Archives from my old livejournal
I blogged from 2013 to 2017, on livejournal, as user prashanthchengi. I moved to pchengi.com in August of 2017, and migrated my posts using a tool called ljcharm. I wanted to convert these retrieved posts to markdown, for github-pages/jekyll, and also wanted to clean up several unnecessary tags, while retaining original timestamps, so wrote a small utility which is available here.
April 11 2017: Riding in Denmark, and a ride from Copenhagen to Linköping
April 8 2017: Analyzing stops on a bike ride
January 17 2017: Evening bike ride in Paris
January 15 2017: Renting and using a Velib bike in Paris
January 10 2017: When a simple BB replacement became messy...
October 21 2016: Bliss in the Hills 1200 brevet
July 23 2016: The 400 brevet that changed everything
July 21 2016: The 600 experience
June 13 2016: Halvvättern 2016
May 26 2016: Playing Sherlock to identify a bike creak
May 23 2016: Happy birthday, Prem
May 18 2016: Bicycle headset maintenance
May 10 2016: The absolute insanity that is the draft of The Geospatial Information RegulationBill 2016 in India
April 24 2016: Post ride bike inspection and cleaning
April 19 2016: The brevet that almost wasnt
April 17 2016: Biking epiphanies during a brevet ride
March 26 2016: Learning to unicycle update 1
March 9 2016: Observations from conducting workshops/code-sprints
February 22 2016: CORDEX workshop in Korea
February 10 2016: Groupsets, brevets and wheelbuilding
February 9 2016: Learning to unicycle
January 31 2016: The quest to develop and uphold scientific temper (and fight woo)
January 30 2016: Say hello to the unicycle
January 30 2016: Sweet bikes of mine
January 10 2016: Accents and ear for accents
January 3 2016: Fixing a puncture, for absolute newbies
November 22 2015: Lugging my bike around with the Pika Packworks EEP bike bag
October 6 2015: Belated birthday wishes, Peeyush
July 14 2015: Bike pump with screw-on connector
May 23 2015: Happy birthday Prem
April 19 2015: CK Hymer Clockwise 200 BRM
April 19 2015: Anchetty 200 BRM
March 29 2015: First 100k ride in Sweden in 2015
February 13 2015: A week in India
February 1 2015: Parasangada Gendethimma (1978) Movie review
January 29 2015: River Stångån by night
January 25 2015: Ride to the frozen Lake Roxen
January 15 2015: Situation awareness and riding in icy conditions
January 10 2015: Shooting the Ursa Major
January 6 2015: Software patents and digital rights extent of influence
January 6 2015: Some serendipitous shots
January 6 2015: Mera Naam Joker (1970)
December 31 2014: Some night shots of Linköping
December 29 2014: New gadget purchase Topeak SmartGuage D2 digital pressure valve
December 29 2014: Ride to Shadow Cliffs Regional Park
December 28 2014: Bike ride/trek to Brushy Peak
December 15 2014: Ride to Lake Del Valle (part deux)
December 15 2014: Ride to Lake Del Valle (part I)
December 9 2014: Avoiding common pitfalls while using a basic bicycle GPS.
December 5 2014: Night photography and a few epiphanies
November 29 2014: Sweet cameras of mine
November 21 2014: When Murphy mails you one of his refund checks...
October 27 2014: Learning a new language
October 13 2014: Zehrila Insaan (1974)
October 10 2014: Happy birthday to me
October 5 2014: Happy Birthday, Peeyush
September 21 2014: First experience of mountain biking
September 14 2014: Counting the teeth
September 12 2014: Of passwords and idiots
September 7 2014: Car Rally in Linköping
August 11 2014: Tips on buying a first bike
August 4 2014: New bike
August 3 2014: It often pays to take the road not taken
July 31 2014: Bicycles with hub gears
July 26 2014: Bicycle maintenance Inspecting cables for wear
July 22 2014: Use the right tool; when you cant, improvise )
July 21 2014: The right tool for the right job
July 19 2014: Bicycle Maintenance Bottom bracket replacement
July 10 2014: A beginners guide to bicycle gears
June 29 2014: Rediscovering the joy of bicycling.
June 12 2014: Tracking my progress in Vatternrundan 2014
March 16 2014: Start of another F1 Season 2014
February 9 2014: Be nice to newcomers
February 4 2014: openlibrary.org a wonderful resource for book lovers
January 18 2014: Birds used in BBCs Sherlock
December 29 2013: Movie Review Johnny Gaddaar (2007)
November 24 2013: Formula One The year that was 2013
November 22 2013: Spotting and fixing problems
November 2 2013: Insincere obituaries
October 27 2013: Godmen of India Part II
October 26 2013: Godmen, idiots, and buried treasures.
October 5 2013: Happy Birthday, Peeyush
October 4 2013: Typesetting in Kannada
October 1 2013: Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE)
July 31 2013: Whats(oap) doc?
July 26 2013: From the college days A theft I foiled
July 12 2013: The Friday barbecue
July 11 2013: Movie review Flight
June 22 2013: Midsummer
June 22 2013: Vätternrundan
June 6 2013: Dissection of a flame-war
June 4 2013: Rest in Peace, Atul.
June 3 2013: Das Boot
June 2 2013: Spring
June 2 2013: Free books for book lovers.
June 2 2013: Paris
May 23 2013: Fruits of labor
May 1 2013: Valborg Spring Festival
May 1 2013: Some much needed colors
April 30 2013: The smallest of ideas
April 21 2013: Formula One Hurtling towards irrelevance?
March 24 2013: Movies over the weekend
March 23 2013: Distortion of truth in advertisements
March 20 2013: Retrospection mode First week in Sweden
March 12 2013: Fighting apathy by banks in India
February 26 2013: Bicycling and fitness
February 10 2013: Unpacking
February 10 2013: Exposure to cold
February 4 2013: Education versus Passion
February 3 2013: Hare raising tale
January 21 2013: Securing my home PC
January 15 2013: The horror that is internet banking with Bank of India
January 6 2013: Sweden
December 23 2012: New Phone Micromax A110 )
November 16 2012: Winds of Change
November 12 2012: The whole is greater than the part...
October 20 2012: Project Smart Cow
October 20 2012: High-handed ways of Mumbai vehicle towing gangs
October 20 2012: Memories of NCST
September 17 2012: Happy Birthday, Donna
September 12 2012: Devanagari in LaTeX
September 12 2012: Teachers day.
September 5 2012: On blogging
August 24 2012: Why I dont care much for happy endings (in movies)
August 19 2012: LaTeX on Windows MikTex
July 23 2012: Backing up your apps (and restoring them) on your rooted Android phone
July 22 2012: Fun with LaTeX
July 1 2012: Book Review Tripwire by Lee Child
June 30 2012: Tires and Formula One How Pirelli is killing the sport as we know it
June 30 2012: Tires and Formula One Intro
June 27 2012: Picture postcards from Russia
June 27 2012: One Shot by Lee Child
June 23 2012: Outbreak by Robin Cook
May 24 2012: An encounter with a frisky character
May 11 2012: Rooting the HTC Salsa
April 5 2012: How technology changes the experience called life
March 8 2012: Bravery and innovation
March 7 2012: Ebooks, piracy and more
February 13 2012: The law bats for one gender alone, in India
February 10 2012: The dreaded day is around the corner
February 6 2012: On criticism and life.
February 3 2012: Courage and Discretion
February 1 2012: Swype woes
December 24 2011: When the Sandman comes calling
December 23 2011: The Hundred Percent myth
December 23 2011: A lovely start to the day
December 9 2011: Helmets save lives
November 18 2011: Another lovely Kannada song.
October 30 2011: Aadisi nodu beelisi nodu A beautiful Kannada song and its translation
October 23 2011: Happy birthday, Deebah
October 19 2011: RIP, Dan Wheldon
October 16 2011: Staring at the sky
October 15 2011: Swype
October 10 2011: Where are we headed ?
October 5 2011: Happy birthday Peeyush
October 5 2011: Old wine in a lovely new bottle
October 2 2011: The language, as we know it
September 30 2011: Freaky escape
September 25 2011: lj apps for Android
September 23 2011: Star gazing
September 18 2011: New phone
April 3 2011: Typing fast
March 27 2011: F1 First race of the 2011 season
March 21 2011: The IT Mess and the Sherlock Holmes Parallel
March 21 2011: Properties of Pain
March 8 2011: Ah.. A Perfect Linux PC
March 1 2011: The mind A dangerous neighborhood ?
February 26 2011: Laughter and Tears
February 14 2011: Of Programming puzzles and odes to love
February 7 2011: Toys and games
January 22 2011: Hearbreak diaries - Not
January 14 2011: The Social Networking Dilemma
January 4 2011: A proposal that went nowhere and fast
November 30 2010: Email abusers
November 18 2010: Centipedes and programming A survey
November 16 2010: A LOMAC story
November 15 2010: Curtains on the 2010 Formula One season
November 8 2010: Diwali snaps
November 1 2010: Favorite movie quotes
October 27 2010: An old joke, remixed
October 25 2010: When the cure is worse than the disease...
October 20 2010: Where art thou, oh beauteous one, you who haunt my mind
October 6 2010: Social Networking Sites - The risks and the dilemma
September 21 2010: Another poem from the past
September 11 2010: Lessons from the Deccan Odyssey
September 7 2010: Simply Fly
March 28 2010: Michaels comeback and the story so far
March 23 2010: One hundred, not out.
March 20 2010: Prose/poem from the past
February 22 2010: Avatar
February 12 2010: The buzz around Google Buzz
January 1 2010: Another new year
December 30 2009: Thespian Vishnuvardhan passes away
November 23 2009: My blog gets a new name
October 27 2009: Realizations and epiphanies
October 8 2009: Language gaffes and class clashes
October 5 2009: Happy birthday to me
September 10 2009: Blogging like Peeyush, for a change
September 6 2009: In sickness and in health?
August 13 2009: Assorted ramblings
July 19 2009: A bride for Mr. Chengi
March 30 2009: First F1 race of the season Brawn GP records 1-2 finish in the Australian GP
March 25 2009: We are united in our defeatist attitude
March 16 2009: Quote Unquote A movie meme
March 16 2009: Fame and acceptance
March 10 2009: The Prophet, on Love
March 2 2009: My crusade against offensive ads on lj
February 16 2009: Inappropriate advertising on LJ - an appeal to my fellow ljers
February 14 2009: Bollywood comes of age - Dev D reviewed
February 6 2009: My dream too has come true
January 28 2009: Prashs obituary
January 17 2009: Watched four movies in the past five days
January 7 2009: What men go through, while dating
December 29 2008: Test post. Please ignore.
December 8 2008: Apathy, insensitivity and arrogance Brought to you by Indians
October 12 2008: F1 update Japanese GP, 2008
October 7 2008: Happy Birthday to me
September 15 2008: F1 Surprises at Monza - Vettel Makes History
September 13 2008: F1 update Massa qualifies 6 at Monza
September 8 2008: F1 Update Belgian GP 2008
June 23 2008: F1 update French GP, 2008 - Magny Cours
June 9 2008: Canadian GP, 2008
June 3 2008: New year resolution
June 1 2008: Formula One wars
June 1 2008: FOSS reigns supreme at NPSF-SANG
December 31 2007: New Year Greetings to my favorite people
December 28 2007: Meme time
December 24 2007: Merry Christmas
December 19 2007: Through with the hometown hangover
December 5 2007: Im back (In my hometown as well as on lj)
November 21 2007: Going on a holiday from LJ
November 21 2007: Lunchtime conversations and a look at humor in our movies
November 19 2007: Too cold for comfort
November 7 2007: Are you thinking too much?
November 6 2007: The depths to which the media can stoop
October 28 2007: A poem for a very special friend
October 17 2007: Purpose
October 9 2007: Another year older
October 9 2007: Catching up with thoughts
October 1 2007: T20 Matches and their fallout
September 27 2007: More on the EU-INDIA-GRID
September 19 2007: EUINDIA GRID Part II
September 19 2007: Value of Originality - A Ramdom study of films and their fates
August 31 2007: The week that was (so far)
August 29 2007: Formula 1 What it really is all about
August 27 2007: Happy Onam, Upakarma and whatever else it may be today
August 25 2007: My planes first flight An amazing experience
August 23 2007: Tech-talk into everyday usage Non-blocking Goodnight
August 20 2007: Update about work
August 18 2007: A warm welcome to Rajesh Agroya aka The Numero Uno NCSTian, into world of LJ
August 17 2007: When the body misbehaves, disobeys...
August 15 2007: Independence day
August 15 2007: Nostalgia What it really means
August 8 2007: Everyday has something new to teach
August 6 2007: First day at workNPSF-SANG, Pune
August 3 2007: My first job A supermarket store-boy
August 2 2007: Goodbye NCST In retrospection mode.
June 28 2007: Yippee ya yaa yippeeeee Yaa yaa yippeeeee, yaaa yaaaa yippy yipppy yaaaaaaaaaaaaah
June 7 2007: Update
March 28 2007: Mixed feelings
March 19 2007: The Bitter-Sweet Picnic
March 6 2007: The Numero Uno NCSTian
February 7 2007: Familiarity breeds contempt -True or false?
February 5 2007: Confusing days at NCST. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? I dont see it yet.
January 26 2007: Republic Day Blues
January 23 2007: The MGPT Same tragic story all over again
January 10 2007: The Obsessive-Compulsive do-gooders
January 9 2007: Success begets success
January 8 2007: Tough Going
January 4 2007: The Order-Chaos Continuum- A book lovers perspective
January 3 2007: Navigating across the confusing world of LJ - Help required
January 2 2007: Hello world
