I know a lot of things, but ask me what I know and I’m at a loss at what to say. We’re the Google generation—all the information in the world is just a search away. I think we can’t help being affected by that. I know a lot of things, but don’t have a lot [...]
This is just a quick jot-down of what I think about my new job/city. Haven’t quite processed everything yet, so it’s bound to be incoherent. My flight to Noida was fun and I reached here on time. The city seems nice. I’m staying with four other people in a 3-bedroom place. Space is not much [...]
I start work at Imfinity from Monday. It’s based at Noida (near Delhi), so I’m relocating there (on Sunday). I’m quite excited, and a bit worried. But hey, what’s life without a few changes? Preparations are underway for the big move—I mostly watch as my folks decide what stuff I’ll need if I am to [...]
Well, today was my last day at Capgemini. I start work at a new company next week, and will need to relocate first. Lots of excitement.
I finally got Ubuntu set up so that it is a bit usable: joy.
First: Last Thursday, my apartment had some power supply issues—and due to a surge in the electricity supply, my computer’s power supply blew up. When I installed a new power supply, I found out that the motherboard was fried as well. Time to upgrade. Introducing my new home machine, named zeppo: AMD Athlon 64 x2 [...]
OK, guess what this (simplistic) HTML file should display when opened in your favorite browser? <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript"> window.onload = function () { var dropDown = document.getElementById('select'); var newOption = document.createElement('option'); newOption.innerHTML = 'four'; dropDown.appendChild(newOption); dropDown.options.selectedIndex = dropDown.options.length – 1; } </script> </head> <body> <select id="select"> <option>one</option> <option selected="true">two</option> <option>three</option> </select> </body> </html> Firefox/Safari/Opera [...]
QuillPad is as cool as Google’s Indic Transliteration tool. Multiple languages, with live transliteration. The only thing missing is an option to manually type in a word which hasn’t been transliterated properly.
Lots of stuff coming up in the next few weeks—employment related news, which I’ll write about; computer related news, which I’m sure I’ll write about in excruciating detail; and family stuff which I won’t be writing about.