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Just after using my new host for 3 days, it stopped serving this site for some unknown reasons, so, for the second time in a month, I shifted my blog to yet another free host. One of these days, I am going to start paying for hosting, but I don’t think that day is very near Usual visitors must have noticed the damage done, one post missing: “A prayer for 2008″. From now onwards, I will take a Wordpress backup after every new post. And I also discovered that the Wordpress backup file doesn’t restore Tags effectively. It just converted them to numbers!I should have left them as categories for backup. For now, no more tagging on my posts.

Last month saw a significant increase in the pageviews of this blog, thanks to stumbleupon and reddit, and some new friends in the blogosphere. If you write a good post, a sureshot way to get a lot of visitors is to post in on a bookmarking site!

Exams are going on, and just like every other exam, I am hardly interested in studying for the papers Infact, its probably got worse this semester! I am going to Muscat on January 25, 2 weeks late because of some quick work before the beta launch. (If you don’t know what I am talking about, don’t bother asking!)

My interest in desktop applications have been strangely rekindled, and I was thinking of different ways to develop a cross platform application, mainly for windows and linux. One friend of mine suggests .net with gtk#, and another one suggests I start learning Qt. At the moment, both look interesting even though they are essentially two very different approaches to the problem, and for now, I will look into both of them before choosing what to stick to. On the web development front, I have been doing a lot of work on symfony (a php framework) recently, and I think I will write an introductory post on TechBol soon.

Since I was getting tired of playing Texas Hold’em poker on facebook and I didn’t want to boot into Windows and extert my poor graphics card without a fan, I downloaded a few games for Ubuntu. I had mastered Tetravex and Mahjongg can get boring if you are not in the mood for it. I downloaded Kolf. I don’t know, but there is something very interesting about those complex courses.

And ofcourse, my all time favourite OpenTTD, the opensource clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Even now, this game is under very active development. Those who like this game never get bored of it. It has a sort of cult fan following of geeks and programmers who love building extensive rail networks! It also supports multiplayer gameplay on the internet, but something strange happens when I try to connect to a server.. It disconnects my bluetooth internet connection and I get an “Error in connection” message on my phone! Just hope they fix this in the next release, or I might as well get a datacable. Bluetooth disconnects so frequently, I can’t keep something big for download for a long time.

Anyway, I must get back to Microprocessors. Uggh I mean, I have nothing agaisnt Microprocessors and I think they are the greatest inventions in the history of electrical and electronic engineering, but I don’t want to learn about them for an exam. Leave it to the more hardware oriented or EC branch chaps, and gurus in Intel and AMD. Its not for me!