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Homeopathy

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This post might be offending to homeopathy aficionados. I don’t care. Got this mail in the evening: Dear All, The Campus Life council has arranged for the availability of the Homeopathic Medicine which helps to develop immunity against all kinds of Flu including the Swine Flu. For this purpose, we have appointed representatives in the Hostels who will be distributing the medicine. Does homeopathy work? Various articles I found over the net claim it doesn’t. Read More...

Robot form submission – Part 2

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Ankit wrote a nice post about using Java to fill up a form, which is a FCFS allocation (can’t they just *provide* a quantity of good courses?). However, filling up the form can be simply done by a Firefox extension, Autofill forms; but what I would really like to do is be sleeping while the course registration goes on. 😀 Ingredients: Firefox, bash, curl, a bit of common-sense First of all, install two Firefox extensions – Web Developer and Firebug. Read More...

[Tag] F.A.Q.

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Tagged by Karan. Apparently he has nothing better to do than surf the web all day. 😛 When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought? I need to replace this broken one. How much cash do you have in your wallet right now? Rs. 700. What’s a word that rhymes with DOOR? chor Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone? Read More...

Authorization required

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What word comes to your mind when you open a session like this? FUCK! PS0: Didn’t know the music was also being recorded. But I suppose adds a nice touch. 😀 PS1: If anyone has an idea how to reset my session, it would be appreciated.

Research

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A chat transcript with an Anonymous Researcher (who insisted on being so), henceforth referred to as AR. 1:56 AM AR: there ?? we have a small problem me: Yeah Hmm? AR: there is a series called “The Unit” uske seasons 2,3 and 4 hain unfortunately season 1 nahin hai me: ye problem hai? 😛 AR: it’s a pretty good series… it’s a serious problem….. for research students you have no idea how hard it is to do research without good series to watch Read More...

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