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Faster Mutt

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:26:11 +0000

Mutt is surly Men’s best friend when it comes to managing huge amount of emails with Powers in hand.

Some updates which I made to my .muttrc to make my Mutt faster (on Max OSX):

set header_cache = /Volumes/ramdisk/headers
set sleep_time = 0
set timeout = 15 # idle time before scanning
set mail_check = 60 # minimum time between scans

As seen above, I am keeping the header cache on a ramdisk, it makes reading the same at least 50% faster. Create a RAM Disk of 100MB by running:

Automate offlineimap sync using Launchd on Mac OSX

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:28:00 +0000

I am now on a mutt + offlineimap setup for both my work and personal emails (love thy mutt), I will put a post later on why and how am I doing it, posting how to automatically run the offlineimap on a MacOSX (10.8) using Launchd.

Why nginx is faster than Apache

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:37:36 +0000

After doing considerable research over the Internet I found following as the major Advantages of using nginx vs using Apache.

Apache
1) Apache uses a blocking model of using threads for processing requests.
2) One thread is dedicated for serving one request.
3) The threads have to do sync with there Process so it’s a synchonous event.
4) Apache has to allocate ~1 MB per process just to start with, apache has to create process by cloning itself, consider apache with php, that itself is around 20 MB, now if apache starts 5 processes, memory footprint becomes 100 MB.
5) It’s basically useless to use threaded model on old CPUs (uni-threded).

A Simple Truth

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:23:42 +0000

How to Make Trillions of Dollars is an article which will shake your core, there is a lot of truth in there. A must read and inculcate. Couldn’t resist blogging about it.

Raspberry Pi

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:53:40 +0000

Receives my Raspberry Pi, the credit card sized ARM based computer board. Have already stared exploring what it can do. Tried the lighter versions of nginx, MySQL and WordPress on it, works like charm. Have planned to do much more, watch this space for more.

Nagios with nginx over https

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:48:57 +0000

This is the nginx conf which worked for me for running Nagios3 with nginx over https, just putting it up here for needy folks like me.
Considering following upstreams for php5-fpm and fcgiwrap:

upstream php {
	server unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}
upstream perl {
server unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
}

Airtel 3G

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:30:16 +0000

Airtel has launched it’s 3G services in Bangalore, I enabled it, it’s the first time I am using any 3G service on my any phone. Airtel delivers more than 1 mbps in normal coverage conditions on my iPhone 3GS, here are the screenshots which I took from the two Speed test Apps that I have (Ookla and Cisco):

New “Mile Sur Mera Tumhara” – Brilliant

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:24:12 +0000

Happy Republic Day to All.

And… The Marriage…

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:06:36 +0000

20, Nov. 2009.

2010

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:12:08 +0000

A New Year Has Come. Wish you all a Very Very Happy New Year.

P.S. I think Twitter is killing Blogging. My this post on my blog comes after a looooong time, apologies…

From Neha

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:35:07 +0000

Hindi

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:27:23 +0000

English

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:20:24 +0000

Nuptial

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:30:13 +0000

Well, I hope you already know by now, I am getting married on Nov 20, 2009, here is more information:

/nuptial

You are Invited, make sure you are there.

Y!ou and Yahoo!

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:38:09 +0000

Ring Ceremony

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:23:35 +0000

On Jun 27, 2009, I was handcuffed with a small ring, here are proofs:

Ring Ceremony

Communication Evolution

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:14:11 +0000

Remember those noisy modems? I still love that sound.

iPhone OS 3.0

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:16:51 +0000

Apple is all set to launch the iPhone OS 3.0, it’s the Kick Ass thing I have ever seen in the connected world. Apple is going to rule the planet with this thing in everybody’s hand, here are gory details of what’s it’s gonna cheer you with:

Bar Camp Bangalore 8

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:55:06 +0000

1234567890

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:11:58 +0000

If you are wondering what (why) the heck is this post about, 1234567890 was the Unix (epoch) time at “Sat Feb 14 05:01:30 IST 2009”. So Feb 14 is special in some other means too this year.

$ date --date=@1234567890 Sat Feb 14 05:01:30 IST 2009

When Mandy Sings “Umbrella”

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:12:23 +0000

I Loved it more than the Rihanna’s Original.

Grow Up Kids

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:53:53 +0000

Masala, Hypocrisy, Fantasy, exaggeration… Despite all this I loved Slumdog Millionaire. I have heard people slamming, slapping, doing/saying whatever they want to, and in short criticizing this movie. Our own AB is one of them. Grow up kids, accept the fact. Nobody can deny that truth is always exaggerated, but still a component of truth is TRUTH.

MyBlogLog updates on Yahoo! Profiles

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:34:14 +0000

Cheking if my blog updates show up on Y! Updates.

Update: Yes, it showed. 🙂

Oye! Amritsar

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:28:27 +0000

This is the first time in Bangalore that I really loved the food at a restaurant, that’s Oye! Amritsar on the roof of Ruby Tuesday building at Church Street near Brigade Road. It was the authentic Punjabi Food with that typical taste and presentation. I loved the Dhaba look and the various shops inside which all had a common menu.

My Blog on iPhone

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:27:51 +0000

Take a look at ScreenShots below. This is how my blog looks like when accessed from iPhone. Thanks to bravenewcode’s WPtouch.

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Posted from my iPhone.

है एक देश पाताल गया प्‍यासी धरती के लिए अमृतघट लाने को

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:11:43 +0000

सीखे नित नूतन ज्ञान,नई परिभाषाएं,
जब आग लगे,गहरी समाधि में रम जाओ;
या सिर के बल हो खडे परिक्रमा में घूमो।
ढब और कौन हैं चतुर बुद्धि-बाजीगर के?

गांधी को उल्‍टा घिसो और जो धूल झरे,
उसके प्रलेप से अपनी कुण्‍ठा के मुख पर,
ऐसी नक्‍काशी गढो कि जो देखे, बोले,
आखिर , बापू भी और बात क्‍या कहते थे?

iPhone Screenshots

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:05:34 +0000

I never thought it would be so easy to take screenshots of iPhone display screen, just a few simple steps:

Go to the display you want to take screenshot of.
Press and hold the Home button.
Quickly press the Standby button (The one on the top which is used to switch off the display. Your will hear the snap sound.
Your screenshot is taken, go to Photos and you can see it there and use it the way you want to.

The Kandhar Story

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:58:33 +0000

Kanchan Gupta a former PMO official has written a story for The Pioneer and it is bleeding the truth about Dec 25, 1999 when world’s Biggest Democracy became a frenzy of headless chickens.

Orkut or Facebook?

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:02:09 +0000

Which is better? Orkut or Facebook? What’s your opinion? I recently created my FaceBook account, Here are my points:

1) Orkut is number one in Brazil and India, but Facebook as got it’s presence in all over the world.
2) One of my relatives sent me a Facebook invite citing she is not able to open Orkut in Dubai.
3) I found almost all the friends who are on Orkut on Facebook too.
4) Orkut’s usability is better than that of Facebook.
5) Orkut is more addictive than Facebook.
6) Facebook belogs to mature people, Orkut is for Kiddies.

2009

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:01:56 +0000

Happy New Year to all. Have a great 2009.

Whole New Look

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:02:38 +0000

Rejuvenated my blog, gave a whole new look to my this 3 years old blog. I am pretty excited about it. It’s on top of WordPress 2.7.

Feedback/comments?

Ghajini

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:36:55 +0000

I watched Ghajini last weekend, I desperately want to say it’s a crap, but a few things are stopping me from doing so…

1) I loved the filming, specially when Aamir runs behind Ghajini in narrow pass-throughs.
2) My 2 cents to Kalpana (Asin), she is better than Aamir at all places.
3) Something different after a long time.
4) 3.5 hrs, seems slow but is actually not, thought of leaving during intermission, but it’s not that bad.
5) Total Action, it’s actually remake of a Tamil movie.

First Post from the new Smart Yahoo! Mail

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:53:56 +0000

This is my first post from the new Smarter Yahoo! Mail. I can post to my WordPress blog so easily right from my inbox.

It’s simply amazing.

I would love to have the Category support as well.

Yahoo! Mail’s Smart Inbox

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:02:31 +0000

Yahoo! today unveiled the Smarter Inbox, it’s pretty exciting, it give you the options to see what all your connections are doing on your ymail interface as well as share your stuff with them.

See more:
Social Control Panel
News by Ash Patel

Quantum of Solace

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:49:31 +0000

I watched Quantum of Solace last weekend, I liked the movie, it was fast enough to grab, full of action and absolutely at least 10 times better than Daniel’s last one.

As always James Bond travelled at least 6 countries and a few islands in those, the picturisation is nicer.

WordPress on iPhone

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:56:12 +0000

This is simply amazing. I am already excited even before I start writing about it. This damn pretty thing is called iPhone WordPress.

Go to the App Store om your iPhone and search wordpress, you will see this as the first result, install it, it’ free, and believe me, it’s addictive, I am already loving it.

Similar Logos – in.com and Linkedin

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:09:25 +0000

Don’t these Logos look similar?

At least the favicons, as shown on FF Tabs, look almost same.

iPhone – Love or Hate

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:38:23 +0000

I finally bought an iPhone, I bought it two days after it’s launch in India. People had already started asking me about plan to change my last cell phone because it’d already been 6 months since I did that.
I am loving it, it does not have a few basic features, I am missing the copy-paste and the message forward, but it’s a marble, hardware and usability are simply awesome. Now when I have a Official Mac, I love the marriage of an iPhone and a MacBook Pro.
I spent 750 buck and bought a rubber cover but ended up not using it, I use a sticky screen guard though.
WiFi, GPS, EDGE, 3G (Not available in India) are faster and better then all my earlier cell phones, then best in this thing is the iPod.
I am lovin’ it.

Trapped Underwater

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:47:56 +0000

A Video well done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB5mn1QxuOM

See it full.

Make Firefox 3 Set a Guinness World Record

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:05:35 +0000

Download Firefox 3 on Jun 17th, 08 and make it set a new Guinness World Record of Maximum Software Downloads on the Launch Day.

Fedora DIR Colours

Wed, 28 May 2008 03:08:41 +0000

If you are also suffering from the dark Dir Colours (Colours shown in output of ls) on Black Background on your Fedora Distro, do following:

cp /etc/DIR_COLORS ~/.dircolors

Source

Fedora 9

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:39:17 +0000

Has been launched.

My New Phone HTC Artemis (P3300)

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:14:58 +0000

Here is my new Phone, HTC Artemis (P3300). dump of specifications:

– HTC Artemis platform
– 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
– Announced 2006, September
– Dimensions: 108 x 58 x 16.8 mm
– Weight 127 g
– Display Type TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
– Size 240 x 320 pixels, 58 x 42 mm
– Handwriting recognition
– Ringtones Type Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3
– Vibration – Yes
– Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries, Photocall
– Call records Practically unlimited
– Card slot microSD (TransFlash),
– 64 MB RAM, 128 MB ROM
– Texas Instruments OMAP850 200 MHz processor
– Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
– EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
– WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
– Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
– USB – Yes
– Features OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 PocketPC
– Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
– Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (PocketIE)
– Games Yes, order now
– Colors Silver
– Camera 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, video(QCIF)
– Built-in GPS receiver
– TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 software
– Pocket Office(Word, Excel, Outlook)
– Java MIDP 2.0
– FM radio
– Voice memo
– MP3/AAC player
– Video/audio album
– Built-in handsfree
– Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1250 mAh
– Stand-by Up to 200 h
– Talk time Up to 4 h

Flock is Good

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:36:27 +0000

I used Flock for the first time today, I am impressed. It’s a nice socializer and comes with capabilities of Firefox. Amazingly beautiful.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Bangalore’ians – Get your Voter ID

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:02:58 +0000

Rishi has jotted down all the references and steps needed to get a Voter ID in Bangalore, act now an get it painlessly. The last date for getting your name on the Electoral Rolls is 22 Feb, 2008. Use your rights and use it for Good.

Pushp Ki Abhilasha | पुष्प की अभिलाषा

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:36:24 +0000

Chah Nahin Mai SurBala Ke
Gehnon Mein Guntha Jaaon
Chah Nahin Premi Mala Mein
Bindh, Pyari Ko Lalchaon

Chah Nahin Samraton Ke
Shav Par, He Hari Dala Jaaon
Chah Nahin Devon Ke Sar Par
Chadhon, Bhagya Par Itraoon

My New Phone HTC P3300 (Artemis Platform)

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:30:00 +0000

This is my new HTC Artemis Platform Phone (P3300), here is the dump of specifications:

Brindavan Garden

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:24:38 +0000

Brindavan Garden, originally uploaded by abgpt.

Brindavan Garden (near Mysore in Karnataka, India) is amazingly awe-inspiring specially in the night. This photo is of the colourful fountains which are an integral part of the beautiful garden, taken at aperture f/5.6, 10 sec shutter speed and 6 mm focal length by my Canon S3 IS.

Free Fallin’ Down

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:40:21 +0000

Free Fallin’ Down, originally uploaded by abgpt.

Falling down like hell, that was horrible… It was the Jurassic Park Roller Coaster in Universal Studios, Los Angeles, CA. The faces tell the story…

Crazy Pop-ups blocked by Firefox

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:29:43 +0000

This is Crazy… Interesting as well… see how many Pop-ups were blocked by Firefox on accessing One Single Page… Don’t know if it’s a bug in Firefox or in that site.

Got a Big Thing

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:07:10 +0000

The Cube Revamped, pic self explanatory…

GPG Key

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:10:10 +0000

Download my GPG/PGP Public key, for sending me encrypted emails, here:

/media/gpg.txt

The “iWoz”

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:14:41 +0000

Raj Shekhar writes about iWoz, I had bought this book sometime back and have read a first three chapters till now but I read that at a stretch. This book is really worth reading religiously. People who have engineering background or a family background like that will definitely try to relate the beatifully nerrated story of Apple’s Founder Steve Wozniak. I will write more when I get a respite and and complete reading this book.

Disclaimer

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:27:38 +0000

No blog is complete without a disclaimer page, here is mine.

The views published on this site are my own and do not represent any other entity unless stated otherwise. The photos/multimedia material, other then my own, can be subject to copyright ownership by their respective owners.

Night at the Museum: Saw Dick Van Dyke after a long time

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:43:21 +0000

Today I went to watch Night at the Museum and to my surprise I found Dick Van Dyke in that, was really happy to see him in a movie after a long time and he really did dance like how he danced in Mary Poppins (1964) in the end of the movie. He is also giving his voice in Curious George (2006). Dick in Mary Poppins: Dick in Night at the Museum: Night at the Museum is a B+ according to me and worth watching at least once.

FireFox 2 and Fedora Core 6

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:24:40 +0000

It’s become a common question right now that why FireFox 2 is not available on the Fedora Core 6 default package repositories? The answer seems to be on the FireFox 2 page of the Fedora Project Wiki. A small quote from this page:

motorolafans.com

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 02:05:39 +0000

How do I change my Bluetooth ID of my Moto phone, how do I sync data using SyncML, how do I increase the loudspeaker volume beyond the default maximun, how do I flash my phone with latest/custom made firmware, how do I telnet to my Linux Moto Phone, how do I telnet/ssh from my phone, what games are fully compatible with my Moto? And all the answers of all your queries… get it on motorolafans.com’s forums.

Back on Orkut

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:38:57 +0000

After giving some respite to Orkut I am back on it again, hope the scrappy thingi is not so crappy anymore. Really missed the connections with my oldies-goldies and couldn’t resist coming back.

Fedora Core 6 on Compaq Presario V2000: Running WiFi (ipw2200)

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:15:28 +0000

Today I installed FC6 on my Compaq Presario V2000, had to do some tweaks to get the WiFi running. Here is what I did:

1) Install Livna RPM Repository information:

$ rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm

2) Install ipw2200 firmware:

$ yum install ipw2200-firmware

YEP 2006

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:18:42 +0000

That’s me in YEP 2006, thanks to Sujoy for this photograph. Everything in the tag list of this post was there :). Really an Awesome Party.

Dada we need you

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:23:21 +0000

Dada we badly need you. We remember your anger for not bowling in the block hole in the slog overs, we remember you shouting at a team member for not taking a catch. Our team is handicap without you. Today when our master blaster returned to the rest room for only a single buck we thought had there been our Dada he would have at least made others make a few more runs. Dada come back.

Sanjay Dutt: Who is Almighty, The Law or God

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:15:53 +0000

In a country like India, Mera Bharat Mahan, who is almighty? Law or God. I remember when Sanjay Dutt had to go to jail in 1993 for 16 months, his father used to read Sundar kand of The Holy Ramayana almost daily just for his well being. Today, what happened, we all know. Sometimes I think that our Desh is run by the Courts only, is that true? The Judges found him guilty of possessing an AK 47 that time, judge Kode declared that he is not a terrorist but he had done a crime of doing a sin of keeping a banned weapon in his suitcase. Sunill Dutt is not alive to read The Sundar Kand any more for the well being of his son but not-a-terrorist Sanjay Dutt has been escaped from being ominous for his family. The Law (Indian so-called-by-me God) is working !!!

Live CD works

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:28:05 +0000

I never took a look at any of the Live CDs, but today Ubuntu Live CD helped me write this post. I don’t know what heppened to the OSs installed on my Lappy. Trying to figure that out. 🙁

Ubuntu Live CD Works.

FOSS.IN 2006

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:55:52 +0000

FOSS.IN is here again, going to be organized from Nov 24 to 26 at IISC, Bangalore. Register Now before you have to pay double the registration fee.

FM Radio Stations in India

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:37:43 +0000

I always thought, only AIR and a few private music broadcasting companies own the public radio channels in India but after reading this…

http://www.asiawaves.net/india-fm-radio.htm

There are 11 FM Radio Stations in Bangalore and 12 in Delhi, can anybody believe that?

What is the best thing in the world?

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:12:34 +0000

If you ask me what do I want in the middle of my daily office work? What do you think would be my answer?

1) Singing “These are a few of my favorite things”?

2) Watching the whole “The Sound of Music”?

Moto Ming (A 1200) Launched in India

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:21:37 +0000

Linux powered Moto Ming (Motorola A1200) was launched in India two weeks back. It’s one of the latest Linux based Moto phones. Phone looks awesome and is too delicate to handle. After beeing in my hands for two weeks it has already got a few scratches :(. 2 MP camera, Smooth rubber coated body, translucent cover, bussiness card reader, touch screen and really great sound quality make this phone even more must to have. Ming in chinese means crystal clear and bright, this phone proves the meaning. J2ME applications are easily installable, and Yahoo! has promised to launch “Y! Go” for Motorola phones too. 🙂

My WRT54G V5 Has Linux Now

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:09:41 +0000

When I bought a Linksys WRT54G Version 5 around 10 months back I was hittng my head against the wall after learning that it runs on VxWorks instead of Linux. The playground I expected was lost. But Thanks to Jeremy who has written a VxWorks Killer and nicely documented it, I flashed my unit’s firmware with Linux based dd-wrt micro. Kudos to him, there is so much to look inside. 🙂

Contact

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 04:04:10 +0000

Use following form to drop a few words:

Fedora Helper

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:38:14 +0000

Brandon Hutchison has made excellant Fedora Helper which helps you install all the Packages which you always loved to have. Mplayer, Flash Plugin, JRE, Acrobat Reeader, Limewire and many more in one go. Just download this helper and run it and see the magic. It uses the Livna rpm repository as well as original sources of these packages.
http://brandonhutchinson.com/Fedora_Helper.html

No Quota… No Quota…

Mon, 22 May 2006 00:42:51 +0000

Today I saw finance Minister P. Chidambaram on TV saying the reservation that is already applied at various sectors has revamped southern states of India in a great way over last 45 years. Did he count how many DESERVING aspirants’ aspiration is being sabotaged every year? At least I don’t think so. What I believe is everybody in present government is blind and can not decipher what’s really going on. Why there are thousands of students, professionals, workers, homemakers, children, senior citizens are on the road these days protesting against the quota policy. This dirty politics is overshadowing the great Indian economical growth which is on it’s way. Now the reasons of Indian brain drain are quite obvious to understand. The controversial reservation policy is going to eat India’s best talent.

DIT 2003 Meet-cum-Party at Bangalore

Mon, 08 May 2006 04:14:57 +0000

On the fine day of May 7th 2006, Kammo called me and said Punetha (Rajeev) is here, come to my place and we will enjoy, I said Okhhay Sire… I’ll be there by 6… and fortunately I reached his place by 6 exactly. Now Kam said let’s have a party… do you know Dwivedi’s number, I said yeah… I have it… lemme call him… then I called him and got him to our place within half an hour… that’s cool… now we thought why not call everybody who can come down and we will have a gala time… then we called each and everyone and then… believe me… everybody came over and we had a nice time… I, Kammo, Sid, Dev, Akhilesh, Honey, Anuj, Shanky, Punetha, Dwivedi, Madhur, Ashish and so many others had a really memorable and unprecedented party-cum-meet. See Snaps Here…

Jerry visits Y! Bangalore

Wed, 03 May 2006 01:01:14 +0000

Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo! with David Filo, visited Y! Bangalore with Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel and CFO Susan Decker.

BarCamp Bangalore

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:54:09 +0000

Bangalore BarCamp was organised at Yahoo! Bangalore, a super whole-day Unconference with 150+ participation. For the uninitiated BarCamp was initiated by Ross Mayfield, Chris Messina and company in response to criticism of FooCamp which was started by Tim O’Reilly.
Here are the minutes:

Some People are Chicken…

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:58:52 +0000

Sex Egg-ucation (desi ishtyle)

Baby Chicken: Am I People?
Mother Chicken: No, you are a Chicken!
Baby Chicken: Do Chickens come from People?
Mother Chicken: No, Chickens come from eggs!
Baby Chicken: Are eggs born?
Mother Chicken: No, eggs are laid!
Baby Chicken: Are People Laid?
Mother Chicken: No, Some People are Chicken!

Flying to Home Today…

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:16:20 +0000

Flying to home tonight… Yippppppeeee… 🙂

Savanadurga Adventure Trip

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:45:40 +0000

Rafting at Savanadurga

See All Snaps

Savanadurga is a hill 67 kms away from Bangalore (India) off the Magadi road 12.919654Â° N 77.292881Â° E. It is a beautiful place surrounded with lots of greenery. It has rich medicinal value plants. It is also a house of deer, panthers, snakes and is a very popular place for bird watching.

Acme of Uncertainty

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:32:36 +0000

South African Cricket Team won the Historical Match and the Series by defeating Australia in the Last and final match at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg. Australia scored 434 playing first breaking SriLankan record of highest score in One Day Cricket and South Africa broke this record also by scoring 438 and beating Ausies. This was an absolutely extraordinary match. No one could even dream of beating such a high score. With the shower of Fours and Sixes both teams proved that Cricket is still a game of uncertainty and it will ever be the same.

Most Common Blog Services to Ping

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 03:16:54 +0000

Here is the list of most common Blog Services to Ping:

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.weblogs.se/
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Abhinav Gupta | अभिनव गुप्त

Bangalore, Karnataka 560001

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Kudos to Team India

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:14:37 +0000

Triumphatic Duo

On the fine day of 19th Feb India won the Hutch Cup by defeating Pakistan in 4 out of 5 matches. This was really a great match, those who missed it are really unlucky. The killer Mahendra Singh Dhoni was simply awesome and the Touch’em’all guy Yuvraj Singh played a fine inning. Dhoni scored 4s and 6s like it was an meteoroid shower in the end of the match whereas Yuvraj showed his great temperament by staying on the wicket for a longer time only to put some concrete in the base of this win, he was 107 not out. Overall it was a nice high adrenalin action to watch.

My Nokia 3230 Experience

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:54:38 +0000

Nokia 3230 is the latest contribution of the gadget bazaar to my pockets. I exchanged this with my old Nokia 6610 and got a pretty nice exchange price. This phone has almost every feature which one can think of, though it misses some. Blue-tooth, GPRS, MP3 Player, FM Radio, 1.3 Mega Pixel (Effectively 1.23 Mega Pixels) camera with night mode, excellent themes’ support to name a few. It’s got nice sound quality with ultra high volume of the hands-free. Nokia has improved the FM sound output quality with this handset, it’s simply amazing, stereo with pretty good bass also. Comes with 32 MB memory card which can be extended up to 1 Gigs. Low picture quality in darker sites, mono mp3 player output, slow animation rendering are the cons.
If you can live with the mono mp3 output, small crappy keypad and a bit slow rendering then this Nokia thingy can be a nice option for you.

Best of Bryan Adams

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 01:51:01 +0000

This was an unforgettable Sunday evening on the 5th day of February, 2006, when Canadian Singer Bryan Adams came to Bangalore for his third concert in India. He denied all the media, by saying that it’s his fifth trip to India, which was chanting that it’s his “Third Time Lucky” trip. 15000+ people turned up for this evening at Bangalore Palace Grounds which I moved every stone to get the tickets for. I didn’t want to miss it as I did last time when he came to Delhi. All crew was in black which seems to be their favorite/lucky concert color. He almost hypnotized everybody with is mesmerizing voice and his series of all time favorite songs like Summer of 69, Best of Me, Everything I do, Baby when you’re gone, I am ready… His last a few songs with just guitar in his hands were simply awe-inspiring. “All for Love” was one of them. A great evening in all for Bangalore ppl and the crowd, full of girls dying to touch him, enjoyed a lot. See Snaps…

Shivanasamudram Falls

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:53:11 +0000

Ooooh… whatta height… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivanasamudram

Shivanasamudram (also known as the Siva Samudram) is a waterfall in southern Karnataka, Malavalli taluk, Mandya District. The Kaveri River splits here around a small island resulting in two cascades flowing into the same pool. The western cascade is known as Gaganachukki and the eastern cascade is known as Bharachukki.

We did it…

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:41:19 +0000

FireFox 100 M downloads…

WordPress Works…

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:12:46 +0000

This was my first time with WP… I found a lot on the web about the popular blog/content management system… Did a lot of tweaking/tuning and a hell lot of things… Added Flickr, Y! status, Get Firefox, Syndication, etc things… the wp-plugin db is a heaven for those who want to add good functionalities to their blogs… I will recommend WP for bloggers… 🙂

Hello world!

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:37:23 +0000

A BIG hello to world… 🙂