This is in reply to R. who wrote in comment of yesterday’s entry, asking me why anyone would send me IM messages inside the office. Oh boy. I thought only geeks read my diary Well, the answer is – while we have phones in the office, they are typically used to make calls to people [...]

Ugh, what a day! Got to office only to find that all forms of connectivity were down, apart from a miserably unstable VSNL dialup link. That was the brigh side of things. The wife didn’t let me take Biju’s monitor back to office, so Gopi annexed my office desktop, handed his monitor to Biju, and [...]

Spent much of the day today fixing embarrassing goofs in yesterday’s entry (“Greenhouse”??? What was I thinking? And I didn’t name the whole band lineup?) If you thought I was asleep at the wheel when I wrote the entry – you were right. To make up for all the hard work, I added a rant [...]

Literally! Thanks to Kalyan (who BTW celebrated his birthday today as well – HB, K!), I managed to get into Mount Carmel College to watch the Amateur Band Contest, which also featured Mrinal‘s group – Phenom! I went as the band’s official photo/videographer. What a blast! Lots of good bands playing, but of course I [...]

Not an exceptionally exciting or productive day so far. First of all, after (finally!) receiving the VCD kit from FabMart last night, my daughter’s monitor decided that it was a good day (night) to die. I think it has been watching too much StarTrek TNG, and Worf is a bad influence. Woke up this morning, [...]

Woke up this morning to the sound of slobbering. Turns out to be

Decided to change my Hobbies section to the

Started the day by sitting at the breakfast table, playing Beatles MP3s from my camera. Shubha was highly amused. Building a room over the weekend looks improbable now – too little time, and the garage where I was planning to annex a corner needs cleaning. Instead, I had ordered a PC card that convert my [...]

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Ah well, weekend trip didn’t work out. No accomodation anywhere. Moved destination to Yercaud – no joy there, either. Called off the trip. So what will I do this weekend? Back then, my mom would have probably said “Clean up your room, of course!”. Thankfully, those days are behind me – I am neither that [...]