My Lair !!!

Starbucks Jazz

So today I have this sudden itch of updating the blog.

I am not going to the neighborhood starbucks again, not for reading atleast. I gave them a second chance today. They fucked up ... again. by playing that miserable, pathetic whining they call jazz. Well I am not against jazz specifically, but i guess coffee and jazz do not go along well. coffee keeps you awake and jazz .. face it .. makes you drowsy! not the best of the combinations especially if you're reading something already uninteresting. If it were not for the blueberry scone and the lady in red at 2 o'clock, i'd have left the place soon!

Labels: blueberry, jazz, lady in red, starbucks

New Look !

Movable Type is an excellent opensource blogging platform. This weekend I tried to transition from blogger to MT and in the process, screwed up my original blogger template.

Hence the new look :)

Dump and flush

A couple of comments from work:

Me: Hey could you reproduce the bug ?
Him: Wait, I am taking the dump.

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Abey, did you flush already ? I asked you specifically NOT to flush ...

Ofcourse, in both of the cases, they were referring to the database ;)

An upper hand

It has been a couple of weeks now that I moved to a new place and I m already fed up with my neighbor. Well, it isnt really his fault, the building itself is a pretty old structure maintained by an 80 something chinese(the landlord) who wouldnt care to replace/repair the ageing wood in the structure ... Hence, whenever the neighbor walks, the ceiling thuds. Now, thats alright but in a particular corner of the room, the wood squeaks, squeals and screeches.

Something abt my sleeping habits, I sleep at 1 and get up at 9(like you, like everyone else) and a whisper can wake me up, no alarms needed. The neighbor goes to sleep at 10 and gets up at 7. In the process of getting ready for work(probably) he wakes me up at 7. Today, I couldnt take it and half asleep, frustrated, I banged the wall twice.

He retaliated with 2 twice-louder thuds. I went back to sleep thinking ... yeah ... point noted ... you got an "upper" hand ...

So you think you're dumb ?

Sometimes, you are so into yourself, into your thoughts that you forget things arnd you ! Doesnt happen to me often, but yesterday it did ... I handed over my bus pass to the gym attendant. However, I came back to my senses while I was giving it to her,i promptly took it back, so it wasnt that embarrassing!

However, the other day ... I bought coffee, and to pay for it, I handed my gym card over! Now, as if this wasnt embarrassing enough, that girl started swiping the card! After a couple of retries, she took a close-detailed look over the card and said to me, bringing me back to my senses, that the card was a "club one" card and they only accept "Visa" or "Amex" cards there.
Feels good to know there are dumber ppl arnd in this world ;)

HTC Touch - Phone and beyond!

Update:
Consider the Iphone 3G too :)
(http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0806wdt546x/event/index.html)
for the following reasons:

better battery
push email and contacts
flush headphone jack
3G
Appstore
GPS
2.0
Multitouch
Accelerometer
Smart sensors

And the HTC Touch Pro too :)

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Long time since I posted!

My last post was about my new phone - the HTC touch, so is this! All I would say is, at this time, if you're thinking of buying a new phone ... forget the much hyped-iphone, a kid's toy-the sidekick, the executive's good for nothing blackberry ... just buy the touch!!! The touch can do everthing the above can and more ! camera, music, email, messaging you name it!

And more recently, GPS and Android !!!

I check all my email on my phone, I use http://www.nextbus.com/wireless/miniPrediction.shtml?a=sf-muni&r=30&d=23104&s=COLMTAY1&ts=4STFOL1
regularly, check news feeds, youtube etc

I got GPS working on this little beast a week before !

The first thing I did after getting GPS to work was hunting a geocache ;) I found this
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=3385d966-130a-4fa4-96ff-e7dd221b51e9

I geotag the images I take from my phone !

Using Reperion, it lets you track yourself ... live !!! check the route i took home yesterday from work here (click on the breadcrumbs checkbox) http://tracker1.reperion.com/GMap.aspx?name=mkharche
Needless to say, no need of buying a GPS for the car(which I dont have anyways ;), the car I mean ;)!

And yeah, its only a matter of time when someone comes up a full android implementation on touch !!! check this
http://it029000.massey.ac.nz/vogue/