New Books

I'm running out of books to read so I was on shopping spree at Amazon. Just picked up few books from my Wish List and then few books from my favorite authors.

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer


• Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant


• How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers


• Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology


• Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary


• The Best American Science Writing 2002

Cool Pocket PC Stuff

If you got this thingy and don't know what to do with it besides storing phone numbers and birthdays, well, here's some "secrets" I came across after my first night with it :)

• Sexual Positions 1.0 - Of course, this has to be the first to grab :). No freaky stuff in this one and it's legally free.


• Pocket Bartender - It's so convenient to handover your Pocket PC to bartender and ask her to make that drink that no one else has ever heard of!


• TheSky Pocket Edition - This is probably the best and most popular in it's category. Think about coming out of your car, tap on your Pocket PC to see real-time sky map and know the name of that star you been wondering about in the middle of nowhere. If you had good telescope, you can even plug-in your pocket pc in to it and control it with pen taps! Other such programs include Pocket Stars and Pocket Universe. The bad thing about TheSky is that there is no trial edition available but I've heard that you can make a copy in someway if someone else has it. Don't ask how!


• Ephemeris - This is cool little app to show moon phase, sun/moon rise times etc. Helpful if you were like me who won't mind not sleeping additional one hour to see sun rise!


• TV Remote Controller - I've yet to make this work but the basic idea is that you are sitting in the bar and suddenly TV channel gets changed to Star Trek from some stupid sports game and no one knows how did that happened.


• Taiyoukei - This is nice set created by a Japanese guy for astronomy. Taiyoukei meaning "solar system", for example, can tell you which planets are up in the sky right now among many other stuff.


• EBooks - There are several free (the one on Kazza may not count) ebooks available which you can read on Pocket PC during your bus trips to New York. Special fun are kids books: Alice in the wonderland, Encarta Pocket Dictionary, Adventure of Tom Sawyer and Julius Verne.

Apart from these cool stuff, Pocket PC as an operating system totally sucks. How one can even think of making it and selling it? There's lots of scope here to make additions to this crappy operating system.

Jun-July Photo Album

This quick and small album could be viewed at dotPhoto. I'll post it on my site when I stop being lazzzy.

Things With The Rain Drops...

Listening to When I Fall with sound of rain drops from my window... These days are going good. Haven't missed chance to get myself wet in rain most of the time... and walking on wet grass with bare feet... and watching rain drops making curves in cones of street lights... and taking a long drive in rain with my windows open... and taking snaps of Sun hiding behind dark clouds... and taking a deep breath in drizzly air... and wondering at water dance on my windshield... and following a droplet cloud around wheels of other vehicles... and making a splash on my way... These days are going good.

Lost and unfound

It's frustrating how much difference a little stupidity can make to your life. Yours and others. These days and nights are dedicated to some meanest of them.


[Listening: Matchbox Twenty - If you're gone]

A Marriage Conjecture

I and Sundar usually get in to blazingly fast high information density conversations. The recent one which lasted for 15 min spanned through topics such as best porn available on Net, XSL, marriages, divorce laws in Texas, blogging and ants. I just happened to make a statement with him which I thought worth blogging.

So here's what I call "The Marriage Conjecture".

"I was thinking marriage is a big thing. You need to have 100% confidence. Your match should be made in heaven. Both of you should love each other deeply. ALL of these thoughts are CRAP."

It's a conjecture because nothing seems to disprove this but to the deep of my heart I know it can't be true. So just like usual mathematician, I guess there's something missing here.

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