New computer
Well, I have been without a personal computer (in the apartment) for over 45 days now. I wanted to desperately get one for myself anyway. That is when my kind company (Softmax) steps in. They gave me a desktop computer to use @ the apartment. Now I can directly buy a laptop instead of buying a stopgap desktop. If anything, I can just upgrade this computer.
Aah! I love this company.
Suvival tactics in Korea
The obvious way is to learn korean. So what if you do not know enough korean yet? Do what I do.
For example, I had to pick up corn oil. What I did not know was what which one is of good quality. So I did what any camper in Q3 does – camp @ the place where there was as ton of corn oil. Ultimately I found a grandma who picked up a bottle of corn oil. Well I just followed her. Eventually I bought a lot of stuff just following her. I followed a lady who had kids to pick up moisturiser. I followed kids to pick up good chocolates.
Barbaric, but effective.
Blizzard is going too far
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6146692.html
This is the most outrageous things that Blizzard did till date. Its simple they want more money.
In short, they have taken down a guy's eBay account because he was selling World of Warcraft user guides on eBay citing DMCA of all the things. Their reason – copyright infringement. That is stupid. Is this guy causing any monetary losses to Blizzard? Using screenshots – what's wrong with that? Why dont they go after those IGN and other game sites that use their screenshots?
So if I have to write a book on say improving nVIDIA's graphics architecture, should I get explicit permission from them? If I have to compare nVIDIA's graphics to ATI's graphics, should I get explicit permission from the two of these companies? I bet one of them is going to say no for simple reasons. One of them would win when I write an article/book. I would like one and hate the other. So does that mean I can NEVER write a book/article?
Its so lame… Blizzard better get your act right. I am one of the biggest fans of your games. I would have to consider buying any game by you again if this is how you treat gamers and game lovers. Better back off. I just bought a WC3 battlechest and I can easily do a Tauren stomp on the CD.
Pork
Ok, so I had por, albeit by mistake.
I ordered a Potatoe sandwich @ the Joe's Sandwich right opposite to my place. I started eating it when I noticed something different in the sandwich. Horror! There is a slab of pork between the bread slices, carefully hidden with the next-gen stealth technology. Damn.
So I add Pork to the list of non-veg items I had after coming to SK.
- Shellfish
I discovered some shell fish @ the bottom of the soup that I was almost finished with. Maybe the 1st week of my stay in Korea.
- Pork
Today.
- Beef
Gogi pegi… no meat. However Koreans do not consider small pieces of meat as gogi/meat. So my dear cook had added these pieces of meat out of courtesy since I ordered the dish without the side dish – a meat slab. 2nd week in korea.
- Fish
this was my first exp with korean food. The soup I was served had tiny fish in it. I did not realise this untill I had some 4 spoons. 1st week of stay in Korea.
Believe me when I say, I am not done yet. I trust that I will eat every possible animal out there before I leave korea.
As of now, the restaurants near the office understand my 'special needs' 
. So when I walk in, they look @ me as :
const CyraX = * bibimbap, gogi begi;
Norway
Europe is struggling with population growth (or rather decline) rate. One of the reasons they say is economics. Companies do not like their employees to go home? They dont like their employees to take 10 months off for the baby? Norway is apparently different. Read on:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4786160.stm
Jack’s gotten married.
Ok
So Jack got married on Saturday 25th March. His wife is beautiful. Man he is a lucky guy.
research on the harms of DMCA
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6025
I believe this guy is a lawyer.
Perspective on how ugly websites can be good…
http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Website-Development/The-Surprising-Truth-About-Ugly-Websites.html
NDS @last
Ok so I bought Nintendo DS (second hand) + 6 NDS games + 2 GBA games + extra battery pack for uber cheap 100 USD. Well that is not so fascinating for me now.
What is? Its the person who sold me the NDS. His name is Angeles a Mexican -American. He is a sanyasi who can speak/read sanskrit. He is not a Hindu mind you. He has given up most of the earthly pleasures, calls himself a cyber sanyasi. He could not give up one earthly pleasure… gaming. I felt very nice once I met him. He does meditation&& yoga. He lives around 2hrs away from Seoul. He is known as Dada Vijay or Acharya Vijay. Anyone in Seoul just meet him. He is a good person. I could feel it.
So he sold me the NDS because he got himself a PSP. I am happy to have got the NDS, but am more happy that I met him in the first place.
Hello world curry…
Atlast… I made some curry and surprisingly it came out well.
Patent pending formula:
- Cut a few potatoes into medium size pieces. This step will help you to with peeling off the potato skin
- Boil these potatoes till they are soft. Ensure that you do not boil them to point that they end up being a paste.
- Take a frying pan and pour some oil into it. Set the burner to low heating. After about 1 min add some ‘jeera’ a little turmeric and a little red chilli powder. Mix this well.
- Peel the skin off the potatoes and then add the boiled potatoes to this oil mixture. Leave the pan on low for around 4mins, all the while stirring the contents. You must observe a yellowish tint on the potatoes. The amount of oil depends on you btw.
- You may add some coriander leaves for flavour.
Muhaah!! once you are done pay me the royalty… invite me over for lunch.
