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Not bad, I'm posting the second day in a row like I promised myself yesterday - surprising myself! Things that happened Today: 1 surprising thing: I actually made good on my resolution to write this entry today. New Things I learnt: 1. one deviation principle for finite and infinite repeated prisoner dilemma games and their implication in reputation systems 2. Vulnerabilities in the $_FILES variable in php 3. Walrasian equilirbium and how we can use leverage competitive analysis in the design of agents. 4. Some surprising heuristics that can be useful in a game where strategic agents act as stabilizing factors. 5. Some dutch words :) 1 Adventurous thing I did today: Nothing ....darn! Something inspirational I read today: A good story starts with something simple, takes you somewhere you don't expect to go and leaves you with something you cannot forget.......profound :) I should go to bed.....its almost 2:00 am and I have class in the morning

Reading diaries you write years later is an illuminating experience. Not only does it take you down the memory lane - but seeing yourself from an outsider's perspective tells you a lot about yourself. It's also a learning experience because you realize that things that seemed so important then don't matter so much now, and things that seemed trivial then are the things you treasure so much today. So to gift myself those moments later in life I've decided to write something each night. Of course, I've bravely and foolishly resolved to do this earlier too each time failing but inspired by the adage that "If you fail once, try something different" i'm going to post each night with a specific goal. Even on the busy nights i'll write a short note on something new I learnt in the day, or something else that moved me. Tonight I have two things to jot down: 1. One I read a couple of fascinating articles on the injection method in Ruby and the different th...

I've been away from my blog for so long I almost started to miss it. The last couple of weeks have been pretty hectic. I've been working from 6:00 pm to 3:00 am almost every night in the past week. The night-outs were mainly to get our poster for the CHI 2008 student design competition submitted. Now, that we've submitted it - things should get just a little bit better - or maybe i'm speaking too soon! Back to work and maybe today i'll get to sleep by 1:00 am :)

You never really know, what's going to be special each day. So I got up in the morning realizing that it's high time I get a hair cut. I got up late and headed off on foot to look around San Jose and find a hair saloon. I asked a couple of people, but each of them seemed even more lost than I was. Tired, and famished, I started looking for a restaurant instead. Usually I end up eating not so good food, when I eat randomly like that - ok maybe that's not totally true but.....So anyways I get into this nice empty restaurant seeing falafel written outsid. Long story short- because this is one about a haircut- I had the most fabulous tandoori chicken "sandwich" i've had in the US yet :) - I'm going back for dinner there! So I stroll outside aimlessly after that lovely meal and to my surprise as I'm passing by I see a hair saloon. So I walk in and there are three guys waiting. I have some time to kill, so I sit down and start reading some mind numbing rubbi...

I'm writing in after a huge break - but with a new resolve to write in more regulary (deja vu ?)! Its been quite a while since I landed here at the University of Michigan and i've been meaning to blog about such a lot of things ! Lest you begin attributing it to my laziness - let me absolve myself of it now - this time its not laziness :) - well not totally ! Life here is really hectic. For the past one week each day i've been sleeping at 3:00 am in the morning and getting back to class at 9:00 ! The coursework is pretty hectic itself but on top of that i'm working twenty hours a week. Not that i'm complaining though! It's kind of fun to go through all this. Not exactly FUN but fun nevertheless. Oh! another thing I intend to do is start writing more 'academic' stuff on the blog. If nothing else it'll help me keep notes ! To end the post on a interesting note - i'll be at the i-conference 2006 at the end of this week! Go blue !