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
X10 which was known for its pop up ads for wireless camera’s has released a new package which makes it easier for people to ‘give your home a brain’, meaning you can now use the software to create a smart house.
I was looking into this last year and when my house in India is nearing completion I will be buying the package and automating the entire house. The new kit costs about $100 with new modules costing ~$15. I am thinking I will add biometric scanners to the mix to allow me to unlock the door without needing keys. Although I will be adding manual overrides in case the power goes out and I will use Linux to control the system instead of windows. I will be adding UPS backup to the server incase of power outages and stuff. Another cool thing to add to this would be voice recognition software.
One of the neat things about this new system is that it doesn’t need the computer to be on after you have programmed it. Meaning once you are done programing the controller you can pug it into any electric supply and shut down the computer and still enjoy the benefits of home automation.
I will keep post updates when I actually start working on this.
Original Story: Wired News
After a while of procastination I have finally finished the new guestbook script and its now live. Check it out at: http://feedback.suramya.com
New Features:
Check it out and let me know what you think of it.
Thanks,
Suramya
According to BetaNews Google has started a new project where it will scan an index millions of books from libraries around the country and add them to its catalog. This doesn’t mean that the books will be available for free though, the search results will only show the bibliographies and excerpts from copyrighted books while giving complete access to the books whose copyrights have expired.
This will make it easier for people to search for specific items by centerlizing the knowledge into a easily accessed repository. This comes to us after the Google Scholar which allowed us to search through scholarly literature.
I think that google is doing a good job and this is a really cool addition to its formidable collection of tools.
Original Story: BetaNews
No I am not dead. I know I said that I would post more updates soon but didn’t.
There were two problems preventing me from posting. First: I was sick with a bad cold and a sore throat from hell. The cold made my eyes water a lot which made working on the computer pretty hard. (You can imagine how much I enjoyed that…). When I finally started getting better I found that the server hosting suramya.com was having problems. This was the same server which has been having problems all this year and this time I think the RAM and HDD both were failing. To make things interesting mysql kept segfaulting on certain queries, perl segfaulted everytime you ran it. apache refused to run for a long time.
So I built a new machine to replace this one. To make things fun, the cpu fan died on the first system I built. Since I had another spare system available I rebuilt the distro on the second one, but guess what the cpu fan on the second one also died. By this time I was pretty mad so I dissected another computer and put the fan from that one in the new one. Then the machine actually worked.
So After making a mirror of suramya.com on the new server I had to drive to the NY office to replace the old server with the new one. I finally did this about 2 hours ago so as of now suramya.com is back up completely. I did do some work on the new feedback script so expect to see some changes by the end of the week.
Well this is all for now. Will post more later. Thanks for visiting.
– Suramya
First of all a big thanks to everyone who emailed/sms’d/called/IMed me to wish me on the 3rd. I am not ignoring you, I fell sick on the 3rd and am still feeling pretty down 🙁 I will most prob reply to all the emails today, latest by tomorrow.
For my birthday we went to Macaroni Grill for dinner. The food was awesome. We were then supposed to goto a club but since I was sick we decided to postpone that to the next weekend.
I got an Ipod Mini as a birthday gift. Now I can finally get rid of my Rio-600 with its 32 mb of RAM. 32 MB – 4GB, now thats what I call an upgrade. 🙂
Now its time for me to crawl back into bed. More updates later.
– Sur
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