Archive for the ‘A strong urge to blog…’ Category

Running Ubuntu inside Win-XP

I’m nothing short of saying – “Holy cows”!! Check this why… If you noticed, thats Ubuntu 8.04 – Hardy Heron running on top of my Windows XP!!! Click on the image to see a bigger screenshot. All thanks to Ubuntu Portable So what does this means now? I get to use apt-get and install a [...]

makuchaku.in – finally all settled in!

The blog was scattered pretty much all over the place before this. I was blogging at MakuLabs.com while was trying to keep an identity as Makuchaku.in – even the links I was sharing were just redirecting back. Pretty much a mess – specially when MakuLabs.com is getting expired soon (and I’m in no mood to [...]

Escaping the 9pm blues…

Weekdays, 9 PM, tired Maku, post office hours, a cup of tea and something to eat, sitting on the bed with evening news running on the TV… If you manage to find a pillow and get cozy, you’r gone! You just cannot resist the nap. And you are not going to wake up till your [...]

Long time, no see!

Yeah! Its been real long time since I last blogged – almost >2 months. A lot has happened between 1st Jan and today – I won’t iterate over all of it again but just that I’m happy being at home. Just today, I was answering rapid fire questions to a good friend and one that [...]

HCL > Red Hat > IBM, Pune > IBM Gurgaon

31st January, 06 – when I was still an HCL Tech employee – I had read a Paul Graham’s article – which mentioned that there are two type of people – those who earn their livelihood by doing what they love to do and those who do what they love by earning livelihood from something [...]

Earthquake in Pune

This is probably the first time in my life when I was fuly aware of the quake – and am close enough to a laptop to blog about it. As per timeanddate.com, its 3:20 AM on 17th Sept 08 morning. Lets see, what do the newspapers report tomorrow

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Dare to Dream?

  Dream what you want to Dream, Go where you want to Go, Be what you want to Be, Because you have only one life and Only one chance to do what you want to do! Found on a profile on Orkut.

Come Sunday – and we iRock!

The week has just started and wait for the weekend has already begun! Here’s why… The finals for IRock are scheduled here in Pune and you bet we arn’t going to miss them! Dodge this – I have just booked 13 (yes thirteen) tickets for this Sunday! Its also my much awaited birthday party (well [...]

ApnaBill.com team at Proto.in

Sameer, Sandy and myself – with the Proto.in momento. ApnaBill.com Team – checkout the slant in the seemingly created skyline Pictures courtesy Pravin from LifeBlob (one of the 15 finalist at Proto.in)