Last year, around the same time, I had ranted about this function named find_busiest_group() in kernel/sched.c. This is one humongous function which can so easily scare the sh*t out of any programmer who sees it for the first time. Partly due to it’s sheer size, which spanned over lines, next due to the presence of [...]

Had been to the inaugural Indian Premier League T20 match today at the Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore. The experience was a mixed bag with few highs and lot of lows.
Me and Pradeep reached the stadium at 4:00 PM, though the inaugural ceremony was only starting at 6:00PM. We reasoned out that since there were no seat [...]

At work, I usually have my daily doze of caffeine in the afternoon with the co-workers.
Felt like drinking Cappuccino today instead of the regular Espresso.
However, when I pressed the button, the machine didn’t respond.
Instead, the LCD panel said “Empty Tray”.
We were wondering what was empty!
The coffee beans? No, there were plenty of beans [...]

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: Fresh!
Opening song: Innocent Man - Billy Joel
Okay, for the past three days, I have been wearing formals to office. Yes, you heard it right, formal shirt (not a smart-comment T-Shirt), a pair of formal trousers (not faded jeans) and formal shoes (not my black puma!).
Before you start reading too much into it, [...]

Opening Mood: Good Morning.
Opening Song: Boondein - Silk Route
The last and final Day of FOSS.in had some really interesting talks.
I missed the talk by Andrew Cowie, since we reached the venue pretty late. However, I managed to catch the next talk by Ulrich Drepper, the person whose article on Memory management I thought was brilliant. [...]

Opening Mood: Sleepy.
Opening Song: Walk of Life - Dire Straits.
I couldn’t attend the morning nor the afternoon session owing to some work at office. However, I managed to catch the OpenMoko talk by Harald Welte. It’s a pretty neat stuff and has got an emulator which is based on qemu which does complete hardware emulation. [...]

Opening Mood: Gloomy weather outside.
Opening Song: Kitni Baatein - Lakshya
Today was one of the “work from home” days since there was some kind of press meet at office. It was to take place on the floor where our offices were, and hence we were told to work from home or work from some [...]

Opening Mood: Good. Just watched RDB for 2nd time.
Opening Song: Ya Ali - Gangster.
Date: 22nd April, 2007. 5:00 P.M
Life presents us with so many opportunities to spend our time in a joyful manner. We should learn to identify and exploit them. I believe that having fun in what you do is very important, because [...]