Ran across this application error message on Pandora
July 27, 2011
July 20, 2011
July 7, 2011
Huh…???
I was checking out the live feed from Facebook regd the video service they rolled out yesterday and noticed this comment on the live feed form.. all I can say is WTF 
February 11, 2011
DID YOU KNOW : Valentine’s Day in Japan
I was listening to NPR on my way to work today and heard this interesting snippet about a Valentine’s Day tradition in Japan. Apparently, all the women give chocolate to men on Valentine’s day . This just notched up Japan in my “cool country” list .
I say, we make that a world wide tradition .
February 1, 2011
RESOLUTIONS : 2011 : January Update
As I mentioned here, I have made some resolutions for 2011. As with any good task list, it is worthless unless you take a look at it periodically and update it . I am going to publish an update on each one of the resolutions every month. Here goes the first one
- Loose weight (AKA loose gut)
- I am practicing part of the diet proposed by Tim Ferris in his Four Hour Body book. I am eating 2 egg whites for breakfast and than eating a small meal every 4 hours. I haven’t gone completely into the whole “white” carb diet he proposes though.
- I also started tracking my weight and diet religiously on a daily basis. This is another of Tim’s ideas. He says that by tracking your weight everyday, you subconsciously start making better choices in terms of the food you eat. I this it makes sense . I am tracking the data in a Google spreadsheet. Here is a chart of my weight for the last one month
I started out at 194 lbs and am not at 188 lbs. Hopefully I will be able to keep this downward trend. - I also started working out (thanks to Jhanvi). We are working out at least 2 times a week.
- Increase web traffic to kudithipudi.org
- I started posting more content on the site. I posted 8 articles in January.
- No particular strategy other than writing more content, which will hopefully bring more traffic.
- Have the following topics to write on (and some of them have been pending for a long time)
- Moving your life to the cloud
- Setting up a virtual server on the Rackspace Cloud Infrastructure
- Configuring syslog-ng
- Configuring nginx to reduce resource utilization on Linux server
- Achieve CISSP certification
- No progress on this one at all.
- Go on a vacation
- Jhanvi and I planned to go to the travel and adventure expo, that was held in Rosemont last weekend, but we got too lazy .
- Our trip to India (and it doesn’t count as a vacation
) is planned for April.
Progress on 2 out of the 4 resolutions!!.. Not bad .
PS : Thanks for all the support I have been getting on the first resolution . I didn’t realize the situation was so bad .
October 31, 2010
Overheard : Comment on SPAM..
I came across this interesting article on a MSDN blog about why each drive has its own current directory and in addition to learning something new (that you can use cd /d option to change directories between drives) I saw this super funny response from one of the users to a spam comment ..
June 16, 2010
Makhna ve Makhna : Part II
Jhanvi and I spent the weekend with friends at the 2010 Andersonville Midsommarfest where I got to see Funkadesi live (for the second time). And they were rocking as usual . I got to get some snaps with the artists and also record some video (apologize for the poor quality).
Funkadesi’s Valroy Dawkins
Radhika Chimata Pavithra Anand
And finally the opening of Makhna ve Makhna
March 11, 2010
Six Signs that you aren’t cut out to be a CIO..
The first five reasons are in this video.
The sixth reason.. you are actually watching the video above to decide if you are cut out to be a CIO .. Come on people!!
February 16, 2010
Satirical take on arranged marriages..
My colleague/friend KP wrote a hilarious post on arranged marriages in India. Check it out at www.kprabu.com/2010/01/great-indian-arranged-marriages.html .
PS : Yes, people do speak with each other before agreeing to get married and No, elephants don’t walk around in the streets in India .
