Archive for May, 2005


Considering my HDD crashed about two weeks back and yesterday my PC shut off and now refuses to startup beyond poweron state, that is exactly what I am beginning to think.
Hopefully, the problem is not major. And I don’t have a backup of my data
Please, please, please God! Solve this problem for me.

Ran into this problem when I was reapplying my Wordpress Hack. Didn’t think much of it until I read Alex’s post on it.
In short the problem is that Wordpress automatically converts quotes in your post to “smart” quotes.
Normally this wouldn’t be a problem for you. But it will for someone who wants to copy and [...]

The weekend was fun.
With the arrival of my new DVD player, I have been watching a lot of movies before going off to bed in the last few days.
Watched Walking Tall on Wednesday and then the Big Bounce on Thursday.
Saturday as usual was with Madam C.
Picked her up from Bandra and then we headed back [...]

Home Alone - Part I happened last year when my parents and bro were in Muscat and I was left back due to college.
Home Alone - Part II is because my parents and brother have gone to Kerala for some work for almost one month and so I shall left all alone at home.
I don’t [...]

Firefox has been found to have a major security flaw.
Read the news feeds from Google News.
And here is C|Net’s News.com report on it.
Guess after all the highly rated browser does have it’s issues. Hope they are resolved real quick.

Work today was rather exhausting. Don’t really know the reason why though.
Took the bike to work today and left immediately at 6pm for the Prayer Meeting.
Dad was coming for the meeting today. But, he didn’t carry my Mom’s cell, got stuck in traffic and was out of reach!
They were having adoration yesterday.
Madam C observed that [...]

Part IV in the series of A Tale Too Many: Return of Dad
Yes, finally my dad is down. I had asked him to get me a digi cam and he picked up the Olympus C 470

This page gives a good enough review of it’s features so I won’t stress much on them.
Will just say its [...]

Returned back to work with a fresh and relaxed mind on Thursday morning. Was in much better health.
Immediately got down to catching up with a lot of work that was pending in the last three days.
The next two days were rather ordinary.
Had choir practice in the evening and since I was early decided to give [...]

Upgraded the blog today to Wordpress 1.5.1
Thankfully, I didn’t have to do much for it since with their new theme system, all I had to do was upload the WP core files and my blog has remained same.
Just needed to reapply my Wordpress Hack: Opening Links in New Windows as the quicktags.js file was overwritten [...]

Part II of A Tale too many: Trip to Lonavala
Struggled to contact Abhijeet (AJJ)but for some reason his cell kept showing unavailable.
Was able to get in touch with Sumir and somehow he managed to contact AJJ. Had also arranged with Sumir to meet me in case AJJ was unreachable.
Set off by rick around 8.00pm and [...]