http://blog.shrutibhandari.com Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:36:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have changed houses, cities, states, and even time zones, yet the neighbors upstairs continue to rock my world. My house still shakes, the roof still threatens to cave in, the loud thumping noises still persist, I can still hear people walking around, banging doors, smashing furniture. Whats with the ... http://blog.shrutibhandari.com/2008/07/02/give-me-some-change/ It all began in Italy. The mantra with which life was lived said, "Gelato every night". True to the mantra, scoops of Gelato went missing every night from the shops of Italy. Multiply that by 12, and "N" amount of scoops were never seen again where N is a very ... http://blog.shrutibhandari.com/2008/05/18/hunger-management/ 3 things currently on mind: A) Why can't I drag and drop the stuff to shuffle my playlist in YouTube's QuickList? I am no technowhiz but with all that AJAX stuff out there, it should not be that difficult. B) And I am loving WordPress 2.5.1! Very nice and clean interface (on the ... http://blog.shrutibhandari.com/2008/05/15/quicklist-in-youtube-wordpress-251-and-twitter/ My expenditure on light bulbs far exceeds grocery and rent included. Here is why. Rough but accurate timeline of bulbs that (lived &) died in my room Bulb#1 - when a friend visited. I was moving stuff around the room and knocked the lamp over. The bulb could not withhold the fall ... http://blog.shrutibhandari.com/2008/03/16/living-in-darkness/ After an entire week of eating nothing but PB&J sandwich for lunch and dinner, I knew looking at the Smuckers bottle would not be a pleasant sight. It was half finished. Obviously, of course it had to. Peanut butter unlike Amul butter can be had in copious amounts as far ... http://blog.shrutibhandari.com/2008/02/17/stuffed-peppers-potaotes-food-and-non-food/ Aargh! My two semester capstone project... Where should I store it --> Fall 2007 folder or Spring 2008 folder or should I be able to somehow magically tag them. Tagging tends to be disorganized, and somehow tags like Fall 2007 and Fall 07 get created. No; tagging will be too ... http://blog.shrutibhandari.com/2008/01/29/recursion-and-black-hole/ A particular set of my friends often indulge in the phenomenon of chain mails. Chain mails, where people Reply to All (the sender and receivers) and carry out a full conservation. These chain mails are between a set of friends and often full of inside jokes, lots of leg pulling, ... http://blog.shrutibhandari.com/2008/01/25/hebrew-or-hindi/ Just noticed today a new section in Google Reader. I do not know if it has been here for a while or today was its first day. I can make out recommendations are (mostly?) based on kind of feeds one is already subscribing to. Most of my feeds are from ... http://blog.shrutibhandari.com/2007/12/02/google-readers-recommendations/ Plain simple life is what I lead. The plainness and simplicity of it does not mean, it is non-hectic or smooth in any way. In fact, it is more hectic than various calendars or schedulers or my own mind can contain. Plain simplicity however means that I am generally out-of-topics ... http://blog.shrutibhandari.com/2007/10/20/irony/ Either people living in the apartment above mine are deliberately trying to annoy me (and being successful at that) or they are just plain annoying. For last 30 minutes, I am being subjected to extremely loud and distracting music with very catchy beats. I forgive them for this act. I ... http://blog.shrutibhandari.com/2007/10/15/195/