February 2012
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January 2012
6 posts
The copyright industry lobby is actively trying to hide egregious crimes against...
– The Copyright Lobby Absolutely Loves Child Pornography | TorrentFreak
December 2011
7 posts
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
4 posts
September 2011
2 posts
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
4 posts
May 2011
10 posts
Last year when my parents visited me from India, they brought along some of my old photos. The other day I got a chance to scan some of them. I started by scanning some school photos. I went to Cambridge School in New Delhi and we used to get a class photo taken towards the end of each school year. Here are three of those photos from my early days there. The link above each photo will take you to...
Just Works
Last night I connected a brand new MacBook Pro to the latest Time Machine backup of my (now) old MacBook Pro. A few mouse clicks later I started the restore process and left the machine alone. Some hours later, the restore was complete. I had a perfect replica of my old laptop, up to date. I was amazed. I’ve used Macs for many years and like them for several reasons but this just blew me...
April 2011
11 posts
Amazon Kindle
A couple of weeks ago I found myself at Powell’s Books on a Saturday morning after being awake all night cheering India to victory in the 2011 Cricket World Cup. While at Powell’s I found the books that brought me there, but also decided on the spot to get a Kindle and to order the books on that. I’d been thinking of getting a Kindle for over a year and I had a feeling that it...
Reboot
Here’s another reboot of samgrover.com. It wasn’t much in the last iteration anyway. I’ve moved the older blog back to samgrover.wordpress.com. Eventually this and that may merge. Or not.
I’ve done this because I’m really not interested in maintaining a self hosted blog or website. I think the better solution for me is to host them elsewhere (on services that make...