Badger Alert!

I never said I was, but I wrongly believed that I was an “above average” student for a long time. I finally realized that high-school education in India might not be the as practical and hands on as in other countries, but it does give you a view of reality.
Here’s what happened. I registered for [...]

In every programming course, the “Hello world!” program is probably the first program a newcomer writes. It builds some very important concepts like simple console IO, standard headers/libraries that need to be included and, most importantly, how to compile/launch programs. I’ve been looking at many programming languages, and here’s a list of some “Hello, world!” [...]

For the second time running, too. It seems like I’m the grand champion of I-could-have-done-it-but-blew-it-in-the-end Olympics. The quiz seems so simple, yet it’s so evasive. Reminds me of that new herbal soap I just got. Brown, heavily scented yet slippery. Well, this was my last chance to get myself a free laptop and I blew [...]

I’ve been going on about that Python web crawler I was working on for a school project. The prospects for that are now looking really dull. I’ve been trying to work in the computer lab, digging around for information and writing code – but it looks like nobody really cares or even takes notice. Most [...]

Progress is with my web crawler is slow, but steady. I changed the name to InMySkin (since many of the names I had in mind were not available at Google Code). The name is taken from the Linkin’ Park song “Crawling” (crawling in my skin/these wounds they will not heal).
I’m trying to learn how to [...]

I’ve given it a name! Yup, I’m talking of the little web indexer I mentioned before. I named it Arachnid, which is the most unoriginal name anybody could come up with. I chose this name because Arachnid is the most unoriginal web indexer anybody could even imagine building (in fact, I’m reading Sergey Brin and [...]