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This blog will no longer be updated. Kindly remove the RSS feed from your readers. In the words of Jim Morrison: This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the endSo long, and thanks for all the fish!

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Inspired by Vivek, I have decided to migrate this blog to Wordpress. I had been playing around with Wordpress for quite some time and now that they have an import feature, there was no reason for me to say no to a powerful blogging software.So please update your RSS Readers and visit me at my new Wordpress Blog

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Currently on project at Switzerland. Did some sightseeing on the weekend and here are the snaps.

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The Technique:Open image in GIMP or any other photo manipulation program. Select from Menu: Layer -> Colors -> Hue-Saturation. Click the radio button of the colors you DON'T want in the image. Set their saturation level to -100. From Flickr Technique

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For quite some time, I have been unable to update my Flickr photostream for a simple reason. My camera was undergoing repairs at the authorized Fuji repair center. While I had given the camera to the repair center quite some time back, they were dragging their feet as the part (Power Circuit Board) was not easily available in India.One mail to Fuji guys and they swing into action. Harmeet, the

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Some people I know, use the email Subject line to draft the complete email. I recently received an email with the subject: If anyone has access to analyst reports on Videocon Industries/links where I can access these reports, can you please forward the same to me urgently - Thanks EOMFor some strange reason I find such emails very irritating. Is it because they convey a sense of "I am too busy to

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Cowards of the Year: They came, they saw, they caved in. Fast Company profiles 10 antiheroes who turned their backs on what they knew to be right. And guess who tops the list?AjaxWrite: The look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based AJAX platform.The Rorschach Test

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Here is a list of highly recommended of graphical novels. I have a few of them (marked with an *), am looking for others. If you have any of those and wish to exchange, drop me a line. If you feel there are others which are worth reading, let me know via the comments section.Bone by Jeff Smith (*)Concrete: The Human Dilemma by Paul Chadwick (*)Contract with God by Will Eisner (*)New York the Big

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Tsomgo Lake, Indo-China Border, 12400 ft.Hotel Nor Khill, GangtokMore photos from my Sikkim Trip here.

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Collage of night of celebration after three days of training at E&Y Senior Consultant School. Some more snaps from S.O.A.R have been uploaded here.In the meanwhile, I finally managed to lay my hands on Will Eisner's Contract with God and New York: The Big City. Currently reading Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art and Charles Burns's Blackhole.Will be proceeding on a long

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Slow, languid, relaxed, melodic! No wonder, Kind of Blue holds the record for being the best selling Jazz album of all times. Even a beginner like me could easily follow the whole album. And the best part, unlike albums released today, each and every piece is worth listening to.Ashley Kahn in his excellent book Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece points out, "Copies of the

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Sometime back, Jake or Sumo, had raved about a new Graphic Novel series Y - The Last Man. And as I read it, I can see why.In the summer of 2002, something simultaneously kills every mammal possessing a Y chromosome - including embryos, fertilized eggs, and even sperm - with the exception of Yorick Brown, a young amateur escape artist, and his Capuchin monkey, Ampersand. So far, I have finished

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The Login ScreenThe DesktopMy ComputerFirefox The new Mac look and feel on a Windows desktop courtesy of Potrait of a Kite.

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Around July last year, I decided one of my major priorities for the next 6 months would be to get in shape. My logic was simple: a body is like a machine. If a machine can be hacked, so can the human body. All it requires is will and dedication. Project Hack the Body was underway.A quick visit to the neighbourhood gym revealed how badly out of shape I was. I was 5'6" and weighed 81 Kgs. My Body

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Overheard in a Bombay local:Passenger 1: God! I have a bad headache.Passenger 2: Kahan pe? Sar main?

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Currently listening to John Coltrane's Blue Train. Besides being first album that Coltrane released under his own name as a bandleader, it was also his personal favourite. While all tracks are amazingly good, do listen to the high energy Locomotion and the rhythmic Blue Train. While many people love the slow I'm Old Fashioned, I found it a bit out of place in this fast paced bebop album. Other

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My friend Sumo has an interesting contest running at his blog. In Sumo's words: I have run out of shelf space for my new books and am in no mood to pack them off in cardboard boxes. Over the next few weeks, I am going to give away some of my books to caring book-lovers. The books are going to go out as prizes to the series of quizzes that are going to be posted here. And I get to be the judge :)

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Via News.com:In a bit of unintended humor, Wall Street closed Apple's stock Tuesday, the day the company unveiled its first Intel processor-based computers at Macworld, at $80.86.That may mean nothing to the average person, but techies will no doubt catch the accidental reference to Intel's 8086, the 1978 processor that spawned the x86 architecture that PC users are so familiar with.

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Sumo Man, this one is for you!Q1. According to Swedish folklore, they were a race of short people (probably escaped slaves) who used to live in Scandinavia. They cultivated land which others felt could not be used easily and lived in homesteads called hackehemman. Name this race that eventually died out.A. HackersQ2. This hacker enjoyed a particular Russian author's seemingly absurd yet

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Was checking Google Video for some stuff and was surprised to complete Hindi movies uploaded by people. Some of the movies you can download are:Dilwale Dulhaniya Le JayengeMunna Bhai MBBS: CD I, CDIIKoi Mil GayaSwades: CD I, CD IIApharanDisco DancerNeal and NikkiMr. ya MissEk Khiladi, Ek Hasina: CD I, CD IIYou should add the file extension .flv to the end after downloading. You will also require

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Single Trivia Question: Whose email ID was recently revealed to be chunkylover53@aol.com?

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Just read the back cover of a book titled Armor and got hooked immediately. This is the blurb for John Steakley's masterpiece: The planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable, the water poisonous. It is the home of the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered.Body armor has been devised for the commando forces that are to be dropped on

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Continuing with yesterday's post related to Password Cracking, here are some more utilities that you may find useful: (via Digg)MessenPassMessenPass is a password recovery tool that reveals the passwords of quite a few Instant Messaging Applications.Asterisk LoggerAutomatically reveals the passwords stored behind the asterisks ('***') in standard password text-boxes of Windows.Protected Storage

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Nothing is more irritating than finishing a book (Hyperion) and finding that you have to read another to complete the story (The Fall of Hyperion).That crib aside, Hyperion is an extremely well written novel. Dan Simmons tells an engrossing tale by interlocking the stories of 7 travellers who are on a pilgrimage to the Time Tombs on Hyperion. They are on the way to Hyperion to make a request of

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