I know that this is nothing new, but I too have begun tweeting from the shell. I use a bash script which POSTs the required data to the Twitter servers. It also uses ispell to run a quick spell-check before POSTing. See the code here.

After hours of reviewing and proofreading here is the first usable version of my CV. I know it is not perfect. It never will be. And I’ll probably change it.

For quite some time I have been working on a simulator which we (me with the other awesome folks from http://robotix.in) would use to evaluate the submissions for our XAnts problem statement. I initially implemented the entire thing in pure Java (I know … What was I thinking?) but in the past few days have [...]

I was getting started with the Google Web Toolkit and the Google App Engine when I ran into a very strange problem – I got a ** Unable to load Mozilla for hosted mode ** error. Apparently the Google plugin for Eclipse is not linked to libstdc++6 but to libstdc++5 – something my ‘Squeeze’ [...]

I have a particularly nosy friend (lets call him R) who happens to storm into my room every now and then trying to convince me to give up on my sweet little GNU/Linux system and to switch back to Windows (it’s true, I did use Windows once). His typical line of reasoning includes any or [...]

For the past thirty or so days Anirudh, Anurag and I have been working on an exciting top-secret-not-without-reasons idea which we plan to be our start-up.
Currently we have a working client implementation on the Android platform and we will soon start working on an iPhone based client as well (and then maybe even do something [...]

I have not blogged in a while – have remained busy with both my ADC project and various things particular to the third semester in the life of an IIT Kharagpur student.
I could, however, find time to shift my blog from the free web hosting at http://www.000space.com to a paid hosting service. The PHP [...]

In a few hours I will be leaving for Kharagpur, after spending a vacation of about two and a half months back here in beautiful Dehradoon valley. Before you continue please understand that this is more like a note to myself than anything else. Nevertheless, you are welcome to read ahead. As I was leaving [...]

I generally stay away from the my-desktop-is-flashy-so-what-if-it-eats-CPU crowd but I seem to have met my match. Day before yesterday I installed The Avant Window Manager. Currently I am running AWN on top of XFCE. I’ve removed the XFCE panel and now all I have is the AWN running at the bottom of my screen.
I absolutely [...]

I recently upgraded my boot-loader to GNU GRUB 2. It has several new interesting features which sets it apart it from the older version, now termed GRUB Legacy
Another reason for my upgrade to GNU GRUB 2 was that GRUB legacy it no longer being under active development – no new features will be added to [...]