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This is just a collection of thoughts. Don’t expect this post to be organized or well written. Oh, and SPOILER ALERT!
I won’t review the movie here, since you can always watch it yourself and judge. The only thing I can say is that even if you’re not remotely interested in computers and don’t know your [...]

I was hunting around the web for information regarding software patents in India. Guess what? Our government rejects all software patents. What can be better than that? Here are some links :
1. Ars Technica article.2. Article on the CPIM website.(this decision was made back in 2005 ; as usual, I’m late for the party)
From the [...]

Yup. Viral. 102 F. Positively painful.
But I guess I’m still more or less alive. With a bit of luck, I’ll manage more than 80 on the CBSE boards. Practicals have been great, but only because the teachers helped everybody out on the sly. I’ll be daft to expect that in the actual exam.
I’m trying, despite [...]

For 15 days I’ve been trying hard to watch TV since my computer had died. This post is a result of that. It might look stupid, but it might serve as a hint to corporate buffoons who want to “protect the kids”.
For those not in the know, let me tell you that Hungama TV is [...]

I hate exams. That goes without saying. But what I really hate is having four full fledged exams in one year of studies, that too complete with practical exams and internal assesment. Thankfully, I have covered a lot of ground in math and I’m more comfortable with chemistry now than last time. This time I [...]

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 [...]