tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68973662012-01-21T02:16:59.920+05:30.. from the flickering tube .. of the flickering tube .. by the flickering tube ..Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.comBlogger621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-29711466750925931382008-06-04T13:44:00.001+05:302008-06-04T13:46:19.501+05:30

This blog's too public .. I'm back to my private space .. don't think I'll write here often .. thanks for the people who've read and appreciated ...

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Its been a while since I've been at any serious GIG .. Well sometimes I think I'm getting old .. Last saturday good old yaminikant called up .. all charged up about the passes he had to this "rock show" . I was pretty dazed and lazed ;) till about 5:30 .. I thought of givin this "rock show" a try .. especially since I had a pass off a scrach-card during my last bottle of DSP black. We ended

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-13751511509883579812007-09-10T13:04:00.000+05:302007-09-10T13:16:05.764+05:30

Its been a year since I've been living in this City. I Don't really find a destructive potential in the population.. certailnly not like Mumbai or Kolkata. I just cant figure out why this sleepy little 'town' has been a terror target for the past couple of months . Now that I'm 'almost' a hyderabadi .. I have a little concern for this city .. Somebody should get there in the slums .. in the Old

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-85611278324626215892007-02-19T15:47:00.000+05:302007-02-19T15:52:44.856+05:30

Hello my friend, we meet againIt's been awhile, where should we begin?Feels like foreverWithin my heart are memoriesOf perfect love that you gave to meOh, I rememberWhen you are with me, I'm freeI'm careless, I believeAbove all the others we'll flyThis brings tears to my eyesMy sacrificeWe've seen our share of ups and downsOh how quickly life can turn aroundIn an instantIt feels so good to

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1162191475126920412006-10-30T12:21:00.000+05:302006-10-30T12:28:29.783+05:30

Was speeding on my 16bhp baby when i sensed something snap .. And guess what it was ! The clutch cable .. If u 've been a biker , u'd know that a clutch cable snapping in the middle of the traffic is not a very nice thing to happen .. So i made it to office on low gear .. and called up the service center .. Sometimes i tend to forget that i'm livin in India .. and There is very little/ no concept

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1161694984758974532006-10-24T18:23:00.000+05:302006-10-24T18:33:04.783+05:30

Dont see much on the blog front now .. I guess people are busy on Orkut .. Talking about some (mostly pointless ) stuff .. I'm as usual ... Chilling out .. code and wiki .. one major thing is gonna happen in my life .. Well .. let it unfold .. i'll keep my fingers crossed ..The Blog Ban by the Al Congress Qaieda has slowed down the bloggers i guess and the timely entry of orkut has contributed ..

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I just heard the news today It seems my life is going to change I closed my eyes, begin to pray Then tears of joy stream down my face With arms wide open Under the sunlight Welcome to this place I'll show you everything With arms wide open ... Well I don't know if I'm ready To be the man I have to be I'll take a breath, I'll take her by my side We stand in awe, we've created life

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1156758336938542042006-08-28T15:06:00.000+05:302006-08-28T15:15:36.956+05:30

Have not been blogging these days coz my ISP had not lifted the ban on blogger untill recently .. Very strange .. and whats gonna be even stranger is that this government gets another term !!Anyways .. Apart from many of my devices blowing up due to a short circuit at the meter , nothing major has happened .. Couple of new projects .. Webkrellm is my weekend project which aims at providing

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1150891049135955392006-06-21T22:53:00.000+05:302006-06-21T17:27:29.146+05:30

Its yet another browser ..  This one called Flock .. another mozilii ;)  ( from the planet mozillus)  .  surprisingly , this one seems to be pretty stable and hype free like many other mozilii .  It also has some nice features .. like integrated blogging .. i'm writin this post from within the browser :)  i.e. without using the blogger editor . life otherwise is good ... thinking of switching

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1150890567793894312006-06-21T22:45:00.000+05:302006-06-21T17:19:27.803+05:30

Flock has some nice features .. including easy blogging ..  now .. whats a lynx user doing with flock? well .. times change ..

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Its been a long time since i've blogged .. a lot has happened .. most remarkably the protests against reservation and against an opportunist government .. Its started raining here in Hyd :-) some respite from the seating heat . And I'm moving in to a new apartment .. And , Now against all company policies, MY DEsktop RUNS SLACKWARE 10.2 .. hehe .. and i'm typin this in VI .. good ol' VI .. and

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Its 40.5 degrees Cent. I'm feeling like i'm in the middle of the Sahara .. I've got a sore throat and the heat is not helping at all .. On the brighter side , i've been writing some good stuff , which allows me to take the day off and hit the sack . But Should I ? .. Sometimes i feel like migrating to another place .. Its not difficult for a GSB to feel that way .. Not in a land where the

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1144016479629119252006-04-03T03:39:00.000+05:302006-04-03T12:16:04.480+05:30

Its well past 2 in the morning .. And I'm counting sheep .. Maybe because I'm missin someone .. had been talking to olivier , my french "skype friend ".. Its getting hotter in Hyderabad , its 36 deg. cent . now !! BBC is crackling int he background and the ceiling fan is blasting hot air at full speed . I installed Slackware Linux on Issac's machine today , boy he's thrilled with KDE . I love to

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1142570419675217332006-03-17T09:52:00.000+05:302006-03-17T10:10:19.736+05:30

Spent the last weekend in Goa . I've started Rediscovering Goa . I'vew lived there most of my life but i've been in some kinda shell... College , small bars , the linux community , a few beaches and a few good buddies .. thats was Goa for me.. Anywayz .. i'm back to Hyderabad .. and back to Xen and perl :) . Yesterday was kinda special .. We (Tom, Jason, Bala and me) hit "Ezee Ryder" and had a

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1140560481809784502006-02-22T03:41:00.000+05:302006-02-22T03:51:21.820+05:30

Its 4 again! :) .. And I'm right here on the desk .. Doing the stuff I always do . Am I on a night shift? NO.. I'm on the worst schedules of all .. " Flexi Time" which means .. I don't have any fixed timings .. Which also means that I could be always "playin " or I could be always at "work" .. Anyways .. Have been reading about insomnia a lot .. Hope I don't turn out one .The night is sweet

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Its 4 in the morning .. Just met Vickram online .. The city is asleep .. Just the street lights and the occasional milk van or inter state truck. Jethro Tull - "Aqualung" is playing through my headphones .. The AC vent is humming overhead .. I can hear each strum of the guitar strings .. I'm sleepy as the code flickers on the screen .. Sometimes I wonder if the screen is tired of staring at

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1140089547624689512006-02-16T16:48:00.000+05:302006-02-16T17:02:27.633+05:30

I 've been listening to a lot of oldies these days .. Thanks to Radio Colorado which streams (128Kbps ) the good old 80's and 70's using a Shoutcast server .. And so my daily dose of music NOW includes Jimi Hendrix, The Beetles, Eric Clapton, Janis Joplin , Simon & Garfunkel ( Adwait and others please dont hate me ;) ..) Anyways, its good to just relax sometimes .. And focus on somethng

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1139207815073482362006-02-06T11:51:00.000+05:302006-02-06T12:06:55.086+05:30

Spent a lot of good "saturday time" at office playing around with "perl-SMTP" modules and got back home kinda tired .. To unwind, we decided to cook . and cook we did!!! the recipie was as follows : THIS RECIPIE IS LICENCED UNDER THE GPLI) open a chilled pint of beer .. and down it .. get a little high and go to the superstore .. get godrej real good chicken ,

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1138795890856842042006-02-01T17:30:00.000+05:302006-02-01T17:41:30.866+05:30

Its been a month since i've shifted into my new apartment .. Has anything changed? .. Yes ofcourse .. I dont have an Idiot box here!! .. I sure miss the news and the Discovery channel .. but not having the TV has its own benefits .. You get back to that old hobby of yours called "reading" .. Right now i'm in the process of finishing two books.. one called " the dtipping point and the other called

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It's yet another monday and i drag myself out of my comfy bed. Just moved into this new place a nice studio apartment . My AMD machine is humming .. ( an extra fan ;) ) and a cool morning breeze blowing through the window .. I get to the bathroom and spalsh water on my face .. its rough .. weekeend stubs .. i need to shave .. and suddenly it dawns upoun me that i dont have a mirror .. crap..The

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1136367856085589622006-01-04T14:52:00.000+05:302006-01-05T12:54:58.420+05:30

Yes I did nothing .. People racing on the roads blowing their horns like its was "end of days " , all the news channels flooded with "so called" party clippings from around the country and some desperate crimes .. And every one was doing their best to bring in 2006 .. As if it were some mammoth sitting in one place , refusing to move ..I plonked on my bed, a couple of chilled Kingfishers by my

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1134937720398899052005-12-19T01:46:00.000+05:302005-12-19T01:58:40.420+05:30

Installed skype on my slack box on friday .I had to test it, so i ran a random search of skype users online .There was a person called gregory from hungary.. I dialled in . After a couple of rings a coarse "hello" came from the other end of the line .. " i'm gregory .. how are u " the talk continued as i asked about my voice quality and so on .. then it steered towards religion . Gregory

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On a long and lonesome highway, east of OmahaYou can listen to the engine'smoanin' out it's one old songYou can think about the woman or the girlYou knew the night beforeBut your thoughts will soon be wanderingThe way they always doWhen you're ridin' sixteen hoursAnd there's nothin' much to doAnd you don't feel much like ridin'You just wish the trip was throughHere I am, On the road againThere I

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FOSS.IN was nice .. met Alan Cox there !! man he's one heck of a guy .. not an ounce of "attitude" . There were a lot of our ilug-goan's too!! DP, Fred and others .. And i made friends with this guy called Sweekar from HP . Had lots of beer together ( wonder what beer tastes like .. i havent had beer in 2 weeks!!) he he .. and thats that ..Right now i'm going home and building a linux system

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1132908015123391322005-11-25T13:46:00.000+05:302005-11-25T14:25:14.500+05:30

It was a Wednesday evening. Somehow I had this urge to eat chicken Xacuti . Now that's a tough find in Hyderabad I guess. So I decided to go to an Andhra restro and eat some "natu kodi pulusu " .. Chaitra is one place where u get good authentic Andhra food . I reached chaitra at about 7 . The place was closed . The watchman standing outside signaled at a small sign which read 7:30-10:30 . I

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1131627826194992902005-11-10T18:23:00.000+05:302005-11-14T15:00:54.666+05:30

Alan Cox is coming down , coming down , coming down .. Alan Cox is coming down so all geeks be ready . He's gonna speak on kernel mods kernel mods .. kernel mods , He's gonna speak on kernel mods , so all geeks be ready .... Alan is gonna be down for FOSS.IN (http://foss.in/2005) inbangalore (29th Nov - 2nd Dec). Good time for asking those kernel module questions or things about the ac- tree or

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1131357706017781102005-11-07T15:21:00.000+05:302005-11-07T15:37:46.466+05:30

DP has quoted some post from puneet's blog! .. man blogs can get people together i guess .. Now that the prolific blogger Puneet 's blog is well known , i would like to call it the "Dadar station " of blogs :)) ..who's the andheri station? well Uttara's blog i guess :) anyways puneet , i feel nice to be the one who introduced you to blogger .. what happened to gogoi's ( as g[ay]? as gogoi) ???

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Generals gathered in their masses,just like witches at black masses.Evil minds that plot destruction,sorcerers of death's construction.In the fields the bodies burning,as the war machine keeps turning.Death and hatred to mankind,poisoning their brainwashed minds.Politicians hide themselves away.They only started the war.Why should they go out to fight?They leave that role to the poor,Time will

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1131012473091615302005-11-03T15:30:00.000+05:302005-11-03T15:41:40.176+05:30

It was raining heavily , i scrambled into a rickshaw and pushed off to paradize circle. The place in hyderabad (secundrabad) where all the computer hardware retailers seem to be concentrated .. I already had in mind what i would buy .. an hour later i was on my way home with a sparkling new AMD Sempron 2500+ processor, a new MSI K8M800 mother board , a samsung DVD combo and transcend 256 MB DDR

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,blue skies from pain.Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?A smile from a veil?Do you think you can tell?And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?Hot ashes for trees?Hot air for a cool breeze?Cold comfort for change?And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?How I wish, how I wish you were

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1129704466333509772005-10-19T12:05:00.000+05:302005-10-19T12:17:46.340+05:30

Capitalizing on the dussera holiday, JS and other folks from office decided to hit goa. And When it's Goa , I'm the default host .. so i was in . We decided to drive the 800 odd kilometers from hyderabad. (Quite an adventurous thing to do) in the wee hours of the 12th morning we were off in an Indica . the drive was smooth leaving aside some bad stretches of road . Goa was fun as usual.. Sun Sand

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1126711027168781902005-09-14T20:42:00.000+05:302005-09-14T20:47:07.176+05:30

When I look into your eyes I can see a love restrained But darlin' when I hold you Don't you know I feel the same 'Cause nothin' lasts forever And we both know hearts can change And it's hard to hold a candle In the cold November rain We've been through this such a long long time Just tryin' to kill the pain But lovers always come and lovers always go An no one's really sure

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1126535839590055512005-09-12T20:01:00.000+05:302005-09-12T20:07:19.596+05:30

I've been reading Dan Browns "Digital Fortress" over the weekend . The book revolves around an imaginary super computer developed by the NSA called "TRANSLTR" and a unbreakable algorithm called "Digital Fortress" . Its a good read and more than the technology reflected in the book (Which has quite a few flaws) , the plot is nice. Its got all the "masala" for a Hollywood blockbuster. As far as

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1126000605955884852005-09-06T15:14:00.000+05:302005-09-06T15:26:45.963+05:30

Modern brewing began for India in the early days of the British Empire — the mid-1700s. The demand for beer in the hot Indian climate by the British administrators and the troops was so great that it led to the creation of a completely new style of beer by George Hodgson in his London brewery — India Pale Ale. IPA is a strong, highly hopped ale designed to survive the five month ocean voyage to

Blizzard of Oznoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6897366.post-1125403299972135232005-08-30T17:24:00.000+05:302005-08-30T17:31:39.976+05:30

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

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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

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a) Noneb) I think they are form planet Megadethc) Chill man .. just have some more vodka..If you can not view the image here, paste the following link in your browser windowhttp://www.ajay.o-f.com/images/bar1.jpgThis picture was taken during the annual headbangerz ball , Jan 2005 Goa

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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

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Adwait brought a virus along with him ;) and the virus found a nice host (me!).I coughed away most of yesterday morning.. Was so fed up that i downed a bottleof benadrly "bottoms up" !! an hour later , i was feeling light headed. .. pupils dialated.. seeing colourful trails of things going around me. I somehow dragged myself home .. at home i had yet another drag of codine!! the cough had

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Its monday mornin .. after the repeated wails of my cell phone trying to wake me up .. i got an eye open and just slumped back in my comfy bed. when the phone wailed again it was 9:00 !! and i was in "soup" . so i rushed for a quick shave+bath+brush combo ;) . and here i am . back at office . I plan to fly to goa somewhere in the first week of june. This place is looking quite monotonous . I

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I'ts late evening. most have left for home .. I'm sitting here in office trying to figure out some algorithm . Its been an amazing week . All that exitement and all that fun . DP(Diabolic Preacher from Ilug Goa) was down .. and I ended spending 1000 bucks for a ticket to the Joe Satriani show .. woah! too expensive i guess .. Although the stage was too far away, we still had a good time , and i

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its the name of a magazine which bunu (my best friend) dropped at my place. I noticed it when i was laying down on the bed staring at the ceiling .. something was beneath my arm .. timeout mumbai . .It gives a glance into what mumbai hep life is going towards. Its a well organised magazine with lots of useful bits of info. I liked the TV schedules and forthcomming event listings the most . They

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Gone are those days when I used to pump iron everyday . Sitting at the desk all day allows my fat account to be credited everyday :) . The Government gym at goa was a place where the roughnecks of the state would end up .. that was a place where i would really vent out and exercise. I think i have to get my self moving and burn out all that lard. Maybe thats what i need at the moment .. to

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This is yet another Thursday afternoon in an MNC in mumbai . People are looking towards the cafetaria.. Time to have lunch. I've decided to skip lunch today. Around me , in their respective cubicles are different types of people doing different kinds of things. Some are busy trying to make it obvious that they are working hard! . :) . I'm just chilling out. beneath my desk I have my

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It was on the peaceful GEC grounds that we met. Old friends REAL old friends after a long long time.. I felt asthough i had been transported back to time . When we used to trade metallica tapes and drool on the latest metal albums. The adrenalinrush has been a majot part of my life . My "home brew" 350 watt amplifier into which i plugged in one of my prized possession . A Sony diskman .

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Yesterday evening was yet another 'mumbai evening' for me.. the only difference was that memories of my childhood were playing hide and seek with me .. memories about different places and people. All in the wonderful village called saligao. I've lived in different places , but saligao still remains 'home' to my soul . I remember the saligao of the 80's , 'Padmanab building' where we lived

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The International film festival is in full swing (according to the newspapers) When i tried to access the miramar beach , ( which i would usually frequent) i couldnt get past half way . At the Patto , the traffic was diverted into a huge pot of cars and bikes and it seemd as though i would never make it to miramar. The traffic moved in small spurts . I felt like a metal coated morsel passing

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This is a small writeup by Fred on the firefox release party .. The rain gods threatened, and the Betim-Mapusa minibus almost ditched DP and friends. But they made it to Ajay's neat pad at one end of the village, that we sometimes refer to as the Beverly Hills of Saligao ;-) After some hurried programming -- the Ponda guys had to be bussed in, and the winter months means sunset

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What started with this email is today a Major operating system and has created serious dents in traditional proprietary OS Markets.For many this email Written by Linus Torvalds is an object of religious significance.This OS now runs millions of computes worldwide. The philosophy was simple "Given enough eyeballs,all bugs are shallow" this concept of releasing code enabled programmers around the

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The "ganesh festival" is comming to an end .. Mammoth idols being towed to the seaface for their final destination... Along with all the pomp and festivity comes the imminent traffic jam .. Traffic in parts of mumbai has come to a virtual stand still .. Most of the offices around mumbai have shut down early ..The Roads will be full of people dancing away to the beat of heavy drums ..Color all

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sometimes u just feel real good.. everything works ..and sometimes .. nothing does! .. well today has been the kind of day where things just wouldnt work .. there were wide misunderstandings .. on the human side .. errors in the machine side (configuration files) and maybe i just need to go back to square one and start all over again. .. The voip project is doing good .. little issues which

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Last night I had been to a Manglorian - Christian wedding . I have been to many goan weddings .. There was a distinct difference which i could notice .. The Weddings in Goa are much closer to what one would see in the hollywood movies ...In the manglorian wedding , there were distinct traces of the Hindu culture .. including a "mangalsutra " which is rare in other christian weddings ..

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These couple of weeks I have been living at breakneck speed . Just chilling out like the way i did when i first landed in Mumbai. The economic Divide of this city of mumbai is more visible to me now .. i have lost track of days .. They are just passing by whithout even caring to stop by and say hello! . I have to network with the fellow luggers in the city . The mumbai Linux Users

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I have just re-visited some of my old favourites .. one of them is textfiles.com. It is the "graveyard of the internet" . a repository of all old text files from various bbses around the web. I'm slightly numbed because of the medication .. feel as though i'm floating around in cyberspace . I also visited Eric Raymonds page . Had a glance at the "cathedral and the bazaar" My other

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It took me almost a year and half in mumbai to finally believe that angels could exist in this city so dear to the devil . Its difficult to find people even in the better parts of the world who have understood the simple principle of "Living life" . Of enjoying the smaller joys in life .. because they are the real joys of life. Even something as simple as cooking lunch for a friend can be so

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I had not yet been under the watchful eye of the GOD of probability... And he saw me .. A bad streptococcus infection made me realise the power of the biological underworld . Mumbai plays host to a plethora of viri and bacteria . Some dreaded whilst others less feared. Any potent virus which is contagious can become an epidemic in a matter of a few days in mumbai .. and one cannot escape that

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It was a nice cool day .. My first day at BG broadband .. my new company .. i had a nice cubicle with a compaq presario 2.4 and all other accessories .. The problem started when i switched on the machine it was WINDOWZE X PEE !! eeeyuuucckk .. i had to do something ! suddenly i realised i had a DSL(damn small linux) cd in my pocket .. the disk (the size of a visiting card ) usually resides in my

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testing the mail blog option .. think this is a kewl way to update blogs

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I had just finished my class .. was wondering what to do .. came down to Dadar and boarded a fast local to churchgate .. the locals going to churchgate are empty on sundays .. The breeze was blowing in the compartment .. cool breeze.. there was a woman sitting at one end .. I was going through a copy of the "free Press Journal" and wondering how this little daily woulf combat the heavyweights

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Well .. if u are in mumbai , andif u utilize local trains to travel daily, u know what i am going to write about .. the local trains of mumbai are certainly some of the unique modes of transport in the world. You can swing on , hang on , climb on and even ride on ! these lumbering electric giants .. Its 9:00 in the morning.. Goregao station .. the old overhead speakers crackle .. "

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Any one new to mumbai will immediately notice the ever expanding divide .. Its strange . the Taj and The JW mariott and likes exist along with the small time dhabas and kabab corners .. that reminds me of the kababs that i had during my first few days in mumbai .. woah .. they spawned hell inside my stomach ! :) they are far too unhealthy .. Ive setteled down to god ol Malvani food now .

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Keeping a log of events and occurences has always been an interesting thing to do . I have two diarieshttp full of events since december 1995 ! . This first post in the blog marks another attempt , this time using the web :)

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