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SFO-HKG-BOM
I flew from San Francisco to Mumbai via Hong Kong. Spent about 15 hours in Hong Kong, most of which was spent in the little fishing village of Tai'O on Lantau island. Got in to Mumbai at 2am, and spent a lot of time waiting for my bags. This time I'm going to take nvivek's advice and say that "the usual happened ( Read more... ) -
Impulsive weekend
I've done short impulsive trips in the past, but this weekend was crazy.
I got back from Boston last Monday, and as I was about to go to bed, premshree pings me on messenger about this thing happening in Seattle. I tell him that I'm sleepy and we'll talk about it tomorrow... except that he's in New Zealand, so he isn't around when I'm awake ( Read more... ) -
Electric Usage
I've been paying an average of $17.50 for electricity over the last six months. -
Raindomness
The rain came down today. It kept at it all day ( Read more... ) -
Long time no update
Just noticed that it's been over a month since my last update. It's not that there hasn't been anything to write about. I've just been tied up for most of the time, and too lazy to write for the rest of the time. If you follow my twitter stream, you'll know what I've been up to... more or less ( Read more... ) -
Green computing
We had a green computing BoF at openhackday yesterday. There were a whole bunch of ideas that popped up, but for the most part we were discussing ways to measure the power consumption by machines so that we could tell what code changes resulted in lower power utilisation, and consequently, a smaller carbon footprint ( Read more... ) -
More mac usability woes
So I plugged my camera into the Mac with the intent of uploading to flickr the last 6 photos that I'd just taken. As soon as I plug it in, iPhoto opens up, and offers to import my photos. All 1937 of them. No option to select which ones I want to upload ( Read more... ) -
Same old Orkut
Just had a look at Orkut after a very long time. They've brought in the look of facebook while retaining all the bad scalability problems they had in the past. It looks like they like providing bad service. I won't be going back there in a while.
