Patanahi

Picture this: You stop at a petrol pump to fill petrol. The attenders at the pump greet you, ask you to open the petrol tank cap, one asks how much, you say full tank. The other start filling the petrol. He soon stops filling the petrol and tell you its done. He says he has filled for 200Rs. When you say you had asked to fill more, everyone starts to yell at him as ask him to fill more. One of them asks you which card you have, will ask you to show the card, or will ask you if you have "XYZ" Card. He fills how much you had asked for and gives you a bill. He gives you the amount you had asked for + 200Rs which he had filled up on the first time. Just a confusion? Think again...You were just been duped... This is what had happened. When he starts filling the petrol for the second time, he wont reset the counter. You wont be able to notice that, because you are kept busy by other attendants who ask you all those silly questions... You would have paid 200 Rs extra which goes stra...

...and what a relief... Stumbled upon Ubuntu at slashdot discussions. The comments were pretty interesting which provoked me to poke my nose into the developments in Linux... visited the ununtu site only to find some release candiate. It was also blocked since the full version was due on next day. So decided to wait for another day to download. The next day had to wait till late evening to see the full version online. Then downloaded the .iso file and decided to install it on VMWare since messing around with my office system would be a disaster. The wait was worth it... the installation process asked me a zillion less questions than my first attempt at installing RH4.1. The desktop was very much impressive and stable. Internet started working by itself. This was the biggest bottle neck in using Linux. Rest all worked with equal ease. The mail, CD writer software...everything... Even blogging this article from Ubuntu desktop... it simply simple...

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Recently Airtel activated GPRS on my cell phone by default. I first planned to disable it thinking that it was a marketing stunt to earn more revenue. But before that i planned to check what new things that are developed since i last used GPRS on my cell. So the first thing i checked was of course Google Mobile Mail which was introduced just after i had stopped using GPRS last time. It was smooth, sleek and sophisticated as expected from google. Ok done now what? Just happened to stumble upon the google earth website. To my surprise they had a java based application to download. Ok cool, downloaded and installed. When i started browsing it as as smooth as actually moving around in reality. It really rocks !!! They also have Google Mobile Search , Google Mobile News and Google Mobile Calendar . Calender was interesting but i don't use it much. I need to find a migration tool which can migrate my yahoo calender to google calender. Checked out Yahoo Mobile also, but its all PAI...

Its happening again... I am forced to letting it go... I know its not going to come back... I know it was my last chance... ... i have tried, hard, hard enough. ... i tried holding onto it. ... it flowed out of my hand like sand... My hands are empty, feels like lost i have it. lost everything... Hope its only a bad dream... Hope i wake up, gasping for breath... Hope it all ends there... ...but was that not what i had thought before... ...was i not waiting for a dream to end... ...its happening again... ...its happening again...

Change in office location... Change in Team... Change in travel time to office... Change in talk time on cell phone... Bachelor -> Getting Committed... The CHANGE IS IN...

Last Sunday saw a play Ranga Shankara. This time it was a play presented by Chennai's Theatre Nisha "What's to be Done with Sathe" directed by V Balakrishnan who is an alumnus of National School of Drama (NSD) Written by Rajeev Naik. I guess i have spoilt myself by seeing the best of theater and plays of Girish Karnard, Rajat Kapoor and likes. I had set very high expectations with this play. The previous two plays seen were monologues, this play had two characters, a husband,an ad film maker and a wife, a collage professor in English. The execution was very smooth, had around ten scenes. Each starting with either of them entering the stage and ending with an argument over one thing or the other. In between waining about this guy named Sathe, who is also a film maker who is quite successful. There is not much of a story in this play nor the twists and turns. It starts with nowhere and ends in nowhere. Nice flow and good performances.