Reconfigure

Asher Sterkin and blosxom

Been to a small presentation by Asher Sterkin today morning. Looks like the last month has been the teach-anil-month for everything around teach me about avoiding un-necessary detail. I've not been a good teacher at all. I remember my sister yawning when my teaching 'sessions' reach their full swing. Many of my friends also follow the same pattern. My managers and peers start looking elsewhere (probably trying to avoid yawn and related insult they believe they might be bestowing me with).

Time to set things right on that front I guess. Asher Sterkin (Principal Engineer of NDS Israel) reminded me about importance of reducing clutter (in short). Also that people start doing yawning and other funny things when their brains are to simultaneously comprehend 9 or more stimulii (or more technically: thingies).

Two nice references that Mr Sterkin suggested are:

• The structure of 'THE' multiprogramming system (Dijkstra)
• Science and Sanity (Korzybski)

Yesterday I decided to fix the comments and archive viewing facility for this blog. I setup the writeback plugins (now you are actually free to express your disgust on having come here). The plugin is a quite simple perl program just like the blosxom.cgi (the main script thingy). Infact its so simple that I was scared to put it in. It has some filtering to remove html tags (so no '<' and '>'). However I had to tweak it to make it not accept empty name and comment body.

The hcoop look episode appears to have gotten some attention. But still lot of things are to be answered; like:

The general policy regarding the use of images. Can they be high ? Should we have the gnu.org and other simplistic styles (I love them) or some of those multi billion dollar corporate portals (with one image for every thumb sized area of their screen).

The logo colors need adjustment. The primary colors were not exactly things that you can build themes on.