about the iPad, or so I thought. Then I realized with every single one of them writing pages upon pages of commentary, I’m not going to bring in too much insight. I’ve hence, tried to curate some interesting articles that I found. You’ve probably read most of them already, but in case you have been in a di-lithium mine on Remus. Yup! That’s right, I do like Star Trek. Now do you understand why I loathe - hate - despise what has been done to the iPad!! PADD!! arrrrggghhh! serenity now! serenity now! ...

It’s been a while since I last updated, or even had the inclination to do so … well .. I’m back. Here’s what I’ve been doing since the last time I updated: work worry work procrastinate gain weight work quit smoking go to India fail miserably at quitting smoking took a lot of pictures return to vancouver work In the end, here’s what I have to show for the last month ...

I’ve lived in India for 27 of the 29 years of my life (moved to Canada in 2007) For almost every year for the last 15 years (that’s how long I’ve been a gadget/tech fanatic), I have lamented the availability or lack thereof of any newly released shiny thingies. Amazon has finally figured out that people outside the US, read books too. Imagine my delight when I heard that there a new version of theKindle (The global wireless edition - no less) (Disclosure: affiliate link). ...

Dave Winer, the inventor of RSS, wrote today about twitter’s latest API update for supporting the lists feature It turns out there’s an API call that retrieves the timeline for a list, and it works exactly like the API call that retrieves the timeline for an account. So much so that I didn’t even have to change the glue script, I pass in a different URL and it just worked > orig link I wonder if there can be a better award?! Dave Winer applauding twitter?! I never thought I’d see the day ;) (Just kidding Dave). Dave’s right though. There is a certain high that you get when something just works (as it was intended). That is the high that we programmers live for. It’s like a runner’s high. ...

Got a new iPhone app called sketchbook, by autodesk. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=327375467&mt=8 You need to check this out. Trust it is really cool and loads of fun

I’ve been waiting for this for a while now! Gary I hope it is all that I expect it to be. If I don’t read this the day I get it, and jump up from my bed at 2 AM crying “crush it” … well … I bet I will.

Google street view is now available for Vancouver, Canada. So, the big G has finally realized that people living outside the US might find use for google’s products. I work here View Larger Map And I sleep here View Larger Map

well not really! I just turned on RSSCloud support on this blog’s feed. RSSCloud allows the feedreader subscribing to you, to setup a callback address, which your blog will call whenever you publish something. If every blog does the same, it could account for several thousand, if not million CPU cycles due to lesser polling. It is the brain-child of Dave Winer, the man who invented RSS, the author of the ever-popular scriptingnews blog. (If you had started blog back in 1994, you could’ve got a domain as kewl as his!) ...

via minkyu.co.uk Fricking awesome! I would kill to have this made for the Canadian and the Indian plugs as well (I’m just kidding … .or am I?!) Posted via web from shiva’s posterous

With Snow Leopard, Apple has the first time done something that has made me go wow! An almost free OS upgrade. This kinda beats the crap out of paying a couple hundred for Win7. Posted via email from shiva’s posterous