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Stop!

Pranni — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:26:29 +0000

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Cleaning Trash

Pranni — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:18:17 +0000

I’ve never looked at the trash folder in my MacBook Pro. Today I opened it and found so many items. I said “Empty Trash”. It calculated the number of items and displayed this dialog box:

I should say the sound effect after the cleaning was nice

Shifting to Coimbatore

Pranni — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:57:05 +0000

When I decided to moved to Coimbatore, I was looking for a job here and posted my profile in job sites. OMG, Eclipse plugin development is hot in India. Esp. for few of those who knew it well. I got so many calls from many consultants but the jobs are based in Bangalore. I clearly said “either get me a company which has a development center in Coimbatore or at least a company which will allow me to work from Coimbatore”. They are always confused of the second option. As Yadhvi said “It is better to knock on a closed door than to assume it will not open and walk past”. I was knocking and a door opened. Its Fiorano. I explained my situation, they understood it. Most of my friends still don’t digest the idea. The first question would be: “So you are a contractor now?” No dudes, I’m an employee but work from home.

I know working from home has its own disadvantages. Forget missing all the “Sweets at my desk” mails, I’m mising my basic rights to have coffee whenever I want. Its restricted to a maximum of 5 coffees a day. I was prepared for everything. I stayed back in Bangalore for 2 weeks to interact with the team personally; at home, separate room for office work; two DSL connections; inverter backup (yet to purchase); … But not everything goes as planned right. Disaster came on the day I left Bangalore and started work from here. My teammate resigned. So every week, I’ve got to fly to Bangalore on Mondays and fly back again on/before Wednesday. Staying in hotels; missing my daughter; waking up at 4 AM on Monday morning to catch a flight. Sigh. It ends this week. Hope I’ll be really working from home after this.

பெப்சி உமா ஆண்ட்டிக்கு ஒரு கேள்வி …

Pranni — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:15:32 +0000

பெப்சி உமா : blogன்ற பேர்ல படிச்சவங்க அசிங்கமா விமர்சனம் பண்ணி எழுதறது வெட்கத்துக்குரியது
அப்பாவி ஆறுமுகம் : படிக்காதவங்க எழுதற blog எல்லாம் நீங்க பார்க்கறதே இல்லயா?

லிங்க் உபயம் – கில்லி

Google’s wit…

Pranni — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:53:56 +0000

Hope you would have got a ton of forwards on the Google Maps suggesting you to “Swim across the Atlantic Ocean”. Here is another nice one. Seen on “Suggest a feature” page @ Gmail’s Help Center:

Yeah, you read it right. The next feature of Gmail is to do your laundry

Priceless Expressions 4

Pranni — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:11:16 +0000

This time its not a digital camera or Mac. But with my normal film camera. The first few are when we force her to have Cerelac and the last two are THE best photos I’ve ever taken. Click here for the slideshow.

From Priceless Exp…

One more year …

Pranni — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:20:48 +0000

Another year has gone. Round up of this year:

A new addition to my family. Very very happy.
Purchased a house. Finally I made an investment. Good.
Shifted my job again (sigh) Good that I didn’t switch technology again. Still with Eclipse Plugin development. OK.
Shifted to Coimbatore. Great.
Bought a MacBook. Good.
Got a MacBook Pro from office. Cool.
After 3 successive failures, I finally co-founded a startup – Cypal Solutions. mmmm. No comments
I didn’t reach one my life time goals of becoming a CEO before 30. Sad.

Overall: A nice and wonderful year.

Searching the web …

Pranni — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:36:53 +0000

Who ever said that web search is a solved problem, please look at the search terms, for which Search engines referred this blog!

Legal music download in India

Pranni — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:22:46 +0000

If you don’t want to download pirated MP3 files, the only option so far is to purchase an audio CD and rip it into MP3. I’ve been doing that way since I decided no pirated music. Simply, for Indians, there is no way to purchase music on the net. Sometime back HCL was talking about that (partnering with Apple for iTunes music store in India), but it didn’t happen.

Now there is a nice option (or at least only now I noticed). Raaga.com has an option to legally download our beloved songs. The advantage of online purchase is you don’t have to purchase the entire album, just because one song is nice. You can pay for and download individual the songs that you like (mostly @ Rs 12/- per song).

All looks nice, if not for the Windows DRM. For me, with both my laptops running OS X, I can’t play the songs. Only way is to get the songs into a Windows box, burn them into an audio CD, take use that CD and import the music to my iTunes. Ha! I would better stay with purchasing CDs

Pricesless Expressions – 3

Pranni — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:15:56 +0000

Mac + iSight camera + Photo Booth Software + my daughter = Priceless Expressions

This time, I sat with her and kept on pressing the Shoot button at 10 seconds intervals. That was a long list of photos and few selected photos here.

In case you have missed: Part 1 and Part 2