I went to watch "The Last Samurai" with Rajiv. It was decent, even with
Tom Cruise in it.


I made some interesting observations about the art of
cooking today. I think "longest job first" is a good scheduling policy.
For example, pressure cooker takes the longest, so I have to start it
before, say, keeping stuff in the microwave. Also "lazy evaluation" is
good as far as washing vessels is concerned, because there will be a lot
of overlap with other things like stuff getting cooked etc, which don't
require human intervention.


I whipped up a nifty script to download songs from MusicIndiaOnline. They
only stream the songs, so one can't save the songs for offline listening.
Rajiv showed me this Vsound ,
which is a cool mechanism to tee off data going to the sound card, also to a
file. Using this, my script can stream all songs in an album and convert
it to MP3. Of course, the script is good only until the admins of
MusicIndiaOnline decide to change their site structure.