abhin4v online

strong winds, a storm is coming, i hope my windows wont break

Mar 31st

listening to “Top 100 Hits of 80s”

Mar 31st

HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials |...

Mar 30th

HowtoForge

Mar 30th

i am so hungry that my stomach is growling, going for an early lunch

Mar 30th

thinking of buying an graphic LCD screen to attach to my computer and display real time data, any...

Mar 30th

extremely tiring Sunday, going to sleep now

Mar 30th

no water supply in hostel, i hate this :(

Mar 30th

woke up to find no new comments on my recent photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/abhin4v/ ;)

Mar 29th

tonight i saw my first shooting star… but i couldn’t wish for anything because before i...

Mar 29th

Posted new photos on Flickr from today’s Kolkata trip http://www.flickr.com/photos/abhin4v

Mar 29th

Sunrize: The sunrise pic, the structure in view is a water...

Mar 29th

Twin Towers

Mar 29th

Vidyasagar Setu: Vidyasagar setu (setu=bridge) in Kolkata, a...

Mar 29th

Vidyasagar Setu

Mar 29th

Wave pool, Aquatica: Aquatica water park in Kolkata

Mar 29th

Falls, Aquatica: Aquatica water park in Kolkata

Mar 29th

City Lights: Takes in Kolkata, during rain, highly...

Mar 29th

Fields: A field on the side of Nation Highway 6,...

Mar 29th

Lost Highway: Taken on Nation Highway 6, Kharagpur-Kolkata...

Mar 29th

Bridging the Symmetry

Mar 29th

Vidyasagar Setu

Mar 29th

just back from an awesome treat in Aquatica, Kolkata, took ~200 pics today

Mar 29th

leaving for kolkata, another awesome treat is about to take place

Mar 28th

Using open source software to design,...

Mar 28th

checking out the drupal themes for my new website

Mar 28th

now uploading drupal thorough ncftp by tunnelling the firewall using tor, very slow and painful...

Mar 28th

listening to Alt Rock radio on last.fm

Mar 27th

i totally like the new look of AMO, all green and blue, specially the statistics dashboard

Mar 27th

something is wrong with twitter im, i can’t “leave” some ppl, keep getting their...

Mar 27th

internet is disturbed today, on - off - on - off

Mar 27th

back from a treat (with lots of food) and then a meeting, walked all the way back, all the roads...

Mar 27th

updated my pic on twitter, check it out :P

Mar 27th

just found that Mozilla Addons website has updated with new looks and new features

Mar 27th

“Final Version of Firefox 3 Will Ship in June” :( i have to wait so long for my FIrefox...

Mar 27th

its difficult to find a good pic of mine because most of the time i am behind the camera, other...

Mar 27th

checking out the new statistics dashboard in the new AMO website

Mar 27th

at last i finished Nodame Cantabille, a nice ending for a beautiful anime :)

Mar 27th

searching a good photograph of mine to put on twitter

Mar 27th

nodame cantabille, this anime really makes my heart beat fast, as if my heartbeat is following the...

Mar 27th

wondering how two string running against each other (in violin) create such beautiful music, i love...

Mar 27th

“A preference for vi over emacs” quoted as a “Plus” for a job of PHP...

Mar 27th

now i have to find my neighbour who has the credit card, so that i can pay for the domain

Mar 26th

after some thinking i have decided to buy abhinavsarkar.net, easy to remember and no confusion

Mar 26th

i thinking of buying a domain, which gtld looks best? abhinavsarkar.com, .net, .org, .info, .in or...

Mar 26th

woke up, now off to lecture, sky is clouded

Mar 26th

doing some calculations for my btp

Mar 26th

just 22 hours ago i found the most useful tutorial on scipy and now its gone :O, have to save it...

Mar 26th

saved by google cache, god bless google

Mar 26th

wondering if there is a disk defragmentor for linux/ext3 fs

Mar 26th

two hour nap and now back to work, still have the burning sensation in my head

Mar 26th

now a days i visit orkut just to delete the spam scraps

Mar 26th

wrote a little python script which shows a notification popup when someone tweets, now no need of im...

Mar 26th

submitted a patch for some new functionality and a bug fixe in “python-twitter”, the...

Mar 26th

watching FLCL (#anime) from my burned DVD, FLCL is really the best

Mar 25th

made the dvd drive horizontal, now i can read and write dvds again

Mar 25th

reading the numpy/scipy tutorial

Mar 25th

damn, that @arupendu has returned at last, he’s going to get a grand gpl for making us worry...

Mar 25th

found the biggest clue in solving my btp, thank to Joshua Kantor for writing the tutorial on scipy...

Mar 25th

Numerical Computing with SAGE

Mar 25th

damn, one of my wingies @arupendu is missing since yesterday and not receiving calls, we are so...

Mar 25th

two crashes in two minutes, something is definitely wrong with the hdd

Mar 25th

had to restart my comp because one hard disk became inactive. it seems that its about to crash

Mar 25th

back from 2.5 hours lecture+lab, used symbols, matlab and simulink

Mar 25th

doing pole placement of Single-Input-Single-Output systems in Modern Control Theory Lab

Mar 25th

reading about wrting rhythmbox plugins

Mar 24th

back from lectures, today has started good, hope it ends nice too

Mar 24th

Unix Toolbox

Mar 24th

downloaded quod libet from klug debian repo. now installing it.

Mar 24th

running the twitter-spider for finding indian twitterers, i hope the count passes 1500 tonight

Mar 24th

wrote a python script to sync my mp3 player with rhythmbox playlist

Mar 24th

Bored Kitty

Mar 23rd

Posing Kitty

Mar 23rd

Macro Cactus

Mar 23rd

Fall

Mar 23rd

Blue Sky

Mar 23rd

Sky High

Mar 23rd

posted some new photos on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/abhin4v/

Mar 23rd

checking downloadsquad and lifehacker posts which i missed over the weekend

Mar 23rd

back from the three day home visit, feeling dizzy

Mar 23rd

packing done, leaving for home soon

Mar 20th

leaving for home tonight, should start packing now

Mar 20th

listening to: “You shook me all night long” by AC/DC, i like the song

Mar 20th

after doing the “./configure make make install” dance and chasing dependencies for an...

Mar 20th

and the worst thing about linux is: whenever you try to install something from source, you’ll...

Mar 20th

best thing about linux is: if there is an error, just google it and you will find a solution in 90%...

Mar 20th

trying to install Rhythmbox from source, first I have to install totem-2.21.4 pl-parser from its...

Mar 20th

monday

Mar 20th

Nodame Cantabile - TV

Mar 20th

strong winds are shaking my monitor, i hope it doesn’t fall

Mar 20th

its raining now, and wind is picking up speed 3.1m/s now

Mar 20th

i can hear the thunder, i hope it rains hard, makes it all cool

Mar 20th

thunder and lightening, i should disconnect my computer from lan

Mar 20th

Google Code University - Google Code

Mar 19th

its getting dark here, may be it will rain, its getting too hot this week

Mar 19th

got the old drum set, now must find someone to teach me how to play it

Mar 19th

got the pen drive, camera and a novel for my journey tonight, only thing that remains to be done is...

Mar 19th

i just noticed that the “Recent” tab in the twitter home page has swapped position with...

Mar 19th

i cycled two kms in this heat only to find that the lecture has been canceled, funny

Mar 19th

this tech talk about python mentions the word “magic” so many times, now i wonder if...

Mar 19th

watching a google tech talk on python’s advanced features http://tinyurl.com/yt3s6p

Mar 19th

off to another lecture on how to make the cars run on roads (automobile engg)

Mar 19th

assignment finished at last, wrote 36 pages in 3.5 hours

Mar 19th

writing a long assignment due tomorrow

Mar 19th

i hate bugs, specially the honeybees that wander into my room

Mar 19th

finally switched to Firefox 3b4, some extensions are not working, most notably Del.icio.us...

Mar 18th

back to room, another hectic day has been the today which was by no means ended yet

Mar 18th

looking at the Google Summer of Code’08 project ideas, this time i am sure going to...

Mar 17th

Mozilla Webdev

Mar 17th

read a short story by Oscar Wilde, now time to sleep

Mar 17th

checking out the source code of addons.mozilla.org from svn to study it for a cakephp project

Mar 17th

retweeting: @dybydx: Breaking the rules dudes! Itna tweet mat karo… @aDeSe: 135 tweets...

Mar 17th

listening to “Poets of the fall” for the first time, i like the songs, may be...

Mar 17th

tagging the freshly downloaded music with musicbrainz picard

Mar 16th

my firefox addon reached 1000 installs today (in a week only), check it at http://tinyurl.com/2pkm9d

Mar 16th

installing numpy from source

Mar 16th

reading journal articles for my B Tech project

Mar 16th

had food after a long time, feels good

Mar 16th

watching Bon Jovi’s music videos

Mar 16th

my head has gone blank, don’t know what to do

Mar 16th

downloaded and applied new #theme from http://www.gnome-look.org

Mar 16th

just noticed that i have crossed 100 followers in twitter, i am popular now :D

Mar 16th

listened to TD’s Italy tour stories

Mar 15th

just came back from the SOPbox of G Sec Tech for gymkhana elections, never knew that so much...

Mar 15th

struggling with the segmentation fault in cakephp

Mar 14th

scrapping the GATE results of my region from IIT Guwahati’s website using a python script :D

Mar 14th

woke up just now, now off to work (which i have none)

Mar 14th

top10 indian twitterers by follower...

Mar 14th

added a new command ‘interest’ to indiatwit@gmail.com which shows people interested in a...

Mar 14th

just found out that the code names of Debian releases are names of characters from the film Toy...

Mar 13th

just found out that the code names of Debian releases are names of characters...

Mar 13th

now researching about differences between debian and ubuntu, (i use debian and my neighbour ubuntu)

Mar 13th

question: is there an indian linux user community / irc channel / forum anywhere which i can join?

Mar 13th

woke up now, its cloudy today, i hope today is less strange than yesterday

Mar 13th

this day (13/3 Thursday) indeed turned out to be a weird bad luck day for me, but i had my share of...

Mar 13th

question: the best programming editor for me is Komodo Edit, what is yours?

Mar 13th

22 Indian Twitters are “active” now, wondering if that is an all time high …

Mar 13th

updating debian, i read gnome 2.22 has some new goodies, let’s see what it brings

Mar 12th

reading the tweets appearing on @indiatwit in my gnome-terminal, inditwitterers are boring today

Mar 12th

installing Mozilla Prism 0.9, i have been a prism user for few months now

Mar 12th

today is turning out to be a strange day in an usual fashion

Mar 12th

listening to the “Ghost in the shell” OST

Mar 12th

came back from a long meeting, a very big project is in pipeline, and the very big is really really...

Mar 12th

anyone here from IIT Kanpur and involved in Techkriti’08?

Mar 12th

woke up on right time today, but not feeling like going to lecture

Mar 11th

after getting drunk people do really strange things, witnessed it today

Mar 11th

came back from lectures, tonight another party!!

Mar 11th

finally my firefox extension is public (this time i have to checked), check it at...

Mar 11th

ye! @indiatwit crossed 10000 updates! now is right time to start working on indiatwit.com

Mar 10th

listening to Kishore da’s classic songs, i am coming back to life, i feel

Mar 10th

my friend says that i should spend more time with people than my computer, i think he is right

Mar 10th

reading the tweets in console (terminal) and posting to twitter through im, the best way to interact...

Mar 10th

bengali drams today, me and @arupendu are in charge of stage lights

Mar 10th

woke up unusually early today, still feeling sleepy *yawn*

Mar 9th

back from another session of bong drams, now going to sleep

Mar 9th

.,m.

Mar 9th

back from another Bong Drams practice session

Mar 9th

window open on my desktop now: gnome-terminal, firefox: twitter, pidgin: indiatwit, rhythmbox:...

Mar 9th

cleaned my room a bit, in case someone comes to my room today (hall day today)

Mar 9th

back from lights practice, got half hour to relax, then rehearsals start again

Mar 8th

woke up, now got to go for Bengali dramatics practice, i am in lights team

Mar 8th

just came back from Bengali drama practice, i never knew that there were so many bengali in my...

Mar 8th

going to the job treat of a wingmate

Mar 8th

there is an event today in hostel, stupid songs are being played loudly, my ears hurt

Mar 8th

improving the indiatwit bot to include more commands, check it by adding indiatwit@gmail.com to ur...

Mar 7th

lurking at #IndiaTwit

Mar 7th

launching IndiaTwit bot now, people add indiatwit@gmail.com to ur gtalk friends and send...

Mar 7th

just finished reading “the alchemist”

Mar 7th

woot! my firefox extension has just been made public. check it at...

Mar 6th

just woke up, got a lot of work to do today

Mar 6th

switched on notifications for all users, from now on @indiatwit is jabber powered and real time

Mar 6th

testing my twitter jabber bot now

Mar 6th

finished the twitter jabber bot

Mar 6th

now going to sleep

Mar 6th

just made my first jabber bot (actually gtalk bot). woohoo!

Mar 6th

trying to write a jabber bot

Mar 6th

trying to write a jabber bot

Mar 6th

1st step for indiatwit.com: make a twitter jabber bot, so that the data is pushed from server rather...

Mar 6th

watched the fight scenes from “Matrix Reloaded”. I can watch those infinite times

Mar 6th

No lunch for me today, should go buy something to eat

Mar 5th

refactored the twitter spider code, now its perfect, no uncaught exceptions, no infinite loops, no...

Mar 4th

woke up at 7am, now back from a double lecture, i feel today is going to be a good day for me

Mar 4th

megatokyo chapter 0 finished , now going for some snacks

Mar 4th

time to start re-reading megatokyo, chapter 9 is almost finished http://www.megatokyo.com, btw i...

Mar 4th

my mind is blank, what should i do next?

Mar 3rd

had a long discussion with friends about life, the universe and everything, feels good

Mar 3rd

back from an awesome lecture by Prof AM on Optimal Control. I just love the way he teaches

Mar 3rd

reading the XUL template guide at devmo http://tinyurl.com/ydptfy

Mar 2nd

singing “I don’t want to miss a thing” by Aerosmith

Mar 2nd

back from a boring, sleep inducing lecture, had to bit myself to stay awake

Mar 2nd

exam week is over, now lectures are back again, got to attend one

Mar 2nd

the feeling when you can’t watch an HDDVD movie on your comp, just because the comp is old and...

Mar 2nd

had dinner, and now wondering what am i doing with my life?

Mar 2nd

listening to U2, going to listen to them whole day today

Mar 1st

A foggy night

Mar 1st

A foggy night

Mar 1st

today is 1st march and its getting foggy here (global warming?)

Mar 1st

its all foggy here, the lights far away look beautiful, going to take some pics

Mar 1st

had good food after a long time, now feeling very sleepy

Mar 1st

my room is hot like an oven, opening the windows to cool down

Mar 1st

stared the monitor for six hours continuously and what do i get? this: http://tinyurl.com/225yuv

Mar 1st

India Twitterer’s relaunch, now with real time data, search, filtering, sorting, timeline and...

Mar 1st

just woke up, started the background music, today is going to be a cleanup day

Feb 29th

debugging javascript with firebug, firebug rocks!!

Feb 29th