beat Jeffery Friedl (of regex fame!) in the pool tournament today! full paisa vasool :D i dont care if i win in the future rounds. with that i m back to the data dungeon exterminating bugs

Pink Floyd's The Wall. The DVD that i purchased while talking to khorgath arrived today!! Cant wait to watch it ... over and over again :D

pool blues ... lost in the first round of the knock out doubles pool tournament. what a waste ... lost 5 bucks for 15 minutes of play time. maybe it was a good thing that the whole thing got over so fast. could get back to work really quickly :-P parting comment by opponents - "college was useful after all"!!!

participated in a "usability study" for the new versions of search! was a good experience. know all about usability studies at http://gooey.yahoo.com/gui/usability/procedures/labs.html (its inside the yahoo firewall). realized that yahoo takes its ui really ( Read more... )

working with boost regex. looks like it can do the job. dont know whether its fast enough though.

just cant figure why search is logging whatever it is. another night spent counting bytes :-(

posting from home after a looooong day. went shopping and stuff with vasudha. tried to get some work done ... but lots of undashed t's and undotted i's

btw mmk's post about the virus on my box at home is his usual "blowing things out of proportion" deal ;-) what was interesting for me about this virus (i havent had to deal with a virus in a couple of years now, so i dont know the "latest" fad in viruses) was that it wouldnt allow me to run the task manager! so, i had run a specific anti-virus from ( Read more... )

the search for a car continues :( called up 3 more ppl. lets see how that goes. now all i want is some contraption with 5 wheels...

well, it also has to be a top of the midsized contraption with low mileage and must be *cheap*. ;-) note emphasis on *cheap*. i work for a *cheap* company.

shall join the gang of losers maintaining a journal. i seem to be forgetting what i have been doing off late. will use this for my status reports every week!