My Frivolous Blog

Earlier this evening, while complaining to myself about having to stay home—away from friends and fine spirits—because I bumped my head into sharp corner of an open cabinet door at home and had to rush bleeding to emergency for few stitches, someone called my mobile phone. Not recognizing the caller’s number, I did not [...]

I did not know that searchbox in Firefox could be used as temporary storage. When I noticed searchbox still had the phrase I used last week to search for something, it set off a minor geek reaction. Playing around with various lengths of text, I observe this little searchbox can hold lots of [...]

It has been a few days since I came to know that my Management will recommend that the Board of Directors grant me an award of few RSUs—a fancy acronym for Restricted Stock Units. RSUs are stocks as opposed to stock options although both have some fixed vesting period. At the end of vesting period, [...]

I admit that I have not checked out all bookstores in Hyderabad but among the few that I did get to visit, Rajalaxmi Book’s House, without a doubt, has the widest selection of O’Reilly books. The store is small and densely packed with books on computer hardware and software from various publisers. I was there [...]

I have studied telugu as my second language till tenth class/grade. However, I don’t remember ever being taught telugu numerals. For the life of me, I don’t understand what these numbers are. I am talking about one in the first row and all in the second. Not just me, even my friends who studied telugu [...]