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now that delicious addon for FF3 has been released, i am finally shifting to FF3 full time.

May 1st

i am so hungry, i wish the canteen had room service. got to stay up whole night tonight for the gv

May 1st

reading thermodynamics now for the grand viva

May 1st

reviewing all the courses i have studied in last 3 year, in just one day for the grand viva tomorrow

Apr 30th

running code and generating data points to make graphs later. also studying for the grand viva

Apr 30th

back from lunch, the sun is too bright now. just going outside gave me headache …

Apr 30th

reading @dybydx’s latest blog post

Apr 29th

back from the IPL match, havn’t slept feeling dizzy

Apr 29th

leaving for the mumbai-kolkata IPL match tonight in Eden garden

Apr 28th

working through night to finish my btp. yawn …

Apr 28th

Bokura ga Ita - TV

Apr 28th

i just noticed i have equal number of followers and following.

Apr 27th

my stomach hurts. today is last day of mess. i am selling my dvds.

Apr 27th

now i feel very down. feels like all energy has been sucked from me. to think that i was on a bike...

Apr 27th

doing some major changes to my computer. converting hard disks to ext3 from ntfs

Apr 27th

wrote some perl scripts for a friend’s project. whole perl is starting to come back to me

Apr 26th

writing code in perl after many days, seems like i have forgotten everything. have to look up...

Apr 25th

booking train and plane tickets for leaving kgp and going to bangalore

Apr 25th

two of my geeky wingies are discussing vista vs mac os x loudly in front of my door. i run linux....

Apr 25th

now they are discussing ipod vs zune. does any music player run linux?

Apr 25th

caught up with xkcd at last. now got to catch up with megatokyo and questionable content.

Apr 25th

back from meeting with profs -> dinner -> see a friend in hospital -> swinging on the...

Apr 25th

strong wind is blowing and strange things are coming inside my room from the windows.

Apr 25th

trying to persuade the seniors to give me treats before they or me leave kgp

Apr 25th

off to meet a group of people with another group of people to discuss something about a plan about...

Apr 25th

still 100 more strips to go before i catch up with latest xkcd …

Apr 25th

but right now i am going to play music at the loudest of my speakers for next one hour

Apr 25th

now i must complete xkcd and questionable content and megatokyo and all the anime i have been...

Apr 25th

exams end. now btp and viva. life iz hard :(

Apr 25th

off to write last exam in IIT kharagpur. (assuming i won’t fail in any)

Apr 24th

woke up super early. exam at 9am. study! study! study! study!

Apr 24th

i wake up at 4am to annoy ppl on im, to read xkcd and to send this tweet. cool breeze is blowing. or...

Apr 24th

lol! i just found the loldogs’s website http://ihasahotdog.com having fun now

Apr 24th

now no more xkcd. go back to studying operations research.

Apr 24th

roxette - she doesn’t live here anymore: this song is stuck in my head, listening to it again...

Apr 24th

leaving for the automobile engg. exam now

Apr 23rd

just received the tickets for the IPL match between Mumbai and Kolkata on 29th. gonna be there

Apr 23rd

reading xkcd … exam in an hour … must not read xkcd … reading xkcd again

Apr 23rd

now studying suspension system. got to find a house in bangalore soon.

Apr 23rd

i slept for 10 hours and got: 5 calls, 15 emails, 7 im chats. never knew that i was so popular.

Apr 23rd

back from the toughest and longest exam of my life - modern control theory. solved 50% questions in...

Apr 23rd

time for a bath and then to mess and then to exam hall

Apr 22nd

get up and start studying. at least they don’t have lectures on the examination days

Apr 22nd

i watched a movie in my neighbor’s room, when i shld be sleeping because i have an exam tom....

Apr 22nd

was up on roof studying for exam, covered a lot till now. roof was so cool. wonder why my room is so...

Apr 22nd

back to room, time to get some dinner, then study like mads

Apr 22nd

in lab with @Torped0 doing simulations for exam tomorrow

Apr 22nd

one exams over, tomorrow “modern control theory”

Apr 22nd

going to the simulation lab to prepare for tomorrow’s exam

Apr 22nd

last few minutes to review, then off to exam hall

Apr 21st

closing the book now, no more studying. now off to face the exam paper.

Apr 21st

one more hour to go before exam, two more chapters to review

Apr 21st

ah! these turbines and compressors are turning me mad. so much theory goes in their design is...

Apr 21st

taking a break from studying now, because i am not able to understand anything anymore

Apr 21st

now watching U2 - Elevation Tour Concert and reading about axial flow compressors

Apr 21st

Question: why does Bono wear sunglasses in a concert in a closed dome taking place during night...

Apr 21st

watching Bon Jovi on MTV unplugged and studying about centrifugal compressors

Apr 21st

finding innovative ways to use my lcd monitor, like laying it horizontally on my bed

Apr 21st

one of my wingies listens to and sings bengali songs, even though he is not bengali, and i do not...

Apr 21st

one more unstable package trying to “unstabilize” my debian system, sometimes downgrade...

Apr 21st

tuned off the colorful background pic on my desktop so that i can read the ebook without straining...

Apr 21st

found food and ate it. now switching to Bon Jovi from Pink Floyd. need to read hundreds of pages.

Apr 21st

off to find something to eat. there is not much around but i have always been good in finding food

Apr 21st

at some moments i think what am i doing with my life. then i feel i need to eat something …

Apr 21st

after reading 327 pages of QC, I stop. I now need to find something to eat because i skipped the...

Apr 21st

ah i cannot read anything on my monitor anymore, 280 pages of questionable content its taking a toll...

Apr 21st

while i was reading questionable content webcomic, seems like every kgpian was tweeting, specially...

Apr 21st

now at 238th page of questionable content, why i pick up these thing right before the exams

Apr 21st

xkcd.com

Apr 20th

today i’ll listen to pink floyd only. and try to study for the exams

Apr 20th

everything i need is right on my table:...

Apr 20th

i have successfully found out the syllabus for tomorrow’s exam, now off to find the book

Apr 20th

now i’ll go take a bath and eat something, then start studying.

Apr 20th

still trying to understand these derivations in digital control: F*(s) = Σ [k=0 -> ∞] f(kT)...

Apr 20th

after a shower half my brain has started working, next half will start after i eat something in...

Apr 20th

uploading a video to youtube, its taking forever thanks to the sucky proxy servers in kgp

Apr 20th

all my neighbors are watching the cricket match and shouting at the top of their voice, that...

Apr 20th

“The sun so bright it leaves no shadows , Only scars carved into stone” - U2, One Tree...

Apr 20th

after reading the notes i am starting to understand optimal control. now off to digital control.

Apr 20th

listening to Electrotango Tag Radio on last.fm, i like this kind of music

Apr 20th

checking out the Desktop Flick Organiser app for flickr management from Linux

Apr 20th

now studying for the exams

Apr 20th

as we all sat on the cot for taking the photograph, the cot broke because of @dybydx’s *HEAVY*...

Apr 19th

faced a lots of hardware problem yesterday, dvd drive and hard drive not working. someone my comp is...

Apr 19th

woke up and now getting ready for the wing photograph for the hall magazine

Apr 19th

was moving my dvds to my new hdd, still doing that

Apr 19th

back from a farewell, and a long funda session. said so much, heard so much. feeling sad now leaving...

Apr 19th

woke up from sleep (what else can i wake up from?). now going to another farewell. my day are now,...

Apr 19th

i am even more near to 1TB capacity. now 875.65GB

Apr 18th

got my 500gb hard disk drive

Apr 18th

i am giving away a printed copy of “dive into python” for free. anyone interested please...

Apr 18th

at least 10 people in IIT kgp have started using python as their primary programming lang. thanks to...

Apr 18th

now i see why its so hot here. its the thick cloud cover. damn, why dont they rain?

Apr 18th

“geeks can’t sing” says @kevinrose, i think my neighbors will agree with this very...

Apr 18th

the fog has started to fade away now, soon the sun will rise and the day will again be hot as hell

Apr 18th

27 tweets since i woke up “suddenly” 2 hours ago. now will go and brush my teeth.

Apr 18th

my hair is getting long. may be i should get a hairband or may be a haircut …

Apr 18th

may be i should get the Japanese translator extension of FF and try to read Jap tweets from public...

Apr 18th

replying to random tweets in public timeline

Apr 18th

sun is rising, its getting bright. i’ll surprise my wingies today by waking up so early.

Apr 18th

gonna listen to “waking up the neighbors” by Bryan Adams. and wake up my neighbors with...

Apr 18th

had some icecream. now thinking of taking a bath. this will be my earliest bath ever (if i take it).

Apr 18th

i used to think that i am unique. now i have realized that there are lots of ppl like. surprisingly...

Apr 18th

i have decided, i am not going to sleep anymore. not at least my room cools down a bit.

Apr 18th

ok, now this is insane. its burning hot inside the room and outside there is a FOG!! what the hell...

Apr 18th

i have been woken up from my sweet dreams because i am thirsty. its too hot in here even though its...

Apr 18th

i was sleeping and now i am suddenly awake and tweeting about it :|

Apr 18th

its so hot inside the room, may be i should go out and sleep on cot in the corridor

Apr 18th

going to canteen to have some icecream to cool me off

Apr 18th

last.fm will be down for the weekend due to poer issues. its already down btw....

Apr 18th

with temp reaching higher forties here, i must do some cool stuff to stay cool, any suggestions?

Apr 18th

collected by books back from people, as i am going to leave this place soon

Apr 18th

went out for dinner with a friend, he told me his plans for world tour over next 20 years.

Apr 18th

someone is streaming the match on clan. now everyone will be glued to their computer screens

Apr 18th

going to edit the write-up about our wing which is to be published in the hall magazine

Apr 18th

spilled water on my keyboard. i hope its fine.

Apr 18th

now i am watching the match too, thanks to whoever is streaming it (illegally :P )

Apr 18th

four neighbours are watching the match in their rooms, i hear beats now :S

Apr 18th

another 4, i so much hate cricket matches and the excitement the generate

Apr 18th

cute vodafine ad in between the match :)

Apr 18th

i want to make a live score updating twitter bot, any idea where i get the data?

Apr 18th

enough of cricket, now closing vlc

Apr 18th

Demonoid.com

Apr 18th

now i just have to figure out how to upload photos from picasa to flickr

Apr 18th

wow, picasa for linux looks exactly like picasa for windows, wonder if it runs on mono

Apr 18th

its so hot. temp 47.3 *C now with 60% humidity. cant keep the windows open and cant close them too...

Apr 18th

trying picasa for linux

Apr 18th

its so hot here, that i am playing the songs with “hot” word in the title :P

Apr 18th

aur ab mausam ka haal: outside temp: 47 *C, inside temp 36 *C, CPU temp: 67 *C

Apr 18th

i am running out of money, have to go to the bank tomorrow. i hope my prize money arrives soon

Apr 18th

updated python and everything broke down. now trying to fix it

Apr 17th

there are 25 packages in upgradable category in synaptic now, all of them will brake my system if...

Apr 17th

looking up the newly downloaded songs on musicbrainz and tagging them, automatic tagging is not...

Apr 17th

yay! got everything working again. its nice to use unstable packages in Linux, but sometimes they...

Apr 17th

i just took a look at bcb6’s sessions listing and was overwhelmed. may be i’ll attend...

Apr 17th

i have to derive all the equations once again, right from scratch. thank god, i found this mistake...

Apr 17th

after solving equations i found solutions that did not match with known values. after some research...

Apr 17th

hall farewell today, three farewells in three days. i guess its really time to leave kgp :(

Apr 17th

right now all i can do is sit back and watch the output coming on console, as my code crunches lots...

Apr 16th

now computing more eigenvalues, this time with a finer grid than before

Apr 16th

seems like the twitter im bot is under heavy load, the replies to my commands are coming after many...

Apr 16th

my last lecture in IIT is over, first lecture to last lecture - time just flew by …

Apr 16th

defragmenting my ext3 filesystem using shake

Apr 16th

kgpians are finally joining twitter, i am finding and following them

Apr 16th

time to play some loud music, poets of the fall now

Apr 16th

finding eigenvalues, interpolating functions, finding minima, plotting datasets

Apr 16th

re-factoring my twitter live updater userscript, thinking about adding new features

Apr 15th

updated my twitter live updater userscript, now it updates the replies and public timeline as well...

Apr 15th

back from a class test, now going to draw a lot of graphs, yeh!!

Apr 15th

tomorrow we have the institute farewell, i guess it time to start packing. very sad to leave kgp

Apr 15th

study! study! study!

Apr 15th

now i am going to graph all the solution obtained and then see the trends. any suggestion for a...

Apr 15th

one of wingies has a presentation tomorrow, he thought today was tomorrow (16 apr) and worked whole...

Apr 15th

after staring at the email for 10 minutes i finally understood the methodology of solving my...

Apr 15th

my scipy code is using 100% cpu, the cpu temp has gone up to 63 *C

Apr 14th

updated the indian twitterers directory after a long time. now it has 1630 entries....

Apr 14th

trying very hard to find some guiding regarding the arpack generalized eigenvalue finder function in...

Apr 14th

keeping my gmail open in case someone replies to my “help me” emails

Apr 14th

any scipy user here? i have a problem http://tinyurl.com/55w66a

Apr 14th

here is the problem, i am buying a new hdd and i am a linux user. so which fs should i use so that...

Apr 14th

my whole wing in now on telegu movie watching spree, the 4th movie of the day is being screened now,...

Apr 14th

what is the best file system for a dual boot setup with windows and linux, where linux is the major...

Apr 14th

i got a lot of stuff to download before i leave kgp, should i burn 50 dvds or buy a 500gb hard disk?...

Apr 14th

twitter has released the documentation of Jabber PubSub API yesterday which offers a feed of all...

Apr 14th

listening to some unknown songs by unknown artist i downloaded yesterday, they are putting me to...

Apr 14th

and with this tweet i reach the 1000 tweet milestone! thanks to all my followers

Apr 14th

another super hot day here in kharagpur, cant believe yeasterday night was so stormy

Apr 13th

updated my twitter live updater userscript, a must have for those who use twitter web interface....

Apr 13th

updating my twitter live update userscript, removed many bugs

Apr 13th

i can haz a flat in bangalore? got to call seniors living there to find out the prices

Apr 13th

will i reach 1000 tweets today? only 10 more to go!

Apr 13th

i havnt spoken a word since last two hours, dunno how much long i can hold on

Apr 13th

my friends have challenged me to stay quiet for a day, as they think i talk too much, so i am quiet...

Apr 13th

i am watching a telugu movie with subtitles, life is great

Apr 13th

its raining now, much needed relief from heat, at last

Apr 13th

i chose the wrong day for washing cloths, a big storm is coming now, the sky is so black, it looks...

Apr 13th

deleted 42 non-working bookmarks from my del.icio.us

Apr 12th

Suzumiya Haruhi - Baka-Tsuki

Apr 12th

checking my del.icio.us bookmarks for broken links

Apr 12th

my first userscript to cross 1000 installs, last.fm user check out...

Apr 12th

found a way to install python packages as .deb files so that i can uninstall them later if needed....

Apr 12th

Using Django with Appengine

Apr 12th

for practice, i am going to make a last.fm visualization webapp on google app engine and django

Apr 11th

reading the rest of the django tutorial which i was reading before i fell asleep

Apr 11th

reading the django tutorial http://tinyurl.com/2tg2nq

Apr 11th

my right leg in hurting, may be because i was standing for six hours continuously

Apr 11th

my camera is not being detected by my computer, so restarting it

Apr 11th

what is the best camera to buy in the range of 20k? any suggestions?

Apr 11th

today is exceptionally hot, living on the top floor isn’t easy, i feel like burning

Apr 11th

just painted the smiling face figure from the cover of “have a nice day” album by Bon...

Apr 11th

anyone interested in writing indiatwit.com on google app engine using python and django?

Apr 10th

checking out all sorts of blog posts about google app engine

Apr 10th

thinking about making indiatwit.com using the google app engine, just have to figure out how to run...

Apr 10th

painting the python logo on my wall, blue and yellow python snakes :D

Apr 10th

listening to Strings after a long long time, my one time fav band

Apr 10th

i got the invite to try the google app engine beta, yay! now off to building an app.

Apr 10th

checking out the ihink app on facebook http://ithink.com

Apr 10th

searching for logos to draw on walls for everyone in my wing, my logo is the python logo :D

Apr 9th

wake up early, study for test and the test is canceled, this is the 2nd time in this semester

Apr 9th

3rd tweet of the day about POTF : POTF rocks, but not as much as Bon Jovi :)

Apr 9th

finished studying for the test, left with one hour in my hand, going to debug some code

Apr 9th

catching up with lifehacker and downloadsquad posts

Apr 9th

joined the “no videos on flickr” group in flickr http://tinyurl.com/3sss45

Apr 9th

just noticed a new tab in twitter labeled “Everyone” which points to the public...

Apr 9th

something tells me, i must go and study for test now, otherwise another day of my life will be...

Apr 9th

my aim for today is to do nicely in the automobile engg. test, to solve the eigenvalue problem and...

Apr 9th

sharing all kind of stuff on DC++ on local lan, my share still won’t reach 300gb, i am 10gb...

Apr 9th

listening to Poets of the Fall, i think i am starting to like this band very much

Apr 9th

woke up too early today, may be because of the test later today, may be because of the strange dream...

Apr 9th

going to paint the walls of my wing for the wing treat

Apr 9th

“Shift and Invert Spectral Transformation Mode” is the topic of the chapter I am...

Apr 9th

took some pics of the setting sun, trying to make an hdr photo

Apr 9th

listening to Linkin Park after many months, how much I missed them

Apr 8th

leaving for lunch and meeting a guy whom i know only online

Apr 8th

while trying to solve the general eigenvalue problem of a very sparse matrix, i watched 3 episodes...

Apr 8th

He is My Master - TV

Apr 8th

tweeting from sameplace, http://sameplace.cc

Apr 8th

checking out sameplace, the im for mozilla

Apr 8th

reading an article about Python web frameworks by Guido himself http://tinyurl.com/8qz34

Apr 8th

back from “modern control theory” lecture, now we are studying automatic control

Apr 8th

reading a comparison of Turbogears, Django, and Subway, python web frameworks

Apr 7th

checking out the Google AppEngine, google+python=super cool

Apr 7th

woke up early today, another day awaits me

Apr 7th

twitter im has some bug, i can’t leave the updates of some people

Apr 6th

debugged a small bug which was giving big trouble

Apr 6th

installing Firefox 3b5 to check if my extension works fine on it

Apr 6th

Getting ready for another hectic week

Apr 6th

uploading the Gangtok trip photos to flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/abhin4v/

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Palace Monastery: The Palace monastery temple

Apr 5th

Palace Monastery: The huts in which the monks of monastery...

Apr 5th

High Trees: Trees on the mountain slope

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Apr 5th

got to do packing in minutes and leave for Gangtok with @dybydx and others

Apr 1st

finally my website is up and running after much configuration and tweaking. http://abhinavsarkar.net

Apr 1st

researching the drupal handbook for customizing my website made in drupal

Apr 1st

wind feels nice today, i hope it rains and it cools down a little bit

Mar 31st

unable to install any air app on linux, not even the sample apps provided for linux

Mar 31st

now trying to figure out how to set http proxy in Adobe AIR

Mar 31st

twhirl not working on adobe air for linux :(

Mar 31st

downloading Adobe AIR for linux, i hope twhirl runs on it

Mar 31st

singing Bon Jovi, now “Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night”

Mar 31st

listening to “An All Star Tribute to Bon Jovi” album, no one can match Bon Jovi...

Mar 31st

back from a long bhatting session and inline skating lesson

Mar 31st