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Re: How to brew tea (Earl Grey) - The English Way

shiva — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:45:39 -0000

I like the Bergamot flavour. I have think adding milk brings it out a bit more. Maybe it is popular becoz the strong flavour can mask a bad quality tea.

http://www.syl.com/travel/earlgreyteathemostpop...

Re: How to brew tea (Earl Grey) - The English Way

How To Make A Cup Of Tea — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:32:29 -0000

Hmm, seems simple enough. One question though: Why do you think Earl Grey is so popular?

:)

Re: I recommend drinking Vin Chaude when you’re in Strasbourg, France

shiva — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:35:23 -0000

ooohh!! More places to visit when I backpack in france! (I've been promising myself that for a while now).

and I hit myself in the head for writing the "vin chaude", when it is clearly masculine (and all I had to do was look at the picture ... grrrr...)

Re: I recommend drinking Vin Chaude when you’re in Strasbourg, France

simon — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:23:12 -0000

Go to La Clusaz, France. This is a small and traditionally typical ski village in the Alps just above Annecy in Haute Savoie. I actually lived there. Every Friday, the town would ring the church bells and have "vin chaud" free! (masculin, le vin est chaud) Of course, it was to welcome the new wave of vacationers, but they didn't stop anyone living in the town partaking. Wearing traditional alpine garb, they'd ladle it out of these huge caldrons, and have a couple of cows present for ambience. Market day was great too. Why did I ever move?

Re: IPOD touch: Downgrade from 1.1.3 to 1.1.1

shiva — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:56:08 -0000

:). Didn't notice it until I read your comment. Looks like they got shut down. Their domain is now for sale for $5000!

Re: IPOD touch: Downgrade from 1.1.3 to 1.1.1

slotsonline — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:02:48 -0000

Interesting.. heck of a name for a program tho. LOL

Re: Tandoori spiced fish with cucumber

shiva — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:56:04 -0000

Tilapia is a very delicate fish. Personally, I would not use a very strong curry with it, since it would really just overpower the flavour of the fish.

This recipe will work with the more meaty fish, like cod, halibut, etc. I do a lemon based fried tilapia. Will try and upload pictures one of these days.

Re: Tandoori spiced fish with cucumber

shiva — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:51:36 -0000

Thanks and it was quite yummy.

Re: Tandoori spiced fish with cucumber

tilapia recipe — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:13:05 -0000

im second but i prefer tilapia instead, tasty fish

Re: Tandoori spiced fish with cucumber

Landlord Building Insurance — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:12:23 -0000

first comment.. this looks delicious

Re: The devil is in the why?

Koushik — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:08:56 -0000

couldn't agree more. its the non functional requirements that dictate whats the right approach

cheers,
koushik

Re: Unix: removing duplicates from a file

Jadu Saikia — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:25:34 -0000

Shiv, nice blog; landed to this page via stackoverflow.

In order to keep the same order of a file after removing duplicates, I have post a post,

http://unstableme.blogspot.com/2008/03/remove-d...

Thnaks.

Re: Little masters

shiva — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:30:32 -0000

I just sent you an email from my personal email account

Re: Little masters

Trudy Ann — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:24:51 -0000

Hi Shiva,

Is there an email address that I can reach you at and I can give you more info about their gigs. You can also find their events at
http://www.myspace.com/mrmandtheallnighters
My 12 year old unfortunately cannot play at the pubs.

Re: Little masters

shiva — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:30:56 -0000

Yeah I heard them play for a few minutes and from what I could judge, there were very good. Unfortunately I couldn't make it there today, as I'm leaving the country this weekend and have things to get done!

Keep me posted on when/where they're playing again, and I'll get my SLR to take better pictures next time! :)

Re: Little masters

Trudy Ann — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:23:53 -0000

These three musicians are absolutely awesome! The little one in the middle is my older son and thanks for that plug about their gig tonight. I hope people come seeing as the roads are not the best!

See you around.

Re: How I handle the 1000+ emails and 300+ blog posts a day

shiva — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:32:01 -0000

Yes really. I work in a software company. Do you realize how many bug reports I get?! :) I usually get around 40 to 50 personal mails (subscriptions, comments, friendfeed etc). Ofcourse, the 1000 is a little of an exaggeration.

In case the sarcasm was unclear, I have added note to the article to this regard.

Re: How I handle the 1000+ emails and 300+ blog posts a day

Aswin Anand — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:42:05 -0000

1000 emails day??? :) really???

Re: Bike ride -Chennai-Pondy

shiva — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:48:40 -0000

wtf?

Re: Bike ride -Chennai-Pondy

m.sridhar — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:31:40 -0000

how became a bike rider give repay

Re: In the browser lies the power - Wave 2 of the Google takeover

shiva — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:21:43 -0000

hmmm... thanks

Re: In the browser lies the power - Wave 2 of the Google takeover

Ashish — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:31:29 -0000

how about shivanand "done sweat the first or the last name" Velumugan :)! ahahaha!
nice blogs buddy

Re: In the browser lies the power - Wave 2 of the Google takeover

shiva — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:04:43 -0000

Well, I wouldn't go that far. I don't think google really does much with humanized thinking (the new avatar of AI). They just process lots of data. Again, even their ranking algorithm requires secrecy for ensuring proper functioning.

As you said, we are still far far away from modeling the human brain, but there are companies out there working on it.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19767/

Once we can truly map the brain, the neural synapses and the neurons, and once we have quantum level computing capabilities, then we will be able to model the brain. I diverge, so I will stop now. :)

Re: In the browser lies the power - Wave 2 of the Google takeover

shiva — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:00:31 -0000

True. I shouldn't have said unique, since most features are lifted off other browsers.

Re: In the browser lies the power - Wave 2 of the Google takeover

krishank — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:51:50 -0000

In my mind, google, internet, and hyper-links are the closest that the external world has come to represent the human mind (still far far from it)