I have always wondered what an Indian equivalent to Rock-Papers-Scissors would be. Long long ago in school we had come up with one.
This post is just so that I never forget.
So here's how it works:
The game is Wagh-Bakri-Chaha
Wagh beats Bakri
Eats, to be precise
Bakri beats Chaha
Drinks it up ofcourse
Chaha beats Wagh
Ever had scalding hot tea spilt on you.
A note to disbelievers:
In a universe where paper beats rock, anything is possible!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Saturday, August 15, 2009
What Unites India?
A few days before our 62nd Independence Day, someone asked me this question over dinner during a treat. Needless to say like every other question ever asked to me in a restaurant this too was disposed of with spartan minimalism so that I could continue with the sumptous fare the host had to offer. However after a day of reading status messages that proclaimed their one-day patriotism I decided that the one word I had chosen back then needed a rethink. In hindsight I believe I should have chosen 2 words instead of one.
Ofcourse a pre-requisite to this would be the answer to the question 'What is India?'. On this ground although I already had a head-start. A week or so ago I had the good fortune of reading a Rushdie extract addressing the same question. For reasons I will go into later, I had decided back then India is simply the collective community which had fought for its freedom and achieved its bitter-sweet success 62 years ago on this same date. Of course by almost a clever bit of verbal jugglary I had managed to exclude our friendly neighbours, since they happen to enjoy an extra day of independence.
The need to go back to the British Raj in the quest for the identity of India is simple. Before the Raj there was no India. Ofcourse as Rushdie very aptly puts it there was a piece of land seperating Pakistan and Bangladesh but the political identity that defines India was conspicuous only by its absence. This need for a united India manifest it for the first time only when there was no other alternative to freedom from an unjust external rule. The only factor which did unite India of a cenury ago was not something internal to be found within but simply an external stimulus.
So then 62 years after ridding ourselves of our sole reason of unification the question that 'What Unites India' acquires even greater pertinance. This directly brings me to the first word that came to my mind. Sloth. To put simply what unites India is that we are too lazy to Balkanize. Ofcourse a lot of people might consider such a remark in really bad taste. The point being that every nation, community or ethnic group that ever needed freedom needed something to be free off. So what I mean to say is we prefer to stay as Indians and not as Hindus, Maharashtrians or Mumbaikars is simply because there is no reason to seperate. It is true that we dont have every thing we want, that iphone, everlasting prosperity and unshakeable peace of mind may still elude us. But none of them is good enough to float a nation-state of our own. In the absence of this good reason to seperate our sloth takes over and we are happy to remain as one.
What appeared to me then as an irrefutable argument, unfortunately had a fatal flaw which my nourishment deprived mind was unable to catch in the midst of dinner. The argument is plainly a symptomatic treatment (kind of like giving every person with a cold a dose of Tamiflu). The real question is why are we so content with what we have? The reason to this brings us a full circle to what I prefer to define as India. To reiterate India is that political entity became free of the British Raj on 15th August 1947. The reason I choose to ignore those who jumped the gun by a whole 24 hours is because it the India of the 15th August which finally adopted the Constitution we abide by. The reason why we are so happy with the things we have is that India we chose to create back then is an India of the rule of law. We choose to remain united inspite of our differences only because of the reassurance that someone wont be treated better just because they are different. I do not Balkanize because I realize that after all the effort I put into creating my very own Chiraagland I will end up living by the same rules that I live in India. Given my predisposed laziness I choose not to put in this wasted effort. So then I choose a second word to my argument: contentment.
In conclusion the next time someone asks you "What Unites India" in the middle of your dinner the reply is simply "How would a divided India make your life better?"
Ofcourse a pre-requisite to this would be the answer to the question 'What is India?'. On this ground although I already had a head-start. A week or so ago I had the good fortune of reading a Rushdie extract addressing the same question. For reasons I will go into later, I had decided back then India is simply the collective community which had fought for its freedom and achieved its bitter-sweet success 62 years ago on this same date. Of course by almost a clever bit of verbal jugglary I had managed to exclude our friendly neighbours, since they happen to enjoy an extra day of independence.
The need to go back to the British Raj in the quest for the identity of India is simple. Before the Raj there was no India. Ofcourse as Rushdie very aptly puts it there was a piece of land seperating Pakistan and Bangladesh but the political identity that defines India was conspicuous only by its absence. This need for a united India manifest it for the first time only when there was no other alternative to freedom from an unjust external rule. The only factor which did unite India of a cenury ago was not something internal to be found within but simply an external stimulus.
So then 62 years after ridding ourselves of our sole reason of unification the question that 'What Unites India' acquires even greater pertinance. This directly brings me to the first word that came to my mind. Sloth. To put simply what unites India is that we are too lazy to Balkanize. Ofcourse a lot of people might consider such a remark in really bad taste. The point being that every nation, community or ethnic group that ever needed freedom needed something to be free off. So what I mean to say is we prefer to stay as Indians and not as Hindus, Maharashtrians or Mumbaikars is simply because there is no reason to seperate. It is true that we dont have every thing we want, that iphone, everlasting prosperity and unshakeable peace of mind may still elude us. But none of them is good enough to float a nation-state of our own. In the absence of this good reason to seperate our sloth takes over and we are happy to remain as one.
What appeared to me then as an irrefutable argument, unfortunately had a fatal flaw which my nourishment deprived mind was unable to catch in the midst of dinner. The argument is plainly a symptomatic treatment (kind of like giving every person with a cold a dose of Tamiflu). The real question is why are we so content with what we have? The reason to this brings us a full circle to what I prefer to define as India. To reiterate India is that political entity became free of the British Raj on 15th August 1947. The reason I choose to ignore those who jumped the gun by a whole 24 hours is because it the India of the 15th August which finally adopted the Constitution we abide by. The reason why we are so happy with the things we have is that India we chose to create back then is an India of the rule of law. We choose to remain united inspite of our differences only because of the reassurance that someone wont be treated better just because they are different. I do not Balkanize because I realize that after all the effort I put into creating my very own Chiraagland I will end up living by the same rules that I live in India. Given my predisposed laziness I choose not to put in this wasted effort. So then I choose a second word to my argument: contentment.
In conclusion the next time someone asks you "What Unites India" in the middle of your dinner the reply is simply "How would a divided India make your life better?"
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
An Incoherent Mind and its 1000$ Toaster.
(Rant Alert: The travesty of a blog post to follow is rant. Generally this is what happens when I am angry. I yell at the top of my voice at everyone who will listen, or if I cant find a live audience I write something equally nasty for the literate few who can read. There may be some profanity)
Not so long ago in land very similar to our own lived a naive young prince unbeknownst to ways of this world. All he sought was a small chest from a land far far away. Little did know that it was guarded by a evil monster, well actually a corporation of evil monsters who had already planned to turn his dream into a nightmare hotter than Satan's fire.This is his story.
Well not really.This is just a story of an unsuspecting customer who bought what a certain company by the name HP (May the Good Lord [or the 330 million I believe in] sue their pants off) advertised to be a laptop. Little did the poor kid realize the engineering department at HP had put their green thinking hats on. They had designed the world's first battery powered portable toaster which would let you check your email. Realising that it would be hard to sell it to any market segment from right wing scientologists to morbidly obese transvestites, they decided to label this awesome new line of products as the dv series laptops. Now the real trick lay in making it look and feel like a real laptop. So you had a CPU, the LCD, the other usual frills and add ons but the real trick was the GPU.
So how did the infinite genius design this masterpiece? Well it was really simple. A leaked HP memo provides a stepwise set of instructions to follow for such design.
1. Tear your engineering degree into little pieces until you cant make the pieces any smaller.
2. Order a litre of beer for every piece of paper you now have.
3. Sit at your desk and drink it all at one go.
4. Now start work.
So what was the result?
A brand new HP toaster (or make believe laptop) that has a GPU but not a heatsink! Oh no but it doesnt end there. There is only one cooling fan for both a dual core processor and the GPU. The GPU does not even touch the metal sink, all it is in contact with is some silly heat pad.
So what's the big deal you ask? It must a tad hot. Big deal. Well it does get a bit hot. Sometimes hot enough to boil water. Some of my friends inform me thats the temperature at which most of my food cooks. Heres a screenshot for your benefit.
Well a little heat I am fine with, but the real fun starts when the substrate on which the GPU is built begins to fail at these thermal stresses. So what does this gibberish translate to in simple English? I get six screens for the price of one. Yup, thats right, the GPU malfunctions at this temperature and renders 6 screens. I have not yet mustered the courage to take a screenshot when that happens but soon I will.
Ya I know what you're thinking, so what you have 6 screens atleast you can continue work! Apart from the fact that you are clinically retarted if that was what you thought, the other important issue is a complete GPU failure in which the screens either blanks out or is filled with complete gibberish. Also add a few Blue Screens of Death when the CPU overheats because of the single fan and yes my life is set. I am the not so proud owner of a 1000$ toaster.
Btw HP has a fantastic customer service policy you might want know about as well. The combined experience of few other toaster owners hints at the following action plan at the HP end.
1. Tell user to do a ridiculous bios update which keeps the fans on at all times.
2. If problem persists refuse to acknowledge it and make the customer perform a series of completely unrelated tasks such as jumping through fiery hoops.
3.Wait till the warranty runs out.
4. Ask him to pay 400$ for a repair and then offer a 200$ repair and sucker him into agreeing.
5. Once he is suckered replace the old faulty motherboard with a new faulty motherboard with the exact same flaw. UNDERCLOCK the GPU below the HP official rating for the processor.
(HP has this policy that your case is upgraded if the same flaw recurrs within 3 months and your laptop must be replace after 3 upgrades. So the repair is aimed at getting the system to run for 3 more months)
6. Repeat process till customer moves to a different company, runs out of cash or commits suicide.
If you have just realised that you too are the proud owner of an HP toaster here's what you can do.
1. Visit the following link and get yourself informed: www.hplies.com
2. Inform other unfortunate souls like yourself.
3. Sue the bastards.
A Not So Proud Owner of an HP laptop,
Model: dv2500
GPU: nVidia 8400 Ms
Not so long ago in land very similar to our own lived a naive young prince unbeknownst to ways of this world. All he sought was a small chest from a land far far away. Little did know that it was guarded by a evil monster, well actually a corporation of evil monsters who had already planned to turn his dream into a nightmare hotter than Satan's fire.This is his story.
Well not really.This is just a story of an unsuspecting customer who bought what a certain company by the name HP (May the Good Lord [or the 330 million I believe in] sue their pants off) advertised to be a laptop. Little did the poor kid realize the engineering department at HP had put their green thinking hats on. They had designed the world's first battery powered portable toaster which would let you check your email. Realising that it would be hard to sell it to any market segment from right wing scientologists to morbidly obese transvestites, they decided to label this awesome new line of products as the dv series laptops. Now the real trick lay in making it look and feel like a real laptop. So you had a CPU, the LCD, the other usual frills and add ons but the real trick was the GPU.
So how did the infinite genius design this masterpiece? Well it was really simple. A leaked HP memo provides a stepwise set of instructions to follow for such design.
1. Tear your engineering degree into little pieces until you cant make the pieces any smaller.
2. Order a litre of beer for every piece of paper you now have.
3. Sit at your desk and drink it all at one go.
4. Now start work.
So what was the result?
A brand new HP toaster (or make believe laptop) that has a GPU but not a heatsink! Oh no but it doesnt end there. There is only one cooling fan for both a dual core processor and the GPU. The GPU does not even touch the metal sink, all it is in contact with is some silly heat pad.
So what's the big deal you ask? It must a tad hot. Big deal. Well it does get a bit hot. Sometimes hot enough to boil water. Some of my friends inform me thats the temperature at which most of my food cooks. Heres a screenshot for your benefit.
Well a little heat I am fine with, but the real fun starts when the substrate on which the GPU is built begins to fail at these thermal stresses. So what does this gibberish translate to in simple English? I get six screens for the price of one. Yup, thats right, the GPU malfunctions at this temperature and renders 6 screens. I have not yet mustered the courage to take a screenshot when that happens but soon I will.
Ya I know what you're thinking, so what you have 6 screens atleast you can continue work! Apart from the fact that you are clinically retarted if that was what you thought, the other important issue is a complete GPU failure in which the screens either blanks out or is filled with complete gibberish. Also add a few Blue Screens of Death when the CPU overheats because of the single fan and yes my life is set. I am the not so proud owner of a 1000$ toaster.
Btw HP has a fantastic customer service policy you might want know about as well. The combined experience of few other toaster owners hints at the following action plan at the HP end.
1. Tell user to do a ridiculous bios update which keeps the fans on at all times.
2. If problem persists refuse to acknowledge it and make the customer perform a series of completely unrelated tasks such as jumping through fiery hoops.
3.Wait till the warranty runs out.
4. Ask him to pay 400$ for a repair and then offer a 200$ repair and sucker him into agreeing.
5. Once he is suckered replace the old faulty motherboard with a new faulty motherboard with the exact same flaw. UNDERCLOCK the GPU below the HP official rating for the processor.
(HP has this policy that your case is upgraded if the same flaw recurrs within 3 months and your laptop must be replace after 3 upgrades. So the repair is aimed at getting the system to run for 3 more months)
6. Repeat process till customer moves to a different company, runs out of cash or commits suicide.
If you have just realised that you too are the proud owner of an HP toaster here's what you can do.
1. Visit the following link and get yourself informed: www.hplies.com
2. Inform other unfortunate souls like yourself.
3. Sue the bastards.
A Not So Proud Owner of an HP laptop,
Model: dv2500
GPU: nVidia 8400 Ms
Thursday, May 14, 2009
A PICuliar problem!
Long long ago when I created this blog I had resolved to not post anything which relates to how much fight I put into getting Object X up and running if more than 80% of the world doesn't give a damn what Object X is. However the events of last night do deserve a mention somewhere, lest I ever forget them! (Although I am sure it wont happen.)
So we begin this tale of timeless tragedy at around 8 pm on the 13th of May 2009. For some god-forsaken reason I decided to get the HiTech C compiler for PIC16 running. (Don't ask why or what). Well things began on a rather promising note and in under 15 min I was able to blink a few LEDs. Enthused by this (seemingly) successful result I decided to get the UART interrupt running and Voila it refuses to work. Finally things were getting back to normal: codes not working and uCs refusing to do as they were told. However the real issue was that I had the (almost) same code up and running in assembly. All I had done was translate it to C.
Thus began the Herculean task of finding something to lay the blame on. So the first thing I did was to read the 2 codes again and conclude that they were indeed the same. After this the only logical thing was to turn to the panacea of 21th century problems - Google. Unfortunately over an hour of massaging different search queries couldn't get the required result. On a normal day this would be a warning sign that this isnt a real problem and I had messed up somewhere but unfortunately not yesterday.
It was then time to tinker around with the code, this was slighlty more helpful than googling and I figured out that the send portion of the code was working but the recieve interrupt was being called an infinite number of times. So far so good. Now I decided to read the datasheet once more. (Another half an hour down the drain) At this point for some god-forsaken reason I was sure it was the compiler's fault.
With great conviction and a little help from Kartik I found a disassembler for the 2 hex files.
(For those of you who have battled through all this nonsense and have understood the last line I can see the incredulous looks on your faces). Thus began the grand task of studying the 2 disassemblies. I dont know why but the HiTech C compiler puts this huge chunk of "start-up" code but after an hour of reading the disassembly I finally figured out what the "start-up" code did only to realise it was absolutely nothing. Then came the real code, this was much faster . In half an hour I realised the cause of this affliction. The assembly file I had the written used a btss somewhere but the C-code dissassembly used a btsc. (For the PIC16 instruction set uninitiated they are Bit Test Skip if Set and Bit Test Skip if Clear). As is obvious I had mistranslated the assembly and forgotten to put a not where it was deserved. Ofcourse if this were it the whole episode could have been excused but as most of you can conclude by now, there is more.
Well all the UART transmits worked perfectly but I was still getting infinite receive interrupts. However wisened by the events that had just transpired it was evident that it was mostly my own doing that stuff was not working. So another read of the codes was called for and yes once again the culprit was easily (ya right!) tracked down. In a hurry I had set the entire port with the LEDs as output. By a cruel twist of fate the UART was on the same port. So I made the receive pin of the UART an input and all was fine in wonderland. I am yet to check why the data direction of the UART pins matters, but maybe later.
So after aroung 6 hours of more or less pointless effort the UART which was happily working in assembly also works in C.
Whats the moral of the story you ask?
If you cant find the fault you are looking for on google and if it takes more than an hour of debugging to find an error it means YOU have made a mistake.
So we begin this tale of timeless tragedy at around 8 pm on the 13th of May 2009. For some god-forsaken reason I decided to get the HiTech C compiler for PIC16 running. (Don't ask why or what). Well things began on a rather promising note and in under 15 min I was able to blink a few LEDs. Enthused by this (seemingly) successful result I decided to get the UART interrupt running and Voila it refuses to work. Finally things were getting back to normal: codes not working and uCs refusing to do as they were told. However the real issue was that I had the (almost) same code up and running in assembly. All I had done was translate it to C.
Thus began the Herculean task of finding something to lay the blame on. So the first thing I did was to read the 2 codes again and conclude that they were indeed the same. After this the only logical thing was to turn to the panacea of 21th century problems - Google. Unfortunately over an hour of massaging different search queries couldn't get the required result. On a normal day this would be a warning sign that this isnt a real problem and I had messed up somewhere but unfortunately not yesterday.
It was then time to tinker around with the code, this was slighlty more helpful than googling and I figured out that the send portion of the code was working but the recieve interrupt was being called an infinite number of times. So far so good. Now I decided to read the datasheet once more. (Another half an hour down the drain) At this point for some god-forsaken reason I was sure it was the compiler's fault.
With great conviction and a little help from Kartik I found a disassembler for the 2 hex files.
(For those of you who have battled through all this nonsense and have understood the last line I can see the incredulous looks on your faces). Thus began the grand task of studying the 2 disassemblies. I dont know why but the HiTech C compiler puts this huge chunk of "start-up" code but after an hour of reading the disassembly I finally figured out what the "start-up" code did only to realise it was absolutely nothing. Then came the real code, this was much faster . In half an hour I realised the cause of this affliction. The assembly file I had the written used a btss somewhere but the C-code dissassembly used a btsc. (For the PIC16 instruction set uninitiated they are Bit Test Skip if Set and Bit Test Skip if Clear). As is obvious I had mistranslated the assembly and forgotten to put a not where it was deserved. Ofcourse if this were it the whole episode could have been excused but as most of you can conclude by now, there is more.
Well all the UART transmits worked perfectly but I was still getting infinite receive interrupts. However wisened by the events that had just transpired it was evident that it was mostly my own doing that stuff was not working. So another read of the codes was called for and yes once again the culprit was easily (ya right!) tracked down. In a hurry I had set the entire port with the LEDs as output. By a cruel twist of fate the UART was on the same port. So I made the receive pin of the UART an input and all was fine in wonderland. I am yet to check why the data direction of the UART pins matters, but maybe later.
So after aroung 6 hours of more or less pointless effort the UART which was happily working in assembly also works in C.
Whats the moral of the story you ask?
If you cant find the fault you are looking for on google and if it takes more than an hour of debugging to find an error it means YOU have made a mistake.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Dance of Democracy
So it is election time once again, and this time around I get to make a difference.
But, before we begin the the usual cliches of 'How true power lies in the hands of the masses', 'How politicians have ruined this nation' and 'How politics is a profession and not social service' lets look at things from a different angle.
Therefore without much further ado we present:
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Maximum Time: 30 min
Additional Notes: This is a closed notes, closed book and closed internet examination.
1. Do you have a Voter's Card? (2 marks)
2. Have you checked your serial number in the electoral rolls? (5 marks)
3. Where is the polling booth where your name appears? (5 marks)
4. When does your constituency go to polls? (3 marks)
5. Name your Loksabha Constituency? (10 marks)
6. Name your Legislative Assembly Constituency? (5 marks)
7. How many candidates have registered from your constituency?
(10 marks for exact answer, 7 for +-2, 5 for +- 5, 0 otherwise)
8. How many of these are independents?
(5 marks for exact answer, 3 for +-5, 0 otherwise)
9. Can you name 5 political parties contesting your constituency?
(10 marks for 5, 5 for 4, 0 for 3/2, -5 otherwise)
10. Can you name any 5 candidates from your constituency?
(15 marks for 5, 10 for 4, 5 for 3, 0 otherwise)
12. Can you name atleast 1 independent?
(5 marks)
13. How many candidates have convictions or have been accused in criminal cases from your constituency?
(10 marks for exact number, 5 for +- 1, 0 otherwise)
14. Have you read the actual text of any of the election manifestos?
(15 marks for 3 or more, 10 marks for 2, 5 marks for 1, 0 otherwise)
End of Quiz
(Best of Luck)
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I really dont know whether all the contestants from my constituency are qualified to govern, but I do know that I barely managed to pass when asked whether I was fit to vote. So the next time you decide to pass the buck to your neighbourhood errant, apathectic politician do ask yourself am I any different?
Signing off,
Lok Sabha Constituency Number: 30
Legislative Assenbly Constituency Number: 181
Voter List Number: 170
Serial Number: 418
But, before we begin the the usual cliches of 'How true power lies in the hands of the masses', 'How politicians have ruined this nation' and 'How politics is a profession and not social service' lets look at things from a different angle.
Therefore without much further ado we present:
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The 15th General Elections Pop Quiz
Maximum Marks: 100 Passing Marks: 35Maximum Time: 30 min
Additional Notes: This is a closed notes, closed book and closed internet examination.
1. Do you have a Voter's Card? (2 marks)
2. Have you checked your serial number in the electoral rolls? (5 marks)
3. Where is the polling booth where your name appears? (5 marks)
4. When does your constituency go to polls? (3 marks)
5. Name your Loksabha Constituency? (10 marks)
6. Name your Legislative Assembly Constituency? (5 marks)
7. How many candidates have registered from your constituency?
(10 marks for exact answer, 7 for +-2, 5 for +- 5, 0 otherwise)
8. How many of these are independents?
(5 marks for exact answer, 3 for +-5, 0 otherwise)
9. Can you name 5 political parties contesting your constituency?
(10 marks for 5, 5 for 4, 0 for 3/2, -5 otherwise)
10. Can you name any 5 candidates from your constituency?
(15 marks for 5, 10 for 4, 5 for 3, 0 otherwise)
12. Can you name atleast 1 independent?
(5 marks)
13. How many candidates have convictions or have been accused in criminal cases from your constituency?
(10 marks for exact number, 5 for +- 1, 0 otherwise)
14. Have you read the actual text of any of the election manifestos?
(15 marks for 3 or more, 10 marks for 2, 5 marks for 1, 0 otherwise)
End of Quiz
(Best of Luck)
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I really dont know whether all the contestants from my constituency are qualified to govern, but I do know that I barely managed to pass when asked whether I was fit to vote. So the next time you decide to pass the buck to your neighbourhood errant, apathectic politician do ask yourself am I any different?
Signing off,
Lok Sabha Constituency Number: 30
Legislative Assenbly Constituency Number: 181
Voter List Number: 170
Serial Number: 418
Saturday, April 25, 2009
And we're back!
In the last 2 days 8 chats on Gtalk began with "whats new?"
"Nothing much" I meekly replied. Thats when I decided to do something about it.
Unfortunately given that my exams just got over and coupled with the fact that I am exceptionally lazy, there was precious little I was willing to do. As always things have a way of working out and an old friend pointed very politely pointed out I have a blog. So it was posting time.
Thats when it occured to me that I had changed my email id. Yup after 5 years 2.9979245e8@gmail.com (Ya I know its wrong by 8 m/s but what the heck) had lost some of its charm. I had to shift this blog to the more sober chiraag.juvekar@gmail.com. Luckily I had already ruined a nice afternoon typing balderdash into the google accounts password box in a desperate bid to recollect the password my mind refused to remember. So armed with the password that I had recovered after a notable 23 attempts I set out refurbish this dying blog-space.
"So what's new?" you ask, is it?
A new theme for the tasteful lot.
A new name to lift the curse of eternal damnation.
A decent address that I did manage to find. (Well awgn.blogspot.com is being squatted by some random chinese guy)
And a not so well thought out resolution to post atleast once a week.
"Nothing much" I meekly replied. Thats when I decided to do something about it.
Unfortunately given that my exams just got over and coupled with the fact that I am exceptionally lazy, there was precious little I was willing to do. As always things have a way of working out and an old friend pointed very politely pointed out I have a blog. So it was posting time.
Thats when it occured to me that I had changed my email id. Yup after 5 years 2.9979245e8@gmail.com (Ya I know its wrong by 8 m/s but what the heck) had lost some of its charm. I had to shift this blog to the more sober chiraag.juvekar@gmail.com. Luckily I had already ruined a nice afternoon typing balderdash into the google accounts password box in a desperate bid to recollect the password my mind refused to remember. So armed with the password that I had recovered after a notable 23 attempts I set out refurbish this dying blog-space.
"So what's new?" you ask, is it?
A new theme for the tasteful lot.
A new name to lift the curse of eternal damnation.
A decent address that I did manage to find. (Well awgn.blogspot.com is being squatted by some random chinese guy)
And a not so well thought out resolution to post atleast once a week.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
A View from the Other Side : Part 1
A View from the Other Side
A trilogy based on the events at the X - INAO camp.
(For some reason in 3.5 parts)
Sometimes also called "The Many Morals of Astro Camp".
Part 1: Well begun is barely one third done
May 3 to May 8
Day 1 :
This was the day the camp had finally begun. All seniors had arrived and true to our soon-to-be short lived form both Mehul and me got up at 8 am. The reason being breakfast (of all things breakfast). Not mine (I refuse to acknowledge the existence of anything so far fetched). But that of 50 odd astro campers.
Moral 11 : Most of the Indian population has been misled by unknown sources into believing that breakfast exists. It is very difficult to convince them otherwise :(
After this so called breakfast routine, we proceeded to the inaugral lecture.
Day 1 was a day of unexpected surprises :
1. Both I and Mehul had slept through "Powers of Ten" twice before when we were supposed to pay attention, we remained awake this time when we could officially sleep.
2. I knew very little black body physics.
3. Laptop hard-disk crash for no reasons.
When rephrased,
Moral 12 : Mehul, electronics and astro-camps don't mix. (Part A)
4. We slept in lecture no 3 and were woken up by the kids for tea. (Almost bed-tea)
5. "Sling shot effect" is an excellent lecture delivered by a divine lecturer.
Also known as,
Moral 13: If a lecture is understood by 1 student and 2 facilitators, then there is more to it than sadistic pleasure.
The last part does deserve clarification, it took us about 4 hours in the dorm with my laptop, an LCD projector and photos of sir's notes to make people see what that one hour lecture was all about. This was the winner of the "dorm session of the camp" award.
Day 2 :
Moral 14 : The fact that I have lost my voice does not imply people have lost their enthusiasm.
There were observations after the dorm session. And there was post dinner.
The next morning we overslept, missed "the breakfast" and barely managed to reach class in time.
Moral 15 : It feels nice when things get back to normal.
There were a few lectures nothing noteworthy except for the fact that the everyone hated the optics one.
Almost forgot, Vishal and Simit dropped by to say hello.
That evening was the first observation session. Given our skill with observations, the big guns had to be called. That was our first encounter with Anoop. The evening went of pretty smoothly and mostly everyone was comfortable using a telescope.
Day 3 :
This day too began with post dinner followed by some sleep.
It seems that this time around the moon had decided to play truant and the first observation outing had to be preponed. For reasons natural and unnatural this year it was at Vangani. Vangani is a small village about three hours from Mumbai by bus and it is a pretty decent observation site.
Moral 16 : Time spent in a bus is inversely proportional to square of the quality of the bus.
(Note from Munjeshwari Travels : We specialise in suspensionless busses)
Moral 17 : Busses are excellent locations for courses in literature ;)
At Vangani we met Piyush, who along with Anoop would be helping out with the observations. Vangani was where I saw Mercury for the first time. Vangani was also where I had used a telescope for the first time in my life. (Quite some time ago)
After unpacking the scopes the kids were free to do any observations they pleased. Although observations are always fun it is always troublesome when you don't have an extra telescope.
Moral 18 : A student's lecture session is a facilitators time to use the telescope.
Day 4 :
Overnight observations are not about staying awake all night. They are about choosing the right time and place to sleep. For most people this was session 3. The fault is not theirs alone.
Moral 19 : It is criminal to not provide biscuits with tea at 4am.
Around day break I was thankful we had no extra telescope. I dont know whether someone can have post dinner at 5:45, but the Pohe were welcome anyways. As we boarded the bus to leave I realized the beauty of mathematics.
Moral 20 : If a 50 seater has 46 occupants and if when horizontal an individual occupies 3 seats, then by pigeon hole principle 2 facilitaors can sleep.
As I later came to realize, thanks to a certain 10 Mpixels
Moral 21 : People who throw stones at others should not SLEEP in glass houses.
I do not really know when we reached IITB, I do not know what I did later. I do vaguely remember a co-ordinate systems lecture I mostly slept through (there was some coffee involved somewhere).
But I do think this was the day we played football. Yes I was the goal keeper and no my team did not lose.
Moral 22 : If the size of the goal is larger than the maximum span of the goal keeper, the goal keeper is expected to move.
Day 5 :
There was post dinner as H13. Although we did oversleep again, the next morning we woke up with fresh vigor. It was the day before TT1. I had given my TT1 with much anxiety.
Moral 23 : The view is indeed much better from the other side.
While the kids sat for the lectures we planned and plotted. Kedar Sir and Vahia sir had come down for the TT. By the evening the questions were finalized (thank God for the coffee shack). By the time the papers were ready, we had almost missed dinner. There was some doubt solving to be done.
Moral 24 : Spherical co-ordinate systems are never too easy for beginners.
Day 6 :
TT1 is always a funny experience. It has always been an open notes examination.
I have never seen anybody open their notes in TT1.
Nevertheless it is slightly boring when you have nothing to do for 4 hours (almost hoped I could write the test too [On third thoughts, its sometimes better to have nothing to do]).
After the test and the discussion, there was the first lab session. First by Aniket Sir, then by Vishal. I remember Vishal from my camp. He always did the labs and he did them well. Incidentally I also remember the problem he did that day (all too well). It was from my camp (Retrograding of Mars).
Moral 25 : Mistakes always seem exponentially more stupid with a linear increase in knowledge.
After the labs, it was time for some enrichment. It was a lecture on Cosmic rays. It was the lecture that went on and on till about 8:30pm. We were just in time for dinner. After that it was time for some observations. There was an OT coming soon. Something for which planning had begun quite some time ago.
A trilogy based on the events at the X - INAO camp.
(For some reason in 3.5 parts)
Sometimes also called "The Many Morals of Astro Camp".
Part 1: Well begun is barely one third done
May 3 to May 8
Day 1 :
This was the day the camp had finally begun. All seniors had arrived and true to our soon-to-be short lived form both Mehul and me got up at 8 am. The reason being breakfast (of all things breakfast). Not mine (I refuse to acknowledge the existence of anything so far fetched). But that of 50 odd astro campers.
Moral 11 : Most of the Indian population has been misled by unknown sources into believing that breakfast exists. It is very difficult to convince them otherwise :(
After this so called breakfast routine, we proceeded to the inaugral lecture.
Day 1 was a day of unexpected surprises :
1. Both I and Mehul had slept through "Powers of Ten" twice before when we were supposed to pay attention, we remained awake this time when we could officially sleep.
2. I knew very little black body physics.
3. Laptop hard-disk crash for no reasons.
When rephrased,
Moral 12 : Mehul, electronics and astro-camps don't mix. (Part A)
4. We slept in lecture no 3 and were woken up by the kids for tea. (Almost bed-tea)
5. "Sling shot effect" is an excellent lecture delivered by a divine lecturer.
Also known as,
Moral 13: If a lecture is understood by 1 student and 2 facilitators, then there is more to it than sadistic pleasure.
The last part does deserve clarification, it took us about 4 hours in the dorm with my laptop, an LCD projector and photos of sir's notes to make people see what that one hour lecture was all about. This was the winner of the "dorm session of the camp" award.
Day 2 :
Moral 14 : The fact that I have lost my voice does not imply people have lost their enthusiasm.
There were observations after the dorm session. And there was post dinner.
The next morning we overslept, missed "the breakfast" and barely managed to reach class in time.
Moral 15 : It feels nice when things get back to normal.
There were a few lectures nothing noteworthy except for the fact that the everyone hated the optics one.
Almost forgot, Vishal and Simit dropped by to say hello.
That evening was the first observation session. Given our skill with observations, the big guns had to be called. That was our first encounter with Anoop. The evening went of pretty smoothly and mostly everyone was comfortable using a telescope.
Day 3 :
This day too began with post dinner followed by some sleep.
It seems that this time around the moon had decided to play truant and the first observation outing had to be preponed. For reasons natural and unnatural this year it was at Vangani. Vangani is a small village about three hours from Mumbai by bus and it is a pretty decent observation site.
Moral 16 : Time spent in a bus is inversely proportional to square of the quality of the bus.
(Note from Munjeshwari Travels : We specialise in suspensionless busses)
Moral 17 : Busses are excellent locations for courses in literature ;)
At Vangani we met Piyush, who along with Anoop would be helping out with the observations. Vangani was where I saw Mercury for the first time. Vangani was also where I had used a telescope for the first time in my life. (Quite some time ago)
After unpacking the scopes the kids were free to do any observations they pleased. Although observations are always fun it is always troublesome when you don't have an extra telescope.
Moral 18 : A student's lecture session is a facilitators time to use the telescope.
Day 4 :
Overnight observations are not about staying awake all night. They are about choosing the right time and place to sleep. For most people this was session 3. The fault is not theirs alone.
Moral 19 : It is criminal to not provide biscuits with tea at 4am.
Around day break I was thankful we had no extra telescope. I dont know whether someone can have post dinner at 5:45, but the Pohe were welcome anyways. As we boarded the bus to leave I realized the beauty of mathematics.
Moral 20 : If a 50 seater has 46 occupants and if when horizontal an individual occupies 3 seats, then by pigeon hole principle 2 facilitaors can sleep.
As I later came to realize, thanks to a certain 10 Mpixels
Moral 21 : People who throw stones at others should not SLEEP in glass houses.
I do not really know when we reached IITB, I do not know what I did later. I do vaguely remember a co-ordinate systems lecture I mostly slept through (there was some coffee involved somewhere).
But I do think this was the day we played football. Yes I was the goal keeper and no my team did not lose.
Moral 22 : If the size of the goal is larger than the maximum span of the goal keeper, the goal keeper is expected to move.
Day 5 :
There was post dinner as H13. Although we did oversleep again, the next morning we woke up with fresh vigor. It was the day before TT1. I had given my TT1 with much anxiety.
Moral 23 : The view is indeed much better from the other side.
While the kids sat for the lectures we planned and plotted. Kedar Sir and Vahia sir had come down for the TT. By the evening the questions were finalized (thank God for the coffee shack). By the time the papers were ready, we had almost missed dinner. There was some doubt solving to be done.
Moral 24 : Spherical co-ordinate systems are never too easy for beginners.
Day 6 :
TT1 is always a funny experience. It has always been an open notes examination.
I have never seen anybody open their notes in TT1.
Nevertheless it is slightly boring when you have nothing to do for 4 hours (almost hoped I could write the test too [On third thoughts, its sometimes better to have nothing to do]).
After the test and the discussion, there was the first lab session. First by Aniket Sir, then by Vishal. I remember Vishal from my camp. He always did the labs and he did them well. Incidentally I also remember the problem he did that day (all too well). It was from my camp (Retrograding of Mars).
Moral 25 : Mistakes always seem exponentially more stupid with a linear increase in knowledge.
After the labs, it was time for some enrichment. It was a lecture on Cosmic rays. It was the lecture that went on and on till about 8:30pm. We were just in time for dinner. After that it was time for some observations. There was an OT coming soon. Something for which planning had begun quite some time ago.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
A View from the Other Side : Part 0.5
A View from the Other Side
A trilogy based on the events at the X - INAO camp.
(For some reason in 3.5 parts)
Sometimes also called "The Many Morals of Astro Camp".
Part 0.5: Before the Beginning
April 30 to May 2
Day -2
For me this year's camp began on April 30th. Not because I had to travel from some far off place to Mumbai to attend the camp but because it was around 4am on 30 April that I made the first concious effort to locate some of my Camp stuff (sky charts etc).
Which brings me to
Moral 1 : Any search expedition started after 4am is doomed to fail.
After this failed attempt I tried to console my self with a game of Warcraft, bringing us to
Moral 2 : If you try to play DOTA at 5:30 am you will most probably lose.
So after sleeping at around 6:00 am I got up at around 2:00 pm , had my bath(hereby referred to as bath 0). By the end of lunch it was already 3:30, did some work and left for IIT around 5:30pm.
Reaching IIT at around 7:30 pm I realised
Moral 3 : Time spent sleeping in a cab is time well spent.
At IIT I met Mehul (mildy frustrated I might add). It seems that while I was enjoying my mid-evening nap, he was running from pillar to post to put up the IJSO kids in their rooms and ensuring that the matresses arrived. I dumped my luggage in our room (No. 48 hereby referred to as the store-house). Entering the H-8 lounge where the Astro-Juniors were put up I came across
Moral 4 : H-8 lounge - All ventilation + Summer = Noisy Oven.
After getting all the juniors cooked to medium well-done we proceeded to H-13 Mess (No not canteen) for dinner. Dinner was good (anybody who thinks otherwise has not eaten in NSC).
After dinner we decided to have our first observation session (my first session after almost a year) bringing me to
Moral 5: I remember the sky only two months in a year (May+June).
Day -1:
At around midnight the observation got over the kids went back to the oven. And we followed to answer some doubts. There we had our first encounter with the ramaiya kind. Leading us to
Moral 6 : It is bad idea to discuss academics with anybody who enrolls into a class to get into a class.
However Day 1 did start on a good note as well. We discovered "post dinner". Post dinner is the midnight analog of breakfast. You see, my eating schedule is shifted ahead by a good 5 hours. Hence breakfast correponds to lunch, so on and so forth and finally dinner corresponds to post dinner. H13 canteen does the job surprisingly well i might add.
After barely 4 hours of sleep, I was woken up by a familliar "Chiraag Bhaiyya". Which brings me to
Moral 7 : It is futile to try to act as though you are sleeping with Senapati around. It does more harm than good.
Day 1 consisted mainly of rousing speech by Vahia Sir, a lecture by us on the basic use of calculators. Some lectures by Sagir Sheik on basic maths and ofcourse the infamous polar plotting session by us.
Moral 8 : r = 1.5*(cos (theta))^2 - 0.5 looks nice but is ridiculously difficult to imagine for 8th graders.
Day 1 is often also called the day of the exodus. It was the day when the we led the junior from the oven to the mess which they called theor home for the next 19 days. Akshay I remember had arrived by then.
By the end if the dorm session for the day it was time for some rest.
Day 0:
After having our second post dinner we went to sleep. By the time we awoke it seems one of the kids had already ran away. It took quite some tracing to figure out that he had actually left the camp.
Moral 9 : Kids should come with RFID tags.
Day 2 again was pretty dull. The basic physics was pretty basic. Well may be not for the juniors. However Day 2 is famous for a rather unconnected incident. Day 2 was the day I went to my old hostel (H3) consequently it became the day of Bath 1.
Moral 10 : It is very difficult to stay clean in any camp, especially if you are a facilitator.
A trilogy based on the events at the X - INAO camp.
(For some reason in 3.5 parts)
Sometimes also called "The Many Morals of Astro Camp".
Part 0.5: Before the Beginning
April 30 to May 2
Day -2
For me this year's camp began on April 30th. Not because I had to travel from some far off place to Mumbai to attend the camp but because it was around 4am on 30 April that I made the first concious effort to locate some of my Camp stuff (sky charts etc).
Which brings me to
Moral 1 : Any search expedition started after 4am is doomed to fail.
After this failed attempt I tried to console my self with a game of Warcraft, bringing us to
Moral 2 : If you try to play DOTA at 5:30 am you will most probably lose.
So after sleeping at around 6:00 am I got up at around 2:00 pm , had my bath(hereby referred to as bath 0). By the end of lunch it was already 3:30, did some work and left for IIT around 5:30pm.
Reaching IIT at around 7:30 pm I realised
Moral 3 : Time spent sleeping in a cab is time well spent.
At IIT I met Mehul (mildy frustrated I might add). It seems that while I was enjoying my mid-evening nap, he was running from pillar to post to put up the IJSO kids in their rooms and ensuring that the matresses arrived. I dumped my luggage in our room (No. 48 hereby referred to as the store-house). Entering the H-8 lounge where the Astro-Juniors were put up I came across
Moral 4 : H-8 lounge - All ventilation + Summer = Noisy Oven.
After getting all the juniors cooked to medium well-done we proceeded to H-13 Mess (No not canteen) for dinner. Dinner was good (anybody who thinks otherwise has not eaten in NSC).
After dinner we decided to have our first observation session (my first session after almost a year) bringing me to
Moral 5: I remember the sky only two months in a year (May+June).
Day -1:
At around midnight the observation got over the kids went back to the oven. And we followed to answer some doubts. There we had our first encounter with the ramaiya kind. Leading us to
Moral 6 : It is bad idea to discuss academics with anybody who enrolls into a class to get into a class.
However Day 1 did start on a good note as well. We discovered "post dinner". Post dinner is the midnight analog of breakfast. You see, my eating schedule is shifted ahead by a good 5 hours. Hence breakfast correponds to lunch, so on and so forth and finally dinner corresponds to post dinner. H13 canteen does the job surprisingly well i might add.
After barely 4 hours of sleep, I was woken up by a familliar "Chiraag Bhaiyya". Which brings me to
Moral 7 : It is futile to try to act as though you are sleeping with Senapati around. It does more harm than good.
Day 1 consisted mainly of rousing speech by Vahia Sir, a lecture by us on the basic use of calculators. Some lectures by Sagir Sheik on basic maths and ofcourse the infamous polar plotting session by us.
Moral 8 : r = 1.5*(cos (theta))^2 - 0.5 looks nice but is ridiculously difficult to imagine for 8th graders.
Day 1 is often also called the day of the exodus. It was the day when the we led the junior from the oven to the mess which they called theor home for the next 19 days. Akshay I remember had arrived by then.
By the end if the dorm session for the day it was time for some rest.
Day 0:
After having our second post dinner we went to sleep. By the time we awoke it seems one of the kids had already ran away. It took quite some tracing to figure out that he had actually left the camp.
Moral 9 : Kids should come with RFID tags.
Day 2 again was pretty dull. The basic physics was pretty basic. Well may be not for the juniors. However Day 2 is famous for a rather unconnected incident. Day 2 was the day I went to my old hostel (H3) consequently it became the day of Bath 1.
Moral 10 : It is very difficult to stay clean in any camp, especially if you are a facilitator.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Map of the Heavens
I have been using Starry Night for quite some time now. Almost three years if I am not mistaken. The package is very nice indeed, but a bit heavy for my old Celeron. I finally got tired of waiting an eternity for the screen to scroll.
Then I remebered a nifty package called Cartes du Ciel (CDC). CDC works on Linux and Windows. The core installer for the Windows version is around 9 MB. In addition you can download most of the standard catalogues. I'd recommend both the Hiparchos and the Tycho. If you are going to use it alongwith a telescope, I would also suggest a few of the deep sky ones. You might have to tweak the colour setting to your personal preferrences. I find the default to be very irritating.
Also if you are planning to install it on your laptop and take it outdoors there is a night vision mode is available.
One thing I find very nice is the ability to mark out telescope fields on the sky charts which makes it very easy to star hop to Messier Objects.
Enjoy your cloudless skies.
Here are some links:
Wiki Page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartes_du_Ciel
Home Page : http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/
Some Screenshots :
Telescope View
Night Vision Mode
Then I remebered a nifty package called Cartes du Ciel (CDC). CDC works on Linux and Windows. The core installer for the Windows version is around 9 MB. In addition you can download most of the standard catalogues. I'd recommend both the Hiparchos and the Tycho. If you are going to use it alongwith a telescope, I would also suggest a few of the deep sky ones. You might have to tweak the colour setting to your personal preferrences. I find the default to be very irritating.
Also if you are planning to install it on your laptop and take it outdoors there is a night vision mode is available.
One thing I find very nice is the ability to mark out telescope fields on the sky charts which makes it very easy to star hop to Messier Objects.
Enjoy your cloudless skies.
Here are some links:
Wiki Page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartes_du_Ciel
Home Page : http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/
Some Screenshots :
Telescope View
Night Vision Mode
Friday, April 18, 2008
Fractly Speaking
After using Photoshop for over three years I finally got tired of doing the same things to get a random fractal-like background. Credit for some of the frustration goes to DeviantArt.com
Seeing some of the work there I was crushed to note that my pseudo-complex designs just didn't match up.
Nonetheless with 2GB of RAM and a 2.2GHz dual core beckoning it was time to call in the big guns. Thats where I came across Apophysis. It generates amazing fractals in real-time on the basis of the transformation you select. Yes I know the description is a bit vague, but given that even I am a noob as far as this software is concerned I hope most of you guys will tolerate it.
Any way I strongly suggest downloading one of the newer (post 2.05) beta versions as most of the tutorials I found work with these.
Also to get an idea of what you can do with Apophysis I have uploaded 3 of my latest creations.
Enjoy :)
The Lady in the Water(This was touched up in PS later)
Dancing Twins
Seeing some of the work there I was crushed to note that my pseudo-complex designs just didn't match up.
Nonetheless with 2GB of RAM and a 2.2GHz dual core beckoning it was time to call in the big guns. Thats where I came across Apophysis. It generates amazing fractals in real-time on the basis of the transformation you select. Yes I know the description is a bit vague, but given that even I am a noob as far as this software is concerned I hope most of you guys will tolerate it.
Any way I strongly suggest downloading one of the newer (post 2.05) beta versions as most of the tutorials I found work with these.
Also to get an idea of what you can do with Apophysis I have uploaded 3 of my latest creations.
Enjoy :)
The Bedouin
The Lady in the Water(This was touched up in PS later)
Dancing Twins
Saturday, April 12, 2008
A Song from Beyond
A few days back while I was reading up for my Maths quiz (MA108 for those interested) I remembered a song a friend had once referred me. Its called Simple Finite Group(of Order Two) by group called Klein4. I know April Fool's is already a week old and this is no joke. In fact I personally recommend you watch it. :)
Here's the link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg
If you want the lyrics. Here they are:
http://www.stanford.edu/~lekanw/random/music/simplefinite.html
No, its not a cruel joke. Personally I did find it quite funny.
Happy listening. ;)
Here's the link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg
If you want the lyrics. Here they are:
http://www.stanford.edu/~lekanw/random/music/simplefinite.html
No, its not a cruel joke. Personally I did find it quite funny.
Happy listening. ;)
Friday, March 21, 2008
Return of the King
This blog was always damned from the start.
If you saw the time between this post and the last you would have certainly realized that by now. So one may remark what's the cause for this rousing of the Shire. The answer is simply a trip down Bagshot row or memory lane for the not so Tolkienshly inclined. It so happened that I decided that today was the day of judgment. At least for the 3069 odd unfiled emails in my mail box. So as I sat about meticulously labeling and filtering them I saw number 1543. My registration email at blogger more than a year ago. So I decided that the resolution of the month would be to try and keep this blog updated. [Experience tells me that months are better than years when it comes to resolutions ;)]
It is obvious that there is no chance what-so-ever that I may be able to recount all that happened over the past one year. But here goes my attempt:
1. I am now in IIT Bombay.
2. I try to do some tech and lit here.
3. Still love quizzing, astronomy and procrastination.
4. I am more forgetful than ever.
5. Have gotten lazier thanks to Microsoft Office 2007 which will type out these irritating list numbers for me.
6. Have maintained the same old email id for which that half of the world which knows me also hates me.
So for anybody with enough patience and fortitude; I welcome you this blog, for the king has returned
If you saw the time between this post and the last you would have certainly realized that by now. So one may remark what's the cause for this rousing of the Shire. The answer is simply a trip down Bagshot row or memory lane for the not so Tolkienshly inclined. It so happened that I decided that today was the day of judgment. At least for the 3069 odd unfiled emails in my mail box. So as I sat about meticulously labeling and filtering them I saw number 1543. My registration email at blogger more than a year ago. So I decided that the resolution of the month would be to try and keep this blog updated. [Experience tells me that months are better than years when it comes to resolutions ;)]
It is obvious that there is no chance what-so-ever that I may be able to recount all that happened over the past one year. But here goes my attempt:
1. I am now in IIT Bombay.
2. I try to do some tech and lit here.
3. Still love quizzing, astronomy and procrastination.
4. I am more forgetful than ever.
5. Have gotten lazier thanks to Microsoft Office 2007 which will type out these irritating list numbers for me.
6. Have maintained the same old email id for which that half of the world which knows me also hates me.
So for anybody with enough patience and fortitude; I welcome you this blog, for the king has returned
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Maiden Post
This post is made with the hope that those which come after it will be better than this one.
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