Perspectives

Trust me, this doesn’t seem as easy as it sounds. First day, and I already have a good mind to hell with my bicycle.

Firstly, Too much pollution around. I need to get a mask from somewhere. Second, You have no idea how long distances will take. Fortunately, it is not so much a factor of traffic, but your own being fit. Early in the morning, a trip to my office took around 20 mins. I was very happy because it takes minimum 10 minutes on my motorbike. But then, after the gym in the evening, the same distance took a full half hour.

I was going to go meet Lipi and wish her a safe trip for her sojourn to the US, but then I was only 3/4 the way to the airport in the estimated 40 mins. Lipi, being lipi has to go and check in three hours before her trip. And she asked me to ^&*$ it and go home. Damn!

I have further pain points now. I need to go collect a Jacket for my brother from some God Damned Tailor sitting on the eighth milestone from Silk Board junction. I also need to make another trip to GK Vale in CMH road because the Korean Embassy needs a weirdo 35mmX45mm passport photo of mine before they can issue me a Visa.

hmmm…Life without energy definitely sucks. The only good thing so far? zeropetrolweek.com and zeropetrol.in are both not taken. Yay! Do you think I should start a community around this now?

zero petrol for a week
Originally uploaded by shivku.

I ve had this on my mind for a long time. A Bicycle. Yesterday, I got my motorbike towed away for putting it in a NO-parking zone. It was a pain finding the bike back especially when I was crunched for time. And I parked there because of intolerable traffic in the first place.

I was also contemplating buying a swift mostly because many people around me started asking me if I was going to buy a car. Sometime during the last week I also read an article about how global oil production has already peaked and gone (sometime in 2006, they claim).

Anyways, the climax of all of this ended up with a bicycle. Now I have another mission to accomplish. Zero petrol until 4th november. Wish me all the best.

Yahoo India Maps has just released driving directions for destinations inside of India. Ofcourse, locations in NA and EU work as well. There are a lot of easter eggs hiding all over. Read about it at ycoolthing. Go find your favorite directions here.

Go Anywhere!

After huge successes a couple of times at the Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, California and Yahoo, London, Hackday comes over to Bangalore. Hack Days in Yahoo are always a single day love affair with your computer. So, this one happens between October 5th 2007 from about 5 PM to October 6th 5 PM at Taj Residency.

So, If you are one of them who has registered and have an invite, Kindle the hacker head in you and come and show us your genius. You wont be disappointed. Ofcourse, we have lots of stuff happening all through the day to keep you all awake. Food is going to be yum. So are the games and talks. And we also should have some serious music from a sexy band at the end of the day. You should spot me somewhere there with an orange shirt. Pull me over and I will be glad to help you. I will also give a short talk on hacking with, well ofcourse, maps. I may just have a surprise in store for you.

And for those who did not register or did not get an invite..well, hang on here for more updates. You can always hack and post it at Yahoo! Gallery. If it is brilliant enough, someone will take notice.

Someone also managed to make a huge banner (60ft x 20ft) and put it outside our office in inner ring road, Bangalore. Unfortunately, the Wind Gods didnt like it and tore it into pieces in less than 12 hours. I managed to get some bad pics of them here: