RIP Steve

About a year ago I emailed Steve Jobs asking for Mac OS X Lion to be distributed on USB sticks so that MacBook Air owners, lacking a disc drive, could easily install it. He replied with a question: 'Why not electronic?'. Why not, indeed. As usual, Steve's mind was already 10 steps ahead; nine months later Lion was released electronically through the new Mac App Store.

http://www.ghalib.me/blog/rip-steveThu, 06 Oct 2011 04:08:14 GMTDisplay on the Inside of Cubicle Walls

For most technical jobs where the employees reside in cubicles, the sight of coworkers gathering in someone's cube to look at their screen is a common occurrence. But said screen is usually running at high-resolution, optimised for viewing by one person: the one sitting in front of it.

http://www.ghalib.me/blog/display-on-the-insideSat, 25 Dec 2010 22:44:18 GMTProbability Book Recommendation

I hope to resume blogging soon, but for now I wanted to briefly note that for those wanting to learn probability, I heartily recommend DeGroot and Schervish.

http://www.ghalib.me/blog/probability-book-recommendationSat, 25 Dec 2010 22:40:07 GMTPublishing Blog Posts from Emacs

As a learning exercise, I wrote Erblog (the software this site runs on) in Erlang as a Mochiweb app (one lesson I learned: CSS is annoying). This means I can make RPC's to the server from a remote Erlang node. Using Distel, this remote Erlang node can be an instance of Emacs. This is my setup.

http://www.ghalib.me/blog/publishing-blog-posts-fromWed, 15 Apr 2009 06:21:19 GMTAn Intro to Reverse Induction

Hello world. Welcome to my first blog post.

http://www.ghalib.me/blog/an-intro-to-reverseWed, 08 Apr 2009 03:22:27 GMT