Well Begun

Of course, after spending quite some time on Friday over the logical approach of a puzzle we were trying to crack, a bit of retrospect and lateral thinking brought us to a solution. It does have side effects, but was consistent and stable with respect to the problem we were trying to solve.
That made a good start to the weekend in general. Friday night was spent watching Television. The whole of Saturday did not turn out to be much too different.

I did watch a good movie, "Bug" which is on quite a difficult subject. The movie was given a "Horror-Movie" tag, while it really is more of a drama with a message that is slightly horrific. It deals with group psychosis, a strange thing that is usually not witnessed with such dramatic outlet as shown in the film. Ashley Judd has again proved herself in the movie in her role.

Further, I am working to find out what is really lacking for an opensource developer while creating embedded application development platforms (the entire Operating System underneath including a kernel, bootloader with the core utilities for a system.) There seems to be a considerable gap being addressed by very few projects like "emdebian" and "openembedded." It would be a good time to give these projects some competition.

Saturday Lazed out

This Saturday wasn't too different from the many I've spent in the past weeks. I did very little "useful" work. I was watching some movies, playing games, randomly reading kuro5hin, slashdot. I had skipped plans of visiting foss.in on the last day out of partial disinterest. It is bad, I should've gone for a friend's talk at least, but heck what I never made to within 9 km of IISc Bangalore. My chauffer's not in town and with my direction senses I wouldn't take the right diversions (to a straightforward route.) I simply didn't get down to doing it and instead cocooned myself at home.

I was hoping to write an arm related code commentary that went out of the window thanks to movie watching. Then I did some PC maintenance and updated it for vulnerabilities. That should be the only useful thing that went on the whole day. I just lived on chocolates. No noodles, nothing else. (Bad Idea, this too.) Hopefully Sunday would be better as it has been from last week with more personal productivity.

Another Saturday!

I usually don't have a "plan" for Saturday. I let it go the way my moods go. This time I decided I'd watch "The Devil Wears Prada." A nice movie indeed. I also got to watch "Zodiac" which was quite another average Hollywood movie. It seemed that that "Zodiac" was more about FBI incompetence than about a serial killer being hunted down by a civilian who just got interested from his boring day job.

Otherwise I didn't do much about eating except some noodles for lunch and chips'n chocolates for dinner. Well, that's the standard. I didn't get out of the house except to return the movies I'd got. That was that.

The rest of the day was trying out configurations on my new phone which was amusing for perhaps an hour. At least three cups of double espressos to keep me going (whew!) My plan (for some time) has been to hack on an opensource project on Saturdays and Sundays. The truth is I do have the time, I just don't get myself to do it. It seems its about time, I did that on Sunday and stop wasting time on movies (being the movie buff I am.)

Strangely there were absolutely no phone calls to me (except from the service provider about some new features for free costing $$$.) It was in that manner quite peaceful. I did not take the time out to call anyone either. I sometimes think I'm building a cocoon around me, but that isn't entirely factual.