Shriphani ‘PSP’ Palakodety

Well, this year, I did a lot of cool stuff. You can’t believe the stuff I did this year. First, I managed to blow up a stat course and get a B – right in the second semester in one of the easiest courses (supposedly). Well, the next sem went well. And that is all [...]

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So, I decided to go ahead and my computing experience a bit richer. I of course had an apple LED cinema display in mind but at $900 for 24” and $1800 for 30”, I could have as well purchased a new macbook. So, I decided to buy an Acer monitor on tigerdirect.com and after parting [...]

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I have been observing the lifestyle of the 4th grader who is spending a fortnight at our place and positively, I hate it. Poor kid is sort of pushed around everyday. Why? To impart to him the knowledge of English Grammar. He recites the parts of speech (I know them too, just in case you [...]

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So, I’ve managed a measly 94 % overall in the Intermediate Public Examinations and life’s good.
Well, I guess that in my life there was math, code and more math. I have realized that I get this excellent feeling when beautifully written Python code ( ever saw Python code in Komodo ? With the indentation, it [...]

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I recently featured in the comments of Ms. Sramana Mitra’s blog. Sramana as you all know is an entrepreneur who did cool stuff after college. She went to Smith College for a B.S. and to MIT ( !!!! ) for an M.S. in EECS ( !!!! ). I will be there in 4 years don’t [...]

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Impress a bunch of liberal arts majors.
Failed to prove to a bunch of liberal arts majors that I along with a million others will save the planet from imminent doom.
Failed to make a liberal arts guy laugh. I can make most laugh at someone else.
Failed to get them equal opportunity guys to look at even [...]

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Let me bustle in with some code, I have had enough of pondering about MIT and lost opportunities and I want to continue doing what I always loved, coding. I am back to solving sums on Project Euler. Well, I am going to get back to web development now. I have stayed away from my [...]

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This was a special year for me in many ways. This year marked my return to full physical fitness and I have decided to move on. I have made up for most of what I missed during grade 11 and 12.
But there is something I love better, programming. So I am going to get back [...]

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Today I attended ilugHyderabad’s meet. It was once again the under-renovation building at Osmania University that now looks good from the outside. However, after another “brush” with the wall, my favourite jacket was “whitened”. I got to meet the CEO of rknowsys and seemingly rknowsys has a ruby on rails tutorial on its page. I [...]

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I broke my new HP headphones (Sniff). I don’t have a spare pair of headphones (Sniff). Well forget it already. I checked my gmail inbox recently and I saw a mail from Mr. Mahesh U. Patil of TWINCLING Society. Mr. Mahesh was trying to make a web interface for his location plotting application. When I [...]

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