Don't mess with your mess card !!

    Only after making several rounds of CCW office and hostel office do you learn the importance of keeping our mess card safe. And you also learn how IIT, although being an autonomous institute, is filled with dumb government officials.

Why should you use Opera 11.50...

    Most of you must be using either Firefox or Chrome; very few IE and Opera. Today, I am going to brag about some features of Opera browser which may tempt you to give it a try. Of course, it has some limitations and we'll try to discuss them as well. 

Break the Break !!

Warning: This post has nothing useful. Just the thoughts of my mind.

    I am in a position in my life which I keep on confronting again and again. On one hand there is lot of work to do -- interesting work -- but on the other hand, there is this wicked mind which compels me to waste almost all the time I have on apparently useful but factually useless things like cricinfo, ebay, imdb, youtube, etc. Did you notice something? Yes, Internet is the platform on which these evils form their brotherhood! Now I guess some of my friends will understand why I am trying to run away from "on-line" services offered by this wonderful product of technology commonly known as Computer.

Windows 8 preview...

I didn't want to blog at this time of the day, but this was worth it. It's not that I am "converting" or something; I am still with Linux, but you know, those people there at Microsoft, they are doing a damn good job of fooling people. Eye Candy ! Eye Candy ! Everywhere ! Will have to wait for the "features" to go live...

My Dumb Lappy, lots of Comics & New Car for Dad

    Well, this is quite fast... Its been a few seconds since I have published my previous post and I am onto a new one already ! First about my laptop...

    Today I noticed that whenever I quickly scroll through any web-page, the CPU usage of my laptop stays at around 80 to 90%. That just shows how old and slow this bitch is... sob sob...

My flirts this week...

Elisp, Scheme, Java, Ruby, Roadies, Splitsvilla, Steve Yegge !

    So, these are the topics which I was enlightened about last week. Although I spent more time on the latter 3 topics, I gained the least from them. Steve Yegge's blogs are fun to read and you may even (almost) get the impression that they are informative but to me, they are all but useful. Of course, if you are as jobless as me, sure, give them a shot.

MySQL contd: Tables

So...here we are. I had said "tomorrow", but 3 days have passed since my last mysql post.

Databases basically consist of tables. Tables are by themselves just rows and columns but can be interpreted as whatever we want. Generally, columns specify various attributes or qualities of a particular class and rows are just records (or instances) of that class, each one having specific values for each of the attributes including NULL.

Recent Insti Exploits

I. Welcome Srinivasa:
In an attempt to buy a new bicycle, I along with my friend Sagar trod along the narrow but thickly congested streets of Velachery. After being utterly disappointed by the high price mentioned by the shopkeeper for a Photon cycle (Rs. 3600), we decided to make the evening more enjoyable.

Using emacs-jabber

A couple of days back, my friend Pradeep told me how to set up gtalk inside emacs using emacs-jabber. I am going to just repeat all those instructions as well as tell some of the things that I discovered.
Note: I don't know whether the following works for windows.

About shortening links

I was always amazed by the "short" links that people used in their tweets. So I searched around and I found this interesting website.

On bit.ly, you can shorten your long links and then share them. This is especially useful on twitter since you have only 140 characters to blabber.


Another famous website which does that is tinyurl.com. Although both work fine, I think bit.ly is more miserly when it comes to number of characters in the url.
Later.