Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totalling $27. The bellboy has $2, totalling $29.
Where is the remaining dollar?

>> A ten digit number that gives the no. of zeroes in it in the first place, no. of 1's in the second place.. and so on and so on.. and no. of 9's in the last place.

0123456789
6210001000<< Answer
Took me 6 tries.. bad.. have to work upon it all

wow.. my first open source usage was maybe the firefox.. or maybe something that I used unknowingly.. but in the past one year I have been ardently using Open Source.. It so happened that when I went back home last vacation it took me a couple of clicks to get acclimatized to the windows environment. Even still I preferred keyboard shortcuts and command line over the GUI. I mean they are improving their GUI with each new release.. I started working on Fedora Core 5 and now its Fedora 7.. Beryl is nice.. And the best thing is Firefox v3 now adopts the OS theme.. so it looks just like your OS. Looking forward to use it with an apple or vista..

Ok I completely went off the track.. This post was suposed to be about the use of open source with mobile phones..
check these out..


http://trolltech.com/products/qtopia/greenphone

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page

And why the heck is my google reader not opening up???I get the top bar with the reader logo.. thats it..!!! WHY???

Phoenix..
Thats the nick name am adopting..
Also at times "hawk"'
Why?Phoenix>>I feel reborn..
Hawk>> Felt like that a couple of time. Dont ask me what that means.

Ok.. read a couple of blogs.. mostly of people I know.. Hari, taggy, msk, yazhini.. it s quite a read.. especially when you are also a part of what you are readin.. feels nice.. Also a comment by a person whom I hardly know made me feel nice.. tht was nice..

Knowledge pays..
I realized this in the past few days..
And am talking literal pays.. cash
We conduct workshops and we earn.
People earn php and linux classes and they earn..
Aactually har's blog contained a "my blog is worth" tag and it was in a about $7000 . I put mine through the same test and all I got was $0. Ok not all that great. Lets see if I can work about it.

Scared...
That's what I am..
Am putting this out now coz someone asked what was I scared of ?
Well, am scared of the days to come..
Theres so much to do and so li'l time..
I hardly know anything and the list of the thins that I suppose I should be doing is..

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OK am not putting the list of all that I am supposed to be doing bcoz I dont think that putting up that in public domain is going to help me in any sense..

Am scared..
and its such a lonely boulevard..
But I enjoy this a bit as well..
The solitary reaper..

When I see the people, it aches a lil ..
or rather there's this desire..
But when I see the pains, I think its better to be this way..
Maybe am scared of the pain...
Maybe am scared of it all..
who knows what tomorrow has in store for me..
lets see what happens once we are there...
but can I wait for that day..
or rather I should start working for the days to come...
Lets work...

Finished the last harry potter last night.. took me about 12 hrs of reading in 2 sittings of 6hrs each with a break of abt 2hrs in b/w as I went to dinner with friends..

As to what the book is all about, you ll find a hell lot of people all over the net telling you about it. So sorry am not saying anything about that. I ll only comment about some of the things I personally felt for about.
The first thing is something thats been up in my head for quite sometime now. No matter what the story is, why the heck does it always have to revolve or say start with a girl? Snape did all that for his love. True there are people in the story like Albus Dumbledore, in whose life it seems there were no personal attachements of that kind, but the morale is the world revolves around love.Even Dumbledore became noble only for the love of his sis. Otherwise who knows he would have had been the Lord of Tom Riddle himself!!!! Anyways I guess what am putting in here isnt exactlywhat I had in mind when I came in here to put out..

And Ron gets Hermione... Who the heck wants to be Harry anymore...!!!
But as they say, Fame eludes them who run after it and runs after those who want to elude it.
So I guess is true about any and everything else.
Except for the things that are concerned with hardwork.. but maybe a bit of luck is involved in there too!

posting just for the heck of posting..

Back in college..
A lot happened in the last two months on the personal front..
made a hell lot of realisations..
And ....



Finally got a single room in college hostel..
simple love the place of my own..
Though at times it did feel that maybe single is a bit too single ..
but you have to pay a price for everything rt..

other than that..
trying to make something meaningful outta of my life..

Take care.. bye