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I decided to go out this evening. First I went to Bookworm's new setup on Church Street. There, I started skimming the shelves from the first one on the right, moving from right to left, front to back, room by room. I picked up the first book I
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With Covishield in my body, I feel like there is a capillary tube erupting from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and its panoply of attendant bodies vis-à-vis India's COVID-19 response, soaring across the length of India and plunging into my veins, somewhere in Bangalore. And with
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Recently, Basecamp released an email service, called Hey, many of whose features essentially embody a technological approach to solving one of the biggest problems with email: its users. GMail is versatile, but most people seem to use it in annoying ways (based on the email traffic in my professional inbox)
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I realised some time ago that I completed 13 years of blogging around January or March (archives on this blog go back to March 2012; the older posts are just awful to read today. The month depends on which post I consider to be my first.). Regardless of how bad
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Here's wishing you a Happy Lord of the Rings Day! (Previous editions: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014.) On this day in the book, Frodo, Sam and Smeagol (with help from Gandalf, Aragon, Gimli, Legolas, Faramir, Eowyn, Theoden, Eomer, Treebeard and the Ents, Meriadoc, Peregrin, Galadriel, Arwen and
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Since January 2020 Read 1. Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko 2. Every Creature Has a Story, Janaki Lenin 3. The Writing Life, Annie Dillard 4. Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist, Frank Close 5. Shoes of the Dead, Kota Neelima 6. The
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Google Chrome just pulled the plug on the Great Suspender browser extension. The Great Suspender allowed its users to keep lots of tabs open at any time on Chrome without guzzling RAM, which Chrome is notorious for – simply by keeping the tab open but not displaying any of the page&
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You know when you're cooking a packet of Maggi noodles in a saucepan, and you haven't used enough water or don't move the stuff soon enough from the pan to a plate once it's done cooking, and you're basically left
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My blogging took a hit this year – as did everything for everyone. I couldn't publish nearly as much as I'd have liked. While the average post length was the highest it's ever been – 989 words – and audience engagement was through the roof, I had
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Every July 4, I have occasion to remember two things: the discovery of the Higgs boson, and my first published byline for an article about the discovery of the Higgs boson. I have no trouble believing it's been eight years since we discovered this particle, using the Large
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On June 1 last year, I wrote: Today, I complete seven years of trying to piece together a picture of what journalism is and where I fit in. Today, I begin my ninth year as a journalist. I'm happy to report I'm not so confused this
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You know how people pretend to win an Oscar or a Nobel Prize, right? Many years ago, I used to pretend to be the author of a fictitious but, blissfully unmindful of its fictitiousness, award-winning series of articles entitled Chemical Nova. In this series, I would pretend that each article