Some people are just never happy with what they have. For them the grass is always greener on the other side… no matter what side they are on

“Flash mobs”, where people “voluntarily and simultaneously converge” to “partake in a silly and harmless activity” prompts a thought; isn’t this the elements of a DOS attack? http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/04/flash.mob/index.html

Well it seems today is World Friendship day, and I’ve been bombarded with sms messages and ecards since morning. This really annoys me. 1. If you are a friend and and care about me, then do call and speak. I’d appreciate that. Don’t just forward the same sms with funky picture on it to everyone. I feel you are just showing off your sms ascii art skills. 2. If you have to send via email, then just send a 2 liner mail (Its more appreciated then those damn Ecards) . And *Don’t* sent an Ecard to a mailing list. If…

Yesterday someone gifted 2 medium sized gold fish in a nice lookin round glass bowl. By this evening one of them died 🙁 I have a feeling they were overfed. Does anyone know how much of those small pellets should I feed em ? and also how often ? I found some info here but I still dont know how often to feed them

When did Google.co.in come up? And google is directly redirecting me to http://www.google.co.in when I try to access http://www.google.com <update> Google in Telugu,Kannada and Tamil http://www.google.com/intl/te/ http://www.google.com/intl/kn/ http://www.google.com/intl/ta/ </update>

Finally have 24×7 Internet access at home via 24online. Speeds are not all that good, but surely beats dial-up. Also I’m in a scheme with unlimited usage. Its was only 200 bucks more then the 500MB/month limit. Quite an easy setup too. I have a CAT6 cable pulled upto top of my place and a CAT5 from there to my machine. All I need a network card to hook on to the ISP. Only issue is, I have to use a client to connect. Without using the client, the router does not let any of the packets from my machine…

< after some random technical ramble related to work > other person: fair enough – did we just invent this? kalyan_va: yeah kalyan_va: what they call Ugly hack other person: All ugly hacks are potential patents. *Gulp* .. looks like its hard wired into people’s mind.. every great idea is followed with a patent. ( which in this case was just a bad lazy and ugly hack )

Loads and loads of stuff happening in my life and around me and I just cant seem to keep up with them. abiligiri, who used to work with me, moved to another group this week. Now its time to find a replacement and I have no idea how to do so. Though anand agreed to help me with stuff till I find a replacement , he will have other work. Two folks from japan had come down this week to get trained and understand some security stuff. Well all went well, except for food. For 3 days I had to…

This is the end, Beautiful friend This is the end, My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end Anand, I know you are just going to be moving few more meters away from me, but yeah it still feels odd 🙂

SCO has gone a bit too far this time. FUD, FUD and more FUD Bad enough they go after IBM and other linux vendors , now its the Linux users. They want licensing fees from every linux user and if you are a company you are forced to buy SCO UnixWare licenses , which allows to use unlimited linux within your company. Quoting the CEO from eweek : “With more than 2.4 million Linux servers running our software, and thousands more running Linux every day, we expect SCO to be compensated for the benefits realized by tens of thousands of…