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Description: Premshree Pillai's Journal
Last Update: 17:36:02 04/05/2004
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Last Updated: 17:36:02 04/05/2004
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My blog has moved to http://www.livejournal.com/users/premshree/.An RSS feed of all the entries in this journal is available here.
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(College started today. As much as I wanted it to start, I now wish it had never started. They've introduced some icky rule regarding the term-work. Anyway, played table tennis after a really, ...)
College started today. As much as I wanted it to start, I now wish it had never started. They've introduced some icky rule regarding the term-work. Anyway, played table tennis after a really, really long time...that was fun.I have a terribly sore throat; it's just the throat, but I don't feel like doing anything...can't even sleep properly...I have been literally breathing through my mouth during the night.
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LJ Mumbai Meet report. Jace took some pics.Too tired to post anything now.
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Back in Mumbai. While on the journey back, very surprisingly, I met Edgar at Ratnagiri. What was funny was that the compartment in which I was, halted exacty where Edgar was standing in the platform. Anyway, he didn't board the train; he was waiting for the next one.Another interesting thing: I spoke to a co-passenger, who is doing a course in professional photography in Mumbai; he happens to be from the same college where one (or more) member(s) of Motherjane were from.
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(Met Premith and Dilip of <a href="http://www.technolinguistic.com/" class="content_link">Techno Linguistic Solutions</a>. The amount of stuff you get to know/learn from a simple conversation is ...)
Met Premith and Dilip of <a href="http://www.technolinguistic.com/" class="content_link">Techno Linguistic Solutions</a>. The amount of stuff you get to know/learn from a simple conversation is quite amazing.
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I have always loved programming, duh, and I do know the reasons why, but I might not be able to enunciate them as well as the following quote (by F. P. Brooks, Jr., in his book The Mythical Man-Month): Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As a child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God's delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child's first clay pencil holder "for Daddy's Office". Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle ...
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Ever tried lying under the dark, starry skies? That's exactly what I did yesterday night, and it was wonderful. The rum that I had before, and the sound of LaBie (he's a Labrador named after Dream Theater's James LaBrie) were equally responsible for making it so special. The feeling was almost euphoric.The surrogate feeling of euphoria that you *could* get in whatever other way is nothing compared to the real experience.
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Yesterday night, we were at Fortune; Kamalesh, of course, was playing with his band. Lots of beautiful songs. Anyway, as for the food, we first had something called "Burmese Touch" (diced chicken cubes with noodles blended in exotic herbs), which frankly wasn't all that great. Later we had a typical Italian salad (chicken and beef cubes, mushroom, and other vegetables in mayonnaise); it was fantastic. Oh yea, I did booze, and fagged way too much.Did I mention I am obsessed with Motherjane's Mindstreet?My name has been mentioned in The Hindustan Times: "Managing change in ebusiness" by Puneet Mehrotra.
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Looks like my "lashing out" at Charles Assisi's "Of Indian Software" (IC-CHIP Jan '04) has spawned some discussion at <a href="http://blogs.chip-india.com/readmore.php?entryid=173&blogid=1" class="content_link">Chip-India Blogs</a>.
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(At times there are problems accessing the Indian Railways website. Here's a screenshot (the News Bar is on the top frame):Click here for a larger image (1024x768).)
At times there are problems accessing the Indian Railways website. Here's a screenshot (the News Bar is on the top frame):Click here for a larger image (1024x768).
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Reached Calicut, Kerala, early today morning.
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Back from Down with Love. Not much fun.Anyway, had food from a place called RR. Amrita said it's so good that I had to check it out. They serve authentic Andhra food, which I don't know much about, but the food was quite nice...and it's really cheap! Next, Corner House; they have the best desserts...it's something you shouldn't miss when in Bangalore.
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(Met S Ramdas at his office in Indiranagar. We spoke about Python and Perl to developer magazines in India, etc, etc. Indiranagar, apparently, is the best residential area in Bangalore.By the way, ...)
Met S Ramdas at his office in Indiranagar. We spoke about Python and Perl to developer magazines in India, etc, etc. Indiranagar, apparently, is the best residential area in Bangalore.By the way, I now know for fact that Bangalore has not just one KFC, but at least two. There's one here at Indiranagar, and this one's not as crowded, and is better than the one at Brigade Road.Anyway, later I headed to Styx. I haven't been to many pubs in the city, but of the lot I have been to, this one is the best.
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Watched Kal Ho Naa Ho yesterday evening. Everybody here at home wanted to watch so I obliged. I really have nothing much to say about the movie. It was just fine...same old crappy story, etc.I have always felt that if you have Sharukh in a movie, it'd do better than if it had someone else in his place. You know what I mean eh?
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Watched Love Actually. Seems like Richard Curtis was sick of all the hatred that's all around. So he wanted to make a point through this movie: that it's only love that's all around. Quite true, at least in the movie. It's got not one, but eight couples dealing with their love lives. With so many people and so many activities, all in one movie, Richard has done quite a good job.It would be unfair to judge the actors' performance, because with so many characters, none have a major on-screen presence. However, the movie doesn't demand anything extraordinary, as is the case with most romantic dramas.I thought I'd say that I hated the movie, but somehow I feel like watching it again. Maybe it's because the movie is quite refreshing, or whatever, but definitely worth a watch...at least once!
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The Indian Railways website, http://www.indianrail.gov.in/, is using my News Bar JavaScript.
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Watched Kill Bill yesterday. The editing wavered in quality, methinks; cinematography, excellent. The first half drags, but the movie gets interesting later. The "art of combat" is flawed, but more significantly, reality is skewed to more than an extent in a supposed-to-be-almost-real world. Despite all, I quite enjoyed the movie, and am eagerly awaiting the next part.By the way, we managed to find a couple of Irani caf´s at Dhobi Talao, but unfortunately they were closed by the time we reached...some day later, I guess...
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(For those of you just interested in using the Python Text Fader script that I wrote, I have uploaded an executable. You will also require this DLL file....and wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS.)
For those of you just interested in using the Python Text Fader script that I wrote, I have uploaded an executable. You will also require this DLL file....and wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS.
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Wrote a Python program that generates the Improved Gray Scale (IGS) quantization codes for a set of input pixels. It's <a href="http://premshree.resource-locator.com/python/igs.py" class="content_link">here</a>.
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Wrote a couple of more Python scripts. Check out Text Fader. Click here for a sample HTML file generated using this script.
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Read my article, "Automating the creation of Python Executables", in the December '03 issue of Developer-IQ.
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Watched Almost Famous on TV...absolutely loved it.
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(Uploaded a few <a href="http://premshree.resource-locator.com/python.htm" class="content_link">Python scripts</a>.)
Uploaded a few <a href="http://premshree.resource-locator.com/python.htm" class="content_link">Python scripts</a>.
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I am inundated with work...expect fewer posts in the days ahead...
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I started using py2exe recently to convert my Python scripts to executables. Pretty good. Anyway, to make things a wee bit easier, I wrote a small Batch file. Thought it'd be useful in case you plan to use py2exe. Here's the batch file: rem Batch file to automate creation of Python executables... rem ...using py2exe... rem ...(http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/) rem Batch file by Premshree Pillai (http://www.qiksearch.com/) @echo off echo (After each input press return, ^z and return again) echo Enter the file name whose executable you want to create: echo (...use relative or absolute path) copy config\1.txt + con config\temp1.bat echo Enter the setup name to be created: echo (...should be same as file name, without the extension) copy config\2.txt + con config\temp2.bat call config\temp1.bat del config\temp1.bat call config\temp2.bat del config\temp2.bat echo from distutils.core import setup > config\set.py echo import py2exe >> config\set.py echo ...
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Project report: MuSE - Musical content as a Searchable Element.The report won't be here for long. If you want to refer anybody to the report, use the link to this post.
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My article, "Creating Your Own Feed Formats for Syndication", is in the November '03 issue of Developer-IQ.Click here for a larger image (700x912).
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I won the ActiveState Komodo IDE as my prize at the DevArticles Coding Contest. I normally don't use IDEs, but *probably* will now...
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