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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Linux Tech Tip Videos

If you a re a Linux enthusiast like I am then probably you will these Tech Tip Video's from Linux Journal very handy. Each video teaches you cool new things which you can try and there are tons of them.

From "File Manipulation to ARP to Editing Source Code" ... knowledge every techie should have in his toolbox.

You can view or download them from - Linux Journal Video's



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Ubuntu Installation Hangs at "Configuring Apt -- Scannning Mirrors"

While trying to install Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) my installation freezed at screen with title "Configuring Apt" and message "Scanning Mirrors".

Solution - Disconnect from any network (my case Ethernet) and restart the installation.

Tip - Always disconnect any network while installing any operating system in general.




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Apple Blessing/Curse -- Keep Innovating

Apple products are great and way ahead of their of their competitors. But, they have a deadly weakness which I think they are going to pay for sooner or later. Apple is the most opaque company ever, even opaquer than Microsoft. At one time I thought it was something that was not possible, Microsoft after all was opaque enough beast. Apple's biggest threat is not Microsoft or Google but in my opinion is Open Source Community. OSC may be slow but is a unstoppable juggernaut which is never far behind the best, but unfortunately also never in front most of the time.

Apple has indeed set a bar way up the hill but it must not be complacent about it. They may have the best engineers in the world but until they keep on innovating forever they can't match the combined strength of rest of engineering might of the world put together.

In the end I believe Apple will sonly how the way like they did through touch in Iphone. But, no matter how much patent and copyright they file. Open source community will catch up with them, which will result in production of a far superior product at far lower price.



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Star Trek 2009

Watched this great movie yesterday, and from my side its 10/10. This movie is probably the best star trek movie I have ever seen and I have watched them all.

The story is quiet bold and adventurous. Sound is uber cool too and the screenplay is just outstanding.

Also there are 2 moral of the stories -

1. Time travel can really mess thing up.

2. This one more relevant to real world -- "One with bigger cannons, call the shots."

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Finally Messed My Computer!

Trying to install stupid MAC on my PC, I just crashed everything. Corrupted both my linux and windows O.S. .

A Great oppurtunity to rid my computer of both windows and apple crap and also to update my Linux ubuntu to 7.10 to 9.04.

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Pornographic Personal Homepage, Courtesy Free Hosting

Question: Why should you not put your personal homepage on free web hosting?

Answer: Because they may add smoking backside of chicks (Ones you probably never ever get to date in your life) on the most important web presence page of your existence, right next to your resume.

Now I am realing laughing my ass off imagining the impression the person accessing my homepage will be getting about me from this. Fortunately I don't care much about it considering it is already so messed up (Half the world this I am crazy and rest half think I am weird, which is probably semi-true keeping in reference "My Things to Before I Die List"and for some reason I don't give a damn!).

Still nobody can stop me enjoying this moment. He he ..

Note to self: Got to extract some money from already bankrupt account (Ruined by XBOX 360 + 40" LCD) to buy a descent hosting, ASAP.

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Joined Wirkle @ Software Engineer

College (22nd May) is over and new phase in life has begun. I have joined wirkle technologies today (1st June) and in fact I am writing this blog post from the office on my very first day. The culture here is really warm and my intial perception is very positive but its probably too early to draw conclusion (Hardly spent 4 hours here uptil now). I am looking forward to have a long and prosperous stay here.

My Post here is as a Software Engineer and I will be working on Iphone application development platform, which I hope to learn a lot from since I am not only to IPHONE SDK but also to the MAC enviorment(Who uses MAC in India after all :D).

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