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Seems every place at IIT Kharagpur started with Technology. We stayed at Technology Guestroom: which was awesome - the food was great, the room was superb, and overall we really enjoyed this place. 

Morning, I had to deliver a bug fix which I was unable to do in the night due to Internet. Finally my Airtel Data card worked and I delivered the big fix. We did almost nothing thereafter.. stayed in room. Anandi was running in the corridor; knocking the door of Anirban/Mridu's room. I watched Rambo 3 while shaving :)

The food at the guest house was exceptional considering that even Anandi liked it. It was non-spicy yet tasty: which is a rare  in Indian hotels. Most of Indian hotels would make non-spicy taste-less food to cater to foreign travelers. Even at costly resorts at Manesar (we visited last year), we experienced that the food was mostly oriented towards foreign travelers. But here at Technology Guest room, the food was perfect!

At lunch we had Bengali food and I loved it! After lunch, while Anandi was sleeping, we visited the Technology Market nearby and bought some toys for Anandi. We visited the market again in the evening with Anandi.

In the evening we attended the marriage; which was unlike most north Indian marriages. No band or loud music; very sofisticated food. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, here is the summary of day in photos:

It was Republic day; so we had planned to go early to Airport expecting heavy security in Delhi. We woke up at 4:30 and went towards Airport at 6:10. Reached airport around 7:10. We were traveling in the same flight as Anirban & family. Got our stuff checked in and then waited for Anirban & Mridu. Anandi bought a chips packet at 5 X normal rate. Anirban & Mridu and Anirban's Parents came at around 8:00. Anandi got friendly with Dadi (Grandmother; Anirban's Mother) . After security check-in when we were finally going to board the Airplane; Anandi almost screamed: Yeee! we are going in the Airplane.

Till the plane was at the Airport; Anandi kept saying: why the Airplane not fly; Airplane please fly; Papa, ask Airplane to fly :) 

Flight experience was ok; I did some work (worked on a Rails project), and read a book on my Kindle. Anandi was shouting, screaming, opening the tray and doing weird things! Shikha was mostly trying to sleep. We ate sandwiches.

We reached Kolkata  at around 11:30; took taxi for New Market. The taxi driver told us that market would be closed as it is Republic Day; so we went straight to have lunch at Park Street.

After lunch, we wanted to take a small steamer to Howrah; but again everything is closed it seems for Republic day. We took taxi to Howrah station. We waited for Steel Express at Howrah discussing about books, finding milk for Anandi and discussing work etc.

Steel Express Chair car was really good with better leg space and overall much better experience than the flight of similar duration in the morning. People were friendly, food was good (see I am a foodie!). There was slight delay, but we mostly reached on time at the Kharagpur station. The platform there is the longest platform in the world.

We will be going to Kolkata, West Bengal tomorrow to attend marriage of Mridu's brother (on 27th). We will then travel to Puri (Odisha) and will be stay there till 1st. There are many firsts: I will be going toward east first time; Shikha & Anandi will travel through flight for the first time; and on our way back; we will travel by Rajdhani (1st AC) first time :)  This will also be our longest tour.

This Saturday, we (me & Shikha) made Pizzas at home. The first one got totally burnt, but the next five were totally awesome! After the first one my father said lets call Domino's and ask them to take all the material and make Pizzas for us!

Re-installed Fedora 16 today and installing Rails using rvm. I am so used to running rvm notes and copying & pasting required package names that, I got confused when I did not find the info there. After few tries, I finally read the rvm notes and it mentions to run "rvm requirements"!

Just realized this today that in Rails 3.1 new and build work alike ! Here is an example:

Assuming we have two models: Client & Document and Client has many documents

In Rails 3:

new	build
client = Client.last client.documents.new client.documents => []	client = Client.last client.documents.build client.documents => [#<Document id: nil, client_id: 1>]

In Rails 3.1

new	build
client = Client.last client.documents.new client.documents => [#<Document id: nil, client_id: 1>]	client = Client.last client.documents.build client.documents => [#<Document id: nil, client_id: 1>]

Richard Dawkins will be in India to speak at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival. I just checked the schedule and he will be speaking on 23 Jan and 24 Jan.

I started using Linux in 1999 and since then had an ambition to contribute to open source. I got many chances then, but let go of them. I joined local Linux User Group and started collaborating on mailing list - helping people and most of times getting help from there. At that time, I got in touch with a Linux Documentation Project who needed volunteers to write/update documentation about various aspects/tools of Linux. But around that time I got busy with my job and could not help much.

I am back to blogging.... I used to have a WordPress blog few years back which I made offline due to spam issues. But then never got time to get it back online. Now I am back with a hand coded (so to say) blog. 

© Chandresh Pant