Posted by: Aadisht on: April 3, 2008
… is the worst travel website in the world. To start with, they make you sign up (why?). And because they don’t clearly tell you that they truncate the password after the 10th character (why?) I’ve been through about six usernames so far. After that, the usability. You can’t search by city – you have [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 27, 2008
The coolest bookshelf I’ve ever seen: Limited by space, we melded the idea of a staircase with our client’s desire for a library to form a ‘library staircase’ in which English oak stair treads and shelves are both completely lined with books. With a skylight above lighting the staircase, it becomes the perfect place to [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 21, 2008
This Boston Globe oped (free registration might be required) is astonishing. The author, somebody named Jeremy Kahn, has violated the Sominism-cheat-sheet and Neelakantan’s guide to writing about India left, right, and centre. He appears to have actually understood the nuances of what he’s writing about! And he doesn’t mention caste, growing inequality, pollution, or elephants on [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 6, 2007
Just a few things related to the upgrade to 2.3.1. I’ve been getting hammered by comment spam for the past couple of months, and MadMan advised me to install Akismet and Bad Behavior. Akismet was already installed, so I installed Bad Behavior. Bad Behavior is a WordPress plugin which detects all incoming comments and tracbacks, and [...]