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http://www.circleid.com/article/1039_0_1_0_C/

Argh, I can't believe I'm following up to a meme. Anyway one of my LJ friends posted a (friends only) post asking her friends to name the top 10 fictional characters who have influenced them.

My followup is long enough that I might as well blog it on my own LJ

So, here goes ...

1. Miles from Sideways by Rex Pickett - excellent book, and great ( Read more... )

I'm in San Diego for a conference. After various "interesting" conference things that'd bore 90% of the people reading this LJ to death, 'cept for a few antispammer types, I find that I have a couple of days free ( Read more... )

Dinner with shradha, thaths and jlick at Kyoto. more at http://www.livejournal.com/users/jlick/13946.html?nc=3&style=mineRead more... )

My wife Priya gave birth to a baby girl at 8:22 PM yesterday night (1/26/05)

Mother and baby are both doing good .. and I'm happy.

Right now, the kid is taking a fairly active interest in her surroundings, in the few moments she has to spare from feeding, emptying herself and sleeping. She's very cute (at least I'm not the only guy who says so ( Read more... )

Called "drivel". Looks pretty decent to me.

Upgraded my slackware to

1. Dropline Gnome 2.8.2 (as Pat Volkerding earlier decided to drop gnome from slackware)

2. The CKO patches to linux 2.6.10 (Con Kolivas Overloaded - mega patchset with ck, ac and some other patches like reiser4, shfs etc that I dont intend to try right just now)

Widespread damage, thousands of lives lost across Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India ... a tsunami swamping the beaches in Madras at just the right time to sweep away a large crowd of morning joggers ( Read more... )

Acer Travelmate 292 FxCi - intel pentium M 1.5 GHz centrino laptop, 30 gig HDD, 256K ram - and what's much more important, all of five hours in battery life, compared to the barely 2 hours my antique compaq presario was giving me ( Read more... )

Well, I'd booked myself into the Riviera Hotel Haeundae in Pusan, Korea for, you guessed it, yet another spam conference - this time a workshop organized by the OECD (http://www.oecd.org) from Sep 7 to 9.

Poking around the hotel's website, I came across this service which the ( Read more... )