meaning

The weekend was dull. Amongst the teeming conversations in the blogosphere nothing made me pause. It was the same thing over and over. Yahoo this, Google that, Microsoft sucks and so on. Sometimes reality resembles a junkyard. Debris in various stages of preparation.
Me needed a little poetry. And all I had in [...]

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As humans a few ubiquitous limitations constrain us all, regardless of our affiliations. Whether we subscribe to the hypothesis on space and time or the axioms of math or the subjective escape into the rarer realms or the conjuring tricks of sound and light or as a traficker of ideas, Death ends us all.
The problem [...]

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Nitin K asks “Where are the meaning-enabled authoring tools?” on ReadWriteWeb. Though the article asks the right questions, the conclusions it derives, that authoring applications have not yet learnt to capture ’semantic knowledge’ and that their XML creation capabilities are severely limited.
Now I don’t know how much research Nitin has done on this, or if [...]

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The origin of perspective, whether from within the confines of the individual-self or sourced from the collective selves, should ideally be irrelevant. The perspective should be all that matters. But the means and techniques of identifying, collating and harnessing these perspectives vary based on their origin.
In thinking about these terms the individual perspective could [...]

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Prajapati, the creator of all that exists, watched Mrtyu(or Yama), Death that consumes all. Each sought to annul the other. The duel between them lasted an eternity almost. Death, the shadow of all that is born, pervaded all of creation.
Prajapati penetrated the frames of existence pursuing Death. The masks were insidious, hiding the villain [...]

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Check this advert for JC Penny, found via Tim OReilly’s blog post. Here is a stereotype smashing, gender busting advert that you can’t afford to miss.
This is the way I see it -With agrarian economies, the physical prowess, the sheer ability to till the land is the ideal. With scale and specialization comes the [...]

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It starts with the uncanny visual realism, yet something is not quite right - skin that looks like skin but is too perfect to be real, a face too taut and a posture straight out of the Renaissance period. The voice actors are first class - what strikes you is how self-sure the voice [...]

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Today I discovered the weblog of Rob Weir called “An Antic Disposition“. Rob is a member of the OASIS ODF TC amongst others. The blog has been a delight so far - be it the technical content, the perspectives that are revealed or even just the list of books from his library, all indicate an [...]

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Flatland has to be proof that ideas once conceived last way beyond their time and place of creation. A novel published in the 1800s resonates with such lucid clarity to a 21st century mindset! Perhaps its the subject, or even the perspective, or even its metaphorical import..or even all put together. This is a masterpiece.
The book, for its slender disposition, has [...]

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