As I mentioned in a previous post, I am working on a Ruby generic syntax highlighter. Well today it had its first measure of success by producing this HTML: It is buggy as can be seen from the mess up near the end, and write now I haven't chosen the best colours nor a complete correct language definition for Ruby or any other language, but the major part is done.…

I got two new books today, Practical C++ Programming and Code Complete 2/e . Both are supposed to be really good, so lets see what knowledge I gain from it …

Well I have been quite busy/tired/bored to write these past few days, so today I willed myself to write. The Christmas holidays have begun and I am getting a little more time on the computer. It was my birthday on the 22nd and so now I am officially 16 as reflected in the sidebar. I have also been planning a lot of projects. They are a code-to-html syntax highlighter in Ruby, a JS toolkit, a Ajaxified To Do Note application and a blog system.…

An ambigram of 'Lucerne' in Switzerland, one of the best cities I have been to. …

I have often really hated how science just kills the magnificence of some things by a definition. Check this one out for instance, its about our hands. The hands are the two intricate, prehensile, multi-fingered body parts normally located at the end of each arm of a human or other primate. Hands are one of the coolest things ever produced by Evolution, we can barely imagine the complexity and trial and error required to create it and they call it a prehensile(no idea what it means) multi fingered body part :|…

I thought I knew the limit of bad software written by proprietary and dumb companies for proprietary and dumb operating systems. But right now when all I want to do is sleep, I have discovered a new limit, it goes way past infinity. I need to write a LARGE BOLD rant to show how much I hate stupid crappy pathetic sissy Nero. But not write now, must ... go .…

Everyone living in India must have heard about Dalits in Maharashtra causing a lot of trouble and damage to its citizens and property. Apparently a desecration of the late Dr Baba Ambedkar's statue in Kanpur has sparked of the violence. Since yesterday they have been making Mumbai's suburbs close down, breaking windows of shops and vehicles and generally harassing people. But violence escalated to new hieghts some time ago with the torching of two trains, one a mumbai local and the other the Deccan Queen, a link between Mumbai-Pune.…

This is my full name in a rotational ambigram. Its really cool how the k splits into a a and t on the other side. Needed a fair bit of work and could be made better. The only problem spot was the 'k' to 'at' part. The rest of my name is an extremely straight stroked typeface. I also liked the way the L and M joined gracefully with the extra bit acting like a serif for the M.…

Glowpad is a small Python/Pygame program to read in a file and generate a word/pattern with randomly coloured squares which morph to white. I basically wrote it after seeing the cool effect that appears at the end of one of the Sony ads(the robot one) where the same effect happens with the word feel. So I hacked this program in just half an hour. To run the program, extract it to any place on your computer.…

Harry Potter both ways. Directly rendered in Inkscape with no pre-planning. …