Anyway, another topic of heated dicussion was this No Blog Day. Ok, as a child I have observed 2 minutes of silence, or flags at half-mast during various incidents in the country(AFAIK, its not just for the death of emminent ministers, but to show the we are mourning a great loss). Now did we achieve [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Video Learning v/s Books
I was looking for some learning resources and came across two interesting sites which offer video tutorials on a number of topics. Two of the most interesting (interesting meaning that they covered the topics that I was interested in) site that I came across were Lynda and VTC.
I decided to try Lynda, since they had [...]
Video Learning v/s Books
I was looking for some learning resources and came across two interesting sites which offer video tutorials on a number of topics.
Global Warming
Found this funny image in one of the forums
Owling report
After 2 days of spotting the owlet, I decided to go with the camera today and take some snaps. I got up at 5:50am and after some required post getting up stuff, I headed out with my camera. Today morning was a little colder than normal and quite foggy too. I was walking along to [...]
Mortein Rat Kill is Useless
Before I use any explicit language, here is the excerpt of my mail to Mortein.
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Dear Sir/Madam, I have a rat problem in my house where the rat is chewing up the wires in my car each night. I bought the Mortein Rat Kill and I have been laying it since the past 2 [...]
ICC and BCCI
The people running BCCI are such a bunch of cowards. Useless people who try to put up a face that they play in the sportman’s spirit and crap and end of spoiling the game and the name of the country.
On the other hand, ICC is nothing but a bunch of racist bastids.
Gambhir gets a one [...]
Rat Attack
The last month has been very irritating for me and especially for my car.
It all started somewherein the beginning of the month or last month. I think it was during the Phillips annual day when V and I had to go to palace grounds. When I took out the car in the evening, the horn [...]
Roller Coaster Linux
Boy o boy… my journey with linux has been a total roller coaster of a ride. I have installed, overwritten, crashed and re-installed 5 different distros around 15-20 times over the last 2 months. I seriously believe that linux is not compatible with my PC configuration at all. I have an AMD Athlon XP(K7) on a SiS chipset based ECS mobo with a Creative EMU101k sound card and GeForce 6200 card and I am sure the linux kernels dont even have a clue what these hardware can do together.
