The Twilight Zone

ASUS Transformer : First Impressions

2011-09-15T21:06:00.002+05:30

This is the device I just got hold of, purchased from Flipkart for Rs. 29213 with the keyboard dock.

I am not an Apple hater : Although I prefer Android over iOS, I would say that the iPhone 4 has superior hardware to every other smartphone out there now. Also, I rather like their MacBook ranges.

But I think they have been comprehensively beaten in one product - the tablet. The EEEPad Transformer not only seems to offer a superior touch based interface than the iPad, it actually behaves close to how a PC should. Multitasking works smoothly - games keep downloading updates in the background while I switch over to a web browser, they don't remain in a "suspended" state. Authentic tabbed browsing is present out of the box. Further, the keyboard dock can be plugged in to make this truly like a netbook. The iPad is a cool toy, but this is a very usable casual computing device.

Film Review: The Social Network

2010-11-14T22:10:00.002+05:30

Verdict: Watch this movie.

Great quotes from "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga

2010-04-15T11:07:00.003+05:30

"Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, ‘’does’’ have entrepreneurs. Thousands and thousands of them. Especially in the field of technology. And these entrepreneurs—'we' entrepreneurs—have set up all these outsourcing companies that virtually run America now."

“Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love and devotion. These are the kinds of Gods they have foisted on us, Mr. Jiabao. Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India”

"Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open our skulls, look in with a penlight, and you'll find an odd museum of ideas: sentences of history or mathematics remembered from school textbooks (no boy remembers his schooling like the one who was taken out of school, let me assure you), sentences about politics read in a newspaper while waiting for someone to come to an office, triangles and pyramids seen on the torn pages of the old geometry textbooks which every tea shop in this country uses to wrap its snacks in, bits of All India Radio news bulletins, things that drop into your mind, like lizards from the ceiling, in the half hour before falling asleep--all these ideas, half formed and half digested and half correct, mix up with other half-cooked ideas in your head, and I guess these half-formed ideas bugger one another, and make more half-formed ideas, and this is what you act on and live with."

"The greatest thing to come out of this country in the ten thousand years of its history is the Rooster Coop."

"The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters, or entrepreneurs… The coop is guarded from the inside."

"Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India."

"This city (Bangalore) has its share of thugs and politicians. It's just that here, if a man wants to be good, he can be good. In Laxmangarh, he doesn't even have this choice. That is the difference between this India and that India: the choice."

CISCO

2009-11-14T19:15:00.002+05:30

I got into CISCO. Now I can't wait to get to their awesome campus. I'm really happy that the profile is Software Engineering, which is exactly what I wanted!

Unfortunately only two of us from DCE could make it. Here's to Nikhil, Vanky, Anoop, Sumat and many others who cleared the written and really deserved to be selected. Also a special mention to Uday and Utkarsh who, with their Networking knowledge and motivation really deserved this, and were unlucky in the written test.

Reliance Not-So-Fresh?

2009-10-27T14:42:00.003+05:30

Feel tempted by the 50% sale at your grocery store or local mall? Err... some caution is needed.

Check this post about a similar sale at a Reliance Fresh in Mumbai where expired/nearly expired products were sold under the guise of a discount. Hats off to Dinesh who stood up where most people would have let it go.

Best of all, he managed to force the manager to place this sign on the products :-

Stealing from the coffee machine

2009-07-23T19:54:00.005+05:30

How can you steal from a machine whose usage is anyway free? How indeed ... these pictures should tell the story.

We were fed up of the coffee or tea you can get from these machines. Frothy milk??? If I wanted froth I would just wash my mouth with soap.

Presenting ... the Coffee Day Express machine at Deloitte, Powai

The first step is to identify the milk container near the machine. Hint - its gonna be cylinderical.

Wait ... the actual first step is to ensure that no one is looking. Preferably have someone to stand guard.

Now you are free to steal the milk. Don't forget to steam it using the steam machine before use.

Add hot water and a tea bag or two (alternatively, espresso)

And .. its done!

Last.FM Album quilt

2009-04-07T19:42:00.002+05:30

Here is my Last.FM album quilt - a collage of my most-listened-to music albums.

Incidentally, in the recent weeks I recieved a rejection from every place I had applied to for a summer internship - Google, Opera, CMU, IIT-Delhi - the lot. Having reached the 3rd round of interviews with google (someone described it as the Angelina Jolie of tech companies), I guess it was too-close-but-still-too-far. Fortunately, it doesn't matter too much, as I have an intern offer from Deloitte, which will be a great opportunity. Plus, the interviews at Google were a great experience. A post about those will be coming soon.

Google ADvani

2009-02-22T10:42:00.002+05:30

"Advani for PM" is the graphical banner I see now on many Indian sites & forums. I suppose, if I had enabled graphics ads here rather than the square text box, it would have been on this blog as well.

While it is clear that he is trying to copy one of Obama's campaign strategies in the US (That is -- to use the Internet. Although, I don't think I saw google ads for Obama back then), I don't think it is clear whether it can succeed nearly as well, or even at all.

For one thing, Obama was a progressive candidate who could connect with the technology-savvy people of US, with his liberal and generally pro-science policies. Though I can't speak for everyone, it is rather easy to see Advani playing the dual game here -- ready to present different faces to the urban masses and to the orthodox "behind the scenes" agents of his party. Whatever it takes to get ahead, right?

And for another, how much does the internet really determine politics in India?

There is one thing though, although a larger fraction of the internet denizens in countries like US are liberal & progressive, almost the opposite is true in India. Either that, or the BJP/RSS supporters have a lot of free time. Browse through the comments on news sites or through forums to see that. Confusing.

Far Cry 2 grouches

2009-02-20T22:32:00.002+05:30

Within Far Cry 2 I have found some of the best FPS gaming moments in a long time, however I do wish this game had ironed out its defects and balanced the gameplay a bit more. This is what I wish had been different -

1. Make safehouse/bus stop one and the same thing, and disable other forms of saving the game. This would give a lot more meaning to capturing a safehouse, and avoid the frustrating travel between missions. The difficulty would be much better balanced as well. Reducing the number of checkpoints would help, too.
2. The quests should be about more than just killing people to get to an objective. This game deserves it! Give us more spy missions/missions based in the town involving NPC's. After a while, all the game missions started to get similiar.
3. Use the game vehicles and buddies. Allow us to have buddies who can drive/ride on the mounted weapon.
4. The map was frustrating. Can't there be a detailed map of the whole world rather than the area you are in?

This comes late, but I just installed FC2 again and was playing the earlier missions. This is one frustrating game that could have been great!

Ebay.in Voucher Madness

2009-01-22T20:40:00.003+05:30

I got a voucher in a mail from ebay.in .. which gives you a flat Rs 250 discount on any purchase you make. So you can order anything under Rs 250 for free. And the best part is, you can use the voucher once with every different account on ebay.

To use the voucher

1. Go to ebay.in
2. Find something which has a total cost (inc. shipping) or <= Rs 250
3. Go to "Pay using paisapay"
4. Enter the voucher ZEKK8DDZEJ

And you are done.

The validity is till 28th Jan.

Some other vouchers:

Rs.300 Off
Minimum purchase of Rs. 500
Voucher Code: 2KI9KBI3AY
Expiry 31st Jan 09

20% Off
Maximum Discount Rs.500
Voucher Code: A06LB0RN3M
valid till 31st Jan

If you read this post and bought something from ebay.in, please leave its link in the comments below.

Bournville Fine Dark Chocolate

2008-12-31T23:47:00.002+05:30

It is that time of the year again, when I can indulge my sweet tooth and blame it on the festive season.

Here is a short review of the Cadbury Bournville Dark Chocolate series, relaunched recently in India. Each 90g bar (80g for Rich Cocoa) is priced at Rs 75.

Bournville Rich Cocoa - OK this is the first one I tried. I found it a little too sweet for a plain bar of dark chocolate, but not bad altogether. Much better (if more expensive) than the previous bournville incarnation - 7.5/10

Bournville Almond - The almonds break the monotony, and hey, its still dark chocolate - 8/10

Bournville Resin & Nut - This was the suprise of the bunch. I don't like Resins, but this dark brown slab impressed me. There is something much stronger about this one than the other variants - 9/10

Oh, and a happy new year to all!

Airtel Prepaid - Mobile Office GPRS plan

2008-12-03T17:35:00.003+05:30

After switching to a new handset, I called the airtel customer care as the Airtel Live settings (which had been picked up automatically) didn't work with applications like Opera or GMail. I was told that Airtel Live didn't support third party applications. Funny that they worked fine with my previous phone.

Anyway, I was told that Airtel has a "Mobile Office" scheme for usage with third party apps, and surprisingly it didn't have a monthly rental (AFAIK, Mobile Office had been a Rs 199/month GRPS plan). The only charges seem to be Rs 0.3 / 50KB, which works out less than Airtel Live.

The activation steps are:

1. Dial *567*1# for activation.
2. Respond with "1" for Mobile Office.
3. Wait for the new settings to be received.

All is fine for now, with GMail and Opera running just fine. But what surprises me is - why does Airtel have two independent schemes for GPRS access, with one being clearly superior AND more economical. I'll update this post if any "hidden" charges come into play. If nothing like that shows up, I guess all Airtel Live users need to switch to Mobile Office.

HTC Dream - And the Google Android G1

2008-10-31T12:59:00.003+05:30

The "Googlephone", or the T-Mobile G1 phone, based on the Google Android operating system is out. The hardware is manufactured by HTC, and the phone was known as the HTC Dream until it morphed into the Googlephone.

You can check a detailed review here. The phone costs $179 in the US with a 2-year T-mobile contract. HTC plans to bring the phone to India somewhere around December with a carrier contract, but the price is almost certain to be higher than that in the US.

The reviews are generally positive, with praise for the operating system mixed criticism for the few odd glitches and rough edges.

But after all, this is a Linux based smartphone, with an OS developed by Google, and houses all the features I would ever need. It doesn't need much more than that to become my dream phone! If by a rare chance HTC prices this phone well in India, I would certainly go for it.

Check this page for an online simulation of the phone.

USB AVR Programmer

2008-07-10T21:54:00.002+05:30

AVR Microcontrollers are a popular and powerful series of microcontrollers, and are cheap and easily available. I was looking for a USB based programmer for it, as my PC doesn't have serial or parallel ports. These are generally hard to find and expensive. Thankfully I got it from eXtreme Electronics, which had it for Rs. 350. It is also possible to make such a programmer yourself, but the extreme electronics one has the advantage of more reliable PCB & circuitry.

Link to product - http://shop.extremeelectronics.co.in/product_info.php?products_id=28

MIST : Online codebreaking

2008-02-06T12:15:00.000+05:30

Mist is an online code-breaking/treasure hunt game which is going to be launched as a part of TROIKA 08, the annual technical fest of Delhi College of Engineering. The aim of the event is to get ahead, armed with your creativity and resourcefulness. You may need to learn new skills or research some information to get ahead, but the event is not a GK quiz and no trivia knowledge would be expected from the participants.

We worked hard to make the event a reality and now that seems to be paying off with over 400 participants in the events 4th day :)

Do check it out at http://mist.dcetech.com

No one lives forever 2 without TnL

2007-09-17T22:51:00.000+05:30

Those of you lacking an ATI/nVidia graphics card probably lack support for Hardware Transform & Lighting. While these graphics cards are not meant for playing the latest and fanciest games, some old ones also throw a problem or two, and after eagerly getting my hands on No one lives forever 2, it refused to run out of the box. Thankfully utter disappointment can be avoided very simply - download this version 1.3 patch. The game will still be buggy though, and may crash at times, but something is better than nothing!

The game is good fun, though not as good as the original.

Ahead

2007-08-17T22:10:00.000+05:30

Saving youtube video's from cache

2007-06-22T16:34:00.000+05:30

Saving YouTube video's to your hard disc is not too difficult, you can use a firefox extension like VideoDownloader and a player like FLV Player or MPlayer to play the downloaded .flv files.

But on a low bandwidth connection, my interest was to save a video that you have just viewed in a browser window. I tried this on Firefox running under linux, but hopefully the method is similiar for other browsers and OS's.

Step 1: Identify the browser cache directory

Type about:cache in the address bar, and open the directory specified as "Cache Directory"

Step 2: Identify the video cache file

This can be tricky, but browse the above directory according the file modification date. The file you need should have some hexadecimal name (ex 55A2D2B9d01) and be of appropriate size (5-10 mb for most video's). Under linux, most file managers identify files based on metadata rather than extensions, so if FLV is a recognised type, your job is easy.

Step 3: Play the file

Rename it to .flv and use a media player like FLV Player or MPlayer

Unreal Tournament on Linux

2007-06-18T23:43:00.000+05:30

I wanted to have some 3D gaming goodness available when I am under linux, and Unreal Tournament seemed a good choice, especially as I had the GOTY CD lying about. But as I had it installed under windows, I didn't want to waste precious disk space by duplicating content, so I wanted to share the data content with my UT installation on the windows parition. So this is a brief guide which should (hopefully) help someone else with the same quest, and serve as a reminder to me when I need to attempt it again. This was performed on Ubuntu Edgy running on my laptop with Intel GMA 900 graphics.

First you need to set up 3D hardware acceleration for your graphics card. Intel graphics users have it easy, you need not do anything. Although UT under windows supports software rendering, I could not find the option for that here.

There are several installers available under linux for UT, and I have no idea which one will work best for you. Try them all is my only advise. I used ut-install-436-goty.run available here.

Some other installers are available here and here.

Make the downloaded file executable, and launch it as root user (sudo ./filename with ubuntu).

The first two files I linked to allow installation of only the game engine, which is what I needed. Uncheck the "data files" option for that.

Now, we need to link the windows data files, I used this guide for that. Use these commands -

for i in Cache Logs Music Textures Help Maps Sounds Web;\ do ln -s /path/to/windows/ut"$i" /usr/local/games/ut/"$i";\ done

cd /path/to/windows/ut/System for i in $(ls *.u *.int *.ini *.dll);\ do ln -s /path/to/windows/ut/System/"$i" /usr/local/games/ut/System/"$i";\ done

Then run "ut" to start the game. If you get a "dirname: missing operand" error, run this command

export UT_DATA_PATH=/usr/local/games/ut/System/

Replacing the path with the one appropriate for your system.

Ericsson update

2007-05-29T18:51:00.000+05:30

define:geek

A person who can find enjoyment in the minor version update of a software he/she rarely uses.

That's one definition, and not altogether bad, not bad at all.

So I set out to update the firmware in my mobile phone, a Sony Ericsson K320i. There was no particular reason to do this, actually.

The update service software was a 20-odd MB file, and somewhat surprisingly the download link in my phone's support page was defunct. Anyway, I grabbed the file from the K750i's download page. An error popped up immediately after starting the application, though. A message asking me to update to the latest macromedia version from www.macromedia.com

This left me a little clueless, macromedia makes a lot of software. Anyway, on updating my Adobe Flash Player for IE to 9.0, the bugger ran. After an impressive animated show, firmware started streaming in from the internet. (I still do not understand why all these instructions require removing and replacing the phone battery). Start the phone again to get an error (hurray). Surprisingly the phone wasn't wrecked, it worked and (guess) the phone information shows a new version number.

Man and Superman

2007-05-24T21:19:00.000+05:30

Even Don Juan in Hell is the middle section of Bernard Shaw's play. This will annoyingly be the same.

Exams were over ... yesterday.

Before - Numerical oriented and no chemistry. I will do well.
After - While nothing went wrong, nothing was too great. With no major regrets, its time to move on, to more meaningful things. Yeah right.

But what annoys me is that I am becoming bitter about myself as well. I am not being myself. There was a time when a fictitious personal superman was what I strove to be, but its time to let go and be myself.

After all, its man who always wins. Ask GB Shaw.

Welcome greyworld2

2007-04-21T22:34:00.000+05:30

It is a testimonial to the geek in me, that formatting a partition is like saying good-bye to an old friend. This particular partition was set up just a little more than an year back, when I switched from Slackware to Arch Linux 0.7.1 noodle. So it had the memories of an eventful year, from the projects/programs which were made in the last days of the 12th standard, to the collecting PDF sample papers of entrance exams, to regular geeky stuff like tutorials, crazy hacks suggested by forum users, custom built packages of unknown software etc...

(I have had it with ext3. Twice I have seen an ext3 partition corrupt itself without the slightest provocation. This time I am going with jfs, just as my instincts told me when I first tried linux.)

I normally change the hostname of my machine each time I install a new OS, but this time the old hostname will live through. Goodbye greyworld, welcome greyworld2.

Blur

2007-04-18T19:20:00.000+05:30

I hate to be disorganised and forgetful, which is rather strange because I am always so. Being a little laid back, the consequences of my mistakes don't bother me so much, but it is terrible when it causes loss to a friend...

I need to be more focused and organised.

Day of the underdogs

2007-03-19T14:07:00.000+05:30

That was day before yesterday.. when Bangladesh and Ireland defeated India and Pakistan (respectively) in the Cricket World Cup 07. I missed the Ireland match but I must say Bangladesh batted, bowled and fielded excellently. It would be interesting to see where these two teams go in this world cup.

Its nice to be an underdog, especially 'cos winning as one is just about the best feeling you can get.

DIY Brain Surgery

2007-03-10T14:44:00.000+05:30

Life is strange and interesting. I guess that is the thought one can take comfort in if everything else gets screwed up.

Welcome to the windy city, where d'you wanno go and what you gonna do?

When I was so much younger (ok, maybe an year back), before getting admitted into a good college, before the tension of board and entrance exams were long past, things seemed more carefree and happy-go-lucky than today. For some reason I felt reasonably sure that I would do well in life.

What am I looking for now?

Short term success? As in decent examination marks, doing well in college festival competitions, sports etc. I suppose so, yes. I would certainly be happy to meet some of these aims.

Long term success? What do I really want to do? Artificial intelligence? Something useful in computers? Physics? Mathematics? Deep down I just want to live comfortably and be respected, and more importantly be able to respect myself.

Love? Someone said,

Love is ego

Maybe I just want an ego boost.

My interests, activities, hobbies are developing. For better or worse, I cannot say. No longer do they completely revolve around computers (did I make a conscious effort towards this, I wonder), and going from GTK 2.10.1 to 2.10.2 does not hold the same thrill. I am taking a little more pleasure these days in sports, music and spending time with friends. Would this ever mean that I sacrifice my career to a lack of monomania?

Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

Y'know I have some faults (that reminds me to dedicate a post to lethargy) and one thing is that I do care about what other people think about me. Not just my good friends, but even anonymous internet users like you. Thats why I took a little trouble with the italics (hehe).

Portland, troika and NPL

2007-02-14T17:56:00.000+05:30

The portland project is quite promising, I really hope it is developed and used widely. I hope there would be something related to that in Google's summer of code.

Next week is festival week in our (and probably many other) colleges. Atleast five or six different tech/cultural fests will take place simultaneously. Troika seems the most interesting, and I have hopes on the AI bot programming event.

Tomorrow we head towards the national physical laboratory to present our progress on the project. Our small project will seem odd among the bigger and more impressive sounding one's around us.

New days

2007-01-11T22:20:00.000+05:30

Eh the second semester started a few days back. Uptil now everyday has been a confusing experience, with no one being sure about which class they belong to, or what the timetable is. With many classes not held there was plenty of free time.

For some inexplicable reason, the all powerful adminstrators decided to divide us into seperate classes based on the rank and category in the CEE entrance exam. This meant that most of the students from the delhi general category would be in one class, with the others in another. So for the first two days we went according to this weird division, until they finally decided to regroup students, this time in alphabetical order.

So I head towards college tomorrow with no idea about which class I am in or which timetable I shall follow. Expecting the unexpected, just as I like it. Anyway, I am happy that the adminstrators finally came to their senses, even though the new arrangement sends a few more of my existing friends to a seperate class,

Might I add a few words about the new courses ... things seem a huge improvement over the first semester, with physics courses forming the bulk, along with maths and programming. But the programming course, which I looked forward to, seems completely useless and boring. I have pride in my analytical and algorithmic skills, and I hope something happens soon to boost my self confidence in that.

Gaming on a budget laptop

2006-12-29T18:12:00.000+05:30

A few months ago I purchased an Acer Travelmate 2424 laptop. The basic deal was an Intel Celeron M 1.6 GHz processor, 512MB RAM and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 for about Rs. 32000.

Now laptops like this, and especially those equipped with intel integrated graphics are not great platforms to run all the latest games, and it wouldn't be fair to expect the hardware demanding games of 2006 to be playable on them. But at the same time the capabilities of the intel GMA 900 turned out a little better than I expected and certainly not as bad as people make it out to be.

Old games like Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament, No one lives forever and Max Payne run fine at maximum graphical settings, but this is no surprise. Games based on the quake or unreal engines, like Jedi Academy, Call of Duty, Medal of Honour, XIII, Deus Ex are fine as well, as are nearly all of the pre-2004 games.

Coming to slightly newer games, Max Payne 2, Need for speed underground 2, Age of empires III, Rome: Total War, SWAT 4 are a few which I can testify to be reliable on this system. Halo runs as well, with low-medium detail settings (I had some fun with the halo multiplayer demo).

Far cry was another modern game I tried on the system. As it represented quite a step ahead in graphics quality (and hardware requirements) I did not have much hope for it but it was playable at the lowest detail settings (and didn't look too bad). I will try Half-Life 2 as well to see if it has a more acceptable performance on lower end systems.

There were some games which would not run at all on the laptop because of the lack of hardware transform and lighting capabilities on the intel GMA 900. No one lives forever 2 is an example of this, but it ran quite well with software TnL emulation using a software called 3D Analyze (although the latest version of the software did not work with the game for some reason, and the game would crash if some graphical details were turned on).

So while budget laptops and intel graphics are not enough for people who wish to play very recent games, or use high graphical settings, but they are quite enough for casual gamers like me.

Fête

2006-12-10T20:18:00.000+05:30

I went to my school's (former school, now that I am in college) fête today. Being lazy (see previous post) I was reluctant to get up and leave the house, but I am quite glad I did.

Not that there was much to do, but it was good to see many familiar faces. We didn't take part in any of the games, but ate some Pao-bhaji, talked to teachers and old friends, saw the school and returned.

The semantic me

2006-12-09T22:33:00.000+05:30

I am a decent, nice, rational and logical sort of chap. But I do put off work a lot.

Certainly there would be very few people who are lazy than me, and that is something I hope to correct. Now take this project I am working on. There is a need for lot more work if we have to get anything done. I suppose I should really try to sit down and work in an organised manner.

But that also reminds me of what I ponder over a lot. I am doing a computer engineering degree, and certainly the job I end up in will involve a lot of programming. I enjoy most of programming, but then there is programming and there is programming.

I like working and creating systems, keeping flexibility, efficiency et all in mind. I dont like programming where the emphasis is on learning a hell of a lot of syntax and creating restrictive code without the freedom to customise the logical structure of the program. I think I would enjoy working on artifical intelligence, network protocals, compilers, and operating systems.

The project I am involved in involves web (perl/javascript) programming, and while I appreciate the utility, I dont enjoy such programming much. I like the concept of a semantic web a lot, but I would enjoy creating such standards more than working with them (hehe). Maybe my view will change when I gain comfort with all the new syntax.

I also should find something real to do these holidays. Electronics, football ... ah for laziness.

The switcheroo

2006-11-11T12:39:00.000+05:30

Well I switched to Blogger Beta for this blog. (Not that there is any point in that, but I am bored and I like new things).

Why are google services like Blogger and Orkut so loosely integrated with one's google account? I have a seperate blogger username which is linked to my google account which is linked to ... anyway I hope things change later.

I am spending my time on this saturday morning updating and fixing my Arch Linux box. Xfce-svn needs fixing (I love Xfce) and Opera needs updating (I love Opera). There are about 130MB of updates in queue but I have only 2.4MB free disk space ... oh boy. I need to switch a lot of stuff from this hard drive to the other, a switcheroo which would actually make sense.

Anthill

2006-10-14T22:27:00.000+05:30

My brain is an Anthill.

If you liked that, read "Godel, Escher, Bach" as well. It is one of the best collection of words and pictures you can get hold of.

End of the middle

2006-09-23T09:48:00.000+05:30

Mid semester exams are over. Finally. Except for Manufacturing Process, all went fairly okayish. Now I really need to buck up and start organising my life. Too much time is just getting wasted, with nothing either interesting or productive to fill it.

To Do

2006-09-14T16:05:00.000+05:30

I need to find something interesting and possibly useful to do in my free time. What?

Generic introduction

2006-09-13T09:45:00.000+05:30

This is my blog and I shall post any random thought here. What a novel idea :(