Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

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Reading

28 Jul 2010, 16:31 p.m.

Method Of Loci

I sit in my father's old office, in the chair his typist used when he came every morning to take dictation (memoirs, articles, essays, books, email, whatever struck my father's fancy. We kept telling him …

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28 Jul 2010, 6:00 a.m.

From My Father's Library

20th Century Kannada Poetry (Selections)Edited & Translated by Sumatheendra Nadig1983M. Gopalakrishna Adiga"A Common Man"p.59 How dare you call me Common Man; Your dadis common, in the company of my fatheryour grandfather and your great grandfather …

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16 Jul 2010, 11:14 a.m.

(I Say, While Reading About Zombies)

Last night I was told that if you read Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France side by side with Paine's Rights of Man you get two different perspectives on the French Revolution and it's …

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30 Jun 2010, 13:23 p.m.

Foo Camp, Generosity, and Surrender

A few Foo Camp-related notes and links. Leigh suggests this Twitter search should you like to look through that particular collective stream of consciousness. (Cuttingly funny link I found via that search: It Must Be …

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14 May 2010, 10:40 a.m.

Catabacklog

I am homesick. In other news, I seem to have read several books and not mentioned them here. No longer! Ursula Nordstrom's letters (Dear Genius). Blew my mind every twenty pages as I started thinking …

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26 Apr 2010, 19:25 p.m.

Thoughtcrime Experiments, One Year Later

Today is the one-year anniversary of Thoughtcrime Experiments, the free scifi/fantasy anthology Leonard and I edited last year. Thoughtcrime Experiments got a bit of recognition in the form of award nominations. We made the British …

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31 Mar 2010, 1:41 a.m.

GNOME Video Site, Mysterious Bugzilla Upgrade Patron, Mallard, Acire/Quickly, An Interview & A Goodbye

I'm an editor and the release coordinator for GNOME Journal, which just released its 19th issue. This issue has six articles: Will Kahn-Greene introduces the GNOME Miro community, a website that brings GNOME-related videos to …

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26 Mar 2010, 2:55 a.m.

Gussied-Up Link Blogging

I am accumulating draft posts as I focus my days on GNOME Journal work, errands, and preparing for conferences and other appearances. So, very little blogging; even my Ada Lovelace Day post will be days …

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14 Mar 2010, 22:18 p.m.

Web

About eleven years ago, I saw a link from Slashdot to a geek humor site called Segfault. I started reading it, then started reading the homepage of one of the editors. Leonard Richardson. He posted …

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12 Mar 2010, 10:52 a.m.

Fanfic Recommendations

Some fics I've liked: Erin Ptah's Colbert Report archive includes "The Thing With Feathers", the fifth time Jon terrified Stephen, and "In Time". "Theories About Nuclear Winter" by hollycomb (continued in Part II), the best …

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