Bobby

New webhost

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I have bought a reseller account. I have shifted all my sites to the new server. Speed is pretty good and the good thing is that I can host unlimited sites as long as I don’t exceed the bandwidth and webspace. I have also redesigned maisnam.com using less tables and more CSS.
Note: Previously, I used to point my domains to my server at home which has a DSL connection to the internet. The server is still up but I am not using it much.

Snow!

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It snowed today morning. But I woke up a bit late and at that time, there was much less snow than that in the morning.
Am in library now.

Monday afternoon

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Just adding this entry because my blog page looks blank!
Today is Monday. Not doing anything much at present. Feeling a bit hungry. Maybe I will have some Maggi. How I hate cooking food!
Lot of stuff to do.
Manish just came and went out again for office work. Milk, Orange Juice and Eggs are over. Guess, I have to go to Bi-Lo tonight.

maisnam.com; Saumil’s Marriage; Ek Hasina Thi

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Officially launched maisnam.com today. It is now my portfolio website. The speciality of the site is that it uses a auto-generated menu.
Saumil and Jaya’s marriage was held today at HCC. Had a nice time there. Took some video and lots of photos. Here is one photo and another one here.
Watched “Ek Hasina Thi” on DVD. It’s a great movie! Saif and Urmila’s acting was superb! Here is a review from IndiaFM.
Learnt about local access calling cards. Tried one from callnation. Call quality was pretty good. Since they don’t have local access numbers for Knoxville, I tried a number in Athens, GA. Only drawback is that you always need to call from a cellphone if you want the reduced rates. (Of course, you can call from a landline but then you have to pay the long distance charges upto the local access number. And that makes no sense!)

orkut.com

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Came to know about Orkut through an email from Prashanth. Here is an article from news.com about Orkut. This is a close-knit friendship group where entry is only by invitation. Supposedly based on a Google technology. Interested? please go ahead and read the article. There is very little information on the official website itself though.

26 Jan 2004

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Hearing “Kal Ho Na Ho” music. Currently in office. The January page of my blog is blank. So, I thought I would add something.
Today is India’s Republic Day. There was potluck + “Munna Bhai MBBS” movie by Manthan yesterday (Sunday)
Will add more stuff later.

Xp crashed.

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5:11 AM: Xp crashed. When it recovered, lost my Outlook Express Settings and Bookmarks. I had last backed up my BookMarks on 11/27. But I had done some major sorting after that. Tried Restore too but all the bookmarks are gone. Seems like I need to do a hard major backup this weekend.
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Feeling really homesick.

ACM ORNL Trip

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ORNL Trip organized by ACM@UTK.
Started at 1:30 PM. Reached ORNL at around 2:30 PM. There were some minor problems but finally we got to see the tour. We were taken to the Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL.
Saw 3 Supercomputers there —
Phoenix (20th fastest Supercomputer in the World)
Cheetah (28th fastest)
Eagle
After that, we saw the Visualization Lab. It was a really unique experience.
The trip was just GREAT! Thanks to ACM!
p.s. Related Link: Top 500 Supercomputers List (as of Nov 2003)