Archive for October, 2009
Format:Text
The following is an essay I wrote elaborating upon the power of plain text as a digital medium. I love text based data formats; I work with plain text for nearly everything. I love working at a shell- GUIs frustrate me. I am not an authority on the subjects of GUIs and data [...]
October 17, 2009
• Tags: data formats, fringe-concerns, regexes, text • Posted in: Karthik's • 2 Comments
Classical Fun with Polarisation
Look what Dad brought back from his trip to Germany!
Apollo Optik. An expensive, and an unknown brand to me. But to my delight, I discovered that they were polarized!!
For the uninitiated, light is a self-propagating electromagnetic field disturbance. I’m tempted to call it sourceless, but fact is, that all light is generated by charges in [...]
October 4, 2009
• Tags: brewster, dipole, experiment, fields, light, polarization, radiation, waves • Posted in: Dileep's • No Comments