Today was the day after Thanksgiving. Me and Rajiv went to BestBuy to look
for some deals. Man, it was crazy. The store was full of people and we
had to stand in the queue for about an hour. I bought a nice executive
chair for about $50.


Tomorrow is my birthday. My friends arranged a small party at my home at
midnight.
Here is a pic of my room-mate eager to kick my ass during the party.








And here's another one snapped during the party.







I don't seem to remember what I used to do for birthday back in India. I
think I was usually forced to go to a temple and perform some "Archanai"
(a special offering to the God) in my name.

This weekend is coming to an end soon. I got to get something done about
that course project, I guess. Oh well, there are TWO more days..

Oh boy! It was a long day. I didn't achieve anything significantly
significant, though. Well, I added the capability to display per page
access count in my website pages, and cleaned up the diary code a
bit so that it no longer displays links for days which don't have diary
entries. I also started collecting some data for the prefetching research
I have been doing (was doing, am doing, will do...).


Nate gave a dry run of
his
MICRO talk. Makes me wonder whether there are any non-trivial problems
in compilers that don't have exponential complexity. Oh well,
thats what keeps compiler researchers like me going.
I made Uppuma(a south indian dish) for dinner. Actually it turned out
more than just palatable. Should try my hand at other dishes, I am sick
of the monotony of my meals.

Ah! I finally got around to setting up this diary. I wrote some non-trivial
PHP code for the archiving part. If you click on a date, the diary
entry for that date is displayed, if there was one.
A diary entry is just the contents of a file named YYYY_MM_DD.
The script I am
using for my web page is quite good, it automatically converts the text
to HTML, so URLs and image links in the text file actually work. That's cool.
Hopefully I will have a diary entry every day. Lets see..