Making the stream navigable - What Facebook should do next

I recently enabled cross posting of my tweets to my Facebook profile. This was pretty awesome for the most part, reach two sets of my audiences with one post. Less work and a neat solution you got me. However a couple of days ago I saw myself tweeting quite a bit, and that was when I realized I was spamming the my friend’s Facebook timelines. I have just over a 1000 friends on Facebook and I am spamming all of them with content when I most my posts are targeted only at a specific group....

The Belkin Incident - How one system broke the Internet for a lot of folks

My dad had internet issues this morning. I was in the process of blaming our ISP back at home in India, and then I noticed a Twitter trend of Belkin routers causing an internet outage across the globe. NO! That seems a bit messed up. What I found most interesting was the fact that it supposedly wasn’t a firmware update which caused the issue. So how did devices which are supposed to connect you to the internet fail on their own without a firmware update?...

Badam Barfi (My mom's style)

Being completely bored and I decided to give Badam Barfi a second shot. My mom is a pro at this and my brothers and I would constantly be walking into the kitchen to get us some more. Of course I asked her for the recipe and if you follow this you should be able to end up with heavenly diamond shaped objects which everyone will be vying for. I usually work better with dropping in ingredients based on what I feel while cooking as opposed to following numbers, but I shall put down the numbers here for anyone else who might want to follow....

Google IO 2013 Registration Dates Opening

Hunting around for tickets to Google IO 2013 is something I’ve been hooked on to for the past few days. Funnily enough none of the major sites like Gizmodo or Tech-crunch have a post out there for their readers to know when the registrations open. With a bit of digging I did manage to find out that ticket sales open on the 13 of March 2013. Mark your dates folks… its going to be a rush....

Mapping NCSU AFS to your personal Laptop

Yeah I know expandrive is easier to use…. install, enter credentials, and you are done. But lets face it, expandrive isnt the fastest and most stable stable thing you’ve used. try to copy a lot of files and it leaves a few. The other problems … you know them So after messing around with the MIT Kerberos and OpenAFS I found a solution (Windows for now). With a bit of work I’m sure linux users would be able to replicate the same....

I'm Alive... yet again

I’ve started blogging many-a-times before… Each time with a sudden burst of interest I started a new blog vowing to myself to be better than last time and not let it die. The first one was not even a blog… a bunch of HTML pages strung up together and hosted on the once popular geocities (yes I was a kid back then!) When I look back i realize that I did manage to better myself each time, but somehow, all those blogs died a gradual death as I realized my interest waned....