Here is a nice song to brighten up your day …
In the jungle
Reply
Category Archives: Celebrations
Twestival 2009 Bangalore – A walk through
The Twestival 2009 Bangalore has been long over and i’m not going to report on the event. The event was fun all together. I was transferring the photos from my mobile and i stumbled up on the pics that i took during 
Twestival. Added on some of the lighter moments of the event.
Twestival was organized for charity and i believe they did good. The highlight for the day for me was the free beer. Yes, free booze and i’m there. The first pint is free, the second drink onwards the money goes to charity. Pause!
The guy who runs TechBangalore, yes H. N. Prashanth, the guy who orders ‘ondu masala dosa, ondu cutting chai’, changed his order to ‘ondu masala dosa, ondu beer’. Yes! he drank for charity 
That was the effect that Twestival had on the twitterati.
It was a Saturday morning and i had promised Daaku, that i will join in for the Twestival. So got up, brushed, cleaned myslef, put on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt that had the IBM logo on the sleeve and RedBulls written 
on the chest. Landed at the place for twestival and i realized immediately that i made a mistake with my attire. I wore a Halloween costume for a Thanks Giving dinner… oops!!! Worst of all, people miss took me for a guy from Red-Bull, didn’t they notice the ‘s’ at the end of the Bull, 
The most embarrassing part, that no one knew – Nakul Shenoy, yes the magician, the techie who only learned to do anonymous mem-reads on other unsuspecting people, was done with his show (which was brilliant btw), dressed up in plain formal attitre and came all the way to the place where we twitterers were having a merry time and joined us in tweeting. First thought that crossed my mind, ‘I have seen this guy somewhere… Where?… Have i met him before?’. It took me full 15mins to realize that it was the same guy on stage reading other people’s thoughts. (Hope he didn’t read my thought at that point)
Prashanth proved that he is a bigger techie, when i complained that i cant find a free wifi to connect to. He took out his Nokia phone and said ‘No problem, wait a few secs, i’ll connect via GPRS and make my phone a wifi hot-spot, then you connect to my phone..’. My jaws were on the floor … LOL
WTF List of Wedding Gifts!
I’m not the marriage kind of guy, but even i’m pretty much sure about what is considered as cliche or lame for a wedding gift. But time and again i see people not even caring for what they want to give as gift. If you cant find a right gift, then better dont buy anything. Later, for sure, you can find one and gift the couple.
Here is my list of items that i think is lame and useless -
- Flowers – totally WTF!
- Wall clock – Totally lame
- Dinner Set – I have no clue why people gift this
- DVDs and CDs – Strict no no (i did the mistake and had to pay dearly)
- Teddy Bears – This aint a birthday party you bone head!
- Cushions – Yes i have seen people gifting wrapped up cushions.. WTWTF!!!
If you have a worse item. Feel free to add along…
EeePc Initial Reactions
Last Friday i bought an EeePc for my brother. I have heard a lot about this little master, or rather monster, but i had to see it for myself, what it could really do?
Got it home and the first thing i do, hook it on to the wifi – a plus over there. Then it was time for some serious browsing. Did that and the only thing that i found a bit difficult was typing. C’mon the entire keypad fits in my palm and how am i supposed to type. But still again a plus. One of the things that i need to do from a usability point of view, for any Linux box, is to play movies. Plugged in my thumb-drive and double clicked a movie. Cool! just played it just like that, without any problem.
So far EeePc has impressed me in more ways than most girls have ever done. But word of caution, if u r a linux junkie who likes to get your hands dirty by doing – ./configure; make; make install- then EeePc is not the one for you. Coz it has everything that you need for a, err say and over sized mobile with out the calling facility. (one of the reasons why i goes to my brother 
)
My initial reactions with EeePc has been captured with the inbuilt cam like this -
Here are somethings that i have tried out on EeePc -
- Locate the Terminal (this is fun, coz u really need to know linux like your backyard to locate this)
- Write a “Hello World” Python program (this was written at Barcamp Bangalore 8 )
Trailer : Terminator Salvation
This just looks promising and better than the Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines. Terminator Salvation stars Christian Bale.
Here is the Trailer -
Trailer courtesy of Trailer Addict :