Carthik Sharma

So I went to pephoto.com since they offer prints of digital photos at 9 cents each. I have a huge bundle of photos that I have been wanting to print for quite some time now.

I downloaded their client software, in which one can drag and drop the photos, and in the end, was I amazed to see that the total cost for the batch would be $200+ !! Yeah, there were about 2340 pictures I wanted prints of.

I have to figure out a cheaper way to get the photos printed. Getting a printer and printing them at home doesn;t quite cut it, cost-wise. The cartridges+paper ensure that the cost per photo is a lot higher than 9 cents per print. I thought maybe I am just greedy, and want too much for too little, and then I thought I should ask my invisible friends — So, ladies and gentlemen, got any leads or ideas as to how to get cheap(er) prints?

Raise your laptop over your head, put it flat on the floor, tilt it sideways while leaning halfway out the window—get out the divining rod if you have to. You might get a reputation for being some sick laptop yoga freak, but isn’t free Internet worth it?

The things people do to access the internet!

Probably nothing new in this How to Steal Wi-Fi article at slate, but it’s funny, well written and has links to a bunch of useful pages. It also claims it is not illegal to hitchhike on your neighbour’s wireless.

A loved one has discovered the joys of borrowed access recently, and I hope this helps, if just a little.

I can see 4 wi-fi networks when I am at home, and three of them are open, and worse, I can login and manage their networks. I have often opened the bittorrent port on the ‘linksys’ network (blessed be that neighbor) at night.

Change your wireless routers password, at least, so people go looking for a router with an unchanged password. Our own network is open, but the password’s been changed.

via Meredith.

http://scholar.google.com is going to be something to watch (via Mark )

Feedster Advanced Search has me dancing! Just what I wanted, since about a month ago (via WLTC). I have to set up a few advanced searches and subscribe to them, and never again worry about missing out on the news.

Thanks to Mr.Man, I have been spending the last half hour downloading some classical music.

Search for “netjuke @” index.php and browse the sites. Download if you please and if the sites allow you to.

NetJuke is interesting, to say the least. PHP, MySQL and XML is all there seems to be behind it.

Of course I have all the cds of the tracks I just downloaded Happy Downloading!

I give up! Somebody please tell me how I am supposed to live with the extra long wire that goes from the IPod to my ears when I am using the remote and the earphones? It is at least 15 feet long! Even without the remote (though I would love to have a remote), the length is too long.
I don’t like putting it all in my backpack, cause most of the time I don’t have a backpack. I have the IPod carrying case, and I like to clip it to my belt. I probably need 5 feet of wire at the most, but now, the wire gets messed up and coiled and it just seems like a bad case of retarded design.

How do you deal with it?

I blamed Bob Bemer for adding the backslash character to the ASCII character-set, and now he’s passed away.

Turns out, he also invented the Escape key. Thank you, Bob, I shall remember you often when I use the Esc key to, well, escape from difficult situations.

Check out his Home Page for interesting info about various things computer related.

car.thik, cart.hik, car!thik, car()thik, car^thik all seem to work perfectly fine as userids for the carthik @ gmail .com account. I did not get a mailer daemon when sending the mails, and I got a “message sent” confirmation for the last three.

What’s amazing (stupid, even) is that car()thik@gmail.com shows up as car@gmail.com in the headers, and even when I try to reply to the mail later, the To: field is pre-filled with car@gmail.com

I could post a bug report, but I couldn’t find the “Report a bug” link (that I swear I saw yesterday) when I wanted to report a bug with downloading attachments earlier in the day, and had to click through the “Help” and submit a report (a “question” according to gmail), only to get no confirmation. In fact the form just stayed the way it way, after I clicked “Submit Question”.

Now how exactly does one report a bug in the bug reporter?

Amazingly incompetent for a Beta version. Aren’t beta’s supposed to be instruments for collecting bugs and ironing out problems, small and large, and aren’t beta testers/users supposed to have some way to file bug reports? I am not sure I am not missing something very obvious in the interface, but anyways I think a Beta web-app should have a link to some place where bug reports can be filed. WordPress versions have a link at the bottom of all admin pages to the Support Forums which is kind of close.

WordPress could really use a “Create New Category” field in the post/edit page. I decided that I need a new category starting with this post, and though I could open the “categories” page in a new tab, I had to refresh post.php to get the new one to show up in the categories menu.