The most valuable and sought after people are the idea people. These are the people who bring in the new ideas, bring in the excitement, are well known. Unfortunately, I have never been the idea guy. For a long time…
Bicycle Shops in Mumbai
Raging On The Roads
Those who follow me on twitter will definitely have noticed my frustrated tweets from time to time about how dangerous it has become to be out there on the road in India. As the traffic on the road is growing, our…
BTwin MyBike White
Update: It’s been a while I’ve had this bicycle and that apprehension about the bottom bracket came true. The bike has been lying around unused because of massive issues with the bottom bracket. I got it repaired and the new…
Introspections at 30
Well 30th birthday is just another day, just a number, but it’s a great time to look at things that have become biggest priorities in my life. I’ve lived life as I want, have enjoyed it so far. Over the last few years…
Parents Leave the Kids Alone
As every time, with 12th standard results being declared today there are news of students who are depressed and pressurised thanks to high expectations by their parents. This takes me back to a story that started in my childhood days:…
The Journey of Discovery
I don’t have an answer for you but I can share my experience so far (not that I am an old guy, I am pretty much near my quarter life but I am starting to get my answers), it might…
How to use short url with sharethis
Using sharethis but disappointed that it doesn’t have shortlink support? If you are someone who is comfortable placing some code in the correct place inside your theme then following will work for you. In comes url-shortener plugin to the rescue. First install…
Moving emails from old server to new server using bash, python and offlineimap
I had a task of moving emails from an old server to a new server. Considering that stream of emails would be coming in on the live server, rsync didn’t look like a good option to sync the Maildirs. So,…
Getting Lava 720G to work in Ubuntu 11.10/12.04 Beta
I have a Lava 720g 3G USB modem. The modem is supported by the usb_modeswitch distributed with Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 Beta. But, despite that it doesn’t connect out of the box. Here’s a very simple way in which I…