nirav May 14th, 2007
Went to Surat at Masi’s place for the weekend. It was a great time out. Enjoyed a lot with the family. I think I have not done such variety of things on a single outing yet.
- Bumpy rickshaw ride to home from Surat station - zig zags and passing through small lanes to avoid traffic.
- Lot of good food, and lot of sleep! Sleep is one thing I hadn’t had enough of for the last two weeks!
- Jokes and leg pulling every other minute - almost! It was a laugh riot.
- Played carom, cards, badminton and even raced
- Went shopping
- High speed ride in Chevrolet Optra, with torso out of the hood!
- Some good music, and bad chorus by us
- Read The Book of Life by J Krishnamurti. Very interesting, and deep
- Met school time buddy Piyush and Hetal - wonderful home
- Drove around the Surat city
- And of course, some good dose of ice cream
- Good discussion with Neha about relationships
- Great time with Mom, Dad & Nikita
- Did puja at Kamrej temple
- A little bit of photography here and there
- And the maddening rush of Flying Queen train on a Monday morning
Amazing! I loved the trip!
nirav December 23rd, 2006
Kartik, Naveen and Ameya have organized Magnet’s first HackFest this weekend. Eight of us are here, ready to hack, and stuff our stomachs with pizzas and pesticides (err.. Coke). We already have some stuff going on. Participants so far are: Kartik, Naveen, Ameya, Vishal, Vinay, Mohan, Arun & Me.
Kartik kicked off the HackFest and told everyone about the schedule. We logged in at 5.15pm and will be logging out tomorrow 5.00pm. Till then, we are in the office, no one stepping out (except the organizers 
We brainstormed ideas of what we can hack on! Shortlisted a few, and after the pizza party, things will start rolling.
Till now, people have just got their feet wet. Researching a little bit here and there. Most of the research by the way, has gone in getting Quake working on all the machines here. Couldn’t join the arena from Linux / Mac yet. The Frag Match is over, and the winners are announced - Kartik and Vinay. I didn’t know Kartik was so good at Quake (or that the rest of us are so bad
I started on finding more about the popularity contest plugin to WordPress, to fix the spam comment problem I had - it was taking even the spam comment counts in calculating popularity. Surprisingly, it just worked today, without my changing anything. Not sure what changed. I reviewed the code, ran it, and it worked! Looks like my aura is really getting stronger!
Have made a list of things I want to work on. Let’s see where we reach!
I have put up some photos in the gallery under HackFest01, will be posting more as I process them! Will also post updates here.
