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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Here comes the Legal "Hafta" ...

When you get that nice pristine Offer letter, you never seem to consider an element called "tax" . The tax blues strike you only when you notice it on the pay slip .. Anyways .Paying tax is not a bad thing . Paying tax in India , the land of Scams is not avery good thing either !! . So right now i have some tax blues .. enough reason to down a kingfisher on my way back home .. ;)

I've kindof started coding the google talk perl client , but since i only work on it in my spare time , i really dont know how much time its going to take me to finish it . A "beta" should come out by next month ;) . Things are fine otherwise .. I'm getting used to the "city of Navabs" . Should be assembling an AMD machine by the next month .. Just cant live without a Linux box to happily hack with .

Friday, August 26, 2005

Cooperating with Windoze XPee

Its Friday evening .. I'm one of the few people left on this floor .Have not decided what to do with the weekend .. just chilling out .. Had a nice week , doing some perl and playing with some virtual machines. I may go to "easy rider" but the music sucks before 10:00 . So i'll stay back and so some more stuff with linux. The XP allergy has reached maximum.

I t has been about a month since i've been using Windose XP and i had to get myself some Linux :) SO here i am typing away on Cooperative linux .. Running over Windows XP !! :) And guess what i'm listening too!!! U2 !! ha! there's nothing else on this hard disk .. borrowed some u2 albums(the best i could get :( ) from the guy in the next cubicle .. .. nothing much .. good bye to August ..

..oh!! and i'm using Google talk from now on (actually i'm thinking of writing a small perl client for Google talk .. any suggestions what i should call it ? ;) ) Its based on the XMPP protocol and by far the best IM i've come across .. ( i dont care for F****ng avatars and other paraphanalia)

Friday, August 19, 2005

How many humans can u spot?


a) None

b) I think they are form planet Megadeth

c) Chill man .. just have some more vodka..




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This picture was taken during the annual headbangerz ball , Jan 2005 Goa


Friday, August 12, 2005

Turn the page

Its yet another Independence day ! . And this time i'm celebrating it in Hyderabad. I'm actually living the metallica number "Turn the page" . The days at Iqara are now fading away and its a new page in the book of my life . The guys here at Interpath are just KEWL . The best part was the H.R. attitude! . Its a phenominal shift from the Iqara H.R. politics. These guys really care about the employees and do stuff to boost morale . I guess Iqara H.R. needs a study tour of this place.

Anyways , My first week at Hyderabad seems good, There are no problems as such . I'm missin Mumbai though .. despite of the crowds the floods.. There is something magical about the city . And thats that.. here I am .. sitting on this neat desk , trying to work on some CPU capping kernel patches .. and the H.R. manager out here has planned for an Independence gig at his place tonight .. so .. there I go .. Turn the page