2006.11.04
Reading the "Eldest", sequel to the "Eragon", by Christopher Paolini.
I had finished reading Eragon during feb and had been wanting to read the sequel since then.
Finally, last sunday i managed to get myself a cheap copy of the "Eldest", from a roadside bookseller after a fine bargain.
I Somehow love the magical, adventure filled realms created by the skilled words and imagination of these writers. JRR Tolkiens' words are the most captivating when it comes this kind of writing. No words to express the excitement of living in that imaginary realm.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
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HelpNDoc
Updated to the latest version of HelpNDoc. => v1.81
this is a cool tool for creating chm files / html help. IBE Software - HelpNDoc
Quick and fast creation using keyboard.
PS: i hardly ever use my mouse. ;)
this is a cool tool for creating chm files / html help. IBE Software - HelpNDoc
Quick and fast creation using keyboard.
PS: i hardly ever use my mouse. ;)
Monday, April 10, 2006
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Countries visited [including the ones i've just set my foot on]
Whew! Doesn't it feel good??!!
but then, there's another 94% of the world left to explore!
some day before i die - i should atleast cover 70%.
(:D) God willing, i'd love to have this dream come true!
Visited Countries
Countries i've visited so far. [14 countries (6%)]
but then, there's another 94% of the world left to explore!
some day before i die - i should atleast cover 70%.
(:D) God willing, i'd love to have this dream come true!
Visited Countries
Countries i've visited so far. [14 countries (6%)]
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2006.04.10 [14.43]
I fixed this wierd problem on my thinkpad today. (atlast)
my sound card stopped working suddenly! (Soundmax pro, which is part of the T43) But the funny thing is WinXP - Device Manager reports all is fine.
But the "sounds and audio devices" has all the tabs & options disabled. To think of touching the drivers / reinstallation is like having a heart attack, since my T43 is loaded with goodies collected over a period of time and it will take me a good full week to restore my system to normal after a reinstall.
after breaking the heads and googling over, finally found the solution!
and a :) pretty simple / stupid one, as such!
A week earlier, i had disabled the "Windows Audio" service (which had caused me all this trouble). I just restarted the service and bang, all's normal again. My sound card is working like a song!
a lesson learnt!
I fixed this wierd problem on my thinkpad today. (atlast)
my sound card stopped working suddenly! (Soundmax pro, which is part of the T43) But the funny thing is WinXP - Device Manager reports all is fine.
But the "sounds and audio devices" has all the tabs & options disabled. To think of touching the drivers / reinstallation is like having a heart attack, since my T43 is loaded with goodies collected over a period of time and it will take me a good full week to restore my system to normal after a reinstall.
after breaking the heads and googling over, finally found the solution!
and a :) pretty simple / stupid one, as such!
A week earlier, i had disabled the "Windows Audio" service (which had caused me all this trouble). I just restarted the service and bang, all's normal again. My sound card is working like a song!
a lesson learnt!
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
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Aaaahhhhhh!!! Nostalgia!
Its a solid 4 months since i had worked in delphi.
as a consolation, installed d7 back into my machine ...
and oh boy!!! what a feel it is to see the delphi ide.
brings back all those nostalgic memories of the good ol' days.
SIGH!!!
yet, it leaves me with a heavy heart to see what delphi
has become off late.
as a consolation, installed d7 back into my machine ...
and oh boy!!! what a feel it is to see the delphi ide.
brings back all those nostalgic memories of the good ol' days.
SIGH!!!
yet, it leaves me with a heavy heart to see what delphi
has become off late.
Friday, March 11, 2005
Thursday, March 03, 2005
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Reiki
Office, Bangalore
3rd March 2005
Sara joined in today. poor fellow, putting myself in his shoes, i can sense his despair on the first day. am leaving this place, he's getting back to hands on coding after awhile and this whole new enviroment is all alien for him, coming from more action packed environs. i wish but can't help him in any ways other than being there for him when he needs me and to provide a smooth beginning and paving ways for his betterment!!!
How i wish to have had him in my new team! Well, aren't things after all been driven by murphy's laws??!!
Oh coming to Reiki, the thoughts of it were triggered as i was thinking about ravi and our conversation earlier last weekend. Somehow, am getting fascinated and interested to know more of Reiki and to check out what it has to offer!
So i went on to check out reiki on google, and this is what i hit upon! Bold and Big, in the first prominent search result on reiki. read on...
Just for today, do not worry.
Just for today, do not anger.
Honor your parents, teachers, and elders.
Earn your living honestly.
Show gratitude to everything.
Dr. Mikao Usui
What a beautiful thing!
Touche!
I Certainly am delving into Reiki.
3rd March 2005
Sara joined in today. poor fellow, putting myself in his shoes, i can sense his despair on the first day. am leaving this place, he's getting back to hands on coding after awhile and this whole new enviroment is all alien for him, coming from more action packed environs.
How i wish to have had him in my new team! Well, aren't things after all been driven by murphy's laws??!!
Oh coming to Reiki, the thoughts of it were triggered as i was thinking about ravi and our conversation earlier last weekend. Somehow, am getting fascinated and interested to know more of Reiki and to check out what it has to offer!
So i went on to check out reiki on google, and this is what i hit upon! Bold and Big, in the first prominent search result on reiki. read on...
Just for today, do not worry.
Just for today, do not anger.
Honor your parents, teachers, and elders.
Earn your living honestly.
Show gratitude to everything.
Dr. Mikao Usui
What a beautiful thing!
Touche!
I Certainly am delving into Reiki.
Monday, February 28, 2005
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Celebrations and a loooonnnnnggggggg chat
25th Feb 2005
Pinxx, Manipal Center, Bangalore
All of Tarka, sriram, jayashree, ravi and me!
Nice(?) dinner with the small group, celebrating the first year of
of Tarka and the release of SimplEX, maiden product offering from
Tarka.
Two Surprises at the venue:
a. Pinxx turned out to be an continental joint
b. The Presence of a blr magician, to entertain us with a bunch of his magic puzzles
Sriram(?), Ravi(?), Me and Murthy, solved one puzzle each, after a mug of beer!
Funny thing, our brains were so rusted, i had to take out a paper and draw out the solution,
before solving the puzzle. (forming a T of 4 broken pieces)
Ended up with a western/continental platter of dishes for dinner (Whew, man, isn't it
stupid to taste westernized indian food, paying a western bill, sitting right in heart of
india???) As usual, it can happen ONLY in india.
We had a nice time later that evening, me and sriram, stayed back and what started
as an usual discussion went on and on, across various topics well over midnight.
it was almost 1am, by the time we said our byes.
A Good small get together, which proved to energise me for the next few days. :)
Pinxx, Manipal Center, Bangalore
All of Tarka, sriram, jayashree, ravi and me!
Nice(?) dinner with the small group, celebrating the first year of
of Tarka and the release of SimplEX, maiden product offering from
Tarka.
Two Surprises at the venue:
a. Pinxx turned out to be an continental joint
b. The Presence of a blr magician, to entertain us with a bunch of his magic puzzles
Sriram(?), Ravi(?), Me and Murthy, solved one puzzle each, after a mug of beer!
Funny thing, our brains were so rusted, i had to take out a paper and draw out the solution,
before solving the puzzle. (forming a T of 4 broken pieces)
Ended up with a western/continental platter of dishes for dinner (Whew, man, isn't it
stupid to taste westernized indian food, paying a western bill, sitting right in heart of
india???) As usual, it can happen ONLY in india.
We had a nice time later that evening, me and sriram, stayed back and what started
as an usual discussion went on and on, across various topics well over midnight.
it was almost 1am, by the time we said our byes.
A Good small get together, which proved to energise me for the next few days. :)
Friday, February 18, 2005
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Oh My God!!!! Oh My God!!!! Somebody Lend me a hand please.... *rofl* (trying to steady myself!!!)
Monday, January 17, 2005
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A Different Time, A Different Place
Its almost another month, since i've updated my blog.
and this new one month has taken me to new places, with new happenings and new situations!!!
This trip to london came up quick and after a few nail biting moments, i got my visa stamped, on
one single page left out in my passport (getting an additional book would have taken atleast another 10/15 days
which would've meant the cancellation of this trip!), and with the invite letter arriving just after a weeks' delay,
(by then, the i'd almost given up the prospects of making this trip at all!!!)
And man, i get the visa, a day earlier than expected - and with a quick re-scheduling of the tickets,
was lucky enough to get them confirmed for the next day - and i did leave the next morning - dirty, quick and
fast!
and what a start it was!!!
I Got Sick..., just the night before - undigestion and throwing up... terrible feeling!!!
Pushed thru the trip, in the morning, with mum and dad terribly worried!
by Gods grace, thankfully, things started improving... over the days.
Thanks to all the medicines mum had packed up, and the first two days of starved stomach, with
a lot of prayers!
Man, being sick could have such unpleasent effects! whew!
both physically and more mentally!
But again, it was great time to be in london again, after almost an year and a half.
:)
More on the london adventures later...
and this new one month has taken me to new places, with new happenings and new situations!!!
This trip to london came up quick and after a few nail biting moments, i got my visa stamped, on
one single page left out in my passport (getting an additional book would have taken atleast another 10/15 days
which would've meant the cancellation of this trip!), and with the invite letter arriving just after a weeks' delay,
(by then, the i'd almost given up the prospects of making this trip at all!!!)
And man, i get the visa, a day earlier than expected - and with a quick re-scheduling of the tickets,
was lucky enough to get them confirmed for the next day - and i did leave the next morning - dirty, quick and
fast!
and what a start it was!!!
I Got Sick..., just the night before - undigestion and throwing up... terrible feeling!!!
Pushed thru the trip, in the morning, with mum and dad terribly worried!
by Gods grace, thankfully, things started improving... over the days.
Thanks to all the medicines mum had packed up, and the first two days of starved stomach, with
a lot of prayers!
Man, being sick could have such unpleasent effects! whew!
both physically and more mentally!
But again, it was great time to be in london again, after almost an year and a half.
:)
More on the london adventures later...
Monday, December 20, 2004
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The Weekend
it was after quite a while, that i've done this...
two movies out in the theatres - in consecutive days!!!
Our (me, venu, anand and kamal ) target was to watch 'swades'.
but after our futile efforts to get the tickets at cauvery, over the counter and
shunning to pay double for the price, in black... we ended up hopping theaters
to sangeetha and to rex. And it being a saturday and it was already 5 when we left
cauvery, we just couldn't manage to get the tickets!
What the heck, i decided that since we were out for a movie, we will get to watch one.
what if its just not 'swades'?!!!
So, cuz of me putting my foot down, we ended up going for 'ocean's twelve'!!!
Oh man. what a turn off!!! Pathetic - it was such an expensive blunder, the director hoping it to be an
intelligent plot!!! ewww. waste of time and money!
just barely escaped getting beaten up from my friends, for choosing that one!
Well, what the heck - since we had actually wanted to watch 'Swades' - we decided
we'd do the same on sunday!!!
and whew, i just got a bit more than normally absorbed by that movie.
hats off to asuthosh gowarikar - a very professional movie, great screenplay,
good casting if not to match that of lagaan and last but not least - Gayatri Joshi :D
But, man, inspite of the beautiful - gorgeous gayatri joshi - the movie had left a profound impact ...
of what we (me first) have done, doing and will do for our country...
not to say that we get to see enough of the heart wrenching scenes - and to hear the happenings -
of suppression, poverty and much more!!!
for some unknown reason, i had just put myself in the shoes of mohan (SRK) in the movie, asking myself
what have i been and what have i done ... apart from my thoughts and good will to the betterment of
my country!!!??
Nope, this wasn't the kinda josh after a patriotic movie... but more of a knife of guilt slicing through.
this was kinda fuelled with my and anand's earlier discussions on the same line...
i want to make a difference, to try and to act, in whatever possible small ways, and i'd be glad the
day i can watch the changes in this country!!!
two movies out in the theatres - in consecutive days!!!
Our (me, venu, anand and kamal ) target was to watch 'swades'.
but after our futile efforts to get the tickets at cauvery, over the counter and
shunning to pay double for the price, in black... we ended up hopping theaters
to sangeetha and to rex. And it being a saturday and it was already 5 when we left
cauvery, we just couldn't manage to get the tickets!
What the heck, i decided that since we were out for a movie, we will get to watch one.
what if its just not 'swades'?!!!
So, cuz of me putting my foot down, we ended up going for 'ocean's twelve'!!!
Oh man. what a turn off!!! Pathetic - it was such an expensive blunder, the director hoping it to be an
intelligent plot!!! ewww. waste of time and money!
just barely escaped getting beaten up from my friends, for choosing that one!
Well, what the heck - since we had actually wanted to watch 'Swades' - we decided
we'd do the same on sunday!!!
and whew, i just got a bit more than normally absorbed by that movie.
hats off to asuthosh gowarikar - a very professional movie, great screenplay,
good casting if not to match that of lagaan and last but not least - Gayatri Joshi :D
But, man, inspite of the beautiful - gorgeous gayatri joshi - the movie had left a profound impact ...
of what we (me first) have done, doing and will do for our country...
not to say that we get to see enough of the heart wrenching scenes - and to hear the happenings -
of suppression, poverty and much more!!!
for some unknown reason, i had just put myself in the shoes of mohan (SRK) in the movie, asking myself
what have i been and what have i done ... apart from my thoughts and good will to the betterment of
my country!!!??
Nope, this wasn't the kinda josh after a patriotic movie... but more of a knife of guilt slicing through.
i want to make a difference, to try and to act, in whatever possible small ways, and i'd be glad the
day i can watch the changes in this country!!!
Monday, November 29, 2004
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Focus!
Clarity of Thought!
The Power of Direction!
Importance and significance of these are better realized than said!
A Must have attributes for a leader - and for route to peace.
Clarity of Thought!
The Power of Direction!
Importance and significance of these are better realized than said!
A Must have attributes for a leader - and for route to peace.
Sunday, November 28, 2004
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Today was kamal's birthday... and its almost a month up since his marriage...
had been to his home, for a nice memorable evening.
A Hearty Dinner, with a prelude - cake cutting... turned
interesting with a naughty bunch of candles which kept springing back to life
every time he blew 'em off and this continued for awhile until he won - finally
blowing off the candles!
And unknown of the next surprise awaiting - piece of cake on his face,
from his wife.!!!
We'd been watching his marriage album and the CD,
and it was a nice evg, with loads of laughter and life.
and not to forget, is the care and affection we folks stand
to receive from his mom and dad - mom, especially!
Its a great feeling and there are but far and few left out there, in this date...
like 'em!
in my life - i've been gifted in more than one ways - inspite of the hardships, which
includes the care and affection from two warm hearted women,
my aunt and kamal's mother! :)
had been to his home, for a nice memorable evening.
A Hearty Dinner, with a prelude - cake cutting... turned
interesting with a naughty bunch of candles which kept springing back to life
every time he blew 'em off and this continued for awhile until he won - finally
blowing off the candles!
And unknown of the next surprise awaiting - piece of cake on his face,
from his wife.!!!
We'd been watching his marriage album and the CD,
and it was a nice evg, with loads of laughter and life.
and not to forget, is the care and affection we folks stand
to receive from his mom and dad - mom, especially!
Its a great feeling and there are but far and few left out there, in this date...
like 'em!
in my life - i've been gifted in more than one ways - inspite of the hardships, which
includes the care and affection from two warm hearted women,
my aunt and kamal's mother! :)
Thursday, October 28, 2004
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FlipStart - First Looks
AWESOME!!!!
A Must Have - When are they gonna release this beauty commercially???
Hats off to Paul Allen.
Vulcan
FlipStart - First Looks
AWESOME!!!!
A Must Have - When are they gonna release this beauty commercially???
Hats off to Paul Allen.
Vulcan
Monday, October 18, 2004
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Thats my p800. Well, Not Exactly mine, pity i ain't able to get a shot of my own p800 - hence borrowed this pic from Sony Ericsson. :D - Well, its all the same. Mine is just a bit more cute and sexy. lol.
Thats my p800. Well, Not Exactly mine, pity i ain't able to get a shot of my own p800 - hence borrowed this pic from Sony Ericsson. :D - Well, its all the same. Mine is just a bit more cute and sexy. lol.
Friday, October 15, 2004
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Here i am folks....
mmm, Should i say back with a bang after a break of a month or so?
More importantly, what brings me rushing back to my blog,
is Google!!! (Not even my new Sony Ericsson p800, gave me such a kick
as to jump on to my blog to brag about...lol)
yes, the Google Labs, has released
the desktop google, which allows me to run a google search
on my own desktop...
Got to be envied the way google's moving ... to its heights?
Its irresistable not to use Google Desktop.!!!
man, and the ideas, talk about google... its igniting a spark within...
to carve a niche for oneself!
Whew! oh man, i certainly do envy the folks at google! lol.
Just installed the Desktop Google and the initial search
results are pretty impressive.
What next google?
Search into Hetreogeneous databases?
or not but to think a bit futuristic...
a VR Google?
Google to search your brains - sorting and sifting out info. of lost pointers
with a bio mind searching google?
mmm ... one day perhaps!
mmm, Should i say back with a bang after a break of a month or so?
More importantly, what brings me rushing back to my blog,
is Google!!! (Not even my new Sony Ericsson p800, gave me such a kick
as to jump on to my blog to brag about...lol)
yes, the Google Labs, has released
the desktop google, which allows me to run a google search
on my own desktop...
Got to be envied the way google's moving ... to its heights?
Its irresistable not to use Google Desktop.!!!
man, and the ideas, talk about google... its igniting a spark within...
to carve a niche for oneself!
Whew! oh man, i certainly do envy the folks at google! lol.
Just installed the Desktop Google and the initial search
results are pretty impressive.
What next google?
Search into Hetreogeneous databases?
or not but to think a bit futuristic...
a VR Google?
Google to search your brains - sorting and sifting out info. of lost pointers
with a bio mind searching google?
mmm ... one day perhaps!
Thursday, September 02, 2004
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Folks,
Check this out!!!
Bloggers Blogging Their own company info... heading to bite dust.
Friendster fires developer for blog
Microsoft fires contractor for posting pictures on his Blog
Whew!
Check this out!!!
Bloggers Blogging Their own company info... heading to bite dust.
Friendster fires developer for blog
Microsoft fires contractor for posting pictures on his Blog
Whew!
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