Nanda road is my favourite one - one of the few roads where its a pleasure to walk or drive. Good to know that there's an effort to do something about it here.

Save Nanda Road ( http://savenandaroad.com )
I love this stretch and I am glad there are folks who feel the same and are doing some thing about it.

a friend pointed this out.
Searching for Firefox bicycles pulls BumsOnTheSaddle as the first result. Above Firefox bikes, the company that actually makes them :)
Like I mentioned. Small pleasures. :)

Cycling lane on Cubbon road
Came across a cycling lane on Cubbon Road in Bangalore. pretty neat

Samim and Vibhor get quite a welcome :) I think they deserve it !
More pictures

Samim and Vibhor are back from their month long running (Bangalore to Mumbai) and cycling (Mumbai to Bangalore) endeavor.
They will be at Mekhri circle at 9:45 am and at the G.P.O at 10am.
nikhile and I are planning to join them on their last leg along with other cyclists, to cheer them on.
Wanna join us ? Just dust that cycle sitting in the corner and come along :)
Using the RubyPlugin with IntelliJ can cause serious hair loss at times when IntelliJ freezes up as it goes on a tangent doing Garbage collection and god knows what else.
We made some small changes to the jvm parameters which seem to help enormously.
now my idea.vmoptions file looks like this (tweaked some numbers and added the last two lines. The idea.vmoptions file sits in the bin folder on linux).
Basically swapped in a different Garbage collector (the concurrent low pause collector) and also used the server mode for the JVM.
-Xms300m
-Xmx512m
-XX:MaxPermSize=99m
-ea
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-server
Thanks Chris.

TreesForFree
The power of blogging and the internet.
We recently got to know about this group called TreesForFree who are planting trees in and around Bangalore. Our group, TheGreenForce, wanted to do pretty much the same. Looks like its time to just join up forces instead of fragmenting and starting something new.