Nirav Mehta on life, technology and future
June 26th, 2006 — Personal
I have been away from this blog for a while now. Work is high, and well, travel too has been high these days. Got back from a family vacation to Goa this morning. It was an amazing experience. Lot of adventures, different modes of travel, interesting people, beautiful nature, and fun loving family! It was truly memorable.
I would love to go to Goa again!
June 21st, 2006 — Apple
Alright, so I’ve got my new MacBook. 13″, 2Ghz, 2GB RAM, 100GB HDD and the works.
Now I want to tripple boot it. But looking at some of the articles, the partitioning part looks the most important (and complicated). So I am holding onto doing the installation today. Let me prepare for it and then do the install.
In the meanwhile, a few resources:
June 9th, 2006 — Flex & Flash, Recommended Reading
Harshad sent this animation. It’s hilarious, and the idea behind it is superb. Must see - especially if you have ever done any animations in Flash.
June 7th, 2006 — Business, Recommended Reading
Read the interview of Tim O’Reilly’s interview on Adobe Edge newsletter.
Excerpted:
Edge: Looking toward the future, what advice do you have for web developers to stay ahead of the curve?
Tim O’Reilly: The first thing I’d say: Developers need to be agile. What we’re seeing on the cutting edge of application development is that people are getting very comfortable with running and gunning and writing applications quickly. Look at Cal Henderson and Flickr. He was pushing a new build out on the Internet every 30 minutes. Corporate IT development shops needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
The whole interview is very interesting. And I believe being able to put things together quickly is going to be a big challenge for software developers!
June 1st, 2006 — Apple
Proves that I am a geek!
I wanted to buy a MacBook with Intel Core Duo because it would let me run OSX, XP and Linux all from one laptop. I am now waiting for it to arrive somewhere around the middle of the June. And I talk to a client yesterday, and he started about his MacBook and how he wants to have the three OSes on it. Then I bump into some other posts where people want to do the same.
Geeks will be geeks!
And btw, if you got bored of working on the three OSes you installed, you could turn into Jedi Knight. All you need to do, is to install MacSaber and to swing around your MacBook. It now works with PowerBooks and iBooks too!
The software works on the sudden motion sensor of the MacBook and is a good entertainment value! Don’t blame me if you slip the book when you are swinging it around. Or if your hard disk fries in the process.
If you still want to try more after that disclaimer, you might want to try out playing Neverball with your PowerBook.
On the death of the laptops, our beloved PowerBook died mysteriously last week. It could not detect the hard disk for some reason, tried a lot but could not. Sent to the Apple repair center and they reported the logic board was dead. Though I suspect they fried it while testing a new harddisk. Bad luck!
