Discovered CustomizeGoogle of late. It does provide links to other sites carrying similar searches, remove ads in Google pages amongst other things. Does look pretty useful. Now for the prerequisites to customizegoogle: Firefox and Greasemonkey extension for Firefox :-)

I was coding in vim today and had to figure out the number of occurrences of a pointer dereference in my C file. So while in vim, got into the ex mode and typed ! grep -c ptr-> myfile.c. The operation then did seem to take a bit longer than what was necessary. Only then I realised the gravity of my grep. Apart from not quoting the search patern ( Read more... )

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Cry, my Beloved Bangalore!

The article contains a few interesting facts about Bangalore as well.

A couple of days back, I thought I heard a strange ringtone. Looked around to see whose mobile was ringing. But could not locate the mobile phone in question.Moved out of my cube and there perched on the window sill of the office was a Mynah bird. Apparently, the Mynah's singing did sound like a ringtone to my ears ;p. *SIGH* .Has my life become so

Some videos of the devastating tsunami can be found here. All of them have been shot by amateurs. Download and watch the videos to realize how a tsunami attack would look. Of course, you need pretty good bandwidth. Most of them are bigger than 5 MB in size.

One more post on the devastating tsunami that struck south and south-east parts of Asia the last weekend. Even as I type this, the "official" death toll is around 40,000 says a report . The images of the event have been alarming and quite shocking. The tragedy is being reported well on blogosphere as well.This blog has been up-to-date with ( Read more... )

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to be released on July 16th. *SIGH*, got to wait 6 months and 23 days more for the book.

How would skeletal systems of cartoon characters look like? Artist Michael Paulus has a few sketches here. Some of them look truly amazing.

Yesterday evening I reached my place around 8:30 PM. My landlord was out of station and had the additional responsibility of looking after the house as well. He had given me a new set of locks and keys before he left. One of them, the one that I had used to lock the gate, started acting up and however hard I tried, could not manage to open it. ( Read more... )