Google Maps for Running Path Calculation

I love to jog every morning, but I was finding it difficult to track my progress. I was failing to put number on my daily run. I solved this with the help of Google maps. I calculated the length of my running path from its satellite view.


It turned out that my one lap is around 2000 feet or 600m. I generally do 10 laps ... so I am running 6km daily at present.

Putting a number to my endeavor is very impressive and I can use number as milestones to achieve more stamina preparing for my marathons. Now I can also easily change tracks or jog a random path and still calculate my running length without need of a pedometer.
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"They have killed their Mother"

I watched Jame's Cameroon Avatar, a few days back. Absolutely gorgeous movie and everybody should watch it atleast once. Message from movie penetrates right into the heart and soon you start feeling for the native alien race rather than your own human race.

At the brink of war between humans and natives, the hero appeals to the soul of the planet for help. The words he used, "Look into Grace's dream. They have already killed their own mother and now they want to kill you". These words immediately caused some kind of emotional pain in my heart.

The moment I step out of the movie theatre, I started seeing my surroundings in a new light. Anywhere I see, I realize how shamelessly we have converted our planet into a concrete mess. Only sporadic pieces of nature remain here and there, still struggling to survive, begging for mercy from humans. Still appealing the man to connect back to them, if only the man cares to look at them once.



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Logical Puzzle: Brick, Boat and Lake

Question: There is a man sitting in a boat floating on a lake with a brick in his hand. Now man throws the brick in the water, now will the level of water in the lake will rise, drop or remain same?

Answer: The water level will drop.

When brick is in the boat it displaces water equivalent to its weight. When its in the lake it displaces water equivalent to its volume. Since the density of brick is more than water, it will displace more water in the boat than when it is in the bottom of the lake.



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C/C++ Programming on MAC

If you want to do simple C/C++ programming on MAC than you can do that simply by using the Xcode the Apple default programming environment. It comes bundle with your MAC OSX CD, so you don't even have to download it.



As I discovered you don't need to get yourself a separate IDE for MAC. Watch the video above to get yourself started.

I use xcode for Objective-C programming on MAC daily for iPhone.
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Logical Puzzle: Average of 3 Salaries

Question: There are 3 people X, Y & Z. They want to find their average salary but wish to keep their package hidden from each other. How are they going to do it?

Answer: Lets say salary of X, Y & Z are A,B & C respectively.

1. Now X adds a constant E (can be both negative and positive) to his salary and tells it to B.
2. Y adds a constant F to his salary and add it to the sum provided by X (A+E) and tell it to C.
3. Z adds a constant G to his salary and add it to the sum provided by Y (A + E + B + F) and tells it to every one.
4. Now A removes the constant E from the total ( A + E + B + F + C + G), then B removes F and finally C removes G. Now they have the sum total of their salary.
5. They divide the total by 3 and obtain the average salary.


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Bought Myself a MacBook

I have finally bitten by the 'Apple bug'. I have bought myself a MacBook, the one released in November and my experience till now is amazing. It costed me 55k in rupees (including taxes) and I bought it from official apple retailer UCInfosystem .

I would like to thank my currren company Wirkle to introduce me to the MAC development environment and OSX. Its a great addition to my skill and I can now code on Windows, Mac and Linux. In tech terms I am triple booting now.



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My (Anuj Pathania's) 5 Best Solo Pic

I was going through all my pics collection. It was like looking through a panorama of my life. There's 100 of those pics among collection that I absolutely adore. Here are my 5 top favorite pics of myself and short description of each.

1 @ Delhi Zoo

2 @ Sister's Marriage

3 @ 21st Birthday

4 @ Karnal

5 @ Office Party

Yeah I know I am not superbly good looking but I think I look descent in these pics :D.

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Half-Delhi Marathon: Mission Accomplished.

Today I ran hard and successfully completed Airtel Half Delhi Marathon. I completed 21 Kilometers in 3 Hours and 13 minutes.

First five 5 KMs were pieces of cake, but after that with each successive km milestone, it seemed liked that distance between 2 milestone was getting bigger and bigger.

I ran with my Company(Wirkle) - CEO (Mr. Varun Khurana)and COO (Mr. Lomesh Dutta) and seriously missed my other 2 colleagues Mohit Goyal and Meetali who could not made it to the race due to personal reasons.



As a reward for completion I was given the above medal, a memento to remember my great achievement for rest of my life.

Marathon running is fun. Hopefully Delhi is just a start in my long tally of future Marathons.

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Mac Expose on Linux

I hate a lot of things about Mac, but one thing I don't hate is it's expose feature. I got so impressed (addicted) to it at office that I wanted it badly on my Linux machine at home. And, my wish came true.

Mac's Expose equivalent is Linux Compiz's Scale Plugin. Its just awesome. Just activate it and set the shortcut key according to your choice and you are all set to go.




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Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference: Free Ebook

Keir Thomas, a very prominent writer of Linux books has written a great book on Ubuntu in form of Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference. More offer he is offering the book as free download legally. So Grab your copy now, and start exploring Ubuntu. Start living, open source way.

You can download it from here.



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