YuviSense: Codin Kid

Found this on the spam that Akismet caught:

Hillary
http://lapsat.info/shower-curtain-rods | main@yandex.com | 69.50.64.135

Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children ugand

Funny, ain’t it?
From StatBot: Analysing Scoble’s Link Blog, 2008/02/01 at 9:24 PM

Having a surgery to remove a small muscular growth under my eye tomorrow morning. Wish me luck

The Flickr API is fulla bugs:

Note the dateupload element.

Flickr’s search API is not returning all results, and I’ve been getting empty photo tags on more than one ocassion. What gives?

You get a nice feeling when Rory writes about you.

You get a waaay nicer feeling when Rory writes to you.

I got that waaay nice feeling a few minutes ago. I finally got the excuse I had always wanted, and changed my blog theme to something that is not black. Come, have a look

Sexy Karthick, by YuviPanda.

This guy, is from a photogenic family.

Ghosts on Bikes, by YuviPanda.

Just a couple of bikes. I can still call this “Modern Art”

Unity is strength, by YuviPanda.

Don’t really think I’m good at naming stuff

Tamils have an awesome sense of humor

LSM: I feel Obama needs better posters. American graphic designers seem to lack the ability to deliver a punch.

PM: What do you have in mind?

LSM: This.

(source)

For those who don’t get it -> This is how an average Indian political poster looks like, with the BA and MA degrees though the politician pictured usually never passed out of primary school. And the top three pics are popular figures who support this politician

Together!, by YuviPanda.

All I know is that this was taken outside the Chemistry Lab. No idea who the participants were, but I do know “what” this was about

I have this hate-hate relationship with C# - I can’t go out and proclaim that I hate C#, ‘coz people mistake me for a Linux Zealot then. So, I usually list C# when people ask me what languages I know, but "never" use it out of choice. I always prefer VB, and with VB9, it’s got some kickass XML features that eat C#’s lunch, Dinner, and next day’s breakfast as well

One thing that does drive me crazy is people accusing VB of being "verbose", while C# is "clean". Here’s some code I’m writing:

            PID = dataReader["PID"].ToString() ;
            UID = dataReader["UID"].ToString() ;
            Title = dataReader["TITLE"].ToString() ;
            Description = dataReader["DESCRIPTION"].ToString() ;

            Views = int.Parse(dataReader["VIEWS"].ToString()) ;
            Favs = int.Parse(dataReader["FAVS"].ToString());
            Notes = int.Parse(dataReader["NOTES"].ToString());
            Comments = int.Parse(dataReader["COMMENTS"].ToString());

            SmallURL = dataReader["SMALLURL"].ToString() ;
            MediumURL = dataReader["MEDIUMURL"].ToString() ;
            LargeURL = dataReader["LARGEURL"].ToString() ;
            PhotoURL = dataReader["PHOTOURL"].ToString() ;

            TakenOn = new DateTime(int.Parse(dataReader["TAKENON"].ToString()));
            PostedOn = new DateTime(int.Parse(dataReader["POSTEDON"].ToString()));
            MadeExploreOn = new DateTime(int.Parse(dataReader["MADEEXPLOREON"].ToString()));

            CanDownload = bool.Parse(CanDownload.ToString());

This is C# 2.0, ‘coz I’m writing this to run on Mono, and I don’t want to depend on unsupported features, and their VB compiler ain’t exactly world class right now. If this mess is called "clean", then thank-you-very-much-I’ll-have-my-verbose-VB9-and-eat-your-lunch

Maybe some people prefer this. Maybe I’m doing something wrong here. I still prefer the VB (and Ruby (and Python)) approach of writing for people rather than for computers.

I’m Afraid, by YuviPanda.

This one was actually invited to a group! Yaaay!!!!

I’m getting faster in posting photos to flickr. Have a look: http://flickr.com/photos/yuvi

I couldn’t but laugh at this: