Misc

Cool Wii Hack by Jonny Lee

Bigyan Rajbhandari — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:34:16 GMT

One of my friends got me into watching ted.com videos, now I can't stop watching it. I just bumped into this WII remote hack video and I can't say how much amused/amazed I am by it.

Signed up to work for the software empire

Bigyan Rajbhandari — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:02:58 GMT

That’s right, I recently took a job offer from Microsoft as a Software Engineer and will be starting there in July. After few months of grueling interview process and tough decision on my part, I decided that it was an opportunity that I couldn’t miss.

So why Microsoft? Well, there are few things. First ‘aspiration’, I have always wanted to work for the software giant, the fact that you have opportunity to impact millions of people by your work is impassable. Second, working with smarter people and chance to learn new things every day is appealing. And rest like benefits, location etc.. are definitely added bonus.

Why NOT Microsoft? Looking from outside in, I have had doubts if I should take the opportunity. Particularly, the way big corporation works and the “red tape” around the processes. And of course there is a big difference between aspiration and reality. Also, I have heard horror stories of people who came out of there. Someone even asked me if “I sold my soul to the evil empire”. And finally, the rainy weather and expensive real estate in Seattle. But in long term, these were trivial compared to the opportunity. And I should not even complain about the rain compared to snowy winters and humid summers here in Des Moines. And being near to Vancouver is a big bonus for my wife and our family.

My job? It’s still .Net development. I’ll be working for Relationship Experience Division at Issaquah location near Seattle. Currently, I only know the high levels of the projects I might be working on; I guess I’ll find out more once I actually start there. Will I still be blogging? Definitely! I have heard MS is encouraging its employees to blog more. Though I probably won’t be able to blog everything, I’ll try to keep it as up to date as possible.

When’s the big move? It’s probably going to be July 1st and its coming up pretty fast. Though it’s nice that they will be taking care of everything for the move, I still need to kind of plan for it on my side. And moving from one place to another is definitely not easy. Still need to tie all loose ends at my current work, move and settle in Seattle area in 1 week, enjoy a vacation the following week and then start the grind on Monday!

Move to subtext

Bigyan Rajbhandari — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:59:43 GMT

After fiddling with upgrade of CommunityServer 2.x for a while, I finally took a plunge to convert to SubText. Its interface and simplicity is much more usable, and the metablog api to publish through Word 2007 is awesome. Hope to put out much more post in near future. I still need to port over the comments from the old site, which I'll be doing in next couple days. If anyone is interested in the SQL to import posts let me know. I already have one, it's raw, but should work for you.

Extend background image on your dual monitor

Bigyan Rajbhandari — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:43:00 GMT

Have you ever wondered if you can extend your background image to dual or three monitors you have? Well you can do it very easily. Follow the steps below:

- Modify the image you have with photo editing tool, so that the width is long enough to span two monitors and height is the height of your screen.

- Set that as background image

- Open up Display properties, go to Desktop and set the position of the image to ‘Tile’

This will give a stretched background across two/three monitors you have. If you don’t like to go through the hassle try out tools like UltraMon which gives you additional functionalities to work on dual monitors.