Pradeep's Incoherency

As usual, I am back from my slumber to blabber something. Days are being eventful for me. Falling sick, Diagnosed with Dengue, being veg for 10 days in a row (Lunch / Dinner either being Roti/Dal, or Subway Veg Delite) etc etc has taken enough of my time. The other thing I have been doing is Android programming for a Proof of Concept which, for me is like a hobby. though I was very much attracted to the technology when released, I lost touch owing to random stuff at office. But now, I am enjoying doing this stuff. It really feels good to do something different (And guide even senior people do the same.) Of late, I have been thinking to delve into the ROM making of Android. As of now, I am only writing applications and using ROMs designed by other people to flash the project phone. But it seems to be a better thing to learn building the ROMs all by myself, which will make me learn. Yeah, that surely will require a lot more time and dedication, as well as system requirements, it promises...

I am in BIAL now, leaving for a 24 day vacation to Bhubaneswar. It has been 8 months since I was there. The last time I was in this airport, The WIFI speed was excellent, it was surpassing 1Mbps per user! But today it is so so slow. It can't even run the speedtest.net tests! Even the Draft saving feature of Blogger is failing sometime. I wanted to write about hte CATastrophe on the 1st day 1st show. But that never happened, But in this leisurely time I would like to put my thoughts. 1. I don't know about the Test System Architecture, but then, was the load test never done? 2. From the news reports, I guess they used a Distributed Architecture, I mean individual servers for each test center, How come there were no backup servers? 3. Prometric says it was a virus attack. There has been no recent upsurge in virus activities lately. And even if it was a virus attack, Which I find hard to believe, it is pretty unlikely that only this particular s/w was targetted, because no one knew...

Its probably one and half months since I posted something. I thought I would tweet to make up my absence in blogosphere, but that didn't happen either. But I was kind of forced to put on this post. There is yet another reality show, called Rock On, which aims to create a Desi band and send them to the MTV show in somewhere in US. The honourable judges are Mr. Ram Sampath, Mr Nikhil Chinappa and Mr Kailash Kher. Nikhil : Judges pagalpan (Craziness), says he doesn't know what is it, but would know if you have it! what crap! Ram : judges Music. Period. Kailash : Judges desipan. On a vanila day, the judges will speak something like this. Nikhil : Wow! That was ... Awesome! ... What was that shit? It didn't sound like music, it was all noise! This is not rock! (As if he member of some rock band since his birth!) Ram : (Trying to cover up Nikhil's blunders in judgement) That was full noise and it was great! I liked it! Then, like some high school history teacher Mr. X, you so...

Today, I just felt like going to orkut (Yeah, orkut isn't looking too good these days on my bookmarks, and I promised everyone I knew at college that I will be in touch in orkut! May be its time for a mass scrapping event!) and I read the testimonials, some old, few new, all still bristling with joy and still tell you what you are good at. they instill a new wave of freshness, a new belief in oneself. May be I am getting nostalgic. I don't feel like going to Facebook, probably think that it can't do to me what orkut has done. I need to go, I need to scrap everyone now!

I have been longing to buy something geeky for a long time now. My subconscience tells me to grab something, but then conscience tells me I have really got no use for it. I thought of buying a new 3G phone with GPS, but then thought that 3G isn't here yet (at least for my provider) and I need not waste money on a 3G phone now. On top of that, my 2 year old phone is still in very good shape! I also thought of getting hold of an Android phone (for a very different reason : to use it for a hobby development device), but then, those cell phones are too costly! 30K a pop! Thought of buying an PS3, but then, it has got nothing more than games. Anybody got any ideas? Help me! I will get maniac if these fever doesn't get over

When I renewed my domain name last month, little did I realize that I hardly use it, may be once a fortnight on average. On top that I got the domain for free last year, and it cost me Rs. 600 this year to renew. I just wanted to keep the domain name, though the name is something which will be surely frowned upon in a "Bhadraloka's " house.

I really liked the writing of Great Bong, whose blog link you will find on my bookmarks bar too, and now, I am a big fan of his twitts too! Cause 1st of all, he ain't twitt shit, last of all, he throws shit at shit! Love you GB! (I necessarily do not agree with many of his views, but yeah, he puts the facts quite nicely!)