Thar she flows!!!!

Oh it hurts so much … in India, we have been living under the looming spectre of oil prices. And right now, when Im staggering bewildered asto how it came to pass and trying unsuccessfully to supress my anguish at them oil kings, I came across this post which puts it all into some kind of perspective.

I follow advances in energy science with a keen interest and it seems to me that Johann has hit it right. Now is the time when you change all the bulbs in your house to CFL’s, switch off your idle TVs and for god’s sake get your Mad Max-ian car serviced.

Speaking of energy and the environment, how cool was it about that kid discovering a plastic eating microbe. Someone write up a business plan and make that boy rich – he freaking deserves it.

Best programming fonts

Over the past couple of days, I have been reading about decreasing eye strain by using better programming fonts and colors.

So, to help me with Visual Studio, I chose this style, which is visually quite similar to the Inkpot color scheme for my favorite editor (Vim) (BTW, here is a page full of comparisons for 256 color schemes for Vim – make sure you set set t_Co=256 ).

Then, after looking for some fonts (going through this discussion on 18pt programming fonts) I saw this – Profont, with a long story on why it is a good programming font.

So, Im using it for the time being, with the search being constantly on to find better fonts. There is a nice little article by Joel Spolsky on the difference in font-rendering philosophies between Apple and Microsoft (I had covered a key patent that Freetype on Linux had disabled by default).

P.S. for those in the Linux world, who want to use these fonts with Vim/Emacs, here’s a nice article on how to install fonts (with and without administrator priveleges). Use the ~/.fonts folder.