Posts by: Kalyan Varma

Long time since I’ve made an update. This week has been very very hectic for me. Work load has gone up 1000 times, too many things came along this way, like stupid training courses etc. Today was at Mega bowl all day. Had inter group competitions. Even though my group lost, ended up having loads of fun. Nothing much other then that actually.

What are the odds …

Today was signing some data using RSA and the signature for the data came out like this <snip>MIDwYQc7qfE0Py9Fkq7bvLIj2GMKC97RhHANLkFUCK6LNmnZMAmC14gws9D</snip> Notice the word in the middle. ( ack khorgath for observing that ;))

Went to Fountainhead over the weekend, and got hold of the latest issue of Wired mag. Came across this interesting article on bloggers, also the top 10 bloggers etc. Neat read. There is also a bet (Weblogs will outrank theNew York Times Web site by 2007) running on the Long bets foundation. About Long bets Foundation : The Long Bets Foundation, a new project masterminded by Well founder Stewart Brand and Wired editor at large Kevin Kelly, hopes to raise the quality of our collective foresight by incorporating money and accountability into the process of debate. The idea is simple….

Just back from Styx. That place rulez. Bumped into the LJ gang there. mrinal and manusb ( This world sure is a small place ). Great Music ( they played my fav bands). Today Kryptos were performing there. They were simply amazing. Apperently Mrinal’s band Cryptic will be playing soon at Styx too.

Grrrr…

Looks like my car is not able to take the heat in bangalore too. Today ( 3 days after I paid 8k to fix it ) while coming to work, the engine got overheated again. Now it decides to give up right at the residency road, Brigade road intersection. if anyone was there around 1pm today, the traffic jam was coz of me ;). pushed it to near by garage and got it fixed for now. Turned out to be a electrical problem. Was really amazed by how much people help you, when you are stuck in these situations. I…

Finally got my car back today. It has been in bad shape, with AC broken and generally needed a good service. Though the service was amazing, it costed me close to 8000 bucks. I miss my bike .. was never so expensive.

These power cuts are taking the toll on me. Slept at 4 today morning. The f****** power goes off at 6. And ofcourse I could not get sleep after that. Now I am half sleepy at work ZZzzz …….