fleeting memoir

Shifted to Tumblr (jagtesh.tumblr.com)

Jagtesh Chadha — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:42:47 +0000

Hi everyone! I’ve stopped blogging here and shifted to Tumblr.

It was not a very rational decision, I just needed a change and some fresh air! Plus the community atmosphere on Tumblr feels great to have. Did I mention it’s easier to use as well? Less customizable yes, but easier to use nevertheless

I wish you like my new tumblog.

Have something to say? I’d love to hear! Mail me here: jagtesh [-a.t-] gmail [-d.o.t-] com

I am..

Jagtesh Chadha — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:54:04 +0000

The river stream on a sunny morning
The rapid tide on a stormy night
The trickling rain on a stony mound
The wrath of a furious sand storm

The lightning that accompanies a thunder
Notwithstanding, prepared for any blunder
Marching on to infinity’s surrender
I remain Jagtesh, evolving forever

A monologue I’m working on

Sometimes…

Jagtesh Chadha — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:18:01 +0000

Sometimes, somedays..you wake up feeling anything is possible.

The world is bowing to you.

There’s a connection between you and the universe.

Whatever you do makes perfect sense.

There’s an unobtrusive plan of thought.

A clarity, usually unknown to you.

Today is one such day.

I haven’t learned to repeat this feat yet, but I’m gonna make the most of today.

“Wanted”

Jagtesh Chadha — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:59:40 +0000

My comment on IMDB for “Wanted“:

The movie started lame. There were plenty of holes in the plot. Kept getting better with the running time. Never caught up to deserve a 7+ rating though, IMHO.

I have a few recommendations For those you you who enjoyed the action sequences in the film.

“Shoot ‘em Up” (fast paced dark action comedy)

“Equilibrium” (good build up, sci-fi, Christian Bale)

Overall, it was a fair experience watching the movie. Watch it when you’re not in a very serious mood. Being critical while watching it will spoil your enjoyment of the very elusive and unique gun-shooting scenes.

My rating for Wanted: 6.5/10

PS: Morgan Freeman acted well. Otherwise, acting was sub-par. There’s a superflous narrative throughout the movie, as in “21″. Plenty of good action though.

Tumbling down the alley

Jagtesh Chadha — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:54:36 +0000

I’ve decided to try out Tumblr for a few days, here’s the link.
Tumbling down the alley

Back From Hiatus

Jagtesh Chadha — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:18:58 +0000

Oh yeah! The beautiful wordpress interface greets me again, after a long drawn hiatus.

It wasn’t so much by choice, as circumstances. I had college, exams, work and recreation (read movies) consuming my time. Add to that bad internet connectivity (Airtel Mobile Office giving me a hard time), I had little choice.

The blog has missed my entire 8th sem of engineering, along with some other exciting new developments on which I’ll be posting shortly. I’ve been quite active on twitter lately. Catch me there: http://twitter.com/jagtesh

Saving lives

Jagtesh Chadha — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:32:00 +0000

Being an engineer sucks. Reason being, we don’t interact a lot with people. We’re humans too. And what are humans? Social beings. So by being cut off on the social aspect, we cease to function like normal human beings. We’re more lonely and more mechanical. It’s not good..compared to being, say, a doctor..a surgeon? Not only do you meet a lot of people, but a lot of people in pain. And you help them. What a high that must be, I wonder..

Fleeting Memoir becomes more personalized!

Jagtesh Chadha — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:01:39 +0000

Yep yep, I admit I’ve been posting only technical articles on this blog.
Recently, as you would know, Munim, Sid and I created a blog named TechBol.
TechBol is now officially our technical blog and I shall cease to post anything remotely technical on Fleeting Memoir.

From this post on, it’ll be just my thoughts and views on the world, the internet (very general) and life.

Blogged with Flock

New Emerald theme: ElephantMarine-Blue

Jagtesh Chadha — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:30:08 +0000

Just finished tinkering with an existing Beryl-emerald theme called “Any” and posted it on GnomeLook. Here’s a screen-shot:

It’s running on an Ubuntu Gutsty Gibon (7.10) installation with all the goodies installed. There’s emerald running on Compiz-Fusion which provides the theming for window borders. Additionally, in this screen-shot, you can see the beautiful GTK controls, which have been provided by Aurora GTK engine. Here are instructions to install the Aurora GTK engine on Ubuntu. Lastly, the icon-set used over here is GnomeElephant-Marine Blue. Hope you like it!

Blogged with Flock

Tags: emerald-themeubuntu

Flock 1.0.3, the Social web-browser

Jagtesh Chadha — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:43:49 +0000

This post comes after a long time with a new theme and a few changes here and there. But most importantly, is my latest dilemma. I started off blogging here on various things, including technical stuff. Now when I realized it wouldn’t be appropriate to blog on everything in one place, my friend Munim, Sid and I together decided to start a technical blog, TechBol. Right now, there isn’t much on it, plus the stuff that will be posted there is still in the gray area.

I mean, there’s the ultra-technical stuff on Doctrine and ORM frameworks which normal people wouldn’t even know about. Then there’s lighter stuff which not only normal people, but even hard-core geeks would appreciate. Stuff like a detailed feature review of Flock, a Social web-browser. It’s based on the latest Firefox but with the added functionality of integrated Web 2.0 applications like Facebook and Twitter, which can be directly accessed anytime from a highly usable sidebar. I’m sure you get the picture. In case you don’t, see this:

The photo shows the “People-Sidebar” along with the “Media-bar” which shows a scrolling photo-feed from Flickr. Till I solve this dilemma, later…

Blogged with Flock

Tags: flock, browser