Planet Pranav » Uncategorized http://planetpranav.com Pranav Shah on travel, photography, art, technology, India, etc. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:27:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Self Reflection time on Sunday evenings on my terrace http://planetpranav.com/2008/08/31/self-reflection-time-on-sunday-evenings-on-my-terrace/ http://planetpranav.com/2008/08/31/self-reflection-time-on-sunday-evenings-on-my-terrace/#comments Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:26:49 +0000 pranav http://planetpranav.com/?p=144 Sunday evenings are the most beautiful, probably coz, this is when I always sit on my terrace, usually alone and give some time to let my mind wander around, think, dream, regret, admit, reject, approve, etc. This usually ends up with a brilliant plan/idea for the week ahead. This span of 100 odd minutes is what helps me live and conversely I live the hectic week so that I can have a peaceful Sunday evening.

I stopped blogging abruptly, as my mind was pre-occupied, maybe it still is, but today with excitement.

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Remember I mentioned fireworks sometime back, the above is what eventually happened. Some crazy shots, some are ordinary.

]]> http://planetpranav.com/2008/07/27/fireworks/feed/ 0 Sri Sailam Bike Trip http://planetpranav.com/2008/02/13/sri-sailam-bike-trip/ http://planetpranav.com/2008/02/13/sri-sailam-bike-trip/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:53:46 +0000 pranav http://pranavshah.info/?p=76 Royal Enfield 350cc and the other bikes that followed it.

It was as bad ass, wild and rowdy a bunch of Googlers from Hyderabad could get on a Saturday morning at 5 am. Hooligans set out on a bike trip. We were Peace Hippies and not Hell’s Angels. We didnt have weapons, we had bikes. We didn’t want to drag race and make fun of someone. We just wanted to go and feel the wind.

Photos are here.

Lesson learnt: Always wear a helmet and shoes.

]]> http://planetpranav.com/2008/02/13/sri-sailam-bike-trip/feed/ 0 2007 >>> 2008 http://planetpranav.com/2008/01/01/2007-2008/ http://planetpranav.com/2008/01/01/2007-2008/#comments Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:03:35 +0000 pranav http://pranavshah.info/?p=67 Every blogger’s new year resolution… to blog more this year. 2007 was good… a different year. Almost entirely non-academic and was on the payrolls of a company for all the 12 months of the year for the 1st time.

I just stopped blogging in the last 5 months. Not that I didnt have things to say, I had opinions, but never got myself to actually blog. Can rant about stuff like 3 hdd crashes and the server downtime, and the new Dreamhost server and what not. In short, i have excuses.

How did i transition from 2007 to 2008? I was sleeping at home. I fell asleep arnd 11pm and woke up briefly for a min at 3 am! I woke up again at 7.30 and got ready and left for work! Yes, I volunteered to work today. I like the year, its the year of the Olympics and its a new start, I can tell myself that forget the undone things of 2007 and make it happen now. I guess that is why we have Quarters and Months, to compartmentalize our thoughts and keep making fresh starts. I kinda like it.

]]> http://planetpranav.com/2008/01/01/2007-2008/feed/ 0 My iPod http://planetpranav.com/2007/04/05/my-ipod/ http://planetpranav.com/2007/04/05/my-ipod/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:43:08 +0000 pranav http://pranavshah.info/?p=51 An iPod that plays music for everyone who visits me :)

]]> http://planetpranav.com/2007/04/05/my-ipod/feed/ 0 On my Mind these days… http://planetpranav.com/2007/03/28/on-my-mind-these-days-2/ http://planetpranav.com/2007/03/28/on-my-mind-these-days-2/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:53:35 +0000 pranav http://pranavshah.info/?p=50 Iron Maiden concert was mad, violent, loud, melodic, a dream, exhaustive, great trip, mostly bad opening acts,  and a great great great show, probably the biggest rock/metal concert to happen in the country. Why did it get over so quickly?

Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds and Mark Shuttleworth (mostly through Google Video) are instigating and inspiring me to buy a piece of hardware and get focussed on GNU-Linux. Frankly, Linux is my exile. The parting has been long and I miss it.

Life is back at peace.

Finished watching the 3 seasons of Entourage. Contemplating to  start watching Prison Break.

 

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I am standing here outside the elevator door

I hate to wait for the slow lift

But the dawn ‘ll break 2moro early mornin

The Indica is waitin’, blowin his whistle

Already I’m so excited I could sing

So diss me and email me

Tell me that you wont use trademark terms

and you will upload bulks only for me

Cause I’m leeeaving ….on Kacheguda Express

I know i’ll be back on Monday morning…

Oh babe… I so wanna go….

]]> http://planetpranav.com/2007/03/16/iron-maiden-in-india/feed/ 2 Some very interesting words about assembled/custom built computers… http://planetpranav.com/2007/03/15/some-very-interesting-words-about-assembledcustom-built-computers/ http://planetpranav.com/2007/03/15/some-very-interesting-words-about-assembledcustom-built-computers/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:28:06 +0000 pranav http://pranavshah.info/?p=48

Pre-built might work for typical users. But pre-built didn’t work for Google. And pre-built doesn’t work for me.

We aren’t typical users. We’re programmers. The x86 commodity PC is the essential, ultimate tool of our craft. It’s the end product of 30 years of computer evolution. And it’s still evolving today, with profound impact on the way we code. If you treat your PC like an appliance you plug into a wall, you’ve robbed yourself of a crucial lesson on the symbiotic relationship between software and hardware. The best way to truly understand the commodity PC is to gleefully dig in and build one yourself. Get your hands dirty and experience the economics of computer hardware first hand– the same economics that have shaped the software industry since the very first line of code was stored in memory.

Who knows, you might even enjoy it.

Quoted from:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000814.html

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I have seen Zakir Hussain perform & I want to go for a Shakti concert!

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The reason Nike is bothered to make an ad for cricket? Maybe they realized India is no longer a third world market they can ignore and let Reebok eat away the market share.

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