Posts by: Kalyan Varma

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Watched X2 today. A *must* if you are a fan of X-men. The sequel is actually better then the 1st part. Trust me on it. Atleast it is not as disappointing as Matrix:Reloaded. Matrix, though they over did few parts of it, the storyline is still looking good. I just hope the 3rd part, lives up to the story 🙂 Which X2 Character Are You?

This time its the itching and running nose version of it. I look like a circus clown with a swollen red nose. and X-Men 2 is out in Bangalore today. I think I’ll catch it tomorrow.

For the past week, I’ve been trying to work with my Olympus D360L, and make it take some good pics. Its more then 3 years old and is can take only pics at 1.3 megapixel resolution. While working with it, I noticed something strange : – Few images come really really well ( Provided there is good lighting) – Few of them come pretty OK ( These are the ones with bad light, or things are just way too far away) – Few come clear, but are plain ugly ( ones with flash, where you can see only things about…

I guess jeremy_zawodny was right about the mini-bubble that is happening in the tech industry. All the companies are looking out for people to hire, Lots of new VC funding is going out, and most of all the the stocks are going up. Today Yahoo ( YHOO ) hit $30 mark. ( I never thought it would ever hit 30 so soon ). Ebay crossed the $100 mark and Amazon is doing around 30’s. Oh well, all my stock is not toilet paper afterall 🙂

It was like the 1st day… infact even better

So the much waited event happened today at Corner House. Was great to meet many of the new people. It was the usual chit-chats, socializing, Ice cream, manusb‘s moments , jace‘s obsession to take pics, itsjoy from bombay, ukj‘s crazy things, prady‘s post exam blues, and ofcourse the LJ tickets that were handed out by . Pics from my cam here. Jace, where are your pics ?

Simply one word to describe it – *Amazing* The is one of the best Linux users meet ( Blug) ever. As I was telling achitnis, it was like packing 1 day of Linux-Bangalore into 2 hours. As most of you know, this meets topic was OpenSource Databases. I learned more about databases in this 2 hours then what I have learned in the last one year. Started with botsie talking about Open source and how one should contribute back to the community which was followed with his introduction to RDBMS’s in Linux. Hareesh ( a friend of manusb) then talking…

Does anyone know when Matrix : Reloaded is hitting India ? I haven’t seen ads in newspaper/TV. Come people say its coming this weekend and then some say its not until mid-june. Just way too many spoilers all over the blogs.

Nice site to look at your network stats. From today I’ve decided to use LJ as my bookmark. 🙂