Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-06 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2006-07-06 19:41:14 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why a database? They are not as malleable as text. Huh? -- ams

Re: [silk] Hyderabad silkmeet in August?

2006-07-06 Thread ekta bahl
I would be game, provided I am in town. As things stand, I would be going to Bangalore that weekend.   How many silklisters in Hyderabad?  On 7/7/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No interest in a Hyderabad silkmeet in August?UdhayUdhay Shankar N wrote: [ on 11:08 AM 6/19/2006 ] >I'll

Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-06 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any thoughts? Bharath, I know you were playing with putting all > silk > > messages into a database - what is the current status of that? > > If only I could get my hands on those messages... I'll be happy to work something out. Mail me. Udhay -

Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-06 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Madhu M Kurup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Turns out I'm not good enough for Udhay ;) To amplify on the above crypticism: I'd asked Madhu, along with a couple of other silklister yahoos, to check on this random weirdness a few days back, when the archive had disappeared completely. I'm not sure

Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-06 Thread Madhu M Kurup
Heh: On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 19:41 -0700, Thaths wrote: > Can't our Silklist spies in Yahoo look into this? I recall mmk being > able to help me with some weird timezone problem I had back in 2002. > Turns out I'm not good enough for Udhay ;) Actually, I think this might be a good idea - not su

Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-06 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2006-07-07 07:38:39 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Any thoughts? Bharath, I know you were playing with putting all silk > messages into a database - what is the current status of that? If only I could get my hands on those messages... -- ams

Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-06 Thread Thaths
On 7/6/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So the silk archive at yahoogroups [1] is acting up. Earlier messages are randomly becoming inaccessible, as of a few days ago. The earliest message that can now be reached is #195, whereas yesterday it was #185, and a couple of days ago it wa

Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-06 Thread Biju Chacko
Hi, I've got some code specifically for mail indexing handy, so if some one can get me the archives I'll see what I can hack up. OTOH, there's always Zoe [1]. On the gripping hand, it might be more sensible to just generate an html archive and let google do the heavy lifting. -- b [1] http://

Re: [silk] Hyderabad silkmeet in August?

2006-07-06 Thread Udhay Shankar N
No interest in a Hyderabad silkmeet in August? Udhay Udhay Shankar N wrote: [ on 11:08 AM 6/19/2006 ] I'll be in Hyderabad (most probably staying with a silklister) during Aug 12-15th. Any interest in getting a meeting together during that time? Suggestions for place/time invited. -- ((Udhay

[silk] The Silk Archive

2006-07-06 Thread Udhay Shankar N
So the silk archive at yahoogroups [1] is acting up. Earlier messages are randomly becoming inaccessible, as of a few days ago. The earliest message that can now be reached is #195, whereas yesterday it was #185, and a couple of days ago it was #75. It is not clear to me what the logic behind t

[silk] What *I* feel, sometimes...

2006-07-06 Thread Deepa Mohan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1736485,00.html     ...of course it will probably turn out that Lucy Mangan is an interesting friend that King Vod has and she is a lurker on Silk...

Re: [silk] Men are the weaker sex

2006-07-06 Thread Thaths
On 7/6/06, Martin Senftleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/21/06, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While we are on the subject of pedantry The Lord's book is > > not really a book. I'm sorry I didn't follow that discussion, but reading this... 1. which Lord's book? 2. if the Christia

Re: [silk] URL of the day

2006-07-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:29:03PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > On 06-Jul-06, at 5:13 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > >>they.misled.us > > > >Why it is remarkable? A completely banal blog. > > the URL, not the content. Udhay is having a slow day, eh? I could use one right now. Piping hundreds d

Re: [silk] URL of the day

2006-07-06 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 06-Jul-06, at 5:13 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: they.misled.us Why it is remarkable? A completely banal blog. the URL, not the content.

Re: [silk] URL of the day

2006-07-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 04:16:15AM -0700, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > is, of course, a blog: > > they.misled.us Why it is remarkable? A completely banal blog. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11

Re: [silk] Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet

2006-07-06 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
correction - it should be "Science Fiction is the Only Literature People who are technically savvy enough to scan, break DRM, etc Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet". At 10:31 06/07/2006, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > My first column, "Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care > En

[silk] URL of the day

2006-07-06 Thread Udhay Shankar N
is, of course, a blog: they.misled.us Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] retirement home in India?

2006-07-06 Thread Ashok Hariharan
How about Goa? I saw some parts of Goa which werent developed for tourists and seemed pretty laidback and not so far from urban neccessities Many brits and germans have retirement homes in east africa, mostly along the coast or in the rift valley highlands...the biggest plus point is the t

Re: [silk] retirement home in India?

2006-07-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:42:53PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote: > You just described Bangalore...about 25 years ago (er, except for the > bandwidth > thing.). So you must retire in the past. No, you must find something which is sufficiently close to future-growth urban areas yet will not entomb you

Re: [silk] retirement home in India?

2006-07-06 Thread Deepa Mohan
You just described Bangalore...about 25 years ago (er, except for the bandwidth thing.). So you must retire in the past.   Get cracking on that time machine, we can all join you.   Deepa.  Ideally, I would want to retire to a place with decent bandwidth, acouple of hours from a domestic airport, a

[silk] Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet

2006-07-06 Thread Udhay Shankar N
> From: Cory Doctorow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 07:08:11 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm writing a six-times-a-year column for Locus Magazine, the > excellent trade magazine for the science fiction publishing industry. > > My first column, "Science Fiction is the Only

Re: [silk] Men are the weaker sex

2006-07-06 Thread Martin Senftleben
Am Donnerstag, 6. Juli 2006 08:45 schrieb Vinayak Hegde: > On 6/21/06, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the lord's book was written originally in Greek! > > > > While we are on the subject of pedantry The Lord's book is > > not really a book. I'm sorry I didn't follow that discussion, b