nickleeson

Book worm

2009-02-17T23:19:30Z

http://bookworm.oreilly.com/ is a free and legal platform to read e-books

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First day at work, At a new office.

2009-01-21T17:24:21Z

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New user base for Paypal!

2009-01-17T22:05:19Z

forwardOn: New user base for Paypal

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Weather...

2009-01-03T18:13:02Z

Somethings seriously wrong with the weather.Has to be something about global warming or Sarah Palin or something...walked to office, it was very sunny, 75F(24C ), no wind and insanely warm! and this is January mind you.:-|
And to top it all, the weather forecast for day after tomorrow is Max 41F (5C), min 36F(1C) with chance of ice rain.
Weirdness!

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"Pray for WiFi" by Clamsey - Los Angeles Times

2008-12-26T18:40:04Z

Our favorite reader photos from 2008 - "Pray for WiFi" by Clamsey - Los Angeles Times

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11/26:Security tape shows victim shot

2008-11-28T05:27:11Z

Embedded video from CNN Video

nickleeson @ 2008-11-19T23:24:00

2008-11-20T05:38:33Z

Bill Maher : This guy rocks

and so does this guy...Dana Carvey

True Story

2008-10-30T16:32:37Z

You know you have been working too hard and spending too much time away from family when while chatting with your dad - you type "good night data" instead of "good night dad" :-|

Cindy McCain's $300,000 dress

2008-09-07T06:53:16Z

Well seriously, how can you appeal to the middle class if your wife brandishes a $300,000 outfit at the convention??

More here..

Google Logo on Satellite Launch Vehicles

2008-09-07T04:07:07Z

And this is the first time, I spied the Google Logo on a launch vehicle
Where will see it next? Power Transmission lines? Roads ( Google Tollway?), Groceries???

More on the launch here...

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American Journeys - The Other Grand Canyon in the Texas Panhandle

2008-09-05T04:17:23Z

American Journeys - The Other Grand Canyon in the Texas Panhandle - NYTimes.com

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Shame on you Rudy!

2008-09-05T01:03:09Z

Shame on you...for having insulted those who work as community organizers! They don't fly in Lear jets and wear expensive suits- but what they do as community organizers benefits somebody who couldn't be helped by millionaire figures like you!!!

High Tech Woes

2008-07-12T16:42:57Z

Some people go through a phase where every plant they touch - dies. I am in a phase where every computer I touch - dies. First, it was the office PC. What seemed to be a harmless link to classical music on 365live.com turned out to be malicious, very soon I was under the attack of a thousand Vundo Viruses... (stay away from 365live.com!!!!) Next it was the office laptop, as I went about chipping away on my paper, the laptop suddenly rebooted..and then came the omnious BIOS message - "System memory has changed, reducing available memory" !!!! David (our sys-support) tells me that a memory stick burnt up...WTF???.. Then David moves in a new desktop into my office, I login into it...the logon process is still in progress ( 2 weeks and waiting). Frustated, I go down to Cindy and get a laptop, things work fine for a day, day 2 - the network adapter doesn't work and wireless dies after 2 mins :((

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Ok

2008-05-15T23:14:42Z

Armed myself with screen and snownews. Both seem to rock at the moment. More later.

Update May 18: they still rock, they may actually change my future..they are so good!

Thanks Dubya!

2008-05-15T04:45:03Z

You may call George W. Bush dumb,incompetent, a moron, whatever! But for today, he is my savior! I got my economic stimulus check at a time when I needed the most.
Thank you!
-Nick

i miss you *nix baby

2008-05-14T22:39:55Z

The last twelve months had been crazy - work was/is killing, i moved apartments twice, traveled some 30,000kms, met over hundreds of new faces and I got married too. Sadly, I couldnt find a place to host my linux boxes, they have been powered down for months :((....I am stuck to windoze 24X7 (horror horror!), my linux skills have begun to stink (horror horror horror!)....i grappled for five minutes to recollect '/etc/fstab' (horror horror horror horror!), i grappled for another five to mount all the filesystems (horror horror horror horror horror!).

sux...
really sux...

nickleeson @ 2008-02-09T20:09:00

2008-02-10T02:10:53Z

And if you have not checked it out yet, check out Yahoo Live - it promises to be the next big thing...

nickleeson @ 2008-02-09T17:11:00

2008-02-09T23:14:44Z

And I just discovered that Kleenex works wonderfully well as a coffee filter.

nickleeson @ 2007-04-22T00:57:00

2007-04-22T06:14:28Z

The week is not over yet and another tragedy strikes. Again this time, the tragedy is very very close to me.
A Blue Angels F/A-18 crashed during an air show in South Carolina killing the pilot as his family watched.

A piece of debris lying on a road near the crash site, you can clearly see the "Blue Angels" logo - April 21 2007

I have had a Blue Angels poster/pic in my bedroom since I was 11. The first poster was handed down by my brother and when I eventually trashed it (because it was in tatters) it it was well over 20 years old. Even now as I make this post, four high resolution pictures of the Blue Angels mark the wall behind me.

The team performed in NASJRB three years ago; and I pestered the hell out of a extremely busy but kind hearted soul to give me a 280 mile ride (140 miles to and fro - twice) to see them perform. When the Blue Angels eventually took to the skies, a cherished childhood dream came true. For the next twenty minutes, I glued my ears to the scanner and the eyes to the camera - and those were certainly one of the best moments of my life.

That day I suffered sun burns that took a week to heal, but the memories....they were etched for a lifetime!

-?-

nickleeson @ 2007-04-20T18:52:00

2007-04-20T23:57:48Z

It has been one hell of a distressing week.

Monday, April 16th witnessed the slaughter at VT.

An injured student being carried out of Norris Hall at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.Monday, April 16 2007 Photograph: Alan Kim/AP

Wednesday, April 18th became one of the bloodiest days in Iraq. Over 200 died in four explosions that rocked Baghdad.

Residents and firemen gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, April 18, 2007. REUTERS/Ali Jasim

Friday, April 20th saw a gunman hold two hostages in NASA's Johnson Space center - the control center that coordinates and monitors all human spaceflight including the Space Shuttle; he later killed one of the hostages, wounded the other and then killed himself.

The building at NASA's Johnson Space Center surrounded by emergency vehicles Friday, April 20, 2007 in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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nickleeson @ 2007-04-17T17:11:00

2007-04-17T20:52:26Z

The Virginia Tech massacre has shaken everybody. The gunman responsible has been identified as a person of South Korean descent. An Indian professor was killed in the bloodbath.

I closely work with a South Korean colleague - today he was almost choking when he learnt that the gunner was South Korean...he choked even more to learn about the Indian professor..Our pal works with a lot of Indian professors and grad students and is usually full of respect and admiration for their work...Today, he is taking it too hard on himself and his country. I tried my best to convince him that the world does not hate South Korea because of this.

nickleeson @ 2007-04-15T11:17:00

2007-04-15T16:24:04Z

I was so impressed with the Hindustan Times webpage, till I chanced upon themadman comparing HindustanTimes with the NewYorkTimes...

Somebody tell me who was hired to do HT's web-layout? ..Annu Mallik????

nickleeson @ 2007-04-01T10:51:00

2007-04-01T15:58:40Z

If you walked into my apartment 6-7 years ago, it wouldn't have been unusual if you heard someone say ..."Abhey yeh chai ko cups mein FTP karna hain..."

Ahh...i miss those geeky days.

nickleeson @ 2007-02-24T15:44:00

2007-02-24T21:51:51Z

North Texas is the craziest place I've ever lived in.

The past month has seen days with snowfall, days with rain, days with bountiful sunshine.. days with subzero temperatures, days with hot 70F temperatures, gloomy I-wanna-stay-at-home days, beautiful I-so-wanna-get-out-and-jog days.. and to top it all today the sky turned yellow with dust storms..

Shoaib Akthar, Coffee and People

2007-02-21T22:43:15Z

What I suspected is true - I do derive energy ( and lots of it) from talking to people and having a simple drip coffee. The context...

The past few weeks, I noticed that I have been feeling more tired than usual. I would wake up feeling tired - even if I enjoyed a rare 8 hr quota of sleep. And the motors in my cranium seemed to have settled at a low first gear as opposed to being on the fourth - a constant monotonous drone instead of a more focussed drive. Was it stress ? Was it the sign of an impending burnout? Was it my diet? Was it the weather? What was it?

I guess I have my answers now - all these weeks I almost met nobody for the sole purpose of socializing. And that really had affected me. Today, I stopped my work ..dragged my colleague and his girlfriend to Starbucks and enjoyed coffee in the warm sun.. - there was work to be done - but I let it pile up as the clock ticked. The one hour we spent chatting, relaxing and staying away from work really really helped. I hope it helped them too...I am back now....with more focus and definately more energetic! So much so, I can prolly swing Shoaib Akthar for a six now - that is if I get a chance.