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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.

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"When we were building the tablet PC in 2001, the vice president in charge of Office at the time decided he didn’t like the concept. The tablet required a stylus, and he much preferred keyboards to pens and thought our efforts doomed. To guarantee they were, he refused to modify the popular Office applications to work properly with the tablet. So if you wanted to enter a number into a spreadsheet or correct a word in an e-mail message, you had to write it in a special pop-up box, which then transferred the information to Office. Annoying, clumsy and slow."

Dick Brass [Microsoft’s Creative Destruction]

Why Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, has failed to bring us the future.

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0 comments link The Problem With Music

Old article from the early 90’s about labels screwing over musicians. But still a good read. Written by Steve Albini, best known as the producer of Nirvana’s “In Utero”.

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0 comments link The War on Sharing: Why the FSF Cares About RIAA Lawsuits | TorrentFreak

Very good read.

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