probably haven’t touched a glass of wine before. If it doesn’t look interesting to you then probably you drink a lot of wine. 😀 But what has wine to do with Windows. Wine has everything to do with Windows. Wine is a Windows Emulator for linux. 😀 Seeing the screenshots, I can only infer one thing. Microsoft is finally doing justice to the name of its OS. It’s quite evident that the previous versions didn’t have much transparency and subsequent versions have been having increased transparency. Who knows, probably Windows 15 will have a very high transparency that you can actually see your neighbour through your monitor just as you can through a window. Now I get the pun in the OS’s name. 😀

PES 2009 A review

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Whoa! What a game! I first played the game with an old graphics driver and the graphics was crappy. A change of drivers and the game is awesome. 😀 It’s one of the best games I’ve ever played and it’ll keep me busy for atleast a couple of months. The game sports a different menu look which is cool (reminds me of some grafitti on a wall). The game has a new feature this year. This is the “BECOME A LEGEND” feature which makes a comeback. PES veterans would know that this feature was in PES long before EA introduced the “Be A Pro” in the 08 version. The game looks even slicker this year and I feel the overall game speed has been increased by a slight amount. I haven’t checked out the online mode of PES 09 and reviews say that the game actually works, given the fact that the performance was poor in the 08 version. Another big addition in this edition is the UEFA license.

FIFA 09 A Review

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Fifa 09, one of the most awaited games of the year is out! Another cool game from EA’s box. I wonder how people at EA manage to come out with a game every year with so minimal changes. Anyways, here’s the review.

A birthday to remember

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The past week is a week I would never forget in my life. It all started on Thursday, the 28th of August. I was shocked to hear that my grandma (mom’s aunt) had passed away. She had been one of my well wishers and the first one to bless me on my birthday. I was depressed to see her being taken to the cemetery the next day. I had my Project review on the same day, ie Friday, the 29th and we managed to answer every question that was thrown at us except for the last one which was about our work division. We couldn’t find an answer to this and Sai, though he managed to conjure up something, failed miserably. 😀

ActionScript 3.0 and OOP

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I’ve always been an active supporter of Flash and ActionScript and loved to develop interesting animations through Flash and AS2.0.

Blogging Regularly - An excellent idea

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I’ve always wondered how people find time to blog. Now, I’ve devised an excellent idea that would inspire me to blog daily. The idea is to list the sites that I visit daily. As I wade through the Internet, I come across many exciting and interesting sites. From today, I’m going to list them.

Cognizant Neenga nallavara kettavara

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Wokay! I’ve got placed in Cognizant Technology Solutions. You might say “Big Deal!”. I too was a bit disinterested in a company like Cognizant but after I sat for the pre-placement talk, I knew what Cognizant was made of. Cognizant is the fastest growing top-tier IT Services Company and they’ve achieved that in record time. Now, that’s something. They are on a recruiting spree and have recruited 1103 out of the 2600 people who appeared. There was an aptitude test that tested the math skills, verbal and attention to detail. 2199 were selected for the next round which was the usual interview. I was asked some basic Physics questions, a few Communications questions and a few questions on Speech recognition.

Cognizant

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Indian Cricket Team - Asia Cup

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Which team in the world would bundle out for 76 in just 20 overs after scoring a mammoth 627 in the previous innings? Which team would come back strongly to win a test at Perth against Australia after losing a couple of tests? Which team would play some incredible 20-20 cricket but lose to a team like Bangladesh in ODI cricket? Which team would score 413 in a world cup game yet would not qualify to the Super 8s?

My GRE experience

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I took the GRE on June 3rd, 2008. I wasn’t that confident about the Verbal section and was banking on the Quants section to take me through the exam with a good score and thankfully that happened.

How do people find time for blogging

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

As I was going through my profile on Orkut, I came across a link I had added onto my “About me” column, which was this blog. I came to know that I had posted the last post of this blog in December 2007, almost a quarter year before. I’m pretty amazed by people who blog everyday. How do these guys find time? Or more appropriately how do these people remember that they should write a blog? Anyway, with the usual oath that I would blog more regularly, I start of with this blog’s theme.

Neyveli Santhanagopalan - Chromepet Concert Review

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Well, I did hear to some splendid music yesterday by my guru’s guru, Sri NSG. It was an electrifying atmosphere and Sri NSG started with the evergreen ata thala varna in Kalyani. It was rendered with panache.