A look back at 2012
Last year, I’d written a 2011 year in review, thought that was a nice way to recap the year. Continuing the same trend, here’s how 2012 went by
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Welcomed the New Year in a coffee estate/homestay in Chikmagalur with Ashwin, Daaku & Prasad.
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Made a quick trip to Mumbai & Vasai with Ashwin and finally met some awesome twitter folks - b50, Anaggh, Nakul, Jayesh, slacker, Preshit, Failgunner and lots more. Malcolm welcomed us to Vasai with an epic awesomesauce lunch and a trip around Vasai. Aalaap gets drunk and results in skipping the Pune/Doolally visit that we had planned
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Ditched the iPhone again, went back to Android and bought a Samsung Galaxy S2
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Became a Guinness World Record holder, albeit with my email leaking out to whole lot of people.
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Diablo III finally gets released, after a 12-year wait. And I played it. A lot.
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Made a trip back to Chikmagalur to the coffee estate/homestay that we had gone to during New Years' - this time during the start of monsoon season. The weather was out of this world.
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Got a chance to be an interviewer which was pretty cool.
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Became part of Barcamp Bangalore organizing team - though I was more or less handling the word-of-mouth marketing part, it was hell loads of fun. Tweeted the hell out of it. Gave a small talk on automated data backup too 🙂
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Kunti, Bibhas, Rishabh come down to Bangalore. Had great fun meeting up and hanging out with them. Some pics from Kunti, Bibhas & Rishabh.
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As if to take revenge for me dumping the iPhone 3GS, its battery expanded and exploded wildly.
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Plan a trip to Pune for NH7 weekender. Ditch Weekender plans and meetup with slacker & Mikhail at Hyatt. Get serenaded. Twice.
Gadgets /Software bought/acquired/reviewed -
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Nokia N9(though I admit, I never got to write the review, such a shame. Great device, great OS - just DOA)
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Llama (review)
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System Mechanic 10.8 (review)
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Norton 360 (review)
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Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook (review)
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Alienware X51 (review)
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Logitech Optical Mouse G400 (purchased)
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Klipsch S4a (bought)
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Samsung Galaxy S2 (bought)
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Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB hard disk (bought)
So, that’s about it for 2012, I guess. Happy New Year all & here’s wishing the upcoming year is as awesome as it was last year.