Kiran Jonnalagadda’s Blog

The authorised assistant of Mr Arun Kumar wants to teach you how to operate a computer properly.

This is a test post from the workshop.

The nice people at HCL Nokia Care on Infantry road gave me a replacement card, no questions asked. All I had to do was show them that my phone crashes when the card is inserted.

Awesome!

My phone’s memory card died this morning. The phone won’t take it anymore; the desktop complains of data corruption and inability to format it. It’s still under warranty, but I’m not at all looking forward to the circus that is the claims process. Sigh! What is it with me and cell phones? Fourth hit in as many years. Thankfully, the phone itself is spared this time.

Maybe if I put it in a different card reader and try again…


Revellers lead a marriage procession in Jayanagar 4th T Block. At least they’re having fun.

Ironically, no fruits on sale.

The store owner claims 5 and 10 GB Nanos are coming this month-end.

Some perplexity later, we noticed the projector mounted overhead.

Penguin attack!

My auto driver says he also drives BTS bus 500H. This is his son’s auto. He does two hours per day. He knows only the main roads, so I’m showing him the shortcuts.

Windows XP Embedded is like a make-your-own-Linux-distribution kit.

This week I made another foray into Microsoft-world and came away less assured of their ability to design usable interfaces.

I wanted to download the Windows XP Embedded developer kit. It came as one of those funky web downloaders—where you download a small program, which in turn downloads and installs the main components. This is where the hoopla began.

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