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Sometimes Popagandhi reminds me of Orhan Pamuk; a good example is here. Speaking of OP, while I doubt I will be able to return his book to the library by tonight (although I will try, if I can!), I definitely wanna try "column-writing" once I get back from India. Should be fun.

And oh, yes, India! I am heading back to the homeland early tomorrow morning. It's going to be a pretty short trip, so I don't know how many places I can go/people I can meet (considering that it is Bombay, I suspect a whole lot of people I'd like to meet won't be met). But will atleast do a round-trip of my family (atleast the members who stay in the Bombay-Pune area), so won't be all bad. Will also have a chance to meet extended Pune family, who generally I don't get to meet as my Pune trips tend to be fairly limited.

And oh, yes, Pune! I am working on Pune's Wikipedia page, and am happy with how its turning out so far. A whole lot of work remains, as is obvious from even a quick glance at the page, but paragraphing has much improved, links are more consistent, company lists have been shortened, and the history has been cleaned up significantly. Yay! Hopefully nothing much will happen between now and next week; if it does, of course, that just means more cleanup for me (which is not necessarily a bad thing, just an inconvenient one!).

So, yes. Looking forward to trip so far. Have packed up my camera and everything, and am prepared except for my clothes (which desperately need drying, bless them) and my hair (still needs a cut) and packing in general (no presents this time, so it's just clothes, pretty much).

Labels: bombay, family, holiday, pune, travel

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So I wake up around 3am, after 5.5 hours of sleep: not bad after yesterday night, but hardly satisfying, right? Get myself something to eat, and get to watch some classic episodes (Seinfeld's The Invitations and The Simpson' I Love List. So, not too shabby. I still have to book Indian Airlines tickets (they won't accept international credit cards), but now that the dates are getting closer, I need to think about how I'm actually going to spend my ridiculously few days in the Bombay/Pune region ... let's see. Anuja leaves on her trip day after, so hopefully her part of the ...-to-Bombay trip would have been sorted out.

And that's nothing on the whole post-job planning required! Which also means I'll be possibly/probably buying a new laptop before the end of June, 2007, i.e. within the month. Oh me, oh my. And I still don't know whether it's an Apple, neither.

Anywho, I really ought to get back down and clean up in the kitchen. Went out running with the guys yesterday, which was fun. Am probably going to try to sleep for a while again now.

Lesse.

Labels: family, holiday, indian airlines, today, trip

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There have been some amazing photos on Astronomy Picture of the Day lately. Most astounding: this relatively indescript photo of Gliese 581, a star harbouring the most earth-like planet found outside the solar system. And in between, some joker decided to re-run the blue marble photograph. I don't suppose that photo ever gets old.

And then today's was this amazing photo of a possible dark matter ring, taken by the redoubtable Hubble Telescope. Look at that! Galaxies! I mean, wow.

In other news, I'd completely forgotten about the family website until my Dad reminded me, so now there's a post on everywhere we went in London up now. Took a while to get all those links working, mind. I need to add in the 'family' photos to the bar on top of the website, too, and maybe a couple new posts about ... well, anything, I guess.

Mr. Munroe has an amazing map of online communities on xkcd now. I love how it's a subtle manipulation of the Asian east coast! Singapore is right by the Bay of Angst, just sound of Xanga, while India is entirely covered by Classmates.com. Speaking of which, have you heard about Mr. Munroe's recent run-in with the MIT folks. Obviously, as per his request, he is being pelted by the algorithm from Jersey. While the effect the algorithm might have on normal people, it's effect on fictionals are well-established: the algorithm is believed responsible for the death of "Ask Jeeves" from the Internet several yoinks ago.

IndieHIG is a project designed to come up with an independent set of human interface guidelines. Interesting.

Yet another in the long line of redshirt jokes. Nicely done.

And, to round things off, this brilliantly cute comic about adulthood from the recently mentioned Mr. Munroe, him of the algorithm.

Labels: apod, family, links, more links, photos, randall munroe

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It's Sunday late night, and I'm feeling better. My weakness for the last few days seems to be dropping off somewhat, perhaps thanks to my walk tonight. Been clicking photos fairly wildly lately, I've been putting it up fairly regularly (tonight's batch of 73 photos from today and yesterday are being copied onto my laptop even as we speak). I've also started thinking seriously about Pan, after some encouragement from Matt on DocForge (which, much to my disappointment, has gone ad-supported; but I'm new here, so I'll wait before I complain. There's actually every possibility that Matt will get the advertising looking good; let's see).

There's been some mail-bopping around in my family; obviously, since everybody's got my Yahoo address, and Yahoo's out-of-office facility is extremely dodgy, nobody's actually *updated* their e-mail address yet. Luckily, my dad forwarded it on to me, or I might never have known.

It's nice to hear from the family at all, since I somehow don't end up chatting with any of them very often - my complete lack of social skills, I guess. I'd like to, and I wonder if this will be the start of something interesting. Or, you know, at any rate - fun.

Labels: family, today

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