Online Again!!

I am now back online with new Web Link of mine. Since the time [allenpais.org] down, I really did not think I would come back to having a site of my own, unlike peter, I am too lazy to maintain it.

But now I am on google pages. Things are much easier to maintain for me, I hope to keep updating it with something atleast once in a while. Not sure though.

Well there are couple of things I wanted to blog about,

one : As we know Christmas just past us, there is this usual routine of getting a Christmas tree decorated and [Crib] made at home. This Christmas my schedule at work did not allow me to spend much time at home to get any of this kind of things done. I managed to get the tree up with decorations and lights, on the [crib] front, I just could not put up a good show. The point is not that, as we know _Christ_ was born in a manger, like its said,

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped
him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger;
because there was no room for them in the inn.
--Luke 2: 7

it always is funny, yet I appreciated the creativity and the efforts behind making a crib which had [buildings], [cars], [neat roads] etc... Well after all progress is important from year to year.

Two : this drove me crazy for a while. I stumbled on this in the process of searching for some _algorithm_. Lemme introduce to you, [MIT Hackman Count].

This is a code snippet to count the number of bits set in a unsigned integer

int bitcount(unsigned int n)                        
{
  /* works for 32-bit numbers only    */


  register unsigned int tmp;

  tmp = n - ((n >> 1) & 033333333333)
          - ((n >> 2) & 011111111111);
  return ((tmp + (tmp >> 3)) & 030707070707) % 63;
}


Back to working!!!