Wednesday, November 19, 2008

A planned weekend of multiple activities.

When it comes to planning a weekend, I have very laid back approach. (Mine are either unplanned or purely circumstantial) But this time 8th and 9th Nov 2008, I wanted to make it happen. Approach was to start early on Friday evening with below planning:
  1. Try PCBSD7.0.1 on my HP L2000 Laptop. Friday night plan.
  2. Research on Minimalism. Saturday night plan.
  3. Visit Nandi Hills a vacation place near by Bangalore. Sunday plan.
The first one was exiting but resulted in not able to install on my laptop. The boot dvd never booted on actual laptop, but worked well on virtual machine! I had plans to have Ubuntu and PCBSD 7.0.1 dual boot in the same laptop. But no luck! Boot always resulted in a system freeze after firwire detection at hptrr:no controller detected.

Minimalism, is an approach to the life. Can be a philosophy. For me this was a change. It all started with my cluttered system desktop. My first approach was to use 5S. Worked well for some time. Thinking about root cause can I not land up into this situation in first place?. Lot of links lead me to Minimalism. Unclutterer and Zen Habits are most referred by me. IMHO Use, Buy, create, write or talk any of these when applied minimalism; more effectiveness can be attained.

Visit to Nandi hills was more satisfying. It was pleasant weather, less traffic, Nice drive and a good place to visit. This was our first outing with son Tejas. He Enjoyed the play ground on top of nandi hills.
It was a good opportunity to have a closure look at nature too. I hardly see any ants in my house. So this one.
And while returning the sunset view on NH7 was beautiful.

All this deduces to - Planning events helps in enjoying things more (unless there are unavoidable circumstances interferes with plan), and choosing few gives more control over what best can be done.

Saturday, November 01, 2008

OpenID enabled.

With Microsoft and Google announce OpenID support my blog is also OpenID enabled. That means any OpenID enabled user can comment.

More info on OpenID is here.