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Being the overworked individual that I am, I've been neglecting my blog for quite some time. Apparently some of my readers have taken exception to this - or so Swapneel tells me - apparently quite a few people he knows read my blog. I'm not sure what kind of crazy people read my frequent outpourings of nonsense - but as a fellow lunatic, I have to keep them happy...

First bit of news - I officially declare myself as a contender for the title of the world's sleepiest person - courtesy of our college's bad habit of starting up at 8:00 AM, and my bad habit of coding late at night...It's pretty late as I write this, but I'm in a good mood, so I'll type away...

Good mood? Where did that come from, you ask? Two things, basically:

1. Google Code Jam - I made it through the qualification round! After competing in the next round on Tuesday morning, I'm going to get an official "Google Code Jam 2005, powered by TopCoder" t-shirt. Plus I have a 1600+ rating there, so I get to see my name in yellow...
2. The last match at TC - I moved up to div 1 one match ago, and competed as a blue coder in today's match a few hours ago. I was a little worried, since my rating was 1214 - right on the borderline. My fears of falling back to green today were unfounded though - even with my ridiculously slow solution of the 250 and a failed 500, I still went up 24 rating points to 1238. Hope this lasts. Practice, practice...

Also got hold of 4 recos from teachers for the MS apps - should manage 2 more on Tuesday. After that I can pick and choose, or whatever...

This weekend I intend to mostly do TC practice and relax - it's been a pretty tiring week. Sleep is obviously very high on my list of priorities...next is practicing for the GCJ - I know I don't have much of a chance of being in the lucky 250 who get selected for the next round - but I'm certainly gonna give it one hell of a shot...

Maybe I'll get around to posting on Code Monkeys. Haven't thought of a topic yet, but since I'm the (unofficial) algorithms guy, I might as well talk about algorithms, and maybe drag in Python too.

Realised one important thing over the last few days, and that is that there are very few things in life that compare to the sheer pleasure of writing code. Purely subjective viewpoint, of course...

Yawn...time to sleep now. Readers, leave comments some time - it's fun to know who reads your stuff...