I am dead hungry and my stomach is too full to take anything in. Chicken and egg ?

Never send/reply mails when you’ve had only 3 hour sleep and haven’t had the morning coffee yet.

This week has been one of the most hectic one in recent months. I have written more lines of code this week, then what I have in the past 4 – 5 months. I am trying to make sure, the UI issues in my work don’t bother me ( I’m really sick of making things look pretty, and spend very little time on actual core development ). Well anyway I think I will get to try out some really cool things in the coming week, from xmldb’s to high performance process. There was a Pooja today at the new office…

There is a new vulnerability in OpenSSH, which lets anyone override the IP restrictions on the sshd server. So if you have a server running with IP Based restriction, then you might wanna fix this issue right away. More info in this CERT Report. This does not surprise me too much though. I really havent heard of too many products which actually take care of this issue. I have seen people fuck with Apache ACL’s using this. ( i.e If you have control of your name server, you can make the reverse lookup turn up as anything… so in your…

From khorgath‘s upcoming book “Google Pagerank for Dummies”, his wisdom in 3 easy steps. 1. Visit kasia‘s or jzawodn‘s blog, and leave a comment. 2. Get jace to photograph you 3. Write a Linux fundamentals tutorial LOL

Finally it rained. The smell of wet soil.. the cold breeze… nirvana. (well almost) Today I managed to leave my car keys inside and lock myself out. I tried to unlock the door, using the usual ‘sliding the metal rule’ trick. However it did not work :(. After some running around, one of the watchman nearby managed to push inside (though the door crack) a thin metal wire and used that to remove the door lock. I was amazed by how easy it is to break into cars… and there are so many freaking ways. Managed to catch today’s F1…

“With great power comes great Responsibility” – need to print this on my shirt

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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.