Quick takes:

India leads the 7 match series 4-0. Dhoni’s Dashers do it again.
Poker has become the new favourite game here at Civilization.inc
If a team loses the match due to losing the toss, can you use the phrase “Gone for a toss” ?

I am busy writing my statement of purpose these days, since the University application [...]

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 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 [...]

It’s been almost a month since my last blogpost. But no apologies. I spent time doing some really interesting things. Some of which I am going to write about now.
I started off by applying to the various universities in the United States. Yes, I have finally decided that it’s time for me to look [...]

I moved to Fedora 9 last week, and things have been working great, except for my vim, which yelled everytime I tried opening a file:
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ego@sofia:~$ vim ~/.vimrc
Error detected while processing /home/ego/.vimrc:
line   10:
E563: stat(./cscope.out) error: 2
Press ENTER or type command to continue
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I use vim for all my development work, and use cscope to find my way [...]

It’s been some time since I last posted something. Had been busy gathering data for the OLS paper and once that was done, got some time to look into the couple of months old CPU-Hotplug issue. There are some more items to be done there, hopefully will get some free time this month.
Read this post [...]

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: Hungry..
Opening song: Hamesha tum ko chaaya - Devdas
Got the official mail today morning. The “Power Aware Scheduler” Birds of Feathers Session Proposal that I had submitted for this year’s Ottawa Linux Symposium has been accepted. The rest of the BOFS can be found –> here
A couple of days back, Vaidy got confirmation that [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]