This one is about my 91 Model Maruti  Suzuki 800. My 18 year old car gives me a per liter average in the vicinity of 18.6 kilometers. The last I heard, a lot of new cars were giving an average way lower than this.

And just for the record, I drive like any other 23 year old in this part of the world, and these past few days my air-conditioner has been running too (heh, the summers are here already!).

I just lurrrvvvv my car

[To know more about Maruti 800, see wikipedia].

Hi everybody. I know it’s been a while since I dropped in here. And that too when my website was broken

But such is the life of an ambitious codie. Oh well, just fixed the site’s stylesheet. I figured that the nested anchors for nested pages were giving a cool effect, so I let it be, for the time being atleast. Enlarged the masthead to accomdate the new links properly though.

And, trimmed FreeWidgets and put themonline again, with a nice MIT style license (copied from prototype.js license. They say imitation is best form of flattery). FreeWidgets depends on the prototype framework, therefore I have included the version lying with me. However, I ghly recommend heading over to www.prototypejs.org and downloading the latest version. Have fun amigos!

And the holiday itself is for ‘Holi’, a festival celebrated with great fervour herein India. You can know more about it here on wikipedia.

Meanwhile, it seems we are finally done with the North Side Food release in office. Taking advantage of the lull, yours faithfully was given the task of creating an internal message board for employees. I looked at a couple of options, but finally settled on Drupal. So, for the past two days I’ve been playing with Drupal. And let me tell you, Drupal is amazing. I already have blogs, books and polls set up in addition to forums. Going forward all our technical documents and articles etc will be placed withing Drupal, as it provides features for threaded discussions, tags and searches of such material.

Sadly, all this activity means that BookMan development has fallen by the wayside, at least for the time being. Though I hope to do something worthwhile with that today. Let’s see what gives

So, half the weekend is gone, witha significant portion being sacrificed to las minute project spec changes, things which keep me working saturdays and make me a sad coder

Yesterday, my college LIMAT (a university now ) had an alumni meet. Needless to say your very own was there. Quite nice to take a trip down memory lane; once in a while…

However, had to leave early and go to office *sniff*.

Whatever (grumble grumble grrr mumble grumble).

Meanwhile, took a look at facebook’s new comments widget. Looks mighty attractive. Should I take the plunge? May be I will

On the other hand, my basement has been painted I however need to empty the workshop, move all the tools and stuff to the basement so that the painters can give some love to that as well. Huh, no rest for the likes of us I guess :-/

And what a wonderful feeling that is Just finished ‘Timeline’ by Michael Crichton. The cover sports a review by the Los Angeles Times saying ‘Compulsive Reading’. Let me assure you, it is. It is hard to put it down once you start reading it. It talks about time-travel through wormholes in quantum foam. Or rather, travel between different universes at different times. As always, Crichton researches his material well before writing about it

However, (more…)

At least, as far as this place is concerned. I only managed to get a new WP. Couldn’t get my CV or any other content up. Worst of all, my downloads section is down.

However, people, I have been busy. Otherwise. Don’t stone me, please, I rescued a big patch of Devil’s Ivy from certain doom (the patch is going to be sacrificed to the god of home-improvement). Now, I have 6 big pots of Devil’s Ivy in my balcony

As a bonus, I’ll be adding the CS 61A lecture 1 from UC Berkely here after this post.

Meanwhile, I’ll get the stuff here up and running as soon as I can. Pomisch!