Tagged: random

Swades


The day is finally here! Yes, I’m going to India for slightly less than 4 weeks. I’ll be leaving this Wednesday. So the blog is probably going to be silent for the bulk of this month. Although, if I do manage to get a broadband connection at home, that might change :)

Strangely, I’m not as excited as I thought I would be. It probably hasn’t sunk in yet. But it should be fun nontheless.

I’m not going to be travelling a whole lot, and will probably spend most of my time in and around Gwalior, chilling out with my family. But I do want to catch up with a whole bunch of people, so we’ll see how it works out. If you’re in India and want to get in touch, do drop me a note!

On a side note, I’ve become bored with this site design. So after I’m back, expect a change. I’ll still be using WordPress, but probably switch to a different design. WP 2.0 should be out by then hopefully. Also (and this is a secret), I’m trying to hack up my own static website generation tool. No no, nothing against Forrest — Forrest is //awesome// — but I just wanted to dabble around some more with Python and this seems like the perfect toy project. Besides, at times I feel I need something even simpler than Forrest for my needs.

In other news, I bought a video iPod for my sister, and have been playing around with it the last 2 days. The iPod seems very nice, but I must say I’m truly, utterly disgusted and frustrated by iTunes. Its the //worst// music management software I’ve seen till date. I’ll post a detailed rant some other time.

Two interesting reads


One technical: [[http://www.bitrot.de/macswitch.html|When a Linux user buys Apple's Mac mini]]

One non-technical: [[http://www.bitrot.de/workinusa.html|Working in the USA - Experiences of a European]]

Someday I need to write my own versions of both of the above. Someday.

Indian Fossett?


I’ve [[http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/03/03/272/|written earlier]] about Steve Fossett — the millionaire adventurer who like to break world records in flying, sailing, hot air ballooning and lots more. Well, yesterday our own Vijaypat Singhania of Raymond fame [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4467766.stm|broke the world record]] for the //highest// hot-air balloon flight. This guy is **67**!! Kudos, Mr. Singhania — I hope you go on to shake some more records.

Request for MeasureMap


I’m shameless! Can someone //please// send me a MeasureMap invite? I’m too cheap to buy mint, too lazy to try out weed, have already tried out Slimstat (rocks!) and Google Analytics (umm, its just about ok). So the only thing left for me to try out now is MeasureMap. :-)

Meanwhile, it seems the quality of the Adsense ads on floatingsun has been gradually improving. And they even get updated more frequently. Now if only people were clicking on them and I was making some //real// money… dang! I think I’m going to just get rid of them eventually. In the past 3 months, I think I’ve managed to make.. lets see… oh, I almost forgot, I’m not allowed to reveal my earnings according to the Terms of Service.

I guess its better that way. Saves me some embarassment :-)