Shared by shiva Very cool! Anger is Illogical, a film created by “OneMinuteGalactica”, takes audio from one of those “behavioural” films they used to show in schools in the 1950s and 60s and video from the original Star Trek TV series (run through a filter to make them look like they’re on 16mm film) and combines them for hilarious results. Here’s another amusing little film from OneMinuteGalactica: Luke Skywalker has OCD… ...

Some actors have the incredible talent of keen observation, and Mr Spacey is a master at it. Watch him channeling Pacino around 5:25. In few words, he makes you believe you’re seeing the real Pacino. The ‘Christopher Walken’ is also spot on.

DMU (Delete me Uncensored) is a group on Flickr, that was formed because a few people got pissed at Flickr censoring content. It is a very “lively” place on most days with a lot of colour and personality. Mostly its just a bunch of fine folks that have a common passion (photography), and express their opinions with almost no filters. It’s easy to mistake the group for being too rude, but you just have to hang around to ‘get it’. ...

Phew! What an awesome 23 hours! I’m just back from Barcamp Vancouver 2010 #bcv10. (Check out some pictures from the event). It’s been a while, since I have been this tired and excited at the same time. There are a thousand threads competing for the processor(s) in my head right now. I met a lot of very interesting people, and learnt about some great ideas. It has been a very educational weekend, in general. For all the great folks I met, I’m sure there were many more that I couldn’t chat with. To you, I say, “Let’s meet on the internets”. ...

It’s been a while since I’ve done anything except write code – lots of it. The last 20 days have been insane, and ofcourse to a take a break from writing code, I like to read code that others write. (You DO know that I’m crazy, right?!). In one of my futile attempts at clearing my google-reader reading list, I chanced upon a post by Veerabahu, on finding if a number is a power of 2 (or not). ...

to write a blog post, when someone calls you to tell you that they checked your blog, and there was nothing of interest. Ofcourse, being lazy, I just chose to put some pictures, which have been languishing in the netherworld of pictures on the internet – Picasa. Looks like, Google has improved picasaweb to be almost usable. It is still void of comments, or any real social aspect. I’m still well within the free quota, and I’m not forking out money for yet another storage provider, until they provide a way to export all of the content that I generate in a “parseable” form (That’s right, we invent words here). Anyway, I will shut up with the review of another techy thingy, and put some pictures on. ...

Everything you need to know about cricket, in a series of awesome ads for Adidas. and let’s see all of them mixed into one beautiful ad (that might make you want to watch this game, after all)

Since my last post, I’ve had a couple of replies, a few more tweets, and few minutes of talking about unsigned types in Java, and why it doesn’t support them. I still retail the view that unsigned types are unnecessary for the majority of Java developers. The only kind that should care, are those who deal with network information (like representing an ipaddress or macaddress). Everyone, put down your forks, and do not touch the unsigned. ...

An interesting thing for me, is that if I am active on twitter during daytime in India (now that I’m here on vacation), I get to have some interesting conversations about design and development. Today, I chanced to talk about the lack of unsigned values support in Java. veechand is there unsigned int in #java support your answers 10 Jul 2010 from TweetDeck shiva @veechand nope. but use char instead. If you really want a type, you can define your own class backed by char 12 Jul 2010 from Twitter for iPhone in reply to veechand ...

I’ve been busy. That doesn’t explain my silence on this blog, its but an excuse. A lot of things have been happening, both in my personal and professional life, and I’m not at liberty to talk about them. Those are for another day. I have been writing code - for money, ie - for 9 years now. This obsession started a good 6 years before that. I don’t have much to show for it (most of it is copyrighted, or lost across several machines, that weren’t mine). One thing that hasn’t changed is the burning desire to get near some of my idols – gods even. When I was 15, I promised myself that I will strive to be at the same level as some of these people. ...