Look at the brighter side

Only five months to Dark Knight Rises!

[Btw I just noticed that all my tag names are CamelCase which i_abhor_in_code. I am totally at loss why that is so].

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[Writing this on the blogger app, which does not seem to enjoy a great reputation. Formatting might be an issue].

A few updates (once again hoping there will be more of those from now on).

I have more or less settled into my new place and discovered that I don't mind living alone that much after all. Maybe I have always been antisocial, but just used to think otherwise. I like the new room, which is, most importantly, much quieter than the old one.

Not much on the reading side except that I actually counted the number of books I have while shifting. Out came a truly staggering number. Purchases have gone down quite a bit, though not vanished yet.

Watched one or two recent movies, but nothing worth writing about. Maybe we should all just wait for Dark Knight Rises.

I bought an induction appliance. And made tea. Yes, me. With my bare hands (with some help ofcourse). That is a personal record of sorts.

Enjoy!

An observation

Pain is an inverse-square phenomenon.

The Tao of Programming

The Tao of Programming.

Recent Science Fiction

Certain troubles were going on lately, which barring the details meant I was unable to read anything remotely heavy. Thankfully a (small) pile of science fiction came to my rescue. Here is what

Isaac Asimov : The complete stories Volume I : Asimov has been called the greatest science fiction author of all time (Clark has been too, and I am sure many others have been and will be). Statements concerning 'all time' are perilous, but Asimov certainly was one of the most clever. Read this book to convince yourself (besides spending many pleasat hours). The breadth of themes and plots is simply astonishing.

A Time Odyssey Book I: Time's Eye: I remeber borrowing this one from V a long time back and not finishing it. Did that recently. Enjoyable, if a bit stretched at some points. Full of scientific and historical nuggets like Clarke's other books. Good, but not great.

Quicksilver: Not science fiction per say, but close. Very clever, but descriptions of places and dresses are a bit laborious to read. But dialogues more than make up for it. Some familiarity with the early history of Royal Society and principals involved is (I think) required to fully appreciate it though.

Enjoy!!

My third computer

First: July 2003. 1.8GHz Pentium 4, 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD. Assembled.

Second: Feb 2009. 1.6GHz Core i7, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD. Dell Studio 16.

Third: Dec 2011. 1.4GHz A9, 1GB RAM, 16GB Solid state drive. Samsung Galaxy Note.

Must read RFC

Here.

And the field testing report.