Lolcat from Facebook
I use elinks most of the times (Mostly along with Firefox). Elinks is real good as in speed and coolness. Even facebook thinks elinks is damn cool 
. Check out the screen shot below, which shows what happened when I tried to open facebook in elinks.
Improve your blog audience.
Though I don't write blog to be followed, It will be happy for me to know that many people are following. So out of boredom (once again ) googled for sometime to improve my blog hits and did the following steps.
1. Install All in one SEO plugin for wordpress. I am not sure what this does but just followed what the wordpress codex site had suggested.
2. In my wordpress Dashboard, Settings->Writing added the following url's to the update services coloumn list.
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://blogping.unidatum.com/RPC2/
3. Went to Pingomatic site and selected the list of sites that should ping my blog site.
And it worked. My blog hits raised by a very nice number inspite of me posting nothing. If you have found your niche and already there are lot of followers I guess you can increase your ratings this way.
Mental Hueristics ??
Out of boredom surfing ( yes, I have discovering new words for my peculiar actions ), I came across a page called Mental Hueristics algorithms. Let me just gist it.
- If you want Something done, do it yourself
- Never procrastinate anything you can do right now
- When you feel there are several things you could be doing and you don't know which one to do, Just do any one thing randomly.
- Always assume that you will succeed
- If you can't find a solution, then change the rules.
- If you can't do anything about something, no point in worrying about it !
- Do not rely on conscious decisions for speed, Just Do it.
- Don't try to explain your actions for yourselves.
- Listen to your intuition but don't believe it unconditionally.
Strange ! Looks like I always knew it but then didn't have the courage or wisdom to do it.
PS: I `stumble` a lot 
தலைவா !
The only super star !
இன்று பிறந்த நாள் காணும் சூப்பர் ஸ்டாரே !
வாழ்த்த வயதில்லை, வணங்குகிறேன்
என்றும் உன் ரசிகன்.
சுரேன்
Streaming from Amritapuri
Our team, LRSL ( named so after Last Row of Sun Lab , sort of a cult back in college) consisting of Abilash , Natraj and myself qualified for ACM ICPC Amritapuri regionals round. Its on 6th and here we are at Amrita Kerala Campus. The place is so wonderful and the hospitality of this place is so stunning. The food, hostel and everything else are too good. The Organisers have also planned for trip around to the local beach house and so on. So three days filled with coding, superb food, fun at the beach and superb people around, What better way could I have started the Holidays with 
PS: Probably Life is a roller coaster ride, One day you are at the bottom and the other day you are at the top 
Venting out
For once I felt really bad that I joined NIT Trichy of all places and I was really really sorry for myself. I have got some really wonderful people from the college: friends, staff and teachers who make me love the college and make my time fun and memorable.But there are also equally bad ones among them that make me feel miserable and sick. Frankly I am very depressed with what people can do to me for the worse, inspite of me being myself. In a moment, I want to leave a mark before I leave the college, thinking of how to help nitt.edu, sun lab, GLUG-T and my delta juniors and suddenly there was a sick mishap and all I am cared about is leave that screwed up place as soon as possible for good. I am more depressed that I have many bad memories about the place.
With power comes responsibility and its time some people realized this.
But what can I do but for silently cry and writhe in pain and people who do this to me sleep peacefully at night. Is to ask for a life in college with self dignity such a crime ? I wish I had more courage.
PS : I have a wonderful set of friends, seniors, juniors and professors whom I am looking forward to for four more months.
Memorable weekend @ Banglore
Before starting, to my anna and anni , wish you a happy married life
Went to Banglore for my cousin Brother's marriage which went really well. Had a wonderful time with relatives after a long time. I always thought I had lots of kid cousin brothers and sisters. Now they are growing up really fast and a sad corollary is that I am growing too, which means I have to be more responsible and blah blah blah.
Also had the best of times with PK man, Donatello , Venkat , Thalaiva , Hari, Rajagopal and Alagu. Roamed around Brigade road and Garuda for some time and sweared many a times how costly the living is in banglore. By the way Donatello and Venkat are rocking big time in IISc, so much so that there are rumours in the college that there is a D.V.Raman(venkat's full name abbrevated other wise ) in the making.
Meanwhile our team LRSL for ACM-ICPC ( myself , abhilash and nutty ) qualified for the amrita regionals onsite round after some scene coding by nutty. This happened on same day of the marriage and it was actually kind of hectic being at two places at the same time. Looking forward for the Kerala trip in december where we will be particpating against some biggest programming minds of the country.
There were lots more to the weekend which is personal and might even be trivial. But the thing is all of them added up to a really awesome weekend
PS : updated to Intrepid Ibex and obviously it rocks Had some hiccoughs with the installation because of my hard disk getting older, but then went for a full format and its working like a charm now
Merging multiple PDF files in Linux
I always had trouble maintaining multiple PDF's of same genre. A simple command - pdftk will do the trick of merging them together into a single PDF file. pdftk is present in Ubuntu repository itself.
Using the command is also very simple.
pdftk input1.pdf input2.pdf ... cat output output.pdf
so if a.pdf, b.pdf so on are the pdf files u want to merge and the output file is combined.pdf then the command will be
pdftk a.pdf b.pdf cat output combined.pdf
Now if you a folder full of pdf files that you have to merge into a single pdf file , you can give something like
pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf
The only problem being that *.pdf might not take the input in the order you want. So you have to name the files such that doing an ls in the directory gives the files in the order in which you wanted them to be merged in the final output pdf file. say file00.pdf file01.pdf and so on.
Moving to suren.in
Have got my own domain suren.in. Thanks to taggy for getting me the domain as well as hosting my site
PS: Will soon move the site to Django, until then its wordpress reloaded
You know it’s love…
...when you memorize her IP number to skip DNS overhead.
dunno Why I love this geeky quote very much ! Beats me every time I read it