So it’s been about a week that I’ve been messing with Sims 3 and about time I came up with a verdict. Well, it’s a difficult one — perhaps being preoccupied with other things keeps me from enjoying it like I should, though that is not to say I am not liking it. Sims 3 […]
Author: Payal
Bangalore goes rainbow
“Welcome to Ben-Gay-luru!” proclaimed a hand-made poster. And for a couple of hours on a late Sunday afternoon for the short distance between National College and Town Hall, that is exactly what it was. About 600 or so people—according to media estimates—gathered for Bangalore’s second gay pride parade on 28 June 2009. On display were […]
ToI strikes again!
Kalpana Sharma’s piece “Beware of the Maid” (18 June 2009; http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4667727.cms) is a contemptible piece of writing that not just displays a complete lack of sensitivity and basic decency, but also shows up the standards (lack of them?) of journalism of the Times of India group. It trivializes serious issues such as the abuse and […]
United with Opera
Opera, the Norwegian browser company, are perhaps the Apple of the browser market, always “thinking different”. Their new technology released on 16 June, called Opera Unite, has audaciously been dubbed as Web 5.0 by the CEO. But on taking it out for a spin, the smirks and raised eyebrows dry up. Opera Unite is a […]
The time has come…
…for the The Timeless Land After months of blood, sweat and toil, The Timeless Land‘s cover has been finalized and it looks like we’ll be rolling out soon. Just to recap — yes, it has been a long time and you’re forgiven for having forgotten — the Shadow in Eternity series consists of: Book 1: […]
Keeping mum
The hypocrisy of Mother’s Day Mother’s Day. Yet another largely Western concept conveniently commercialized and cleverly hijacked into the calendar. And funnily enough, this is not something even the most rabid right-winger is going to object to. Because, after all, we are the epitome of the worship of mothers and motherhood. Right? Sadly, it couldn’t […]
Online SFF writers’ workshops
Latetly some of us have been struggling with our writing, short on both motivation and inspiration (rather, some of us are, while one particular other remains as prolific as ever!). Thanks to a fellow-writer Swapna Kishore, I was introduced to a new concept — online writers’ workshops. These are workshops in the sense that they […]
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Hey Kitty!
Some seriously freakish things have been happening to me lately — not the least of which is the complete disappearance of the post about my new Web template, Jan 004: Hey Kitty!. Anyway, to cut a long story short, this a new Web template for download, created in honour of a friend’s birthday. Download it […]
Phishing for a giggle
E-mail scams. We’ve all had them, and while I do not know anyone stupid enough to fall for one, it seems that scammers often end up raking in handsome rewards. All I can say is, people idiotic enough to fall for these deserve it. Take the latest one to make its way into my inbox. […]
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Free templates are back!
Jan 003 is a template that I have been working on for ages, and I finally got around to polishing and validating it, and making it ready for release. Jan 003 has been lovingly hand-coded and it has been tested on Firefox, Opera and Safari (on Mac OS), and IE8 and IE7 (on IE NetRenderer). […]