IERR.dev

Well I am sure no one is following this, and am quite sure no one cares, but what the hell. I have updated the cartoon and the archive (not that there are too many archives) links. I am not sure if I am violating some copyright by showing those cartoons. Maybe I should check. Well anyway am not storing more than one image at any point of time on the server. I am not archiving those, so hopefully I should be ok. I am planning to add several more links, including some links to source code that I found very useful in the past / present and apps that are useful. Well all this and more soon. Do let me know what you think. Hey btw in case you didn’t notice, the entire site’s is W3C CSS compliant, and all pages except the blog are HTML 4.1 compliant. I am planning to add XHTML Strict compliance too so then you can browse my blog on the Nokia 6600 without any issues 😉

Yup! My website now sports a brand new look. I still need to update a few more things, but the basic template is in there. I think, starting today I should be blogging much more often. For the souls who might visit my website, a few of the links might not work. I will update those by the end of this week. I will be working on it through the week, so I assure you all will be fine soon. More updates soon. Time to catch some ZzZzzzzz….

Yup. I finally got myself a T-Mobile sidekick today. A great buy. Now I am truly mobile. Can browse the net anywhere (well theoretically atleast) and am always uptodate with my email. And the best part is that it has an SDK so I can write my own applications. Well not that I have done it yet, but atleast I have the opportunity to do so.
I installed Hiptalk on it so now I am online on yahoo, msn and AIM on my phone. My only complaint is that Hiptalk still doesn’t have the ‘Invisible’ mode that I have learnt to love :D. Anyway I am sure my dear friends out there will come out with that feature soon.

Anyway if any of you guys out there are considering a sidekick, I give it a thumbs-up. Go for it… A good deal and the internet experience on it is awesome.

Hmm. This will always be a question. I dunno what got into me today. I was looking at the Powerbook G4 from Apple and suddenly felt like buying one. Man those things are a piece of art. They have amazing features. Apple thinks about everything when they design their UI. Well at least I think they do. You might disagree, but in reality I think that is true. Anyway I really DO NOT need this laptop. I own an emachines M5310, that serves me well and have a desktop and another really old powerbook. But still am really tempted. And another thing that really tempts me is the tablet PC. Swami in my lab just got one, and mmm I liked it. Will be nice to walk around with that thing in my hand. Someday maybe I will buy it. But for now, I think I shall refrain.

Wow. Slashdot reports that Gmail addresses are for sale. For as high as 200 bucks. Man people do know how to sell stuff. I never would have thought of doing something like that. Some people know how to make money don’t they 😉

Well well well. I got myself an account in Gmail, thanks to blogger and Anil. Unfortunately couldn’t get vivek@gmail.com. Turns out they accept only usernames with a minimum of 6 characters. So I am stuck with vivekiyer@gmail.com. Not that I am complaining. Anyway was looking at Gmail. Cool options especially the 1 GB of space. But was kinda sad that they didn’t have any mechanism to import an addressbook in. I hope they add that in later. I am way too lazy to type my contact list all over.
There seems to be another worm on the loose. Crap, at this rate I will need to update my machine everyday. And I know you are gonna ask me why don’t I use that aup-update thing that XP ships with. Well there is this stupid driver update from AMD that refuses to get installed. So then XP keeps popping up a message box every 30 minutes reminding me to install that update. VERY irritating. So I got rid of that feature all together.
Been using the new beta version of Yahoo Messenger. Man pretty cool idea of integrating Yahoo Launch with the messenger. It convinced me into buying the Launch Cast Plus. Only 4 bucks a month. Definitely worth the buck.
Bought myself a new phone today. A TMobile Sidekick. If only it was running a better OS. I could have done something worthwhile with it. Actually what I was looking for was a phone that has both 802.11 b/g and GPRS. Turns out that the only one that is expected in the market soon is the Motorola MPX100. Though the phone does look great

, the problem is that it is not expected till later this year plus I am not brave enough to test a new Motorola product that is just out in the market. Somehow not too very fond of Motorola products. I feel their UI sucks big time. I guess by the same time next year there will be better products out in the market and I will have a better choice as far as smart phones go. So I will stick to the sidekick till then. But what I did wanna own was the Sony Ericsson P900. However they don’t seem to have a tie-up with any service provider yet, so the phone costs 700 bucks. Way beyond my league.
Anyway more later

Yeah turns out I was not able to stick to my word. My blogging has been so inconsistent. Well I will blame it on work and too much work.

Anyway updates are – I am now the proud owner of the email address “e e e @a s u . e d u”. The spaces has been left for obvious reasons – spam. Well turns out that ASU doesn’t really value email address like the one I managed to obtain :D. Man, imagine being able to say that I own that email address. It almost sounds as if I am responsible for admission into the EE department at ASU.

I might end up going to sunny Miami, Florida this summer. A welcome respite from the Phoenix heat. A lot of snorkelling and swimming. However don’t think I care too much for tanning, since I already have a natural suntan.

Anil and I were checking out laptops recently. It seriously seems that none of the stores have a good value for money. If the laptops are small they are too expensive, else they look huge and ugly. EMachines has just launched its new line of laptops and they do look sweet. Imagine a 64 bit AMD 3200+ on ur lap. Man that would rock. And they FINALLY upgraded the goddamn video card. A relief to some. Anyway more later.

Sheesh, I really need to write my blog more often. Well it has been so long. So many things to do – I need to make some changes to my blog, especially to the colors. Not too fond of them. Shall do something about it soon enough. Well updates from my side are that I moved into a new apartment, setup a wireless connection to play games over the network and nothing else, and got my SVideo out to work. Hey for all you guys out there who own an emachines laptop and are unable to get your SVideo to work on your TV, go ahead and ask me. I managed to crack that tough nut after 5 hours of concentrated effort. Man was so thrilled to see video on my TV. Also I just got myself the 3 cd collection of Led Zep’s ‘How the West was won’. Pretty cool. Also bought a copy of ‘The Life of Pi’ and ‘The Da Vinci Code’. Need to read those books. Again like I said before shall do that too soon enough. If you do get a chance try out Mozilla Firefox (aka Firebird, Phoenix). The 0.8 release is out. Waiting for the 1.0. I have added a link to their product page here. Click away.

I have been watching the referrers to my website, and I have noticed that of late there have been a lot of visits thanks to my post about the Abercrombie and Fitch Quarterly. Well I do not have any of those pictures on my website. And also for those of you who want to know what the Easter Egg for Mozilla Firebird is – go ahead and say about:Mozilla in the address bar in FB. It’s cool isn’t it? I thought so too. Also bad news is that it seems that I still can’t afford to own an iPod. Jobs threw water over my plans to purchase one iPod-mini. 249 bucks is way out of my league. Sigh, I guess it will be another day!

Am posting after a really long time. Been a good New Year so far, since I have been doing absolutely nothing. But that will have to change and change soon. My lab (infact the entire CSE department at ASU) moved to downtown. Yup you heard that right, I am now placed strategically in downtown Tempe. The good part about the move- more restaurants , Harkins is right next door and more desk space. Yeah desk space reminds me. I am back to being a cubicle dweller like I was in India at Tata Elxsi where I had an L shaped cubicle to myself. Same case here too. Just that it is a wee bit plusher. New Year began with Live (the band) crooning a song I really hadn’t heard before and then Lightning Crashes which I couldn’t hear (thanks to the bad acoustics). And since then I have been chilling at my new home (oops friends home). I guess this year is bringing along with it a lot of new things. A new house (moving to a new apartment on the 27th of Jan) , a new lab. Lets see what else the new year has in store for me. Well for the latest news on the technology front, it seems DVD Jon has been at it again. He cracked the iTunes DRM. I really think someone should offer him a job. And I am waiting with bated breath for Steve Jobs to announe the release of the 100 buck iPod. Shall buy myself one asap. On the downside, one of my friends Anil had a really bad experience on his trip to India. Check out his blog for further details. My deepest apologies. The irony of the entire situation is that my laptop that I had sent survived the ordeal.