MMXI is almost here! I mean the year 2011! 3 more hours to go (to sleep). Santa did not come to my town this year because of the Telanga issue over the last weekend.
By the way, need to start working on the wishlist and todo list for this MMXI 🙂 May be I am going to try out short term goals instead of long term 🙂
This post is inspired by http://writings.withoutfriction.com/how-to-stop-playing-cod-call-of-duty-and-how .
My first motivation for writing this post is I see myself not doing things which I need to do. In short, to stop being lazy and to be more careful. The description of my domain name says about me 🙂 (FatGeek). Fat in the body really really bad. Couple of doctors in the family told me multiple times in the recent past and I thought its time to take some action. I usually take analogies to situations to explain people though some don’t really make sense
My analogy about body fat : Accumulating fat into the body is like tending towards the dark side, you get used to it, the more deep you would go in the dark side.
Getting back to the topic, here’s the deal, Find/Catch me eating food that has sugars or that is deep fried or oily food , and you mark me and raise the point of me eating and if its not on my diet chart, I owe you a treat or cash Rs.100/- ( close to $2) every time you catch me (not limited per day, buxfer me 🙂 ) . Everyone likes their money and this way I’d make sure I wont eat stuff that is bad for health and save my money . This way, its a win win situation, saving health and saving money 🙂
Exceptions: There are no exceptions not a single day till I write the post, “I am trying to accumulate fat” ! Health runs round the clock and currently I feel I might be a little late on getting on track, but its never late to start something.
For more visibility, I will drop in a mail to people I work with, friends I often meet and people I often eat with at the cafeteria. Waiting for the new bright year !!
Client: “I want the website finished by tomorrow.”
Me: “Sorry, tomorrow is Christmas and I’ll be with my family tonight and tomorrow.”
Client: “Do I look like Santa Claus? Get it done.”
_ /| 'o.O' =(___)= U ack!
ack is a tool like grep, designed for programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code. ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of the power of Perl’s regular expressions.
I personally feel that ack is way better than grep from the usability point of view.
Finally got to complete my homepage at sair.am and also at kunala.com (Yup! its mine! recently acquired it) . I like making my webpage in different styles again and again all the time. In case you are looking for hosting, check out http://bigeek.in/
Wondering how to start using Ruby(wiki) to program? Start with this free book at ruby-docs
The 3rd edition of the E-Book is available to be purchased at pragprog.com .
More docs at ruby-docs.org
Just make a mental note of this . There is a electrical shop near Anjay Nagar (on the way from Gachibowli to Kondapur) , Hyderabad . Remember this “Ramdev Electricals”. He doesn’t know anything about electricity and yet runs a shop. Surely checkout the Mithai shop next to it 🙂
Note: This is for your own good
Reason for this – Cloud App has a new feature and the present free accounts that are present can use it for only for 3 months.
Adapted from the course book for Principles of Programming Language – Concepts, Techniques, And Models Of Computer Programming from Flipkart.com ( Amazon link ) by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi .
Food for thought: Which kind of data should I be storing in services like CloudApp and which in Dropbox like services ? I decided to go with Dropbox, Tumblr and GitHub. Since data from dropbox stays and there is an easy way to backup from tumblr and GitHub is the new sf.net . I think I should re-factor the above into another blog post 🙂
There are quite a few services for Mac OS X listed in the dropbox wiki . I thought if I could write my own that would store a file or a directory into the Public folder of Dropbox and yup, it was simple enough. The shell script used is hosted at Git Hub – https://gist.github.com/747501 (requires configuration). Automator script is here – http://bit.ly/b44McN (my Dropbox Public Folder).
Bitly ( A famous url shortener with analytics tracking ) API –http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation
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