Sumeet Pareek

I had never felt so disgusted for the first citizen of india as i did today. Just because Madam Pratibha Patil, the lady who spends her time feeding dogs and tending gardens, had to cross the Domlur Bridge here in Bangalore, not less than a few thousand citizens, the bangalore workforce, the people who run the economy and pay taxes for Madam Patil to have a 40 car fleet in the first place were brought to a standstill.


If (visitor == 'me') {
print("A fool like you shall never have one!");
}
else if (visitor == 'friends and family') {
print("You got to be fool to land here!!");
}
else if (visitor == 'stranger') {
print("You may not be necessarily a fool, though chances are you ARE!!!");
}
die("comment if you wanna rant");


I watched the movie Dev D this sunday at REX on the Brigade road in Bangalore this Sunday. There is a lot that I would like to write about the movie (great watch after a long time) and the movie-theater (REX is kind of special in its own way). But this a short post of the type that I have decided to do when ever I travel or commute to a new place.

So, how did I reach Brigade road from Ramamurty Nagar?

• Got a bus from the ramamurthy signal to the tin factory stop. Any bus numbered 500 would do.
• Boarded the bus 315 from Tin factory.

I am glad I made it to the Pune Drupal Camp. And also glad to blog about the affair on my revamped online space(:D), which ofcourse is powered by drupal. Travelling down to pune and being a part of the drupal camp was a great experience in many different ways. It was the second "official" drupal camp in India and the frist that I attended. Everything from start to end of the day had my excitement levels at the peak.

Below is the supporting presentation for the session on drupal module development at pune drupal camp.

Drupal Camp Pune, 31 January 2009.
I will be there to share and to have fun!!

Are you coming?

Look out for posts about the camp 2nd Feb onwards!!

There is only one thing better than using drupal - getting involved in the drupal community :)

I will be doing exactly that by contributing my first module to the drupal repository. I kind of feel that there are a very large amount of people who can and who do develop custom drupal modules but never take the step of contributing them. I might be totally wrong and this thought might just be a manifestation of my tryst with drupal so far.

I have attempted to ease the work of CVS administrators by writing a motivation message as suggested at http://drupal.org/node/59 and also sending them a link to the 1st pass of the module (which is this post)

My motivation message follows. (Hope it gets me the CVS access and helps others become contributors too)

I wish developers were film-makers too!!

Yesterday I attended a panel discussion on "Digital media in the next decade", jointly organized by E-cell of IIT Mumbai and WATBlog. (And guess what!! I forgot to take my camera along.)

The "gimped" image you see above is a snapshot of how my homepage looked for the last 6 months. That is equivalent to atleast 6 million internet-years. Sure it did not take same number of human-years to build Rome. Its just that the (bloody) proverb suited the perfectionist and the procrastinator in me pretty well. I have got real now. After all Web and Greece Italy are not the same.