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Note: This is a very long post that I wrote yesterday night; read it at your own peril. I just returned to Noida today, after spending some time at Mysore. I was just planning to go to sleep and boom: no power. A sure sign I’m back-north. The weather here is horrible. It rained (a [...]

I’ve been living at Noida for almost eight months, and I now speak a much ‘purer’ dialect of Hindi. Mumbai’s Hindi is different from the language they use in North India. Hindi over here is more fluent, more musical than what we use back home. Mumbai’s version is much more base, more common. (And it’s [...]

“But ma, all the cool kids are doing it!” fiddler:~% uname -a Linux fiddler 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux fiddler:~% history -1000 | \ pipe> awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' \ pipe> | sort -rn | head 170 cd 111 sudo 103 git 55 rm 43 [...]

A very incomplete list. March — a nearly week-long trip to Manali… I love mountains :) April — will fit in a Mumbai trip somewhere around here May — plannin’ on running away somewhere on weekends, just to escape from the infamous Delhi heat… a couple of Mumbai trips maybe? June end-ish — probably going [...]

Sometimes, I want to force everyone to use Emacs, and put this bit of magic into their default site-start.el: (defun yank () (interactive) (insert "Copy/Paste isn't allowed!")) Life could so much simpler…