Sun - July 30, 2006
House Warming
It has been slightly more than a month since the
event i just did not get around to blogging about
it.
...We had a quite a gathering at
the place, the number was far more than we anticipated but things did go
smoothly.
Posted at 02:35 PM
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Sun - January 29, 2006
Moving to a new residence...
In fact we "discovered" that we had a whole lot
of stuff and we even did not know how we collected so many items. Mekal and I
made an initial trip with the first batch of items early
January.
...It took us about two weeks
or more to finally get all our utilities and other items sorted
out.
Posted at 10:10 PM
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Fri - October 21, 2005
Athai Mama in Europe
Athai and Mama visited us briefly for about 3
weeks this summer.
...The trip on the
whole was quite some fun.... Starting with Paradiso, Brugge, Gent (of course) ,
Brussels, Knokke and Antwerp in Belgium, Amsterdam in Holland and eventually to
Paris to see them off to Detroit.
Posted at 09:59 PM
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Mon - August 15, 2005
Raj and Dharini's new home
Take care guys and enjoy the moving in and all
the fun that goes with it.
Posted at 01:47 PM
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PodCasts
Initially i was very skeptical on podcasts but
very quickly i realized that i can now listen to so many individual broadcasters
(podcasters) who generate quite a lot of relevant and interesting content for
free. The choice is indeed spectacular from amateur to very professional and
thought provoking content and even lessons.
Posted at 12:54 PM
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Impact of blogs on me
Recently i also found that blogs help in tapping
into the experience of individuals even for ideas on planning my trips to my
vacation destinations.
...While i do
not tend to make decisions based on one blog but a general consensus among many
blogs does indeed provides feedback which in my experience has been difficult to
ignore. On the whole this new found democracy in voicing opinions is indeed a
working to be a very helpful tool in my daily life.
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Tue - July 19, 2005
First impressions on os x
Having got my powerbook, i was all filled with
excitement on how it feels to use one regularly.... I was actually thinking
that having experienced using the powerbook and os x panther briefly that was
all to it. Or so i thought , i was bracing for an anti-climax however it did
not turn out to be an anti-climax after
all.
...She managed to install and
began surfing in about 15 minutes , now that just struck me
hard.
...One of my first treats was to
launch the terminal and feel the Unix beneath and it gave me immense
satisfaction.... I found myself just experiencing joy at just using the
powerbook.... Installation of software which were mainly drag and drop was a
welcome change and it was a bit daunting to get used to the
simplicity.
...I was thinking of
retaining my old notebook (Toshiba SP 2100 Pro) around in case she would take
time to getting accustomed to the Powerbook.
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Sat
- July 16, 2005
My Powerbook
This being my first purchase experience with
Apple i was naive to believe that i will soon have my powerbook after all the
lead time indicated was 3-5 days.... Then as fate would have it there was
apparently no place on the plane that day for my powerbook it was booked on the
next flight on Feb 17th 2005, damn K&N. I was then literally tracking my
package from Shanghai to Luxembourg to Netherlands and finally on Feb 21, 2005,
3 weeks after my order my powerbook finally arrived.
Posted at 03:03 PM
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Harry Potter and the Half blood Prince
The purchase experience was actually an
anti-climax, having expected a huge crowd at the store we noticed only one
person in front of us. In fact Mekal had a HBP to call her own in under a
minute.
The return back home was
interesting though, while usually during any of our shopping trips i get to be
chivalrous and carry most of the bags home this time though i was stripped of
that privilege.
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Fri - July 15, 2005
Preparing for the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood
Prince
July 16th , 2005 was a much awaited day, no it
was not an anniversary but the release of the sixth book of Harry Potter and the
half blood prince.
...Will we get there
on time and grab a copy we have wait and see one more day...
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Wed - July 6, 2005
My switch to a Mac
A little more than 4 months ago , 10 Feb 2005 to
be precise i made a decision to switch to a Mac. While i had heard a lot about
the (legendary) ergonomics of a mac i was not convinced enough to use one let
alone buy one.... My perceptions of a Mac were shaped by my experiences with
Mac OS 9 about 6 years ago. All i remembered were that they were strange looking
brightly colored machines.
...I vaguely
remember that it started around Jan 2005 when i was on the lookout for a new
notebook. Out of curiosity i started to learn more about OS X, i was hooked
though still was not convinced to buy one.... The mere thought of having the
power of Unix was enough to kindle a strong liking for the Mac.... Even then i
was also planning on having it dual boot onto Linux (Debian) as i really wanted
to work with Unix more.
It was a
painful 2 months when all i was doing was reading up all about OS X and hanging
around in Mac forums trying to decide if i should move to the other side. I was
only too aware of the numerous issues others faced on getting Linux on a laptop
but i was cautiously confident of having the power of Unix with me.
Posted at 10:19 PM
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Tue - July 5, 2005
Blogging
Frankly I just did not get around to it even
though i had read a lot about blogging. I now realize that there is so much
information that I come across which is worth sharing and blogging helps to just
do that. In many cases the ideas dont require an entire article anyway.... A
lot of my colleagues, friends and family members have taken to this form of
communication to keep in touch and communicate with each other.
Posted at 10:18 PM
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