Back in San Diego
Long day, and tiring. Am too lazy to give details now, but hopefully I will follow up with some details on the internship and the general experience over the summers. Right now, its guten nacht.
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Of this and that
Nothing much to say. Actually I’ve been meaning to write a bunch of stuff, but I’m really knee deep with my internship work, so haven’t gotten around to doing it yet. I will. Soon.
Meanwhile, I’ve been hearing a lot about [[http://feedburner.com|FeedBurner]] these days. So I decided to give it a try. Setting up was trivial using [[http://orderedlist.com|Steve Smith's]] excellent [[http://orderedlist.com/articles/wordpress-feedburner-plugin/|WP FeedBurner plugin]]. So as of now, all my blog feeds are routed through FeedBurner. As always I’m a bit suspicious about everything, but so far they seem to have good intentions.
In other news, I saw [[http://www.glamsham.com/movies/reviews/noentry.asp|No Entry]] on friday night. A mostly crappy movie, but I had tons of fun because I was in good company :-) We were all sitting in the front row laughing our assess of at nothing. Good times :-)
Like I said before, HP internship coming to and end. So I’m busy doing my slides for the talk on Wednesday, wrapping up some final graphs and so on. I’ll probably do a longer talk on friday and will drive back down to San Diego (ah, home sweet home) on saturday. Friday night, I’ll be at Asim’s having loads of tea.
Yesterday we also had our scheduled “technical discussion on Mac OS X” :-D It turned out to be pretty good actually. More on that later. For now, back to work.
Snowball
I’m sure everyone’s heard of the [[http://www.answers.com/snowball%20effect|snowball effect]] right? Where a teeny weeny little bit of snow can roll down a hill, piling up more and more snow around it as it makes it way down and by the time you realise whats going on, its too late — you don’t even know what hit you.
I’ve never actually “seen” one happen (with real snow, I mean). But today, I experienced what it must feel like, to get hit by a snowball that you last saw as a miniscule pebble.
Laser Tag
Today I went to play [[http://www.answers.com/laser%20tag|Laser Tag]] with our group at HP. We went to the [[http://laserquest.com|LaserQuest]] site in Mountain View. It was my first ever time playing laser tag, and I had a *great* time.
We played three games. The first one was a solo mission, and quite surprisinly, I scored the //3rd highest// points! :-) B-)
The second game was a team mission, and my team lost horribly. My individual preformance was just as bad, I think I ranked 15th :-(
Fortunately I was able to redeem myself a little bit in the third (and last!) game. This was also a team mission, my team came second lagging behind first place by a measly 57 points, and my individual ranking was 4th :-)
To top it all off, we had lots of ice cream after the games. Good fun :)
2005-07-13
Came across some really good music recently: Kashmkash by [[http://www.almsforshanti.com/| Alms for Shanti]], [[http://www.raagasong.com/GetHindiMovie.asp?Movie=Virudh | Virudh]], [[http://users.cis.net/sammy/kissme.htm | Kiss Me]] by Sixpence None the Richer (I don’t know why that link shows up as the first hit on Google!!)
Today I also tried out the pool here at Villa Monte for the first time. Felt reallyyy good. I had forgot how much I enjoy swimming :-) Now there’s one more incentive to work well at office so that I can come home to a nice warm swimming pool!
[[http://www.neato.co.nz/ | Christine]] is still working on [[http://www.neato.co.nz/archives/2005/07/13/ultimate-tag-warrior-20/ | UTW2]] and so the tag cloud has disappeared for now. But I have bugged her and the cloud (or heat map, whatever you wanna call it) will be back soon.