25 updates : long awaited ones

January 22nd, 2005 at 01:17am

Yes. I am alive !!!…… Thats the most important update. Its more then 2 months now since i wrote anything out here.

Anyway, here are the updates from my end !

1. i am alive -> the most important update.
2. very busy with work -> bla bla bla .. the usual stuff
3. looking forward for some change in nature of work. (any pointers?)
4. Tsunami ! ->bad; ….lot of money came in. I hope that atleast some of it goes to the needy…
5. My wife was away all this while at bangalore on a 1.5 month assignment. Today is her last day at bangalore on that assignment. she would be back in mangalore for good 2morrow.
6. My Digital Rebel rocks. me still at a very amateur level. :(. there is sooo much to learn when it comes to photography
7. nice Q3 results of our company. so, things are getting better.
8. bought a tripod for my camera from jjmehta. did a online transaction. no issue. smooth transfer. very good service. Me Impressed! model : VPT-2400 -> Vivitar.
9. rss feeds have become part of my life…….now i use bloglines extensively. its my source of information.
10. i also keep a watch over google news.
11. I am locked on to Firefox. use IE only when some pages which are coded by MS Centric people!
12. Sent out around 600 mails on new year, wishing people. *Update : got appx 350 replies!!!.
13. A friend of mine called me up after 1 yr ….. (SSS)
14. Installed a outlook plugin called spambayes, basically to take care of spam. Its been good so far.
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15. Dec 15th was my 1st wedding annv !!!!. Its already one year since we got married. ……i was in bangalore that day with my wife. … we had a nice time!

further …Since my wife was in blr, i traveled to bangalore twice in dec. freaked out at forum. watched the movie aitraz…(its a good hindi movie..for a change!).
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16. USB drive and bluetooth adapter … both have become a part of my daily wear ! :)
17. @ home, moved on to airtel - home 128 package. 24 hrs 128kbps access with no limits on download.
18. downloaded mandrake 10.1 official and fedora core 3. installed both. did some R&D. yet to find time to get my USB ADSL modem working………..(help please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.) If that works, then i think i will totally trash windows xp! :)
19. downloaded quite a lot of movies using P2P. shareaza rocks. Yet to see the movies though! :)
20. lot of my friends/classmates at my company r now in US……………on duty.
21. My friend/relative got engaged (AKS_ADSH)…….
22. My cousin got engaged. (@karkal)
23. bought a dvd writer (Sony DVD RW DW-18A). burnt some DVDs. ………cool!
24. installed picasa2 from google. it rocks, specially if u have lot of photos on your machine. Installed adobe reader 7 too. nice. very fast.!! do install both of them!
25. Went to bekal fort recently. It was a triped planed at a notice of 30 mins :) enjoyed it :)

almost every day, so far, i have been thinking of updating the blog. !! :) but some how, i miss out. but now, mission accomplished!

those were some quick updates! :)
hopefully, i would be updating this more often from now on ! :)
wish me luck!

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