Thanks to Ars geeks (and Kyle), I found WiFi in Holiday Inn and Kyle helped me fix a WebDAV related issue. Let me explain what this is and what this does: some of you might have accidentally/intentionally ran into this page. Until recently (as recent as 40 hours ago), I used to manually enter events [...]

As I didn’t have any talks early in the morning, (give them a break - it’s a geek conference. Nothing starts till about 10 - mostly because many people went to sleep around 8 am!) I had just enough time to transfer my pictures to my computer. I discussed certain issues with Aaron (ConChair for [...]

As planned, I woke up around 4 am and Kyle (along with Steve and Peter) were at my house around 6 am to pick me up. Journey started on scheduled and it was after a long time that I was sitting in the backseat. This (I mean sitting in the backseat) has its own advantages [...]

It has been a while since this page saw any updates and quite many things have happened since then. Let me start with where I ended the last entry. I managed to fine tune my presentation for the Sigma Xi Student Research Colloquium just in time - being the only Mac user helped a [...]

It was three days ago, in an early morning email, that Anil informed me of a certain event in India - in Bangalore to be precise. Why did I have to be told by someone else, about an event of that magnitude? Simple answer follows: I watch news while having breakfast and/or dinner (about 20 [...]

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