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Muggle Pensieve?

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:17:59 GMT

Are we close to a human Pensieve?

I would be glad if that turns out to be a reality :D

Mungaaru MaLe

Fri, 25 May 2007 17:26:13 GMT

The first (heavy) rains lashed Bangalore today and it took almost 2 hrs and 30 minutes for my Friday evening commute back home. Sometime back, I used to be at Home in Mysore on Fridays around the same time :-)

Found in RD

Tue, 01 May 2007 10:37:16 GMT

Yet another good quote from an old issue of Reader's Digest:

Life deals a pack of cards to everyone. For some it's a good hand but for some it's a not-so-good hand. For the not-so-good ones, what matters is how effectively you deal with the cards that you get.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:50:19 GMT

I would be pre-ordeing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows soon. A friend and me are checking out the various pre-ordering plans in Bangalore and find Strand to have better deals than Sapna and other places. If you know of any other better deals, please do leave a comment!

I am all excited now :-), July 21st is less than 100 days away now!

Tofu

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:05:50 GMT

Tried a tofu based dish in a local Chinese restaurant and it was not great. Know of any Thai/Chinese restaurant in Bangalore which serves good tofu stuff?

Indian Cricket

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:36:56 GMT

Demise of Indian Cricket is currently in progress in Trinidad!

Borrowed from airr

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:14:27 GMT

Create your own visitor map!

Greatest ODI game!

Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:35:00 GMT

I had the privilege and fortune of watching live on TV the chase part of the Greatest One Day International ever (at least for now ;-))!

Firefox Memory Usage ?

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 05:05:27 GMT

What is the amount of Memory being used up by your Firefox? Looks like on my computer, it is taking around 220M now! Don't remember Firefox being such a hog. Is it to do with 1.5 or some extensions I added of late?

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:58:10 GMT

Yet another meme on my blog :P. At this rate, I run a risk of having only memes on my blog ;-)

Koorakk..

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 03:45:49 GMT

Found this hilarious song from the yet to be released kannada movie Nenapirali. If you are from Mysore or have been in Mysore for some time, you are bound to enjoy this song :-).

Google Talk Hack #1

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 03:39:51 GMT

The first hack for Google Talk is available. Go figure it out for yourself here. :-)

Needless to say, I tried this with airr and I could hear music being played on his computer. :-)

Google Talk

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 03:51:29 GMT

Google's IM is now available. Yet another beta-ware from Google :-).

http://www.google.com/talk/

Sign in with your gmail accounts and add me up :-).

What is my world view? :P

Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:05:17 GMT

You scored as Romanticist. Romanticism encourages society to look backwards to find our solutions. Your rationale is that things were much better a few hundred years ago so we should thus look back to those times and replace them in our modern society. You believe in a simple life and that the complexities of the modern world have turned it upside down.

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Romanticist

63%

Cultural Creative

50%

Existentialist

50%

Idealist

44%

Modernist

44%

Materialist

38%

Postmodernist

31%

Fundamentalist

25%

What is Your World View? (updated)
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LOL! Had fun seeing the results :-)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Sun, 17 Jul 2005 02:56:32 GMT

Done reading the Half-Blood Prince now :-). Picked up the book yesterday and the first reading of the 607 pages was over by late evening. The book is sadder and darker than the previous ones. It does clear up a lot of things on alignment of people with the sides and a few things which were not all that clear in the previous books ;-). Adding anything more here might be a spoiler. So, now that the sixth book is done, any ideas when the seventh is going to be around?

MIT survey

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:47:57 GMT

In line with Revenge Of The Sith

Sat, 11 Jun 2005 08:49:12 GMT

You scored as R2-D2.

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R2-D2

69%

Clone Trooper

64%

Yoda

58%

Anakin Skywalker

56%

Obi Wan Kenobi

47%

C-3PO

47%

Darth Vader

42%

Chewbacca

39%

Emperor Palpatine

39%

Padme Amidala

36%

Mace Windu

31%

General Grievous

31%

Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you?
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Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:29:56 GMT

Pre-ordered Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince :-). A little more than a month to go!

Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:54:05 GMT

Test post using deepestsender.

More on GreaseMonkey

Wed, 18 May 2005 14:23:38 GMT

Grease Monkey scripts seem to do a lot more things than google customization as mentioned in my previous post. Check out here for a list of things it does.

Long live the fox! :-)

Customize Google

Mon, 16 May 2005 13:31:28 GMT

Discovered CustomizeGoogle of late. It does provide links to other sites carrying similar searches, remove ads in Google pages amongst other things. Does look pretty useful. Now for the prerequisites to customizegoogle: Firefox and Greasemonkey extension for Firefox :-)

Powers of Redirection

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:51:36 GMT

I was coding in vim today and had to figure out the number of occurrences of a pointer dereference in my C file. So while in vim, got into the ex mode and typed ! grep -c ptr-> myfile.c. The operation then did seem to take a bit longer than what was necessary. Only then I realised the gravity of my grep. Apart from not quoting the search patern and hence not providing any files for grep to look in, I also was redirecting the grep output to the same file I was editing ;-). From a different terminal, I did a ls -l and it promptly reported that size of myfile.c was 0 bytes.

By then I had terminated grep and vim was prompting me to reload contents of myfile.c since it had changed on disk. After a momentary panic, I wrote the contents of the buffer as myfile.c and hence could salvage all changes I had done since the last backup ;-).

I shudder to think of all the rework I had to do if I had launched grep from a different terminal :-)

Fri, 01 Apr 2005 04:01:06 GMT

Power Rangers Movie!

What movie Do you Belong in?(many different outcomes!)
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Bangalore

Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:01:41 GMT

Cry, my Beloved Bangalore!

The article contains a few interesting facts about Bangalore as well.

Live Ringtone?

Thu, 06 Jan 2005 13:54:09 GMT

A couple of days back, I thought I heard a strange ringtone. Looked around to see whose mobile was ringing. But could not locate the mobile phone in question.Moved out of my cube and there perched on the window sill of the office was a Mynah bird. Apparently, the Mynah's singing did sound like a ringtone to my ears ;p. *SIGH* .Has my life become so mechanical?