Harsh J

Memoirs of a QWERTY Keyboard

A digest of thoughts over the week [2009-03-15]

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  • PDF vs. CHM for technical e-books. A well made CHM is actually better than a PDF, though it’s not so portable. I’ve started liking CHM more. #
  • Take any prime number greater than 3, square it, subtract one and divide by 24. It’s always divisible! (more @ http://is.gd/mt2g and around) #
  • I guess it is due to all squares of primes being odd, and thus even upon subtraction of one. A little more thought would tell you “Why 24?”. #
  • I’m afraid I was a little wrong in my thinking. It’s more cause of the fact that every prime can be expressed as (6n+1) or (6n-1). #
  • It’s a shame, having read all the Animorphs books (by K. A. Applegate) but for the last one cause I couldn’t find it at my lending library. #
  • Ghevar is delicious. It’s one of the very few sweets I like. http://is.gd/mtNK #
  • Avira AntiVir (Free, Personal Edition) is quite good! Has detected all the infected files on the office PC and disabled them. #
  • I request for a password reset on Baywords 4 days ago. Got the mail just now. The pirate ship is slowing down! #
  • Can’t stop these FreeNode incoming packets from appearing in my syslog. Tried everything I know. #
  • I prefer having a capitalized nickname in any service I use. ‘QwertyManiac’ over ‘qwertymaniac’, but Identi.ca doesn’t seem to support it. #
  • Should have chosen the shorter ‘qwertym’ at Identi.ca. It’s not a big deal, anyway. #
  • WP’s QuickPress was impressive when I first saw it, but I’ve hardly used it at all. I guess I’m not one of those tumblrs. #
  • Subscribing to your own feed makes you think a lot about how your post would appear in the feed readers, and about its readers. Writer’s block! #
  • Watched “Adventures in Babysitting” (1987). Honestly? I only watched it for Elizabeth Shue. Medium-funny movie otherwise. #
  • LOL.cat ( http://lol.cat ) should be a domain name with great potential today. But I wonder if that site is popular. #
  • Being an rTorrent user is difficult sometimes. Need to write a script that begins rtorrent if net’s idle. I always forget to start it back up myself. #
  • Tried XFLUX on Linux. It works great! F.lux auto-controls your monitor brightness based on what time it is. http://is.gd/kbFN #
  • I’m getting good at Urban Terror Multi-player. Sign that I should stop and switch over? #
  • My current music collection is 1137 tracks long. #
  • Curse internal exams. I couldn’t attend the OSI Tech Days event in my city. #
  • Tried Teeworlds now, its a small and pretty neat multiplayer game. http://teeworlds.com #
  • Currently reading “Remnants” by ‘K.A. Applegate’. Just the last four books of the 14-part series I missed reading when I was young. #
  • I like When I Go by Emancipator. The music track’s a slow and beautiful one. It’s tagged as trip-hop/electronica on last.fm. #
  • Pencil is an interesting software for GUI sketching. Runs on Firefox as well. #
  • Some people are all ‘Hey cool, its asking my GMail ID and password, lets just give it! Wow!‘. You then recieve the side-effects of that. #
  • So many text-bins to choose from. I liked codepad.org‘s services the most. Next comes GitHub’s gists, but its slightly different. #
  • I’ve started sleeping almost 2 hours earlier than before, sort of bored of the PC. #
  • I just read the plot of “Food Boy” (2008). Who would want to watch such a ridiculous movie?! #
  • Tried new music (the trip-hop/electronica genre) – Uh Huh Her. It’s nice too, but has a pop touch to it. #
  • My “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” does not have the words “Don’t Panic” written on its cover as it claims :( #
  • Anna University revaluation results are out. http://www.annauniv.edu/result.php #
  • I WANT THIS! http://tinyurl.com/asbrbr #
  • Got my new headphones (Panasonic). Thanks to Jayahari and Anjan for it :) #
  • I suddenly feel the need of comments on a WP blog to be numbered per post, making references to them easier. #
  • I suppose some themes do have such a thing enabled. #
  • Argh, my simple priority queue implementation in C looks stupid. #
  • I’m damn confused looking at my graph code. In urgent need of some pen, paper and ten minutes of silence. #
  • Cleared system logs and freed up 800 MB. #

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March 15th, 2009 at 6:50 am

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