Gotta treadmill last year during thanksgiving sale. Been trying to complete the 5k runner for a year or so. There were numerous times I had to start over, because of extended breaks. Today is the first time I ran continuously for 35 mins. Feels like climbing Mount Everest !
Went to JavaOne 2013 held in San Francisco. Was a great learning experience. However I felt that the JavaOne website to schedule conference was bit outdated. Java seems to be an aging language, though the most used. As the architect for Java said, Java is not dead yet, referencing the new feature of Java 8 i.e. closures and streams.
Some of the stuff I learnt
Also saw Maroon 5 at the Oracle party at Treasure Island.
With Humanoid robot Nao at the conference. Nao is the humanoid platform for robocup tournament.
An learning experience trip to The New York Times press.
Printing press in the background.
These days I am playing Ocean County League matches. Ive had my first game. Also having fun playing with friends double matches.
Also my daughters played their first USTA 10 and under tournament. They both got their first tennis medals. I feel so proud of them!
Recently I purchased a Synology NAS Server DS213. This is to archive all my digital content
into a central repository. The NAS is
I have put all the images and digitized all my tape home videos and put it there. My kids now enjoy watching their childhood videos on their ipads, which were sitting in drawers for about a decade.
Future Projects of the NAS
At Floyd Bennett Field to celebrate Basant kit flying festival. This is an age old tradition in the subcontinent to mark the start of spring and the harvesting season. It is also a competition where one tries to cut the opponent kites string. Its the same style of kites that are flown in the movie Kite Runner. Today was a very windy day, and in spite of rain forecast a good 30 to 40 people showed up. Loud music, and festive mood and colorful kites in the sky, was tons of fun!
First ping pong tournament won. The trophy title is “King of Pong”
The Humanoid Robot Cog for ACM
The ending of the article was optimistic, that we would have humanoids common place. Aibo was promising, but it was discontinued by Sony many years ago. In fact I could not find a single telepresence robot for home usage. I feel in 10 years no significant progress is made. When i search for robots I still find rovers and toy like robots. I hope bigger companies get into home automation and robotics for the masses. A decent vacuum cleaner/telepresence, hooked up to home sensors robot would be something useful for the home. Turtlebot seems something in the right direction, but expensive. iPhone robot Romo is interesting, but is too small and more toyish.
Bansuri is a 6 hole flute from the subcontinent (Pakistan, India). I have many of these but this one i bought from USA ( it says flute by Bansijeff ). My aspiration is to be able to play a Pakistani or Indian song and make a youtube video of it. Still need more practice before i do that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bansuri
Great introductory lesson on bansuri on youtube. However it is in Punjabi language.
Very interesting site that shows a minimal prolog interpreter implemented in python.
Just moved older home page over and installed this new Wordpress vanilla template.
Tried it but started getting php errors. Thankfully i had saved my backup instructions.
Please save following information. You will need it in order to restore if something went wrong
If you don’t have SSH access, ask support to help you:
– Remove the directory /home/account/public_html/blog
– Untar /home/account/fantastico_backups/blog.backup.tgz
– Empty the database dbname
– Import the file /home/account/fantastico_backups/blog/backup.sql into the database dbname
– Move /home/account/fantastico_backups/blog to /home/account/public_html/blog
http://www.funplaceskids.com
FunPlacesKids.com is our new project. Its a highly customized word press powered website listing fun and exciting places for kids. The home page displays a google map with flags pointing to different kids locations. The flag images are based on categories. I am really excited on this new .com project, and hope to list out all the fun places for kids in Us soon.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hungry-ants/id466967709?mt=8&uo=4
Checked the stats, about 64 people have downloaded on the first day, and above a 1000 on the second day of release. Was a pleasant surprise!!
