Duh! I was hoping to be Bacardi 😉
Was Holi today – unfortunately Swati is allergic to all the colours used so we prefer to keep a very low profile. Couple that with the fact that cable net was down for 9 hours.
However the day as once again saved by my darling wife – She got 2 movies to watch Freaky Chakra and Eyes Wide Shut. Deepti Naval wins over Nicole Kidman atleast for me…
(22:49:02) achitnis: https://dotnetweblogs.com/tmarman/posts/3814.aspx
https://dotnetweblogs.com/pscott/posts/3820.aspx
(22:49:24) achitnis: https://dotnetweblogs.com/JAvery/posts/3810.aspx
(22:49:49) tariquesani: looking – no wonder they were cheating on the royalty checks
Talk about misuse of resources – Finally sick of Winduhs woes I am using X over VNC, A switched network and powerful machines rock 😉
After experimenting with several Network monitoring tools have settled for Nagios for details and IPTraf for the quick and dirty work.
The efforts on configuring Nagios paid off when I could show my cable guy the outages in services in a graph and a table down to the seconds…
A nice weekend
The trees around our house and office, since last three days, have been flocked over by hundreds of Dark Throated Thrushes twittering away to glory. Since Salim Ali’s “Book of Indian Birds” does not list them identification was a challenge which we enjoyed.. …
The summer has really set in – and so has the best part of summer – the flowering of mogra bushes which are outside our house. Swati likes to have a bunch mogra flowers put in every room so the complete house is filled with that sweet sensuous aroma.
The birds also are nesting now so we are seeing a lot of them around.
Yesterday morning after a gap of nearly a year another effort to revive Nagpur LUG was made by Kanti Jadia, 6 of us met at SANIsoft office. Kanti who is a thoroughly brainwashed GNUhead was told by me that I would like to see technology as the mainstay rather than ideology. He as expected did not agree. However we did agree to find a bigger place to meet – A local polytechnic college has been suggested. If it works out then may be we will see some activity, but I don’t expect much.
P.S. Thanks to all of you who commented on my previous post
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Can just numbers describe a journal…
Can each one of you tell me why you keep a journal or a blog?
After playing briefly with Hover Desk, remembered Lite Step today, downloaded it.
WOW! I now have everything other than mouse select copy on my Winduhs desktop
Yesterday we spotted for the first time a pair of “White throated ground thrush”, today we spotted a pair of “Small blue kingfisher” near our home. The kingfisher has been spotted after a long time.
Amongst other things started playing around with network monitoring tools… …
It was ten years ago today that a series of bomb blasts ripped thru the bustling metropolis of Mumbai killing more than 250 people, injuring nearly a 1000, destroying property worth crores… …
For most the blasts are distant, inconsequential, long forgotten. Just as the events which brought on the attack and the atrocities committed after in name of investigations
I remember it vividly because by a strange quirk of fate on this very same day and time I was reaching Mumbai to meet Swati. The train was delayed by 45 min. Thank God for that, had the train been on time Swati would definitely be caught in either the Air India office blast OR the Worli station blast.
It was also this very night that my brother said that Swati cannot stay at his place and that she will never be a part of the family… … Thankfully again that also has been forgotten(?) by everyone.
Swati pointed out to me – I have been avoiding coming to the office just because I am forced to work on a Winduhs machine.
Must agree that it is true and a bit childish. But on the flip side there is a lull in work and I am spending some time away from the computer which is not such a bad thing.
Not that I am doing anything productive am currently addicted to solving nonograms on my Palm (as in M505 😉 am also catching up with my sleep deficit and cricket… …
Most of yesterday was spent lazing around and building an Exo Toa for Aasim. There seems to be some problem with my site so cant upload the pictures 🙁
Today for lunch had gone to Tuli and had some fabulous sizzlers. Evening is planned with Swati’s mum making pani-puri, yum yum, slurp…
On work front looks like we are in for a bigger dose of Java. Guess thats OK as long as it is paying and we have time left to work on things we like 🙂
Love Is: Letting her sleep in the afternoon 🙂