{"id":691,"date":"2008-04-24T04:34:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T23:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2008-04-24T04:34:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T23:04:08","slug":"some-random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/some-random-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Some random thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its late and I realized that I haven&#8217;t been posting on the site, but don&#8217;t feel like typing a complete blog entry so this post is just going to be some random thoughts I have been thinking about:<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an application in Linux called &#8216;kBluelock&#8217; that allows you to setup your computer to monitor a particular bluetooth device and if that device goes out of range it automatically locks your computer. I have it set to watch my phone so whenever I leave the desk it locks my computer automatically as I always carry my phone in my pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to buy a new phone, this one is giving me a lot of issues. Keeps dropping my calls in the middle. Any recomendations? I need something with a good camera and a GPS. It should allow me connect to an email server and the web. <\/p>\n<p>Seriously want to buy an automatic door opener or something. Its a pain to get out of the car to open the main doors so that I can park the car inside.<\/p>\n<p>Giving out free samples increases your sales. Word of mouth is the best marketing strategy. Tor publishing has been emailing free copies of some of their books every 2 weeks and I have already found two authors that I really like and will buy their books in the future. i.e. if the shipping charges don&#8217;t bankrupt me first.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon shipping kills you,  $5 shipping + $5 per item additional. So a $18 book ends up costing me $28. Not going to buy from them. <\/p>\n<p>Skype is a cool software, getting Skypein to work is a pain for some reason. It even works on linux.  Need to figure out how to merge skype chat logs from two computers. Copying everything to one folder doesn&#8217;t work<\/p>\n<p>At 4 am the roads are completely empty so its fun to drive<\/p>\n<p>Delhi heat sucks<\/p>\n<p>* Debian Unstable\/Testing don&#8217;t like my laptop. Stable works great. Need to roll back to Stable. Will end up formatting again. Will do it over the weekend. Don&#8217;t want to end up without a laptop during the week if something goes wrong. (Will post a complete list of issues later)<\/p>\n<p>* My post on setting up the wireless card ended up on Debian-news site. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n* Delhi mosquitoes suck&#8230; literally.<br \/>\n* need to organize a get together for school friends<br \/>\n* ebooks are great. esp the no shipping part.<\/p>\n<p>Well this is all for now. Will post more later. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its late and I realized that I haven&#8217;t been posting on the site, but don&#8217;t feel like typing a complete blog entry so this post is just going to be some random thoughts I have been thinking about: There&#8217;s an application in Linux called &#8216;kBluelock&#8217; that allows you to setup your computer to monitor a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}