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Lack of Words or the abundance of it…

April 1, 2010 by Haas

My recent MIA status from the blogging world is due to an experiment of sorts. Exactly a month ago Lifehacker wrote about an interesting website entitled 750words.com. I gave the website a try and was immediately hooked to what was so simple and clearly perfect for someone like me. The concept of 750 Words is … Read more

Then there was space… A lot of it…

August 30, 2009 by Haas

Bought a 1 TB hard disk over the weekend :) Most of my media(Movies/Tv Show/Photos) are on Dvds and despite lots of warnings by friends I ignored the fact that DVDs have a life expectancy… Only when I picked up one of the old Dvds and struggled to get the data out I realized it simply made sense to get a huge hard disk.

Organizing Media…

July 3, 2009June 23, 2009 by Haas

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If you didnt know, I happen to have a huge media collection. Everybody has Giga bytes of music and maybe a few episodes of their favorite tv shows. I have that and about 80 unwatched movies on my comp at any given time :P

For me one of the biggest problem was to decide which movie to watch next. Normally what happens is that, I read a review of a movie or someone recommends one to me… I get my hands on the movie and forget about it. Months later I browse thru the names and wont recognize the movie… I am too lazy to lookup IMDB each time so that basically means I wont watch it for the next few months as well.

Tale of Two Computers…

July 3, 2009June 19, 2009 by Haas

Like I mentioned last week, both my desktop and Laptop had quit on me. I was without a system for almost the whole of last week, prompting me to revive my P3 system to atleast check my mails. But that is not the entire story, oddly it gets weirder and (maybe) funnier.

Since the story of each system is entertaining in itself I will start with my laptop:

Changing Themes…

December 18, 2008 by Haas

I was looking at my WordPress website and was trying to decide whether to make changes to its look. I couldn’t make up my mind if I should upgrade my current theme to a much cooler and better version or to change it entirely.

For people who didnt know, I keep my wordpress blog abreast with the same content as my LJ. The initial idea was to move to wordpress entirely but I scraped that idea after realizing the ease of reaching people thru LiveJournal. The WordPress seduction is mostly that you have everything in your control. From the basic themes, comments, webspace to plugins, galleries, podcasts ect. As a matter of fact most of the large images are uploaded to my wordpress site first and simply hotlinked to from LJ. Same goes for the podcasts I did a long time back.