Harsh J

Memoirs of a QWERTY Keyboard

A digest of thoughts over the week [2009-03-22]

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  • Checked out django-lfs from Google Code. Its all German, can’t understand the website. There must be an English version of it, soon. Babelfish, until then. #
  • This day, everything went against my expectations. Some of my expectations were about something bad, luckily. #
  • Something strange about the Remnants book is its similarity to the Lost TV series. Billy Weir is almost John Locke, almost. #
  • Internal exams didn’t go so bad. Managed a 74 percentage., but the evaluation does not give me many ideas on improving my score. #
  • Tried TheLastRipper, a last.fm stream to MP3 converter. http://thelastripper.com (Available on Win/Lin/OSX and uses Mono/.NET 2.0). #
  • “An option to delete all traces of visiting a certain web site: Right click on a History item and select Forget About This Site.” – Firefox 3.5b3 #
  • I also wish for a “Stop logging this website into the history” kind of option in Firefox. #
  • Mark Summerfield’s “Programming in Python 3” has released. His books on Nokia’s Qt (The Qt-C++ one with Jasmin, for example) were good. #
  • Nokia cut 1700 jobs. I wish it cut some prices too, damn. My old 6681 feels like a Pentium 2, a slowness even I have not experienced. #
  • Adding news feeds to Google Reader. It increases the feed count a lot, but my ignorance reduces this way. The Hindu’s feeds are broken, they repeat articles twice. #
  • Adding notes/comments to shared GReader items is fun. It does not have to be a comment on the website for all the visitors this way. #
  • Yahoo Mail asks way too many questions. #
  • The Burpee technique looks good, let’s try that out. I can’t do the entire 10 rounds however, not yet. #
  • Heh. “Could I borrow your car?” “Sorry, I gave it to charity last year. Could you use a gun instead?“. From the Meteor mini-series. #
  • Writing an HTTP web server in C is painful. “GET /pain HTTP/1.0\n\n”. Clients are so much easier. #
  • I finished writing a (very) simple HTTP server and client in C. There’s still lot more to explore in headers and services, but this ought to cover the academic requirements. #
  • Gave a seminar on Breakdowns in Communication. Went smooth (I think, did not get full feedback), and was my 2nd seminar. #
  • Just began to use Google’s SearchWiki and comments for links I find useful while searching for programming help. #
  • Searching for new music, in the trance/electronica genre. #
  • Wow, I didn’t know there were laws that applied over the crypto one uses. France had one till the late 90s. Apparently, US still has them for certain countries like Cuba, etc. #
  • The CPU fan’s noise was making me irritated. Giving it a good whack with the palm made it  silent. #
  • ATB‘s next album “Future Memories” releases on May 1, 2009. Putting a reminder in the calendar! #

Written by Harsh

March 22nd, 2009 at 6:50 am

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