Arbit Scratchpad

The Amida Simputer The Amida Simputer - the portable handheld computer - designed and developed by PicoPeta and manfactured by BEL hit the market recently on 26th ... A few of us were given a simputer each at our workplace (BEL) to evaluate for a week before the launch - its amazingly stable and feature-rich. A host of innovative features from gesture recognition (motion sensors) to being a mobile device connecting to the net from landlines (though at home somehow I could not manage to connect some busy signal/sending password, but some of my colleagues managed to connect successfully) or CDMA phones, a handful of games, an MP3 player, an image viewer, browser, anywhere text scribbling/erase and many many more nifty utilities. The gesture recognition thingie is real stunning; flipping the device you can navigate or move through pictures, ebooks, notes... I actually managed to take notes at a meeting using the scribble feature using the accompanying stylus - it has

LATEST BIG 5 TEST RESULTS Big Five Test Results Extroversion (44%) moderately low which suggests you are quiet, unassertive, and aloof. Friendliness (64%) moderately high which suggests you are good natured, trusting, and helpful but possibly too much of a follower Orderliness (68%) moderately high which suggests you are organized, reliable, neat, and ambitious but possibly not very spontaneous and fun. Emotional Stability (42%) moderately low which suggests you are worrying, insecure, emotional, and nervous. Openmindedness (76%) high which suggests you are very intellectual, curious, imaginative but possibly not very practical. Take Free Big Five Personality Test personality tests by similarminds.com EARLIER RESULTS - THESE CHANGE OVER TIME ... The Big Five Personality Test Extroverted |||||||||||| 48% Introverted |||||||||||||| 52% Friendly |||||||||||| 50% Aggressive |||||||||||| 50% Orderly |||||||||||||| 58% Disorderly |||||||||||| 42%

Listening to: Ghazals by two brilliant singers - legends... Mausam ko isharo se kyo bula nahi lete Jagjit Singh Dhua bana ke fiza me udaa diya mujhko Lata Mangeshkar An amazing ghazal Fedora Core 1 is not allowing installation of packges directly out of the CDs using the add/delete software feature. Got the 3rd CD yesterday through my copy of Linux For You. They had a great promo ad campaign for the mag (first of its kind focussed on Open source and Linux in Asia) - a superb punchline : FOR EVERY WINDOW THAT CLOSES THERE'S ALWAYS A NEW DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY. OPEN IT (Pun ?) The Da Vinci Code is a speeding thriller with insightful historical facts(fiction) thrown in The writing has an inherent crackling speed, is a natural page turner, but it seems the language gets insipid sometimes meaning he (Dan Brown) does not express the emotions of his characters apart from fear and uncertainity. The writing has very little real literary depth, only in

Currently Reading: Autobiography of a Yogi by Swami Yogananda (The true life account of a yogi since his young days with unbelievable accounts of rishis and saints, miracles and spirituality) and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (The Holy Grail and the scandalous history of christianity, the church, Mary Magdalene as the companion of Jesus, all revealed in hidden symbology and secret societies who possess the key to the documents revealing this and more; and a fight to obtain them as the protectors are all murdered for this very reason and then starts the thrilling sequence of events - a well written book in a gripping novel almost entirely set in France starting from its Louvre museum (where the Mona Lisa is))