06:18 pm :: What I miss most about Hyderabad...
location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood:
bitchy
The fact that I can go clubbing almost every weekend, with zero planning. Bangalore messes me up no end in this regard.
location: Sunnyvale, CA
I have always believed that finding a friend's house in our country involves stopping and asking people for directions on the way, and then calling up him/her four-five times when you are less than 500 metres away. In short, locating places in Indian cities is a bitch of an experience.
To alleviate our misery quite a bit, Yahoo! Maps (India) (yeah, there is a product like that) now provides driving directions! Cambridge Layout to 4th block, Koramangala in Bangalore, for example. Or PG Road to Banjara Hills in Hyderabad for that matter.
What I like the most about it? The "Send this to my mobile" (via SMS) feature!
Current Mood:
cheerful
Current Music: Evermore - It's Too Late (Dirty South Remix)
Saturday, September 15th, 2007. Bangalore to Hyderabad, 555 km in 10 hours, which included about 1.5 hours in two breaks. Didn't push it too much. The 205 km stretch from Kurnool to Hyderabad was done with the speedo reading 100-110 kmph most of the time.
Happy with my levels of aggression, patience and stamina for highway driving in India.
Was at Touch last night, where I discovered this awesome track, the one in my current music. 03:28 am :: Paisa wasool...
location: Hyderabad, India
Current Mood: happy
Bought the eStarling WiFi digital frame last month. Installed it today in Hyderabad. Mom and dad love it. :)
Current Music: Daft Punk - Technologic
Will be in Hyderabad this weekend, till 27th. Then in Bombay from 29th to 1st. Bombay, after almost seven years!
Much attention online these days is on Facebook. Best social-networking site, ever. Must start hacking an app for it. Can't find a LiveJournal app for it yet.
In spite of love life being zero, I've found a lot of peace within myself. So not meant for things like love, relationships, marriage, kids and the continuing vicious cycle, bleh.
location: Hyderabad, AP, India
Peeps, I am out here in Hyderabad till the 26th of December. Call/text on +91 98862 97373 if you want to meet up over coffee.
Driving is best learnt with basic machinery, so that better machinery is enjoyed multifold. No power steering and no power brakes moulds you into a very different being. Your conditional reflexes adjust to a variety of cars much faster.
location: Hyderabad, India
BarCamp Hyderabad has begun! The theme of this camp is "Web 2.0". My talk is at 19:00. There's decent WiFi at IIIT-Hyderabad.
Watch this space.
[16:15] Two sessions related to "Web 2.0 based businesses" almost done with. Pretty decent discussion in the audience. The more techie ones coming up.
[17:00] A session on "Tangible User Interfaces". Hi-fi stuff. Some time before such stuff comes down to our local cyber-cafe.
[18:00] Tea-break done with. There's an open discussion on the idea of building/finding a portal for publishing research papers, and reviewing them, that would lead to monetary benefits for the authors. Whatever.
[18:05] The "meraSystem.com" talk going on. A professor from IIT-H is talking about the idea of creating a grid-based backend (mahaSystem) that is accessed from a browser (meraSystem), providing any OS for use. By the way, participants have got a t-shirt and a cap.
I'm getting all ready to dive into some JavaScript code and get all technical during my talk. Let's show people some cool Y! stuff!
[18:20] There are other folks here blogging live-and-direct. Check this out!
[18:25] Guys from Pramati talking on XForms.
[19:00] There was a 10-minute talk on AJAX from some Oracle dude. Wasn't so much fun.
[19:35] My brain hurts from the talk given by a guy from Cordys. It was supposed to be an "AJAX demo", and he ended up bashing all Internet companies. The audience wasn't too happy with his talk either.
[20:25] My talk started at 20:05 and finished about two minutes back. Since I had no slides and only one HTML page displaying the title of the talk, it was very spontaneous. People asked questions, a lot of them. Stuff about why Y! is sharing UI libraries, why Yahoo! does this, why Y! does that, etc. Adding humour to your answers rocks. :) The Yahoo! mail beta demo was the cool touch to the talk. Had a few Yahoo! wallets and pens to give away to the people who asked questions. :D Couldn't demo the Slider and TreeView controls due to lack of time.
The current talk is funny, and good - "Inside the mind of a shit scared entrepreneur".
The camp wrapped up at around 20:50. There was pizza for dinner for those who stayed till the end. The "Ruby on Rails" talk didn't happen. Ramesh, the camp was awesomely organized, and I hope that you can make it to BarCamp Bangalore.
All related photographs on Flickr, those tagged with barcamphyderabad and my BarCamp Hyderabad photoset.
location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood:
bitchyThe fact that I can go clubbing almost every weekend, with zero planning. Bangalore messes me up no end in this regard.
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01:04 pm :: Y! India Maps - Now with driving directions...location: Sunnyvale, CA
I have always believed that finding a friend's house in our country involves stopping and asking people for directions on the way, and then calling up him/her four-five times when you are less than 500 metres away. In short, locating places in Indian cities is a bitch of an experience.
To alleviate our misery quite a bit, Yahoo! Maps (India) (yeah, there is a product like that) now provides driving directions! Cambridge Layout to 4th block, Koramangala in Bangalore, for example. Or PG Road to Banjara Hills in Hyderabad for that matter.
What I like the most about it? The "Send this to my mobile" (via SMS) feature!
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08:57 pm :: First 500km+ drive...Current Mood:
cheerfulCurrent Music: Evermore - It's Too Late (Dirty South Remix)
Saturday, September 15th, 2007. Bangalore to Hyderabad, 555 km in 10 hours, which included about 1.5 hours in two breaks. Didn't push it too much. The 205 km stretch from Kurnool to Hyderabad was done with the speedo reading 100-110 kmph most of the time.
Happy with my levels of aggression, patience and stamina for highway driving in India.
Was at Touch last night, where I discovered this awesome track, the one in my current music. 03:28 am :: Paisa wasool...
location: Hyderabad, India
Current Mood:
happyBought the eStarling WiFi digital frame last month. Installed it today in Hyderabad. Mom and dad love it. :)
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03:13 am :: BLR HYD BOMCurrent Music: Daft Punk - Technologic
Will be in Hyderabad this weekend, till 27th. Then in Bombay from 29th to 1st. Bombay, after almost seven years!
Much attention online these days is on Facebook. Best social-networking site, ever. Must start hacking an app for it. Can't find a LiveJournal app for it yet.
In spite of love life being zero, I've found a lot of peace within myself. So not meant for things like love, relationships, marriage, kids and the continuing vicious cycle, bleh.
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02:41 am :: In the Land of the Biryani...location: Hyderabad, AP, India
Peeps, I am out here in Hyderabad till the 26th of December. Call/text on +91 98862 97373 if you want to meet up over coffee.
Driving is best learnt with basic machinery, so that better machinery is enjoyed multifold. No power steering and no power brakes moulds you into a very different being. Your conditional reflexes adjust to a variety of cars much faster.
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03:23 pm :: At BarCamp Hyderabad...location: Hyderabad, India
BarCamp Hyderabad has begun! The theme of this camp is "Web 2.0". My talk is at 19:00. There's decent WiFi at IIIT-Hyderabad.
Watch this space.
[16:15] Two sessions related to "Web 2.0 based businesses" almost done with. Pretty decent discussion in the audience. The more techie ones coming up.
[17:00] A session on "Tangible User Interfaces". Hi-fi stuff. Some time before such stuff comes down to our local cyber-cafe.
[18:00] Tea-break done with. There's an open discussion on the idea of building/finding a portal for publishing research papers, and reviewing them, that would lead to monetary benefits for the authors. Whatever.
[18:05] The "meraSystem.com" talk going on. A professor from IIT-H is talking about the idea of creating a grid-based backend (mahaSystem) that is accessed from a browser (meraSystem), providing any OS for use. By the way, participants have got a t-shirt and a cap.
I'm getting all ready to dive into some JavaScript code and get all technical during my talk. Let's show people some cool Y! stuff!
[18:20] There are other folks here blogging live-and-direct. Check this out!
[18:25] Guys from Pramati talking on XForms.
[19:00] There was a 10-minute talk on AJAX from some Oracle dude. Wasn't so much fun.
[19:35] My brain hurts from the talk given by a guy from Cordys. It was supposed to be an "AJAX demo", and he ended up bashing all Internet companies. The audience wasn't too happy with his talk either.
[20:25] My talk started at 20:05 and finished about two minutes back. Since I had no slides and only one HTML page displaying the title of the talk, it was very spontaneous. People asked questions, a lot of them. Stuff about why Y! is sharing UI libraries, why Yahoo! does this, why Y! does that, etc. Adding humour to your answers rocks. :) The Yahoo! mail beta demo was the cool touch to the talk. Had a few Yahoo! wallets and pens to give away to the people who asked questions. :D Couldn't demo the Slider and TreeView controls due to lack of time.
The current talk is funny, and good - "Inside the mind of a shit scared entrepreneur".
The camp wrapped up at around 20:50. There was pizza for dinner for those who stayed till the end. The "Ruby on Rails" talk didn't happen. Ramesh, the camp was awesomely organized, and I hope that you can make it to BarCamp Bangalore.
All related photographs on Flickr, those tagged with barcamphyderabad and my BarCamp Hyderabad photoset.