Category Archives: Life notes
JWST and the sorites paradox
Where does beauty end and ugliness begin? Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, ergodicity, James Webb Space Telescope, modus ponens, sorites paradox
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The Higgs boson and I
My first byline as a professional journalist (a.k.a. my first byline ever) was oddly for a tech story – about the advent of IPv6 internet addresses. I started writing it after 7 pm, had to wrap it up by 9 … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, Higgs boson, particle physics, science journalism
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Thoughts on the WordPress.com ‘Starter’ plan
WordPress.com announced a new ‘Starter’ plan for its users on May 25 after significant backlash from many members of its community of users that a previous price revision had completely disregarded the interests of bloggers – by which I mean … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, Dave Martin, Matt Mullenweg, WebP, WordPress.com
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10 years in journalism
Thinking about the number ’10’ is hard. It’s the number of years I will have soon been a journalist for (as will my ACJ batchmates). Why commemorate it? In this time, I’ve seen many of my colleagues and peers in … Continue reading
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Tagged commemoration, decimal system, journalism, timeous
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2.5 weeks since WP.com’s price revision
WordPress.com squandered the trust of bloggers it had accrued for almost a decade (approx. since the advent of their Calypso editor) with the decision to introduce the Pro plan the way it did. There were many proclamations – direct and … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, Dave Martin, Matt Mullenweg, Pro plan, WordPress.com
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What are you doing, WordPress.com?
Be sure to check out the update at the bottom. I recently wrote that I’ve stuck with WordPress.com for so long, for all its purported limitations, because its features fully suffice the committed blogger whose content is textual for the most part … Continue reading
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Tagged Automattic, blogging, full-site editing, Gutenberg, Matt Mullenweg, Pro plan, WordPress
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A nominal milestone
In 2018, I discovered that my blog posts since mid-2014 had taken on a somewhat different character than those before, becoming more critical and paralleling my increasing, and increasingly nagging, questions about what it means to be a journalist – … Continue reading
Reading books, writing words
It suddenly feels like a lot more people have been reading a lot more books. Or maybe they’re talking about it a lot more. I have one friend who went through more books in 2021 than there were weeks. And … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, reading books, writing stats
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Stream of nothing
I decided to go out this evening. First I went to Bookworm’s new setup on Church Street. There, I started skimming the shelves from the first one on the right, moving from right to left, front to back, room by … Continue reading
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Homo medicatis
With Covishield in my body, I feel like there is a capillary tube erupting from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and its panoply of attendant bodies vis-à-vis India’s COVID-19 response, soaring across the length of India and plunging … Continue reading
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Tagged biopolitics, COVID-19, Homo sacer, vaccinated
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