Quick and Dirty

Was feeling a little Jobless =)

So this is a port of Industrial from Freecsstemplates.org. Works properly with most browsers for the most part. I couldn’t find a place for the search box and hence it’s missing. I think the logo has issues as well. Will fix them later. This is pretty usable the way it is.

Download Link: http://www.bas.org.in/files/industrial.zip

For nobody cares,

1. Trip to Om shanti dhama. Some ethnic vedic gurukula on the outskirts of B’lore, off kanakapura. The amazing waters of Kaveri too. The splash was the best thing about the whole exercise, undoubtedly. The skies weren’t all that bad, The food was par excellence (I managed a healthy appetite. First in a long time). The ride to the place wasn’t particularly great. The Masala dosas at Kanakpura beat it all.
2. The craziness continues. No stopping us, eh?!
3. Work, Lots of it. PG takes half my day off. The rest doesn’t fare all that lightly either. The Cake app is a tougher cookie than I thought it was.
4. Got a day for myself sometime. Set the Bangalore-blog thingy up. I don’t see it making great progress, But a decent experiment all the same.
5. Can’t wait for the Hampi trip.
6. Learning a lot of new stuff, Much in the J2EE, EJB scheme of things.
7. Doing completely wack things on Jobless sundays.
8. Pondering preposterous ideas on the career front.

Pretty Interesting.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1837

Hadn’t heard of this before, Until enlightened recently (Harshad). Pretty interesting.
Should we foresee some benchmarks changing?

Astro Bloopers

http://home.g-net.net/~andy/astbloop.htm

Hilarious.

Comet For Dummies

http://www.zeitoun.net/index.php?2007/06/22/46-how-to-implement-comet-with-php

Read.

Holmes.

Elementary, My dear Watson.

All it takes is an el-cheapo 300mm f/5.6 lens, ISO1600, 10 secs of exposure and a Canon EOS 400D.

Here’s Comet holmes. With the wispy double-coma.

http://picasaweb.google.com/pavan.k.murthy/Holmes?authkey=wvKJ_sYLn_Q

Umm.

• Trek to Sathodi Waterfall, Karwar. Err.. make that, “Trip to Sathodi”. We din’t get to trek much. No big deal about the whole excercise. Except that it was the much needed weekend getaway. Kalinadi backwaters and the huge lagoon it formed rawked. Pretty scintillating sight.. especially when you ‘re wack enough to go there amidst torrential rain. The waterfall itself, sucked. It was dirty brown, muddy watter that seemed to be a la-Vrishabhavati-Puddle. Oh well.
• One behemothic project. Painful. Who says  porting SQL around is easy?. Campaign for abstraction layers please, everywhere around, for all Web Apps around. Oh BTW, that isn’t even the hardest part. People and crappy CMSes. aarghh!
• Work on improvising ERP/CRM capabilities of this seemingly robust CakePHP app a friend of mine has come up with. Pretty interesting.
• Checking out vTiger. In the context mentioned above. Forks Forks Forks. Some turn out nice.
• Mandatory everyday-Drupal work. Many sites.
• New found craziness. Investing close to 30 hours on it the last couple of weeks. Pretty wack, even by my standards.
• Getting abused around. Even had a racial slur. Never refuse that advance payment.
• Dying urge to get away from it all.
• The usual depression: One much too similar to the post-2005-June era has crept back in. The defeatist attitude, The loathsome lethargy, The fatalistic take on things .. It’s all back to haunt me.
• The career crisis rages on. I’ve got ideas more preposterous than ever before.
• The impotence to excel manifests in it all. God, what’s gone haywire with me?
• On a brighter note, Comet 17/P Holmes has been amazing. Smudgy, Hazy blob that nobody can miss. Unless you mistake it for a little wisp of cloud.