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Twitter is making waves. If you still do not know about it, you are far behind the technology updates. To know more about twitter click here. Wanna follow me? My handle at twitter is @archonline.

There have been twitter plugins and widgets to embed the twitter updates onto your blog. Twitter itself provides the widgets and code for you. But if you want more, you can code it yourself. Read the rest of this entry »

They say “An idle mind is a devil’s workshop“. I guess I became a devil on last thursday. Everything was fine till two weeks before. The Red Hat Linux and Windows 2000 existed co-cooperatively on a single hard disk! But then, some days before, I was unable to boot into Linux. The GRUB loader was not responsive to the keyboard commands. And that was it. I lost the patience. I installed Partition Magic 8, deleted the Linux partitions, one by one, and then re-formatted the whole unallocated space to FAT32. I was happy at my “kartoot” and kept on browsing. Shortly after power went off and I had to restart in the night, during my free time. There it was, the black screen with GRUB Hash command mode edition (or something similar), mocking at me, asking me, “don’t you dare play with me!”

There was no floppy boot diskette. Even if it was there it was of no use, as the floppy disk was not working. I didn’t had a bootable installation cd of any Windows. Recently I had taken the essential software kind of DVD from home, which also contained Win XP SP2 installer image. But there was no CD/DVD writer in the pc. I had just a backup laptop for surfing the net. Now what to do? Read the rest of this entry »

The blogger’s block is a common ailment which affects bloggers knowingly or unknowingly. It is also known as writer’s block, but that covers a vast scope, as all bloggers need not be writers. But for me, when you write a blog post, you are a writer. There are several reasons for the writer’s block. The few ones I can think of now are:

• Running out of Ideas
• Having too many ideas clogging the flow
• Having no time
• Feeling low or in a state unable to think
• Physical inability like illness or broken finger!

There maybe other reasons too, but need not count to writer’s block, but the end result is the same – no new posts on your blog. Of course I have excluded the “inaccessibility to the net”, which comes under publishing, because then, you do have new posts and maybe you are writing!

Now, let’s move onto the solutions. Read the rest of this entry »

The month of October would have been a relief to all the people who stay out of home. There were more than holidays comprising of Pooja holidays and the Diwali holidays. The working professionals had to take leave maybe, but that’s worthful, considering the importance of festivals and also because there is almost 2 months before the next Christmas/New Year holidays. Again now its loneliness and boredom for coming weeks. Atleast that’s what you feel when you board the train/bus back, at the end of the holidays, unless you are not dating at your workplace!

The students who study in colleges out of home town won’t be that bored I suppose, because college/hostel life is entirely different from the bachelor life. There maybe similarities in the freedom, but you seldom feel lonely enough to brood over. You never think of the future life or your goals and there is mostly the protective shade of parents over you. Once you start earning on your own, you are considered a grown-up and left alone at most of the times. There are friends to go out with but everyone is left on their own at some point of the other. Or maybe, you even sometimes feel low enough to not respond to any of them and be on your own. So on weekends or extra holidays or during those times, when we are on our own, we are unsure what to do at home.

Girls mostly prefer being at home, watching TV, or doing cooking experiments for themselves (which is very rarely nowadays) or reading some magazines or books or sleeping most of the time(mostly this is what happens). I don’t know much about guys, but I guess, (if no internet), they would do mainly sleeping (with Pop songs on??) or read some book (rarely??) or (if online) keep browsing or playing games(again with English Rock, Hip Hop or Rap songs on? ), if they are not hanging out with friends and having a drink!! Even I have been at home similarly doing all these. But looking back now, I feel I could have done something else like the following:
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