hello!

My name is Ramkumar Shankar and I love Sweden, my iPhone (but possibly considering the switch to Android), guitar, linux, open source, football, metal, and general geekery among other things...and in no particular order (except for Sweden at the top of the list). I also use some of that knowledge to pay my bills as a technology consultant.

This is my tumblelog, where I post original content as well as some of the good stuff I find around the net.

0 comments link Ubuntu dumps the brown, introduces new theme and branding

Very nice.
0 comments link Fold a T-Shirt in Two Seconds

I’m trying this next time.

#tips
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The Fatal Flaw With Google Buzz’s Edit Button [Gizmodo]

#comic #funny
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Swedish Binary (via fuckyeahcomputerscience)

#comic
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Text to receive the symptoms!

#funny #picture
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fuckyeahcomputerscience:

chachaholic:

i like coding in notepad++ too. but when im feeling geeky, i use vi =p
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A lesser-known genre of metal? Seen in a record store in Camden Town today.
0 comments link 10 Questions to Ask Your Mother Now
1. What’s the one thing you would have done differently as a mom?
2. Why did you choose to be with my father?
3. In what ways do you think I’m like you? And not like you?
4. Which one of us kids did you like the best?
5. Is there anything you have always wanted to tell me but never have?
6. Do you think it’s easier or harder to be a mother now than when you were raising our family?
7. Is there anything you regret not having asked your parents?
8. What’s the best thing I can do for you right now?
9. Is there anything that you wish had been different between us―or that you would still like to change?
10. When did you realize you were no longer a child?
#interesting #family
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"I’m a little worried about you, though. Your usual tactic is to simply copy the industrial design of the most successful product, reduce the price, then adopt a pump and dump strategy until your next quarterly financials. That’s fine in itself; that’s how business works. I just think you’re misinterpreting both why people are excited about the iPad (even if they don’t realise it), and what exactly you need to copy. I think you might be on a dead-end track without even realising it."

Matt Gemmell, on how to compete with iPad