2:17 AM on Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Monday's here
Well, there is not much to say about it since it is not very different from the weekend that went by. Sadly we guys were at home on both days. Part due to work, part due to lack-of-transportation. But on the brighter side, I'm glad to be coding again. And I finally caught up with all the BITSians I wanted to talk to.... almost all. I'm adding to the list so its a running target ;)
Weather craziness continues
It poured, stopped raining, became sunny and dried the ground..... all in the space of one hour that we were inside the restaurant today. Some poor guys had left their convertible to bask in the sun and had to run out in the rain to save it from the elements. In the marketing words, I was thinking: "That would be a happy problem to have." :)
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1:07 AM on Friday, August 20, 2004
Things that make you go 'Hmmmm'.
Its started to rain here in Dallas suddenly. Since I arrived, the weather has been sunny and quite warm. Suddenly its raining today. And its raining continously since morning. Lets see how much more of this continues.
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7:34 PM on Sunday, August 15, 2004
Independance day.
Happy independance day to all!
Day yesterday.
Made beloved Maggi for breakfast. Had a good time at one of Dada's friends' place for lunch. Went to the Irving mall after that. Spent some good amount of time drooling on gadgets. Did a lot of window shopping. Restrained myself from doing some actual purchases now itself. Once I get to know the length of the trip, I might indulge in these later :) Stopped at the Dallas temple after leaving the mall. Grabbed some authentic Gujju dhokla and samosa nearby. Did a little Indian grocery shopping and were back. Spoke to Bua and Mangu yesterday after a long time. Was nice fun. Saw Undercover brother into the night after dinner. All in all, a nice long day.
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5:55 AM on Saturday, August 14, 2004
Reached USA.
At Dallas right now. Its pretty warm and a li'l cloudy.... Journey was peaceful more or less.
more soon
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7:25 PM on Tuesday, August 10, 2004
My birthday was great, great fun!! Thanks a ton to my friends who made it so special by being there and organizing the surprise treat. And a very big thanks to the guys who called in or mailed in and gave their wishes. But the biggest thanks of all to my fiance who made a cake for me, got some really lovely gifts (note the plural) and made me feel extremely special for all the bhaav I was getting ;)
PS: I now have 2 big Dave Barry books to enjoy! I like that guy's writings. For those who enjoy reading sarcastic humour with a lovely insight into life, you will not be disappointed to try the Miami Herald articles here. Or his blog here.
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1:48 PM on Monday, August 09, 2004
Hello world.
Just completed 25 iterations of the loop today.
(For those who did not get what that was about....
Its my 25th b'day today :)
Trip details almost confirmed. I'll be in USA this weekend. So friends and family watching this space, I'll be calling you soon!
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2:47 PM on Wednesday, August 04, 2004
Got some time to go trawling on the net....
Here are today's notable finds:
* Gmail API and a POC application here (relax, I meant 'proof of concept')
* Real player 10 released for Linux here.
* Farenheit 9/11 deceits and Michael Moore's responses.
On other notes, I'm back to using Thunderbird since I finally gave up on importing my t-bird contacts into Evolution and more importantly, because I discovered this. I'm still to complete the procedure, but it sounds great. *Just* the thing I need.
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10:37 AM on Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Documentation generators
Spent some time yesterday reading up doxygen and its usage. Also, in related work, read up a little about Javadoc. Since I might be working on Java code sometime soon, this was nice piece of information. Am quite impressed with doxygen in particular, though the Javadoc commenting style does not look very attractive to me.... (I've used a different coding style all along, so that comes more naturally even now). I think it would be wise to change habits now to use Javadoc style since that can be used (thanks to doxygen) for generating documents from several programming languages including C++. Or maybe I need to look a little deeper....
PS: Just read on a blog site about this cool phone accessory. Wow!
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