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Heylo people!  Its been quite sometime since I’ve posted here…  This time, I’ll blatantly accept the reason! I’m outright lazy… and things at work have been shit-busy!!!  Scary deadlines, lots of shitty re-work, delivery pressure, <<feel free to add other shitty IT terms here>>

But yeah, I’m more active on twitter and Posterous…

Twitter rocks!!! So does Posterous!

And I’m desperately waiting for the native S60 based Wordpress client…  That would help me put up thoughts here more often! Read Ewan’s account about the client here…

As they say, the most important feature in your product is Shipping it!  I love “The Cult of Done Manifesto“.  A truckload of thanks to Swaroop C H for blogging about it!  Its soooo much simpler to understand and adapt to.  It makes a truckload of sense, and more importantly, it fits me and my attitude towards things – It works if YOU work it. Shit happens, Forget / fuck it / move on!

I love the Nokia N900!!! I cant wait for the next generation Maemo / MeeGo / <whatever Mooo-thingy its called> class devices to hit the road! I absolutely absolutely DID NOT like the Samsung Galaxy.  Nice to see the traction android is pulling on, but sorry, it still doesnt cut it for me!  And no, Snapdragon isnt close to a statement in terms of validating performance! ARM is GOD!

And in other stuff, the iPad is in more instances than none, being mistaken for a sanitary product… I’m having trouble convincing people at home that its a computing technological device!!!  And in a very very long time, I admit, I love the look and feel of the 17″ Macbook Pro.  Saw it at fossiloflife’s place.  I just love the curves on it

And just so to mention, I’m listening to Laila O Laila as I type in this line

Ciao folks… Have a good one

Laila O Lailaaaaa

A customary post on my blog, I make it a point to jot down the crazy stuff I did over the year that was…  Nothing huge, but yes, its a pointer to remind myself of how bad I still am and how “badd-er” (I know thats not a word! ) I can get!

The post is also a very cheeky means to get one more post up on my blog… and make up for the lack of writing more and to please myself that I can write. You guys can definitely identify with the IT-manager-performance-biscuit part right???

So here goes, a quick round up of the worth mention stuff from 2009:

1. New years eve was awesome… Had a wonderful evening at @reinventin_self‘ s place. Played darts, bored holes through his wall
2. Gifted dad a shirt on his birthday… Usually, mom does the honours, this time around, it was me! Glad he liked it!
3. Got finally assigned on a project at Nokia.  Dream come true for a die hard nokia fan!  This has perhaps been the biggest highlight of the year.  Got to see the whole OS as it functions… Have been working there as a build and process engineer ever since…  Lovely life, got to learn some amazing things… phenomenally awesome team to work with everyday… lovely life overall…  This one point goes out to all those guys who I work with and have made my job something I just love! Thanx machan’s!
4. Got punctual… Personal best so far this year! I’m in office at 8.30 in the morning. DOT. Learnt to prioritize things and work smarter!  I think this was in the list a couple of years back!  Glad to mention I’m doing a good job at it now…
5. Was part of the team that put together BCB8 at Yahoo! campus in bangalore.  Awesome fun! Loads of stuff learnt… Worked with GOD level guys while putting together the BCB8 website… Interesting ride overall!
6. Moved into my own haunt at JP Nagar… Most of you guys know this already, we’ve had a couple of #technights here so far…
7. Got my own domain!  If you hit the website at http://thecruisemaniac.com, you’ve been redirected here to http://cruisemaniac.com. The new place where I hang out. Freaky shot at it, but hey, I AM CRUISEMANIAC! B-). Do read the interesting story behind the domain purchase…
8. Went on a nice long trip to Chikmaglur and got a sneakpeek behind how CCD works… credits to Swaroop!
9. Got myself a new LCD monitor! 22″ samsung glory on my computer table B-)
10. As you are reading this point, I’m at Goa enjoying the beaches and the new year After a hectic one year of a lot of work, this is intense respite!

Well, there does it! A nice, action-filled year has come to an end…  Quite a few ups and hence, the downs for the year have not been mentioned explicitly!

So… Here’s wishing you a wonderful year in 2010!  Have fun! And give it all you got!

DISCLAIMER: This post is a Shameless self-plug!

On thursday morning, @Gauravonomics posted on twitter saying that he had added my twitter username to the list of must-follow Indian Twitter users and posted a link -http://bit.ly/ktjhS.

This came as quite a surprise for me. Its the first time I’ve appeared on a list anywhere… let alone a list of “Must Follow Indians” See dad!!! All that twittering works!!!  I’m there in that list, right at the bottom…  But hey, someone out there feels I’m worth the trouble and that matters a lot

One amazing thing this linking has caused me is a huge surge in the number of followers! And the best part being all of them being human I hope I do justice to all you people and keep you entertained!

Anyways, I wrote this post here for stating two reasons:

1. I’m in no way a celebrity!!! And by no means a big shot… There are a hundred other big shots in that list and I’m virtually a nobody!
2. And, I love you guys for having chatted up with me all this while on twitter… and more so now-a-days on facebook and posterous also!

Do check the link posted in the first para.  There are a huge bunch of really amazing and wonderful people that are worth catching up with!!!

And, You guys are the real celebrities!!! And Twitter Rocks!!! And oh! I’m @cruismaniac on twitter.

Chao…

You know, of the toughest things in having a blog, it is not about maintaining it, its not about keeping it hacker-proof, it is about generating content for it.

And for me, that is THE problem I am having!!! Writing a post here… With a perennial writers-block in my head, writing ONE blog post is becoming a herculean task for me.  Over the last few days I’ve been introspecting on why I’m unable to write…

• Its probably because I’m interested in doling out high-quality content only. Duh!
• Its because I’m stigmatized against writing something for the love of writing but instead concentrate more on the outcry of what anyone would say when they see the content…
• Its because I’m scared to admit that I might not know sh*t about what I write here…

And you know what??? F*&k that!!! Here goes, one “junky” post to get my gears rolling…

Do stay back and comment… and keep visiting here… Will / do hope to have more content soon…

Chao…

This is a story of how I got my domain cruisemaniac.com:

Long long ago, quite some time ago, before the whole hosted blogging thingy, I was having one of the thousands of wordpress.com hosted blogs. http://cruisemaniac.wordpress.com was the URL.  Then, BCB2 happened… and all those wonderful people suggested that I could also move to a domain hosted blog and that would look cooler considering that my pseudo-name “Cruisemaniac” was kinda popular at the time (or so they said )

And so, I went about finding who the good webhosts were and how much I would have to shell out for the domain + space and all that… I cornered it down to bluehost for my hosting and when I started the domain booking procedure, i popped in the domain name and poof… it was not available. I had the horror of horrors in finding out that the term “cruisemaniac” and hence, the website cruisemaniac.com was owned by a porn-star… Nope, that would not be me… but then yeah, it was owned by a d*&k-headed porn star (d*&k-headed… so to speak!) So I went out, bought the domain “thecruisemaniac.com“, setup my blog ranted here, and totally forgot about the domain name… Over a period of time, due to strong and unrelenting perseverance, the term cruisemaniac has come to be identified as my identity and not that of the pr0n guy!

So, winding forward to a few weeks back, when I was fooling around on the internet, I remembered the domain name and checked to see what had happened to cruisemaniac.com and to my surprise, it gave me a 404!  Checking the whois info told me that it was not renewed and was going to get released into the freepool in a weeks time.  After discussions with our honourable web-expert Mr. Prashanth, I set a backorder on godaddy for the domain.  Close to a week after that, on a cloudy, cool, monday morning (scenic descriptions eh ), Godaddy confirmed the domain for me! Which is jhakaas!!! With a tweet to w00t for victory, the domain became mine and I have now smoothly migrated the blog from thecruisemaniac.com to cruisemaniac.com and this is where you are currently.

And I hence, proclaim, I AM Cruisemaniac!

So yeah, there goes, the story… A lived-happily-ever-after ending to it

Now that the happy story is done with, there are a few things left to be done: I have always wanted a landing page as I dont like the root of the domain to be where my blog is hosted. The landing page is still under construction and I hope to have it completed by this weekend.  I also neeed a nicer theme for hte blog… Not that I dont like the current one, but I need a more elegant one. If any of you have pointers to some good looking themes, do drop in a comment and I would really appreciate that.

And most importantly, now that the entire website has been moved, if there are any broken links, missing files, do let me know…

Till the next post, chao!

P.S.: I will not take any criticism on the pr0n star sh*&. I have had enough of that already!

P.P.S.: I am Cruisemaniac! I AM ‘THE’ CRUISEMANIAC!