I returned to work on Thursday after 3 days off for the wedding and almost everybody asked me what I was doing in office. People told me that I should have taken off for at least a month. I had enough vacation , but my wife just cant take time off from work now. She is in the middle of some critical project ( Read more... )

I guess this will be my last entry as a Bachelor ;) I am getting married on Monday at the picturesque BR Hills , 200km off Mysore. I wish I could have taken more time off from work for the wedding. I am working from home and office, thanks to the 24 hour cable connection at home. As things stand, both of us can't take days off even after the ( Read more... )

Is it possible to get RSS feed of the friends page?

Watched Last Samurai on Friday. This movie is set in ancient Japan and seems more realistic and touching than Kill Bill. Some may find this slightly depressing.

Zeenext seems to have done something to their config. I am no longer able to connect to Yahoo Corporate firewall from home.

Win 2k is really bugging. Isnt there a 'sudo' equivalent in Win 2k? 'runas' does not work properly. It always complains about insufficient permissions :(

Will be off to Biligiri Rangana Hills during the weekend. This is about 100km from Mysore and very much a Veerappan area :) Long drive in my new car , Yummy!!

I have not posted for quite sometime. Too lazy. Taking some time off to post now.

Thanks to Khader for telling my that hostname of symonds.net has chaged to puggy.symonds.net :) Thought my account has been deactivated.

Also lot of updates - I am engaged to Kalyani. We were together in Engineering College. The engagement was on Dec 21st. The ( Read more... )

Checking if I can still blog :)

Had been to Lake Tahoe with my cousin Srinivas. Lake Tahoe is close to dead in summer. There were not many people around. Most of the beaches we went to were marked as private, so could not explore much.. The good parts of the visit were the drive and testing the cruise control in the car :))

Had been to Cheese Cake Factory , Santa Clara for dinner last night. impressive place. Yhey give the guests a pager and buzz them when a table becomes available. May be a common practice here, but first time for me. the food was great, Ate Queseidella, Pad Thai Noodles and Black-Out Cake (rich choclate cake). Black-Out cake was certainly the best.