Shalin Jain’s Little Red Couch

Have you ever spoken to a stranger in the most unexpected place that kept you wondering all day - not why but how did he do that? Well, I just had one such experience.

I was browsing few books on marketing and entrepreneurs bio-graphies at Landmark bangalore and I heard someone making a remark about the books I was just looking at. He added, “I have recently started reading a few of them and I think they are excellent reads”. I nodded without paying any heed. I first decided to ignore him totally. Why would someone tell me (an absolute stranger) about his reading habits.
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I have just commenced reading “The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl“. Recommended by Suman Kumar. It spans to 762 pages, I hope I finish it someday soon.

Impossible is nothing.

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I have stopped keeping a count on the number of messenger tools I use. Why? I use only one. The cute Adium for Mac. I have been pretty much following up Rediff Bol since the day the beta was up. However, I have never tried it after using it’s first beta version. It is just-another-im-tool and was fairly buggy at that point. I gave up Bol and Windows.

However, RediffBol has an interesting indian perspective to it which makes it a worthwhile tool for a lot Indians esp. those who would like to use a local indian language to chat. Here is a quick poll that I ran to check how many did actually care for an Indian IM tool, and the results are not too bad.

We have new product blog - http://www.helpdeskpilot.com/blog !

Watch this interesting interview (edited version) of Joel Spolsky by Scoble.

The best recipe for clutter free Mac desktop!

My (real) desk is usually mess and my desktop (mac) gets equally messy later during the day. Exposé doesn’t help the mess much. And little look around helped me discover the ‘god sent’ Sticky Window for Mac.
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Ich sitze
am Fenster
und sehe
die Welt;

so viele Leute
so viele Meinungen
striet mit ein andren
kampf und chaos

so viele Gebäude
so viele Auto
laufen mit ein andren
verruckt und endlos

Wir gehen zu schnell
das is nicht richtig;
Wir bringgen unseren
kinder in die
dunkle Welt.

20 March 2007
Shalin Jain

Yeah, that’s right. KK finally made a switch from Dell to Mac. Welcome to the club Karthik!

A CRON is an Unix program that runs programs at scheduled times. On Mac OS X you could setup a crontab easily using a GUI tool called Crontooie. I am going to next find a script to make daily backups a breeze.