Day 2, looking for a silver lining on an overcast day

Today was my second day in Charlottetown and I was hoping for better weather. At least the forecast at Yahoo had said that it would be sunny today. But it was so wrong; it poured throughout the day and there was just a little sunshine when the rain stopped for a moment. Worse, I have [...]

Down in Charlottetown

Couldn’t think of a title that rhymed better!
It has just been a day since I landed here. The weather was pleasant even though it has been raining throughout the week. So I went Downtown with my Uncle and Aunt to see the place. My cousin brother, his wife and two kids are also here. [...]

Night-out at the airport

So my journey to Charlottetown begins at Atlanta airport in a somewhat unusual way; with a night-out at the Atlanta airport. Why? Because my flight departs at 7 am and I can’t find anyone willing to wake up at 4 am to drop me off at the airport. So after dropping some of [...]

Recent downtime : An Explanation

Well we had some downtime recently, basically our server had gone down without any explanation from the datacentre. So the site was shifted to a backup hosting service where it is currently being hosted.
The purpose of this post is to sort of touch base with all readers as well as keep the blog active, search [...]

Why was Yahoo SMTP misbehaving?

Yahoo provides free SMTP access to all its non yahoo.com domain email addresses. I started using the server around 6 months back. The best part was that the SMTP servers were dumb. They were acting as open message relays for anyone who had a valid Yahoo ID. So I could send an email message as [...]

The blog is still alive but in a coma!

I am really pressed for time in this internship interview, TA, exam, test and assignment scenario. Will post soon about something that interests me (or some new trick I learnt) soon

SMS Spam is good

Spam is usually bad; ‘usually’ because it can be used for fighting crime. Confused? Here’s a novel way in which SMS spam was used to identify a criminal’s location and catch him. It’s the stuff movies are made of

So the next time you curse your service provider for yet another SMS to download a [...]

Orkut and a Worm

So its not often that my computer is actually infected by a Worm (or Virus). But then when I got an email from an old friend about scrapping when I hadn’t done so, I was surprised. A quick and thorough scan of my PC revealed nothing.
Now I faintly remembered receiving 2 scraps (which obviously looked [...]

One less thing to worry…

From my Computer Graphics TA
All,
Because of good performance in the course so far, you are exempted from
taking the finals and will still get an A in the course. (Of course, you
are welcome to take the exam if you enjoy finals).
Sincerely,
Sid.

Woo hoo!

Yahoo India SMS

At first when I saw this my reaction was ‘huh’ (can they afford to do this?). Then it was ‘wow’ it would be cool if they did that.
Finally when I found yesterday that my account had been upgraded to their RC (Release Candidate version), I couldn’t help but try sending an SMS and guess what [...]

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