Feb 23, 2023

In the 1999 Thulladha Manamum Thullum Tamil movie, Simran appears in front of SPQR and the Roman eagle.

Tags: cinema, tamilcinema

Jan 2, 2023

Deploy scripts using Guix G-expressions. Why? How?

Tags: lisp, scheme, guix, software

Dec 18, 2022

Finding the right place to rent in London using a Guile script. Who said Guile is not useful for practical stuff!

Tags: London, lisp, scheme, மென்பொருள்

Sep 17, 2022

Monospace fonts are not displayed correctly in a Tamil locale. How do you fix this?

Tags: tamil

Jul 10, 2020

I travelled to Amsterdam in November 2019. This was my first and so far the only trip to Europe. I got to meet fellow free software contributors from Europe, and was also deeply impressed by Europe in general. Here is an account.

Tags: travel, amsterdam, europe

Nov 22, 2017

Last Sunday, I went on a trek to Hutridurga – my first with the Bangalore Trekking Club (BTC).

Tags: trekking, travel

Aug 23, 2017

I attended the free software camp organized by

Tags: freesoftware, fsftn, tiruchi

May 16, 2017

A quick but ill-conditioned way to compute a Lagrange polynomial interpolation…

Tags: math, matlab, octave

Mar 2, 2017

This is to announce the release of exiftool.el, an emacs lisp wrapper around ExifTool. ExifTool is a command line application supporting reading and writing metadata in various formats including EXIF, XMP and IPTC.

Tags: software, project, freesoftware

Dec 7, 2016

When you are out on the road and don't have access to water, you can identify punctures by putting them on sandy ground and look for the dust being blown away by the air leaking out.

Tags: cycling

Nov 1, 2016

This is a graph I made for contributing to Wikipedia. It shows the energy of a black body as the sum of energies from oscillators with 1 photon, 2 photons, 3 photons, etc.

Tags: physics, gnuplot, software

Oct 26, 2016

Two weeks ago, on October 15, in one of Concern's reading sessions, we read the first chapter of Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. The book describes a propaganda model that describes how the mass media are not objective but rather publish news favourable to the government and the ruling elite. This is a short summary of the five filters of the propaganda model developed in the book.

Tags: politics

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