Rohan Almeida’s Blog
Perl Developer. Linux Advocacy. Practicing Guitarist.

After much deliberation and budget crunching I finally made up my mind and bought a Line6 POD XT around a week back.

And you can read more about it here - POD XT
To be honest, I’ve not really dived into it yet, but I’m more than pleased with what this processor can offer. Recording guitar sounds […]

I thought I’d let it out here so I can come back to it in the future. Yeah, blogging is definitely therapeutic!
This is a list of stuff I don’t know yet and would like to know more about it soon.

I don’t know how the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) works
I don’t know how web browsers […]

I would like to think that I had some awesome planning behind this purchase. Fuck no, I’ve been as impulsive as Marshall would be good at their products. Things like these don’t deserve the agony you go through while waiting to get one into your bedroom.
So yes, I purchased a MG30DFX Marshall Amp quite randomly […]

I just got a new iPod Nano for my birthday and no surprises - it works perfectly well with my Fedora desktop. I use amarok to sync all my music. It works like a charm. I can play music on my iPod right through amarok itself when connected to my desktop.
To play videos you need […]

A beautiful video for the song “The day that never comes”. Check it out here at
metallica.com
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Yeah, yeh, this is largely spontaneous, but it has been churning and occupying the back of my mind for ages. So I’ll let it out.

Best Rock Song Ever?
Van Halen - Right Now

Best Guitar Solo in a rock song?
Michael Jackson - Beat It

I sincerely hope I get the time to prove this decision of […]

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I released Finance::Bank::HDFC version 0.14 recently. The latest release has the all important get_mini_statement() method implemented. Yes! Check your mini account statement (last 20 transactions) from the command line!

The Template::Extract module from CPAN was extremely helpful here. The account statements were available as JavaScript code in the source HTML file.

dattxn[l_count] = ‘10 Apr 2008′;
txndesc[l_count] […]