Journey of the Journeyman

Today, I was helping a colleague write some code to fetch only new mails from a POP3 account. The code needed to be in Java. I finally wrote the code (rather copied it), but the whole exercise left such a bad taste in my mouth that I ranted a bit about it.
Caveat: If you are [...]

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This week, I got home a book from the British Council Library. 365 Dish A day. A cookbook with mostly continental recipes. I plan to experiment with some of them. So Saturday evening, I wanted to try out "Balti Shrimp".
Hey, I don’t cook regularly. And I am not all that good. But most people [...]

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It was 1969. My mother gifted this harmonium to my father on their wedding.
With his name engraved in Bengali.
About 40 years later, my mother finally parted with it as a hand-me-down family inheritance. This is more than a scale-changing reed organ; it is a sound box of memories for me.
My first introduction to music, my [...]

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From description tag of tagz.rb:
tagz.rb generates html, xml, or any sgml variant like a small ninja running across the backs of a herd of giraffes swatting of heads like a mark-up weedwacker.
Pure poetry in documentation. Love the style.
Well, talking of poetry, an old poem of mine got published in the GE Research Center’s Journal.

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