One more beautiful Vetti Sunday 22/06/08

After an interesting week, where i broke one laptop and dropped the other into a pool, I back to the future with a desktop :))

It was really beautiful outside in the morning, so i slept till 11 :P; then got my car washed. Saw some friends for lunch.

Gas - 4.64 gallon
Full meals katufying at Saravana - $10
Last movie seen: Dasavatharam - $15
Full sized Jamba Juice & cold stone* in Afternoon - pricelessssss

*Had a Coldstone founder fav"after two weeks { Trying to sugar conscious , so I am keeping it to a "like it" size nowdays. Gets over in no time :( }

Darwins theory..

I am explaining darwins theory to a fly through a hand swatting experiment..its an advance class, where if it doesnt learn, it pays the ultimate price...

walking and music

Always find that i can walk or workout longer when i listen to good music ... why is that?

Am i feeling lucky? Am I

Put my laptop in the pool...wanted to know fi the kutty little fans there would keep it afloat :P

funny pre flight announcement

Check this link out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCX2JjqLOGk&feature=related

We could use more of this, esp with the airlines trying to charge us for everything.

Encrypt your USB drive -- More than just a Thought!

If you are holding some important information in your thumb drive, make it a point to encrypt it. As these flash drives get larger(4-8GB is common now), its only natural we tend to back up a part or most of our hard drive files to it.

There was a recent report that 1 in 7 usb drives are lost in 6 months. Encryption is easy to do and will save you a LOT of headache.

This is one of the best http://www.truecrypt.org/ and its free. Play with it. It takes about 15 minutes to set it up on multiple devices. Once its done, it is on the fly encryption, so you dont have to worry about leaving traces on your harddrive.

Cheers,
Haarith

Fitness Assessment..

Went to the 24hr fitness gym after a year. Had some for of orientation / fitness assessment. This is kind of how it went

Instructor: Did you finish your warm up?
HD: yeah .

Instructor: What did you do?
HD: Go for a Jog.

Instructor: And how long was that?
HD: 60 minutes.

Instructor: Really?
HD: No.
HD: Was more of like 30 minutes walk and 30 minutes jog.

Instructor: Really
HD: No.
HD: I just saw the clock, maybe something like 10 minutes walk 2 minutes of jogging.

Instructor: You must have some pretty good stamina
HD: Really?
Instructor: NO!

... and with that he put me through some stretching exercises. During the various moves, i kind of felt that part of my lungs, liver, kidney and legs were separating ways from me. Like they wanted to stay back as thank you gift.

GLAST has launched

After almost 2 decades of work, Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope is finally in Space. Super cool stuff designed by SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center). Keeping my fingers crossed for some "DARK MATTER" discovery.

If u want to know about gamam rays wiki/goog it..if you want to know about glast, well wiki/goog it as well :P, but this would be a good link to get started
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june18/tele-061808.html

Congrats Grads...

Stanford commencement today with Oprah delivering the commencement adrees...CONGRATs to all graduates :).

List of ppl who are getting awards: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june11/awards-061108.html

Mrtg => http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

Been working on this for a while..its amazing the stats that one can create with this tool.

Just helped set up monitoring on a couple of gaming pc's..its fun to see temp cpu and network graphs spike during a assult in unreal!!..

The documentation in the website is simple and thorough <>
If you guys are just starting on this and are stuck on something, i will be happy to help.

Cheers,
Haarith

The Incredible Hulk - 2 green giants tearing up NYC for 10$

I am guessing that this story line is as good as it can get when your entire movie is focused on someone who turns big, green and yells at everything. I went to this one pretty confident that it couldnt worse than the first movie. If the first movie left a bitter taste in your mouth and a feeling of going hulk on the director, this one is a definite relief. Darwin's theory should have made that set to go extinct :P. It was decent fun, go check it out.

Oh and i heard an interesting discussion on my way back. A couple of kids were discussing about the movie. One was wondering whether the larger you are the more stupid you become, something on lines of size being inversely proportional to intelligence. We know its not true, but its interesting to see how these movies can be of influence.

Hell, I have had someone ask me if Indians like "Monkey Brains. Effect of an Indiana Jones Movie. (And a lot of us are vegetarians !).

1, 6, 4 property

There is beautiful property in 1,6 and 4

1( N of 6) / (N of 6) 4 = 0.25 ( 1/4)

Eg: 166/664 = 1666/6664 = 16666/66664 etc = 1/4

There are another set of numbers that exhibit similar properties. Take a guess :)

The Coding Song

This is my coding song....almost like a background track to life.

http://leekspin.info/