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.