What the blog tagline means


If you are wondering why my tagline is a wierd string of numbers, they are all extremely important to the world, except the second, which is only important for a few in the world. 42 - The Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything22 - My birthday3.14 - Pi2.718 - e 1.618 - The Golden Ratio0 - Defying quite a number of laws of mathematics …
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Ambi Nikhil Revised


This is a way better version of my name, My friends said the K wasn't easy to read in the first and looked like nifkil, so this one is with the name split over two levels . This not only makes it readable it gives a tightness to the word, and doesn't leave excess whitespace …
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Ambigram Shreyas


Another friend, not the best ambigram, can be done loads better. …
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Ambigram Konqi


The KDE Mascot, good ain't it? …
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Ambigram Alok


Another friend. Sorry for the bad PNG quality somehow Inkscape's export isn't very good. Also the O is quite bad. Alok is a really hard name and the ambigram could really use some improvement. …
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Ambigram Nikhil


I realised that I had never posted about my own ambigram. This is one of my oldest, probably a year old, and can be made a lot better by using the calligraphy tool in Inkscape. But for now this will do. …
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Ambigram Mridul


Ambigram of a friend's name. …
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Beryl Screenshots


Here are some screenshots of my computer running Beryl. The customary Cube: Windows can be made to look like a negative(Konqueror here) and so can the complete desktopHave too many windows and don't want to Alt+Tab, get a view of all the windows on all desktops or on current desktop depending on which screen edge you take the mouse too(configurable) Transparency. The Konqueror window on top is partially transparent(Alt + mouse scroll) and shows the blogger window beneath…
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Beryl is AMAZING!


I have got Beryl working with AIGLX and all its cool effects on an i845 and 256mb ram with almost no difference in performance than non beryl. This is absolutely amazing. The beryl devs are really great. Compiz used to be really slow. Now I can finally have all this eye candy on all the time.…
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Learning


I have decided to take a break from creating software to learning some new things for a few days. So I have started learning Ruby, advanced JavaScript which I didn't know before, especially DOM scripting and Ajax. And I am also reading Beginning Algorithms which is a really good book for an introduction to algorithms in a easy to understand concrete way. That said I am starting to like Ruby and feel the same enjoyment that is felt when coding in Python.…
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