Out of all the financial news from overnight, this headline attracted me: Yahoo, Sun Lift Nasdaq Over 1 Percent It has been more than 6 years since I have seen such a financial headline involving Sun. Reminded me of those late ninties when any positive news about Sun lifted Nasdaq. Is Sun back there, fuelling …
Monthly Archive: January 2007
Jan 24 2007
First Look at Mercurial
Wanted to play with Mercurial a bit. Have a Sparc Desktop that runs with Solaris 10, so wanted to use it for this. When I checked the home page of Mercurial, the binary packages of Solaris-Sparc are downloadable from BlastWave. This particular Desktop was not setup to work with pkg-get earlier, so I followed the …
Jan 24 2007
NetBeans, Subversion and Mercurial
Played with NetBeans and its version control plugins for CVS and Subversion. Cool! Looking for a NetBeans plugin for Mercurial.
Jan 19 2007
Shoulder dislocation
Yesterday my right shoulder is dislocated. I was down with cold for a couple of days and fatigue from last night’s late meetings made me drowsy. I took a nap in front of the TV in the living room, using my right hand as a pillow. A sudden burst of sneezes moved the body and …
Jan 17 2007
10 @ Sun – from Fascination to Passion
Last week, a key event passed by quietly during my vacation. It is the 10th anniversary of me joining Sun as a full time employee. Some time in 1993, I was asked by my the then employer to install an evaluation software from Sun on a Tatung Sun-clone, running SunOS 4.0.x. When I started the …
Jan 17 2007
Sankranthi break!
This Sankrathi is the first one after the death anniversary of our grandma, so my mother’s family wanted to go for a family reunion. We invited all my first cousins and my mother’s siblings. 4 of my mother’s 5 sisters and her sister-in-law attended this reunion at my parent’s place. My brother and nine of …
Jan 17 2007
Phone calls for the month of December
Based on my most recent phone bill, here are the longest work related calls I made during the month of December. Since incoming calls are not billed, this list includes only dialed calls. 04 Dec, 22:34, 2594 seconds 05 Dec, 14:32, 2325 seconds 05 Dec, 23:31, 9735 seconds 06 Dec, 08:27, 3513 seconds 07 Dec, …
Jan 17 2007
Back!
Back from a 10 day vacation. The Sankranthi festival season, celebrated around 15th of January, is a big festival in Southern India, especially the West and East Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh. This is more of a family reunion season and people travel back to these districts from rest of the state/country. Once I am …
Jan 01 2007
Happy New Year!
Quite a few of us gathered at Padma’s place for the new year party. Only four families (Padma, Sekhar, PSN/Rani and us) stayed there till the dawn of the new year, rest of them heading for fulfilling their other commitments. Our party started at about 5.00pm. The starters included Mirchi Bajji, few chicken items and …
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