So, the great Indian Cricketing Circus called Indian Premier League, v2.0 is going to commence today. This time however, it has been outsourced to South-Africa, due to the National elections in India. Truly shows the how cricket has become globalized, since you could take the Indian Premier League out of India, but probably not vice-versa!
Though [...]

Yesterday while I was at my cousin’s place, I chanced upon to see this item in Deccan Herald, issue dated 27/03/2009.
Sripathi and I were classmates from 4th standard all the way upto 2nd PUC. But more than just classmates, we were fierce competitors and used to compete with each other especially in General Proficiency and [...]

I finished reading S.L.Bhyrappa’s AvaraNA yesterday. This is my first Kannada Novel. Yeah, despite being in Karnataka for almost a quarter century now,  I didn’t bother to check out the literature apart from whatever was being taught in the school. The last Kannada book I read was my 10th grade Kannada text book . [...]

Ever wondered why can’t we have a chat-bot that responds when we’re idling or away ?
Sathya tried this a couple of times while he “appeared” to be away on GTalk by responding something like “The recipient of your message is currently inactive”.
One could argue saying that the status should reflect what the person is doing. [...]

While working on idle power management, I used vaidy’s klog based patches to profile an idle system to obtain stats such as:
* The time when a cpu enters into the tickless idle mode
* The various interrupts that bring the cpu out of idle state.
* The timers that expire in this interval and cause a wake [...]

Raghu Dixit , the Album and the Artiste

The music of Black & White

Cul de Sac Comic Strip

Python Programming Language

Q: How many Lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Whereas the party of the first part, also known as “Lawyer”, and the
party of the second part, also known as “Light Bulb”, do hereby and forthwith
agree to a transaction wherein the party of the second part shall be removed
from the current position as [...]

Opening Mood: Lunch time!
Opening Song: None
For the past couple of days, I have been crazy about Ambigram. So much that I haven’t checked my mails nor have thought about some of the outstanding todo items in my list.
It all started with Pradeep telling me about tattoos and what would be a good design for one. [...]

Opening Mood: This is insane!
Opening Song: None.
Like I mentioned in my previous post I was out for the whole of last week and am catching up with the happenings. One of the hilarious things that came to my notice is that one of my friends, lets say K, who usually boasts of his HUGE [...]

Opening Mood: I’m back!
Opening Song: Romantic Piano - Chopin
Spent the last week at this place called Kudremukh. It used to be one of Karnataka’s famous mines before the operations were shut down in 2005. So now it is just a nice little place with lots of greenery and very few people to bother an occasional [...]