After a long time I have posted a new article on Computer Usability Vs Security. In this article I try to figure out if Computer Security and Computer Usability are two opposite directions in computer systems. Check it out and let me know what you think about it.
– Suramya
Here’s another update from India. Since I last posted I have been pretty busy with visiting friends and relatives. First I flew to Bangalore on the 7th Jan on an Air Deccan flight. I almost missed the flight in spite of being in the Airport an hour before the check in time. I was watching the status board for information about my flight and it kept saying that my flight was on time but didn’t say if the flight had started boarding or not so I happily kept listening to music and was reading a very interesting book. Then about 10 minutes before the scheduled departure time I walked up to the Air Deccan counter and asked them about my flight which is when I found out that the flight was going to depart in 10 mins and they were about to close the boarding gates so I rushed through the security check and boarded the plane.
I made it to Bangalore on time and had a lot of fun, I got to meet my friend Gaurang who is in the merchant navy after 3 years. We stayed up pretty late and talked a lot. The first night we were up till 3 am just talking. We were supposed to go check out the nightlife in Bangalore but we got so involved in talking that we lost track of time. The next day Gaurang’s mom woke us at 8:30 am and took us out for breakfast. We ate Dosa’s at this restaurant (can’t remember the name) which Aunty didn’t like as they were pretty oily but both me and Gaurang liked them a lot. Then we drove around Bangalore for a while doing chores after which we dropped Aunty at home and left to have lunch at this place called RR. We (Me, Gaurang and Viraj) left home at 2:00 pm and got caught in a very bad traffic jam for a couple of hours. We finally made it to the restaurant at 4:45 pm and had our lunch at 5:00 pm. Then we drove back to Gaurang’s place to pick up aunty and drive to Kartik’s place for dinner. Since we had such a late lunch neither Gaurang or me ate much inspite of a great selection (Sorry Aunty)
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Then we spent the night talking. Once the party was over all of us went back to Gaurang’s place. Kartik drove his car and I rode with him while Aunty and Gaurang were in the other car. The only comment I have about the ride back is that Kartik plays too many car racing games… 🙂
Once we were back we watch Animatrix ’cause gaurang hadn’t seen it yet, then we talked for a while and then Kartik went back home while me and Gaurang went to sleep (I think it was about 4:30 am at that time). Got up in the morning and helped Gaurang and Aunty pack. By this time Gaurang’s dad was in town so I got to meet him too. Then we dropped Gaurang at the Airport for his flight to Bombay and uncle & Aunty dropped me at Kaban park near Vinit’s place.
Since I knew no one was going to be home at his place till 2:30 pm I spent the next couple of hours walking around MG Road and Brigade road. Then I went to his place and met Aunty and his cousin Anshu. After a great meal of Pav-Bhaji we all went to the temple where it was pretty crowded due to it being a Sunday. Then on the way back we stopped over at Madhur’s place and met his mom. He wasn’t there ’cause he had gone to drop someone off on his bike and had an accident on the way back (He wasn’t hurt but that should teach him to pay more attention to the road than the girls on the road.) Then we left for home and stopped for some very tasty Golgappa’s.
At home I met Vinit’s dad. By this time a couple of Anshu’s friends had come over. So Aunty took all of us out for dinner and we went to this road where both sides will filled with stalls and I had awesome Uttapam’s and Idli over there followed by a couple of slices of watermelon.
Once we got back home, we watched a little bit of TV then after Aunty went to bed Anshu and me stayed up talking. Since my flight was at 5:30 am and I had to be at the airport latest by 4:30 am, I decided not to sleep and spent the night reading.
The flight back was uneventfull and I made it back in one piece.
Other than memories I brought back one other thing from Bangalore: A very bad cold, which I caught from Kartik and then passed on to my parents. (Kartik: Thanks a Lot… )
Over all a very fun trip. Wish I could do it more often.&
– Suramya
Hi Everyone,
Here’s an update from me after a long time. First let me wish you a very happy new year and hope that all you wishes and dreams come true in the following year and all the years to come.
As some of you might already know I am currently in India enjoying a long delayed vacation. 🙂 I left NY on the 26th Dec from JFK International airport where Vinit had dropped me off for my flight on Airo-Flaut to Delhi via Moscow. After waiting in line for about 1 1/2 hour they finally started the checkin procedure which went surprisingly fast. After I checked in I found out that my flight which was supposed to depart at 7:30 pm had been delayed for some reason. I finally departed from New York at 10:00 pm. The flight was ok, I got to watch Cinderella with was a decent timepass movie. I spent the flight reading a very interesting novel. In Moscow the transit procedings took a total of about 5 mins after which I was free to roam the airport for 1 1/2 hours while waiting for my flight to begin boarding. The second flight was also pretty decent, I actually arrived in Delhi on time at 12:00 am.
Unfortunately my parents have decided that I need to get up early and goto bed early so I have been getting up at 8:00 am and going to bed around 11:00 pm :-(. I spent the next few days relaxing at home and visitng a couple of relatives. We spent the new years at home ’cause it was the first time after 5 years that all four of us were together in one place at the same time.
I am going to Banglore tomorrow for 2 days to meet Gaurang. It has been about 3 years since we have met. I am also planning meeting with a couple of my classmates over the next few days. Lets see how that works out.
Well this is all for now. I know I skipped a lot of the stuff I have been doing for the past few days but you will just have to bear with me. Dial-up connection sucks. I am waiting for the DSL connection to be activated, lets hope that it is activated before I leave. I Will post more later.
– Suramya
Website stats script has been fixed. It now works and is live. I updated it so that it uses sessions to prevent duplicate entries. The code is now a lot cleaner and more efficient.
I still need to make some changes to some of the sub-sections for the changes to take effect. I will do that later today though, I need to get some sleep now.
Will let you know when I am done.
Update: All sections should now be showing the correct stats and tracking visitors properly.
– Suramya
Now this is something cool. Voltaic Systems just released a backpack with integrated solar panels. This allows the user to charge most electronics (excluding laptops unfortunately) using solar energy without having to setup the solar panels.
The price is a bit on the high side at $229 + Shipping. But for regular travellers it should be a great help. It even has pockets for most electronic gear (ipod’s, PDA’s etc). Check out the site for the pics.
Would like to buy this when I get some cash and go travelling.
– Suramya
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Ok, this is starting to get silly. First there was Flash mobbing. Then came MobileClubbing now to top it people in UK are planning to have a giant pillow fight in front of The National Gallery.
To participate all you have to do is show up with a pillow and at 18.09pm start hitting anyone with a pillow. It should be fun but I think its silly. What’s next? Public flashing….
Source: The Register
– Suramya
Went for dinner yesterday with Jessica and Vinit to Cafe Spice. It was a lot of fun as I was meeting Jessica after a long time. We got to the restraunt at 9:15 pm and stayed there till after 10:30pm. They were playing awesome music and the food was also just right. We talked about everything and it was good to catch up with what was going on in each-other’s lives.
Now I think I should goto sleep.
The visitor stats portion of the site is down right now. I guess something went wrong when I moved the site to the new server. Since I have to fix the tracking script anyway, I am taking this opportunity to update the scripts to make them more efficient. I hope to finish the scripts over the weekend, but lets see how that goes.
– Suramya
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