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Rocker, philosopher, Mac lover, geek, robotics freak and an optimist. These describe me adequately, i guess!

When I find time away from my lab, I love to code my robots using java to be compatible with robocode . I also make it a point to visit Slashdot or read on Wikipedia . Of course, all this has to be done while listening to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Metallica or Pearl Jam, mostly on Shoutcast online radio .

I also like to read. Though I don’t find much time now, I generally stick to what I like, which is Ayn Rand. Let’s just hope the world heads in the right direction

2004 has been the year of the blog, and I could not be left out!

Translators, an observation

Imagine you are listening to the radio. Have you ever found it irritating that when they play translations of people speaking in a different language, they play a couple of seconds of the original person’s voice.
I was listening to PRI’s - The World on WLRH while driving the other day. It then struck me [...]

Posted 06 November 2008 § Pseudo-Random ‡ Comments (0) °

Straight Edge Razor

I’ve used Mach 3 since I started shaving. It worked well for a long time. Then, my stubbles grew thicker, and Mach 3 lost its sharpness after a few shaves. This led to unsatisfactory shaves. I switched to the the Shlick Quattro - I like this blade (i’ve been using this blade for about a [...]

Posted 26 October 2008 § Pseudo-Random ‡ Comments (0) °

Drill Here, drill now?

I’ve had a few discussions with my colleagues at work regarding the Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less campaign, mostly headed by Newt Gingrich.
I’ve tried to research this more, and have found this:
Most of this is based upon this paper:
Coats, R. Morris and Pecquet, Gary M. (2008): The effect of opening up ANWR [...]

Posted 06 August 2008 § Pseudo-Random ‡ Comments (0) °

USB Booting for Bios Update

I bought some extra RAM for my machine (it has 4GB of RAM now). However, the computer would not recognize the extra RAM. So, off I went to my motherboard manufacturer’s site and looked up possible BIOS updates.
And then, the question is…how do you update your bios without a floppy disk. I did not [...]

Posted 22 June 2008 § code ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Geocaching tools in Linux

I just bought a Garmin etrex vista hcx (phew!) handheld GPS unit, in order to use for geocaching.
This post aims to address how to send geocaching information to the Garmin GPS device over USB. We will use the excellent GPSBabel tool to perform this task.
Use either apt-get or synaptic to install gps-babel on [...]

Posted 19 April 2008 § Linux ‡ Comments (3) °