Archive for November, 2008

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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Recently I have been trying to experiment with some new things(do I need to mention software related things?). One of the biggest pains in my life is to organize my time. I tend to be a bit late, and somewhat disorganized. To relieve the pain, I decided to I started out with developing a calendar gadget for windows Sidebar. The gadget was supposed to simply display a user’s calendar from Google Calendar with events and possibly provide ways to edit and add events. I started using Google Calendar APIs as they had a pretty good documentation. For some reasons(laziness?)I decided to use the AuthSub APIs that google provides for authorization and then download the calendar in JSON format. This is where I got stuck…

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Tribute to Michael Crichton

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Midst the political news that have been going around after the presidential elections, I came to know about the death of a great author, producer, director Michael Crichton. Although I only knew about one aspect of his works the most notable one – Books, I can’t stop feeling sad about it. His books were always talked about topics that were close to my heart – the progress that we can make with technology (and of course the disasters that can occur if proper care is not taken. ) I specially liked Jurassic Park, The lost world, prey and sphere. I will miss the all the novels he could have written and would surely be waiting for the next novel that is announced to be released sometime next year[1,2]. I wish peace for him.

The death of Authur C. Clarke earlier this year and now Crichton has surely made this a sad year for science fiction.

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