The Advisory Boar

By Abhijit Menon-Sen <>

Ammu embroidered a kitchen towel

We bought dark kitchen towels to wipe our iron woks, which tend to leave rust-coloured stains—at least temporarily. But Ammu got her hands on one of them, and made it much too pretty to wipe anything with.

Photograph of embroidered kitchen towel

Debian vs. WordPress+Minamaze

On the twelfth day after christmas, my true love said to me, “This wordpress theme won't let me save any customisations. Can you take a look at it?”

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Rock paintings at Lakhudiyar

We visited Lakhudiyar in Uttarakhand to see cave paintings that look like they were made by a bored schoolboy waiting for a bus home.

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Debian 8 on the Intel NUC5PPYH

Hassath's birthday present this year was an Intel NUC5PPYH (with 8GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250GB SSD) to stand in at home for her ageing Thinkpad X131E. It works fine with Debian 8.

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Malicious pollution reports

Prakash Javadekar, Minister for Environment, springs to the defence of the nation against malicious reports that suggest that air pollution in Delhi reduces life expectancy.

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One month after demonetisation

A little over a month ago, our Glorious Leader eliminated corruption, black money, terrorism, and poor people in one bold and innovative move

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123-Reg sabotaged my domain transfer to Namecheap

I tried to transfer a domain from 123-Reg to Namecheap, but 123-Reg transferred it to another registrar owned by its parent company and forced me to pay for renewal.

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Decathlon.in: terms of disservice

Decathlon's web site has a stupidly-written ToS, and they apparently don't know how to delete a user's account on request.

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Using eBird in 2016

Make eBird your New Year's Resolution for 2016!”, they said, with a picture of a Steller's Sea Eagle that looked like it meant business. So I did.

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Debian 8 on the Lenovo Ideapad S206

The Linux Laptop Wiki has a page about the Lenovo Ideapad S206; the quick summary is that everything works with only a little tweaking.

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