This is a sample post from Emacs (yes, I’m using Emacs now) to check out the functionality provided by weblogger.el. Getting to create blog posts without leaving Emacs might just result in a higher post frequency.

I can feel my blog gradually becoming a series of articles on what I think is wrong with the world. I don’t mind it though – perhaps it reveals something about my personality. For many people living outside India the country is a symbol of inner spiritual awakening and healing. These are probably the ones [...]

I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine (whom I shall call KS) which touched upon various diverse topics, including but not limited to the origins of homosexuality and the concept of alpha males. While a lot of what she said made sense, one thing I could not reconcile myself with was her [...]

I would have taken great offence if I had been informed, when I was in school, that the history I was being taught then was sugar-coated to the extent of killing a diabetic patient. While skipping irrelevant details is acceptable and, in certain cases, required, altering history to the point of causing delusion is both [...]

I’ve always found internet slang irritating. I don’t see how dropping vowels from words and punctuating incorrectly is “cool” – it seems to indicate the lack of a proper primary education than anything else. Some basic abbreviations are understandable on IRC and general chat. Using it on emails and even Facebook, however, is inexcusable. You [...]

Why do we see what we see? It is clear that what we perceive is not the truth – the world is certainly not contained in three dimensions and the book you think is there is not really there. Our perception and our intuition is oriented in a certain way, diverging from the truth. We [...]

I’ve heard far too many people blame bad luck for everything that went wrong. While the world around us does have a certain inherent randomness, most people take it too far. Getting wet en-route to an interview is bad luck. So is getting robbed in a bank. Perpetual bad (or good) luck, however, is a [...]

My fictitious readers must have surely noticed that I have, recently, with a fresh passion and renewed vigour, re-started blogging. I don’t mean this to be a haphazard demonstration of my fickle persona, but a general trend, my action plan to keep up the tempo being the following: I shall keep technical posts to a [...]

One of the recent books I read is ‘The Selfish Gene’ by Richard Dawkins. It has changed the way I think and, in some cases, the way I act. I don’t intend to provide a review here, especially because Richard Dawkins does such a good job of not digressing, making it virtually impossible condense his [...]

There are two things that make me puke: bad whiskey and people who pretend to care. I recently bought an iPod Classic, the 160 GiB edition. I could have used that money, the money which I used to buy something completely non-essential, to fund the education for an underprivileged kid for a year. I could [...]