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Noticed the daily power failures? It turns out that there is a power shortage in Tamilnadu and so the Electricity Board has decided to declare Power Holidays. This means that we get to enjoy a few hours of no electricity every day.

I fully support this decision to cut power every day because we live in an underdeveloped country. We can’t really expect the Government to properly manage our natural resources and generate enough electric power. How can we blame the Electricity Board for being incompetent? They have better things to do than their jobs. Supply of 24 hours electricity is a nice dream but it isn’t realistic.

We just have to accept that sacrifices have to be made in an underdeveloped poor nation such as India. Until then we should ask other countries that are on the same level as us (Nigeria, Sudan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia) for some tips on how to manage our resources properly.

Disturbing.

Entertaining.

Inspiring.

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Ragha has gone to Coimbatore along with his parents to look for brides (hide your women, people of Coimbatore!) and so the city is safe for the next few days.

During this time, Adithya will be the acting Ragha and try to maintain the level of bad humour and absurdity prevalent when the real Ragha is around. Adithya has proven himself to be a worthy Ragha by gaining weight, making bad jokes and weird noises but he still hasn’t reached peak form. So you should take this opportunity to sleep peacefully at night, travel safely on roads, use electronic items, enjoy uninterrupted power supply* and more benefits.

*Does not apply to people of Tambaram village.

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I couldn’t get online for the past two days.

It all started with my LAN card failing and then later throwing up a BSOD. So I thought I’d use the USB mode of the modem to avoid buying another Ethernet card. However I couldn’t get the modem to connect to Airtel through the USB cable (no, it wasn’t a cable problem).

I called Airtel tech support and they sent over this dull guy. He checked Device Manager under USB devices and found nothing. This was because the modem actually shows up under Network Adapters. I had already installed drivers for it and the device was active and working. Anyway,this dumbass put in his drivers CD, confidently double clicked setup.ico and was treated to the loading screen of Photoshop CS3 (since that was the program assigned to that extension). After fumbling about a bit he finally got to the setup.exe file… which froze at the end. So after a restart he finished the drivers setup and when there was still no connection he said that it was a USB problem. I showed him the modem listed under Network Adapters before kicking him out of my house. Then I went and bought a new LAN card.

The Intex card I bought for Rs. 150 didn’t connect to my modem either. It showed up in Device Manager but the LAN connection LED remained unlit. I took it to Ragha’s house for troubleshooting and figured out that the card was faulty. So I got it replaced, tested it at Ragha’s place and then installed it on my PC. There was a lot of running around checking if cables were the problem and wading into Windows options to see if there was a problem there in the middle of all this chaos. Extremely frustrating.

I’ve got it working now so I can get back to whatever I was doing.

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I downloaded Firefly, a science fiction TV series after reading about it. I was impressed by the Western theme mixed with science fiction and what they were trying to do with the series. Unfortunately it got cancelled after the first season due to a mix of bad marketing and poor patronage.

The show has an unforgettable haunting theme song. Check it out here: ballad_of_serenity

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Windows behaves in inexplicable ways. A few days ago I was uninstalling programs that I didn’t need any more. Suddenly, all icon text became italicised and most other text became bold. This formatting freak out was affecting window elements (buttons, menus etc.) and even web pages. Switching themes didn’t help and I had no idea what the hell caused this. So instead of wasting hours figuring out a solution I simply set some font overrides in the browser.

Yesterday, my LAN card suddenly stopped responding and threw up a BSOD. Since it was really late at night (so late it was actually early morning) I didn’t troubleshoot it right away. It did start work perfectly the next day but the interesting thing is that all font formatting was restored.

Weird. I’m just happy that I’ve gone for more than 6 months without a reinstall.

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