<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10707182</id><updated>2011-11-12T08:41:27.873-08:00</updated><title type='text'>musings of a dangerous mind</title><subtitle type='html'>Hard Work pays off later but Procrastination pays off NOW.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spraveenkumar.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10707182/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://spraveenkumar.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Zaphod_Beeblebrox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03085293263082997161</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10707182.post-112550971165473933</id><published>2005-08-31T10:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-08-31T10:35:11.660-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Got A Comp</title><content type='html'>Yeah..i got a comp here..(Dad's money only :( ) me..a phakir only(hindi lingo)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Motherboard - MSI K8N SLI - Platinum  &lt;a href="http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=641" target="_blank" onfiltered="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"&gt;http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=641&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Processor - AMD Athlon64 3000+&lt;br /&gt;Speakers - Creative 5.1 Inspire 5200&lt;br /&gt;HDD - 200 GB Maxtor SATA&lt;br /&gt;Graphics Card - 256 MB Gainward Golden Sample GeForce 6600 Ultra&lt;br /&gt;Sony DVD Writer ( + - RW , Dual Layer )&lt;br /&gt;Sony CD Writer&lt;br /&gt;Floppy Drive&lt;br /&gt;APC ES-500 UPS&lt;br /&gt;Samsung SyncMaster 17" Flat&lt;br /&gt;i-ball Force 10 Mouse&lt;br /&gt;Logitech Keyboard..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay .. i am REALLY boired now..as comp has NO OS yet..will write later.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10707182-112550971165473933?l=spraveenkumar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spraveenkumar.blogspot.com/feeds/112550971165473933/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10707182&amp;postID=112550971165473933' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10707182/posts/default/112550971165473933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10707182/posts/default/112550971165473933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://spraveenkumar.blogspot.com/2005/08/got-comp.html' title='Got A Comp'/><author><name>Zaphod_Beeblebrox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03085293263082997161</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10707182.post-112464801640041009</id><published>2005-08-21T11:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-08-21T11:13:36.406-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Google - Preet Vihar</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;If you had made the fatal mistake of reading the previous offerings of rubbish from this place, then I would take decent odds that you are going to be back here again.Also I would suggest that there is only so deep you can plumb to , but after that it is all falling,so BE warned mortal.All the so-called bad(or PREMIUM) things in life are usually of an addictive nature, so it should be NO surprise that this too must be the same(Note:though it DOES qualify as bad, it qualifies also as er..(insert word her for opposite of PREMIUM). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Now that I have warned off the people who may have infinitesimal common sense ( or SABU) the rest of you, who are anyway going to hell(If not for other sins, then at least for reading this) can now tighten their seat belts. After all, your pitiable author can now safely claim that he is in the dreadful rock-bottom situation of watching text commentary of the Arsenal-Chelsea game. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;After all that whining I will try and explain the title of this post(if anyone is intersted STILL).To avoid putting first time , random readers the ghastly experience of attempting to make sense of previous posts, I will say that for some reason I go to Preet Vihar in Delhi every Monday to Friday and will do so for a few more days(nearly a month). I am supposed to be learning Java, but what I am doing instead is to Google(verb). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;That is one small step for others but a giant leap for ME(I revel in shamelessly twisting others saying's).Nah, I aint talking of the REAL Google,of course.(that would be scandalous, I mean, ME learning and all.) As with MOST of my meaningless talk and scandalous allegories Google to is one of them.I hope to have made you understand the meaning by the time this piece is over. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;By the way, it really surprises me that Google has SO many hits in Preet Vihar, because a Garbage Dump would be a better(and vastly more flattering) description.( The place I go to in Preet Vihar that is, and Note: I am NOT trying to alienate or antagonize the Don of 10 years ago). Yet from SUCH a place there is a VERY vast pool of data to choose from, which ( a description a friend used) will be good till it ACTUALLY tries to represent itself by its means of communication. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Now that I have garbled that description reasonably well I will describe the #1 hit in my own words(If I can). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Starfire it was and surely 5 times better&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Though it was on the 1.5th placeAbout 5'10" tall and PROTEIN FOLDED&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Perfect It was and a strand across the face.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;And near Hydrochloric Acid too.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;This(the object of the description, not the article SILLY) is COMFORTABLY ahead in the contention for awards. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Also I will leave all( A term I use self-delusionally that this is actually read by OTHERS) of the readers with another cryptic, whose solution I will only demonstrate personally when asked. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;On August 17th 2005, I saw the Old Man and the Walrus,saw the Count Dracula in me and also realised that the other was one of every three. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;PS: This post I MUST thank my fellow peddler and Muh-Man responsible for Sports Updates and updates related to going around in Tin Cans in a hot city ( Those always seem better when you realise you are on the OTHER side of the looking glass.) So..thanks Mr.Santhosh Gowda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hint : Connect Google and Visual Satisfaction.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10707182-112464801640041009?l=spraveenkumar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spraveenkumar.blogspot.com/feeds/112464801640041009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10707182&amp;postID=112464801640041009' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10707182/posts/default/112464801640041009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10707182/posts/default/112464801640041009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://spraveenkumar.blogspot.com/2005/08/google-preet-vihar.html' title='Google - Preet Vihar'/><author><name>Zaphod_Beeblebrox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03085293263082997161</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10707182.post-112308549474334923</id><published>2005-08-03T08:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-08-03T09:11:34.750-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dial P for Paneer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Hello All,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I guess humanity's instinct for survival must be quite strong indeed.I am saying this because of quite a few reasons. Some of them I can mention without offending anyone, others are well..ahem a bit more of "Go-ahead-at-your-own-risk" kind of thing, but then I am NOT the one to mince words..I feel I say how it is..but then you may be able to judge(or make a HONOURABLE exit NOW, and STILL have a chance to go to heaven(unlike me, who has had his card punched LONG back))&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Ah,well the list(quite a few are typical of the self-centred S.O.B that I am)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;1.)People have survived even AFTER reading my last Blog.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;      Mr.G up there must be really kind on you people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;2.)I have survived all hidden attacks(if any) and well-directed ill-will(owing to this blog)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;     Quite self explanatory,as I am STILL blogging(Some people NEVER learn,do they?)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;3.)I dont have a TV here(yet).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;     Brace yourself, ESPN-STAR, this is the calm before the storm.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;4).I dont have a COMP here(yet).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;     Well, my heart STILL beats,(whats that thing they say..yes..PRAISE THE LORD)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;5.)I havent seen ANY movie here(NOIDA,yet)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;     Not going to venture what kind, etc..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;6.)FOOD&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;     What can I say?Bah..Before I came here, I was ambivalent towards paneer..but now I am    thoroughly DISGUSTED by it(AS disgusted as you,yes YOU who is reading this pitiable excuse for a blog).I went to a restraunt(civilized word for a place with a roof and a stove and an AC) and the Chowmein(knowing that as the ONLY veg chinese item) I mistakenly ordered it.And it too had PANEER(yuck).It has here the status of a proper vegetable(which I did not like in the first place anyway)Well..but life moves on.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;SORRY ALL ..this SIfy Connection is running out on me.So this will end.(God has saved you..but your luck will run out next time)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Special Thanks to&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Vijai Maldini(I still havent seen him),Dilip R.S(Football News etc.)(I have seen HIM though)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Goodbye.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10707182-112308549474334923?l=spraveenkumar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spraveenkumar.blogspot.com/feeds/112308549474334923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10707182&amp;postID=112308549474334923' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10707182/posts/default/112308549474334923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10707182/posts/default/112308549474334923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://spraveenkumar.blogspot.com/2005/08/dial-p-for-paneer.html' title='Dial P for Paneer'/><author><name>Zaphod_Beeblebrox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03085293263082997161</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10707182.post-112237757555874222</id><published>2005-07-26T04:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-07-26T04:32:55.566-07:00</updated><title type='text'>NOIDA - NOInternetDelhiArea</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Most of my communiques suggest I write a paragraph of rubbish/irrelevant(&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MOST&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; you say??) matter before getting to whatever it is that I intend to say..so you may skip this paragraph if you want to.If a line like that dosent drive you away, then read on..for there just may be a change from the rubbish(para 1) - MORE rubbish(para 2).So, that being said and YET again not changing the pattern, I must have somehow wasted your time in reading this(By writing at least 1 PARA of rubbish..AGAIN)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, Now..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello to all the lost souls who have had the misfortune(or misguided) into looking a my drumroll.I did log on to my yahoo id zaphod_beeblebrox_xxvi and was bombarded into giving the &lt;em&gt;VERY&lt;/em&gt; same details to at least 5 people in under half an hour.So , I decided that I would be revealing all(The Details, Obviously!)here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am currently undergoing the "training " process, which was SUPPOSED to be at CSC, but has been outsourced to the organization which has excelled at deluding itself and the people that any useful business could have been transacted by the inmate,while at the facility.Yep, you guessed it, it is NIIT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is in Preet Vihar,Delhi(about XX kms) from Surya Palace,Noida Sector 61 which is exactly 1,663,552,552 in an alien unit that converts to the EXACT distance between those two places upto an accuracy of 1,556,415,784 places after the decimal point in a somewhat more EARTHLY system.I will be paroled from this gulag on possibly a day between Sept.14(2005,phew) and Sept.19.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now for my comments on the title of the blog(Yeah, somewhat like the blasted Washington Monument..taking a LONG time to get to the point).This area is "supposed" to be developing rapidly(The Commonwealth Games(yeah , the ones where WE are the biggest,richest nation and laugh at underdeveloped countries MUHUAHAHA)2010 is going to be held here,so some deadlines to be obeyed).However the only thing this area is "developing" is my STRONG Dislike of it(vis-a-vis the title).The word "Broadband" needs a babel-fish to be of any use to anyone here.The only refuge is in an archaic Sify I-Way which is possibly a lot like losing your ahem..ahem..celibacy(You take a LONG LONG time to do it and end up feeling that that it is pedestrian).Well, Sify I-Way would have to make GREAT advances in their infrastructure to even be called "Pedestrian".It is a matter of debate whether it is to be called Rubbish or Truly Dreadful.The computers there are SO slow that if I were to be typing now(HERE) you would get the message only now(THERE).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However I am typing all this at the NIIT centre where I am supposed to be doing a "practical" session on DBMS, which in my opinion was the &lt;strong&gt;WORST&lt;/strong&gt; subject I "studied"(or attempted to pretend), so that is why I am taking the sadistic pleasure of troubling all who have been reading this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Signing Off&lt;br /&gt;Hope To Be Back For More(ME that is, and NEW viewers-suckers hehehe(Even I am not so self-delusional to expect the pitiable denizens who have viewed this to return.) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10707182-112237757555874222?l=spraveenkumar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spraveenkumar.blogspot.com/feeds/112237757555874222/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10707182&amp;postID=112237757555874222' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10707182/posts/default/112237757555874222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10707182/posts/default/112237757555874222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://spraveenkumar.blogspot.com/2005/07/noida-nointernetdelhiarea.html' title='NOIDA - NOInternetDelhiArea'/><author><name>Zaphod_Beeblebrox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03085293263082997161</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10707182.post-110789023897282147</id><published>2005-02-08T11:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-02-08T11:17:18.973-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Small Whimpering</title><content type='html'>From humble beginnings come great ideas .. that transcend time,change space.. and if not doing those things fill up this blog. If you can accept THIS you might even try gowday.blogspot.com. Let the HOSTILITIES commence.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10707182-110789023897282147?l=spraveenkumar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spraveenkumar.blogspot.com/feeds/110789023897282147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10707182&amp;postID=110789023897282147' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10707182/posts/default/110789023897282147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10707182/posts/default/110789023897282147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://spraveenkumar.blogspot.com/2005/02/small-whimpering.html' title='The Small Whimpering'/><author><name>Zaphod_Beeblebrox</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03085293263082997161</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
