2004 November

A little study of the blogtags + a few extra lines in the template code + a dash of javascript…. = Cool way to read + post comments right here on this page. Click the “comments” link to see them appear dynamically on the page…
hehehe

Here is a picture showing what scientists back then thought a home computer will look like in 2004….talk about getting it wrong.
Click on the thumbnail to see the entire picture.

PS : FORTRAN (short for “FORmula TRANslator”) was the first high level programming language and with extremely difficult syntax compared to today’s languages. FORTRAN was [...]

Poor girl…an extract from the conversation from I had yesterday with a friend. Reminded me of the BOFH series.

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Nachiket says:
Good night now
Anahita says:
gnite
Nachiket says:
I am gonna hit the bunk
Anahita says:
Anahita says:
wish i could too..there’s sooooo much to do
Nachiket says:
hehe
Anahita says:
i dunno when i’ll be done
Anahita says: [...]

…but she did not come.

Same issue on NDTV again, but this time they are questioning if the students should have been expelled from school. Leading Psychiatrist Samir Parikh says, its not only normal, its also prevalent. They finally see the light ! Nachiket sees hope for the country. We are finally accepting the truth.

Yesterday, I saw a news feature on NDTV about a school girl from a good public school in Delhi who had sex with another classmate. The guy apparently, used his camera phone, to record a clip of this entire thing, and sent it via MMS to his friends. The clip circulated around pretty soon.
Immediately, school [...]

I am up too long…I fell from chair and pulled something behind. Damn! Will have to get to sleep now…so much for sitting up late.
PS : I customized Firefox today with the TabBrowser ext. , edited userChrome.css a bit..and hey presto…I have an even better browser. By the way, I havent started IE on my [...]

Thought I was slipping away again, did you? Hehhe, not this time. Its just that for the last week I have been completely busy with my end sems…and they are finally over. They were good, I enjoyed, and all in all, I think I’ve learnt a lot from the courses this term.
Anyway, quite a few [...]

Whew. If I may dare to say so, the worst is finally over. My two chemistry papers are done, and I have two days of holiday to study for the next two, as well as a day off before the last two papers. This is when I take a long pause , enjoy an imaginary [...]

Its finally here, the end-semester exam… I gave my first paper on Catalysis and Mechanisms today…and I think I did all right. Of course, that shall be seen later. Slept like a log in the afternoon, and will get around to the next one, Statistical Thermodynamics…which I realised is not as irrelevant to biology as [...]