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Apr. 8th, 2005 @ 03:06 pm French Spiderman.
This guy Alain Robert is absolutely incredible..I used to hear abt him once in a while when he used to climb some building or other...of course, with bare hands!

but jus now i came to know through Alain Robert on Wikipedia his real story. He had hazaar accidents(all in his training time), but now he is the best solo urban climber ever. and the photos from his website are also unbelievable.
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Feb. 28th, 2005 @ 03:28 pm Global Warming.
http://news.com.com/Photos+Glacier+meltdowns+amid+global+warming/2009-1008_3-5587955.html?tag=st.pop
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Feb. 28th, 2005 @ 01:57 pm nothing..
Current Mood: boredbored
Long time since i blogged..

Its been usually busy but it was surely not expected. My work on the present project was supposed to end on 22nd and i was supposed to be free whole of last week. But , it turn out to be so. I think my boss realised that i will be without any kind of work, so he handed me the integration part too. I mean on 22nd my project was supposed to go for fabrication along with other 3 other designs. but those 3 got delayed..anyway, leave it. Its quiet a task to explain elec jargon to non-elec ppl..and without it i cant explain anymore.. :-)

Almost after a month i was free enough to avoid my office completely during the weekend. So, last sat and sun i just lazied and stayed at the hostel. but as usual i wasnt feeling that great. So, i decided to indulge something yummy to make myself happy..but alas, i couldnt lay my hands on anything like that. i tried pasta, it cupped maaajorly. Maybe in my overzealousness i screwed it(though i had made it well once before). there is a McDonalds somewhere but its far..who will go cycling 2/3km in cold for a McDonald and u need to cycle back too!!

So, i jus launched attack on the `Eclairs` chocolates i had..i was munching them furiously, but they too dint taste their best as their moisture had been sucked out by this cold and were quiet dry!!!!

Apart from that i was reading japanese and wondering wat should be the future course of action in case my attempts to app turn futile!! I should be able to say "lets switch to plan B" right?? :-) One thing is for sure..i will be having lot more jap trips..i am already sensing one trip surely in/around May. The chip that will be sent today for fab is gonna come back in April for testing. and who else but, `yours truly` is the man for the job. And who knows they might even ask for a one year trip!!!(of course, with a company paid trip home once in btw). One thing is for sure..these guys wont let me stay in india all the time..and its crappy to work in india too(as the main inputs come only if u r in jap) and y get paid less for the same work!! It looks good but its not easy to stay here..esp the fooooood :-(( and the boredom of winter..I most of the time get my life-saving energies from my mp3 player. If not for that, i would have gone mad by now..

on the last Sat night, the temp went to -2 degrees!! i first dint believe the thermometer...bcos it was the first time it went below zero. but it was very dry outside..no snow nothing.

Apart from that i have been browsing a lot..celeb gossip..the latest digi cams launched at PMA and following a spate of security leaks like Bank of America loses customer records. I dont know where this computer security is heading! I might sound like a doomsayer, but this is outrageous..ur mobile phone is not secure..ur bank is not secure..ur comp is not secure..What the hell is secure?? Already there are Bluetooth viruses flying around...PDA viruses..but thanx to the variety of the PDAs and mobiles(unlike the ubiquitiuous Windows!) that these r not spreading as fast...Maybe a day will come when we will achieve technological marvels such as controlling our whole house using Blootooth or something Wireless(nothing sacred abt Wireless..or jus Wireline)...only to be denied access to enter inside bcos ur neighbour`s kid is a tech geek!!!
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Feb. 18th, 2005 @ 09:32 pm This week in pictures.
Current Mood: hyperhyper
I would suggest everyone have a look at this link .....a msn.com site on "the week in pictures"...

absolutely beautiful pictures..i am posting it as i was afraid i might forget going through the entire archive of 2002/03/04...;-)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/?GT1=6190
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Feb. 12th, 2005 @ 10:36 pm Need new songs...Vertigo maybe!
Current Mood: nerdy
Current Music: Crave by Ted Nugent.
I am in an awful mood these days!!! donno whats happening to me... and added to this, my project is dancing right on my head! ;-) its been 3 conitnous holidays (friday was ntnl hol) but i have been to office both yday and today and will be going even tomm! Never in my life would i have wasted a 3 days holiday like this. And somehow i am not getting "that" drive to go and work...

Then, i was reading the following article on ipod on ExtremeTech. I wasnt interested in ipod..i have read lots on it already. but i like this guys` articles...esp the boss`s comments in the middle. check this take on Mac OS X.

Anyway, in the end of his article, our man Jim gave this link to Ted Nugent's song "Crave"
download.. supposedly legal download. Maybe the 5th re-run of the song is running currently..;-) i like it atleast. got a good tune for sure. Then, i realised what is missing in my current life...its MUSIC...I remember back in college, i used to get a fresh dump of songs(beg, borrow , steal or bloody buy!) by every quiz time. it used to be virtually impossible to start a mugging session without new songs...first year it used to be hindi and pop...Yeah, i never even used to listen to hindi songs before!! :-O Second year don gave me this "So far so good" of Bryan Adams and i have been fan of him since...Second year also saw the raise of Rammstein, Bon Jovi, MJ...But the main influx was in 3rd year. I got this cable to connect my sony music system to my comp(i bought for 5k...of course, i dint tell the exact price to my dad..at the end of that deal, i dint even have money to buy cassettes! ;-)) ). After that, the system was just reduce to a line-in system, catering only to my holy PC. With Bania, sandy pouring in their fundaes (and of course mp3s) in Rock, it was a virtual blowout. I had to upgrade my hard disk capacity by 10 times!!(my old one was 4 GB ). and hence, i always had new songs for my exam times...

but in the end i carried out so many songs that i havent listened them to all yet. but i did listen to a lot of them, unlike many who jus burn cds but never listen.

Of course, this made me remind of how my "holy" pc evolved to wat it is now, but that some other day...but as i raised it, my comp though of 1999 jan build, a cool 0.3GHz celeron config, ultimately ran the Quake III game, Age of Conquerors ..i was even able to get it a USB port by forcing a 9pin plug into a 10pin plug in the motherboard(i bent off the 10th metallic pin ;-) )..and mine used to be the only motherbard in the wing with a AGP slot!! other "latest" comps had intel 810 mbd, which dint give an external slot option..my poor wingmates ;-)) and was in full working condition(except the smps) when i exchanged for money(for my upgrade) in Oct, 2004. Of course, i still carry the monitor and floppy drive from that comp, but apart from that everything has had an upgrade. The goddamn system worked without an UPS for so long!! it still hasnt got an UPS..but of course, thats only bcos of me. I bought an UPS last year, which i promptly messed up and reduced it to a plain regulator!!! Who said tinkering with ur comp always goes in the right direction????
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Feb. 3rd, 2005 @ 04:26 pm who`s in control...teacher? or the student?
Current Mood: hyperhyper
This is a post from slashdot..recounting how ppl played around with their school computers and network...fun reading their exploits. ;-)

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/03/0156243&from=rss

i would have never played with the school/univ network....for the stupid i am! ;-) but one time i did post something nasty on my Lan which used to make the innocent ppl`s comp restart out of nowhere..I had a good laugh then.

and of course, our dept comp facility(dcf) was always in news ...spam, ppl(even outsiders) breaking into others accounts..but it was all courtesy to some noble thought that the dcf was for `experimenting and learning`!!! It surely used to be so for a while..
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Feb. 2nd, 2005 @ 02:10 pm RSS feeds...
Current Mood: working
Have u guys heard abt RSS feeds??( Surely not the religious and nationalist group that i am talking here!) Maybe u did..or maybe u dint. This is for those who arent using it. I myself forgot the definition for RSS. If your browser can listen to RSS feeds from a particular website, u can have all those important links on those website right on ur browser. Here, i am assuming that the website is capable of sending out RSS feeds. For examaple, Rediff sends out and CNN doesnt.

Then if u add those RSS links to ur browser(jus like in a toolbar)...u will end up with have links like BBC, Rediff, CNET.com etc on ur browser. if u click on them, u will find all the important news headlines right away..U dont even need to go that particular website. Like i can see the news abt ManU beating Arsenal in ydays game w/o even visiting BBC`s website..Similiarly with Rediff.

How to recognise if ur browser is capable of listening to RSS?? jus check if at the bottom right most corner u have a Orange icon. Firefox is capable of listening. donno abt IE. Orange icon comes up only if thats a RSS enabled site..otherwise, nothing.

Go to rediff`s website..click on the orange icon..it asks u if u want to subscribe to this websites rss feed...i rather add it to Bookmark Toolbar Folder. So, i dont even need to go to a website if some important news comes up..

but, of course, for all the news articles, u will have to go to the website....this is only if u want something fast and in short.. and jus found out..BBC doesnt support RSS feeds..that comes redirected from mozilla and is given by default in ur toolbar ;-)

happy browsing...and if i am wrong in any info, do leave a comment.
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Jan. 31st, 2005 @ 04:39 pm monday blues.
Current Mood: lethargiclethargic
Current Music: everything seems to be a lullaby.
i wish i get some enthu to work...i am currently enacting as if i am doing some serious architectural design work! i have 2 weeks to do my work and as its so far away, i am jus sitting idle..will load quake in the comp at hostel..then atleast, i will get out of this sleepy dull feeling..i slept for 9 hrs yday night and still yawning!! donno whats happening..monday blues maybe

somebody come and kick me out of this slumber.
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Jan. 28th, 2005 @ 04:21 pm Craziness .....as i see it.
Current Mood: crazycrazy!!
Donno Y but i alway tend to be in a hurry while writing a blog! Is it because I have become complacent that i can write anything and people are idiots to read that?? i do not for sure. Atleast, I felt like i should start writing a bit more organisedly..especially, after i have been reading some really neat blogs on <a href="http://www.abandonedmines.blogspot.com>Don`s blogsite</a> Also, there was a comment in my previous blog posted by somebody(mostly, hemanth) in my daily jobless mailers group?(almost all mails frm their office ids..so kinda fast and just reply all..not like yahoo groups which is bit slow for us :-O ). he said nice webpage..so, I just went to look back at my webpage. Last time i remembered, there was only one guestbook entry..but now i found lots!! I was surely surprised both that people liked it and even made guestbook entries!! So, decided to add the 2 more pages that i had left incomplete..`My fav links` and `contact me`. Shouldnt be a problem as i have a weekend ahead and luckily, i got free frm my work. Work actually should have kept me very busy right now, but i decided to take a break! Afterall, there are no bugs in my design now.(it was a few weeks of bug fixing and optimization). The output is still noisy but thats not my problem...atleast for now. My colleague has resigned and all the hell-load of work is on me..So, rather than breaking my back, i will rather take a break this weekend and put fight later for the upcoming 2 week deadline. Do u people read Readers Digest? I read that a lot..lot and lot. 2 days back i fould one RD in my bag. I had put it sometime during packing..weight was surely my concern but somehow it made it through(even though the cabin baggage was 10 kgs--usual limit is 7kg it seems). I like RD purely because its all abt the real incidents..real daily life jokes..and the stories are very well edited and compact. I had even bought the 50th anniversary collectors edition recently. Was surely worth it. In the book that i have, theres an interview with Angelina Jolie!! wow.... Anyway, the line which caught me was when the interviewer asked AJ(not the Blackberry ad please....Indians will know) isnt her behaviour of tattoos, cutting herself(a few years ago) crazy?? I liked that she did not retort back angrily"its not crazy." or "u dont understand" "none of ur business" etc..she just said its not so easy to make them understand that behaviour(not in exact words..but something like that)..went on that she had tough time growing up. Divorced parents is something i came to read later in the article..she said she felt alive after she did that...now anyway, she has stopped such things as shes trying to be a good mom to her adopted son... Now, I really dint think it was crazines what she did...I think everyone does that..when u dont know why u r doing something or maybe u did too much and vexed with it or maybe sudden impulse..Did u watch the movie `Nothing to Lose`?? do watch..Tim Robbins and the funny guy from `blue streak` act in this. and the whole movie is only abt just one day of craziness!! For that matter, how many dont go crazy in the ongoing Rock show(at Saarang)..the next day u end up with sore necks..sore feet! I myself sometimes feel like ramping up the music system to some gazillions of Watts and go berserk ;-)) or take a double barrell shotgun and shoot some rounds la Quake II....of course, i would ultimately love to do the Quake III actions (see the opening video with Sarge fighting..really gets the adrenaline going..) alas thats not possible in the real world!! or for that matter, my actions of climbing Mt.Fuji on a night with a typhoon up the mountain not crazy?? definitely it is..that too a big one..and i was dressed as if it was a casual outing! other crazy ideas that hover in my mind are like breaking the mirror in front (only occassionally though ;-) ..and nothing personal against a mirror!)...of course, if i do, i will have sense enough to wear something ..hahaah... But, satisfying ur craziness is really good for u...makes u feel lot satisfied..i remember one of my mumbai sundays(surprisingly i was alone and moody)..i just went and indulged in everything i can...ice creams..restaurants..books...of course, the bill was 1k even before evening but that was ok....and a session on lan with quakeiii is also very very gratifying...;-) and wat is taht?? its abt killing ppl in the virtual world, amounting to defeating the guy next doorin the game, or purely being a winner....simply put, satisfying ur ego!!! ;-)) u have to do the craziest of the things to know what it is..only thing is u shouldnt be perennially crazy!! if not, living the usual life will seem real crazy..;-)
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