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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!

150 Things To Do Before You Turn Thirty

Thursday, February 12, 2009

I got this from my friend Sudheendra’s site. I have seen this tag on so many blogs and why not, it’s a wonderful tag! The name is ’150 Things To Do Before You Turn Thirty’. The rules are, 1. The things you have already done – make them bold. 2. Italics is for things that [...]

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Laundry Hack

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Everybody goes through the same rigmarole. Wash your clothes on a weekly basis, and use the dryer to dry them. Then you probably iron them, before you let them hang in your closet. Hack #1: Iron Elimination If you take your clothes out as soon as it finishes drying, and hang them in your closet, [...]

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Calling Card Solution

Friday, January 2, 2009

I’ve always hated the calling card solution to call back home. You have to dial the calling card access number, then optionally type in your pin number and then dial the international number that you are trying to call. It is cumbersome, and I hate it! I use Reliance Global Call for my calling card [...]

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Kaffeine, mceusb and irexec

Saturday, December 20, 2008

I have a PVR 150 with the mceusb remote. My setup is a dual screen with an nvidia 6600GT with a monitor and a tv-out on the component out (Y – Pb – Pr; red-green-blue) working with mythfrontend running on the tv output (you can configure this in the myth setup screen). See: xorg.conf. The [...]

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Translators, an observation

Thursday, November 6, 2008

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 [...]

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