Earlier this week, I had been to my grandma’s place to celebrate Diwali. There, my young nephew was roaming in the hall repeating the names of everyone present. Suddenly he said something which made me smile. He pointed to a photograph in the  showcase and called out a name aloud.  “Doni mamama”, he said. The [...]

Finished solving Klueless4 this morning. What started as a time-pass activity this Thursday evening when cheezo announced it on one of the office IRC channels, culminated today morning with the crossing of the last level. I got stuck at five or six places and KCG helped me move on in the right direction.
And here’s how [...]

Quick Takes (Style shamelessly borrowed from KCG’s blog)

Cricket: India comprehensively defeated Australia in the 2nd Test!
IEEE tutorial session on GNU/Linux Kernel Programming held during the last weekend went well. Though I had to wrap up the session on synchronization primitives in just 20 minutes!
Visible progress in my SOP.
New home rocks. Calm, Peaceful, and AWESOME!
Klueless4 is [...]

I have a huge backlog of books to be read before this calender year ends. And I don’t think I can meet my expectations.

Mahabharata - C Rajagopalachari.
Great Indian Novel - Shashi Tharoor.
The White Tiger - Arvind Adiga

I am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter
Tamil Pulp Fiction.
Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled [...]

I took the TOEFL test as a part of my university application process.
Met a couple of old friends who also took the test today.
I found the test quite easy, and finished it way ahead of time.
This was good, considering the fact that I hadn’t put in any effort. Oh, except for the last minute speaking [...]

So, I finally have all things at one place. My website, my Blog and all my blog posts. I must thank Sathya for the inspiration to undertake this fun task.
So, how does just about anybody go about buying some domain space, getting a shiny new domain name, then creating wordpress blog and finally migrating stuff [...]

I bought myself some web-space at http://nearlyfreespeech.net. It’s one of those sites, where you pay as you use.
They provide ssh access along with the usual ftp. And they support RSync. So pretty much what I needed for hosting my minimalistic site.
However, they run FreeBSD and not Linux (/me hides from theG). I wonder if [...]

I am in the process of applying to universities, like I mentioned in one of my earlier posts.
Thus, earlier this week, it suddenly struck me that I didn’t have a Resume. So far I have had to prepare a Resume only once, and that was when I interviewed for the IBM Extreme Blue Internship. And [...]