Early morning Bangalore and Accident view

Following is some early morning morning pics of MG Road end in Bangalore







Vijaya bank HQ



This is a fatal accident happend around 6am in morning near Christian cemetry on Hosur road, bus belong to MICO which shuttle dozens of buses for there employs round the clock

Death by Tsunami in Asia rising faster and faster

Death by Tsunami in Asia rising faster and faster, even far more faster than BSE index.
Its being 4 days past this incident, And I wonder, every day death toll is getting double and double, now the latest Indiatimes is saying that it has reached 68,000., It leaves no doubt in my mind that tomorrow some news agency for surely will say it around 100, 000. Biggest figure I can remember I saw, I still remember when I heard this news first time on Sunday 26 Dec, 2004 firstly it was news that there is small earth quake in South India mostly conc. around Chennai and than slowly news came that earth quake was in Indonesia of size 8.9(When I heard it first, I was 100% sure I heard it wrong, as I never heard more than 7 in my life) and it was TSunami and these are creating death waves, but no one at that moment though that waves will take so much of lives, and it is all clear now, whole Asia is under deep trouble, as much as its Forex is on downstream, worse being already war affected Srilanka.
CNN showed a very nice computerized video about how it actually happend, they showed a earth and than showed like a piece of drop is being putted near Indonesia and which it created waves all around the Asia region, it looked so much possible and so small thing in that video while in reality those waves was big power, but again yes it was very small thing for galaxy or earth and only small change, which hardly effect this galaxy.
My deep condolence to all those affected family and god gives piece to all those lost souls. And many thanks to my parents which came on trip to Bangalore and thus I cancelled my christmas trip to Pondicherry(Another hardly hit place).
And yes here is the one stop News and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts for Bangaloreans.

Solaris 10 is interoperable

Somebody said, a image says equal to thousand words, so I leave this image to say the rest...
To get more information on solaris 10, visit here

Bangalore from 7th floor

Here is the pics from flat at 7th floor in one part of Bangalore.
Skyscrappers are really not common so here comes a nice view










And here are couple of pics of a mall in Bangalore working on its maximum capacity I guess on a Sunday eve.

New Order True Faith

I feel so extraordinary
Something got a hold on me
I get this feeling I’m in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
I don’t care ’cause I’m not there
And I don’t care if I’m here tomorrow
Again and again I’ve taken too much
Of the things that cost you too much
I used to think that the day would never come
I’d see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...

When I was a very small boy,
Very small boys talked to me
Now that we’ve grown up together
They’re afraid of what they see
That’s the price that we all pay
Our valued destiny comes to nothing
I can’t tell you where we’re going
I guess there was just no way of knowing
I used to think that the day would never come
I’d see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...

I feel so extraordinary
Something’s got a hold on me
I get this feeling I’m in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
The chances are we’ve gone too far
You took my time and you took my money
Now I fear you’ve left me standing
In a world that’s so demanding
I used to think that the day would never come
I’d see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...

Office & around

Here is the night view of the hockey stadium with a match ON, this is just behind my office


Adjacent to the above is this ground where we play cricket sometimes in evening


Here is how the place where I work look from ground floor


And here is how it looks from 5th floor(total of 8 floors)

Bug in FileExplorer of GoSymbian

Okay couldn't resist publishing this bug from FileExplorer software from GoSymbian
Have a look at my following screenshot of 3650

While on my fone, I have only one side contacts and other camera
Now I myself wonder, how this is possible...

Any gmail takers ?

From over 2 months I have 2 gmail invitations with me
Any takers of it? FIFO Algo will be used.

Japanese are crazy

Last nite after coming back around 2am from a movie(HulChul, really hilarious, I liked) I decided to switch on the TV and there was going this discovery show Xtreme engineering and there they was showing about construction about a building in Tokyo named "Sky City" which they guys are planning to make whooping double the size of current worlds tallest Taipei 101(Chinese Taipei ? ;) )
It is really unbelievable to have such a high concrete structure and that also in place where you get frequent earth quake, but those guys are prepared for all, And they represented no. of mind blowing figures and most exactly which I remember is, that this building construction will require still of worth 1.5Billion USD that is literally crazy
If you want more figures go surf this
http://media.dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/skycity/interactive/interactive.html
And if this don't help, google it out more
Anways, Now I know why Laxmi Mittal(Steel Tycoon) is so rich.

Friday dec 10 shots

On friday dec 10 I got free really early around 4.30pm and at 5 was at home, so though of decided to go for a jog and lazily reached for jog only at 5.45, At that time Sun was just about to go down so I thought to run near water body and take this shot, but when I reach there, Mr quicky was already down


And while on the way back I see this tree, completely piled up with flowers, it was looking astonishing in the dim light.


Than at midnite me and one of my friend decided to go watch a movie in a near by multiplex(PVR), which they claim is India's biggest multiplex, around 11 screens and If you calculate no. of people in those 11 screens it comes around 500 X 11 = 5500 and all that on one floor, anyways, we didn't got the ticket for that show so took the one for next days show and while coming back my friend wanted to call his friend in MIT, so we stopped at Sify cyber cafe, from there you can make REALLY cheap international calls, and it is really cheap, around 5 INR a min, Sify is one of the company which brought real revolution in India in case of ISD calls, though much before Sify Reliance brought a revolution in mobile in India and which literally compelled all GSM operators to not only make outgoing calls more and more cheap but incoming calls absolutely FREE.
Here is one of hoarding of the Sify in there shop

Toy on my colleagues desk

They show the traditional Indian people look

Back from Vacations

Okay it was more than great time and never wanted to come back, and was really having a good time seeing my old friends, neighbours and visiting relatives.
Travelled lot of places this time and in complete holidays of more than 20 days I was hardly 5 days at home and rest of the time on the road, travelling.

One of the flower pic in my back home garden(In back you can see new range of apartments coming up).

Starting my long vacation ...

Its being more than 10 months when I went last time for vacations and indeed my manager feel it really right for me to go for vacations. And here the day comes, my last day in office bfore a really long vacations I had in years, I am going from tomorrow 6/11 to 29/11
So no company emails to checks ... but when I return I will have 80*23 i.e. 1840 emails to go thru in my company a/c, fucking hell and hardly 1% will be junk, so can't do mass deletion too, anyways I can do anything for vacations.

Typical b'lore engineer excuse ...

Was passing by and heard software engineering saying project manager
Sotware Engineer: "It will work always, Only thing is ... when ... it will not and rather it will ..."
Project manager: umm ... I don't know.

Just missed a chance to be millionaire

Why didn't any1 informed me about this
http://us.rediff.com/news/2004/nov/01game.htm

I am not bad either in playing with my nokia 3650.

Search your hard disk using google

Ahaa
Google suddenly releases google desktop
Now you can search your hard disk using this, I just tried it, and again like all google stuffs, it is LIGHTNING fast, darn even if u have html ready it takes this much long and u get it as soon as you do search over it,
I am impressed, now i know why did they rejected my CV for job in google, sadly but true, I don't mind, Never give up.
Anways, most surprising thing is, With the speed they are working and using there existing infrastructure, Surely seems as good time ahead for them.
Looking forward to get GBrowser one day from them :)

It is pouring outside ...

I am waiting from past 3 hours now and hungry like anything, but don't see any sign of rain stopping or even getting slow, I guess it will be rather good idea to order food here only as I forsee cook must not had came today and no point going home and getting disappointed.
I am looking at yahoo weather for bangalore and it forecast rain for another 4 days too,
Surely weekend will be nothing more than sitting in front of 21 inch monitor and reading books, anyways not bad, Looking forward for it ...

Eclipse is getting better & better

I am a long time fan and user of Eclipse, Really nice effort by IBM, thanks IBM.
Just today only downloaded
Version: 3.0.1
Build id: 200409161125
And was really felt like saying thanks to IBM for giving this special feature, Now I can hide my long code by click of node, Just like we can do in browsers while showing XML documents,
Well apart from this
- Better search in help
- Nice effort in putting that first page
- Like always, Now window decorations is better than before, this is being a trend ...
- They played with buttons which run the application
Everything else looks same, I imported my same preference file, but still wondering, why not code formatter is removing those empty lines, must be some option included, I need to dig in its preferences I guess,
But thanks to IBM for putting peanuts from his billions to make it happen ... :-$

sick & tired of being sick & tired

This drama seems to have no end, In starting when I moved to Bangalore 24 august 2003 I thought I will overcome and will be doing fine, Though I was havig lil asthma problem and this town is hell for asthma patients...not only because of pollution, that you will get in any Indian towns apart from smaller ones but because of too much greenery and gardens here you tend to get pollens in the air almost all the time, thus making living hell for serious asthma patients.
Anyways, I did overcome that fear as I tried hard maintaing myself and yes I did well and did overcome that asthma stuff, But this town is like a real living hell, not only crowd(7.5 million people in this small area) but I have serious doubt whether I would be able to cope up with this sick whether, Its being 3 days now I am gettin wet daily and indeed most of the time more than one. It will rain every now and than and moreover, I don't remember when did I saw good sunlight last, I belong to the place where it use to rain least in country, And Once upon a time I really use to love the rains, But not anymore...how can one, I am sick of being sick & tired here.
And well this is only physical abuse, here is long list of mental too:
--> Roads are always choaked, Yes even in 11pm or midnite.
--> Traffic police will disturb you always.
--> High level of pollution.
--> No matter where you go, stay in queue, so what you going to pay high bill in rest. still before eating wait in queue.
--> High medical cost, yes though city is made to make u sick
--> 100 other reasons...

Well this all surely going to make you think it a voice of someone who is badly depressed in life, Though not really, But I guess sometimes I associate all the problems I have to one single source, But ain't this is right thing to do when you think your sorrounded by problems? If not than what is the right approach? Surely you can't hit all of them together than why not to take them one by one, Anyways I guess it is good to have problems else What a wonderful world it would be. How can we be sure that we will get where we dream to be? Why is it that until this very moment, I have always assumed that I would grow up, be successful at something I love to do, fall madly in love, live behind that white picket fence? You know what I'm talking about. When did my little voice in my head decide to turn pessimistic? I've always tried to look on the bright side, or I tell my self that I have. Maybe all along I have been fooling myself and don't really know who I am and maybe I try to hard to see what other people see. Thats a weird thought. What if you could see yourself the way that other people see you? It kind of sounds like one of those "be careful what you wish for" questions, but I hardly think it is unreasonable to view yourself from a different angle. But how accurate would that angle measure? Isn't it safe to assume that if we took an outside angle on our public view, we already infact actually know too much about ourselves to make objective observations? That brings me to my point. (Yes there is a point.) If we could take a step outside of ourselves and become a stranger to ourselves, how would we respond to the original form of ourselves? Stay tuned.

Indian hostages free'd after a long drama

Here rediff reports that Hostage Indians were freed after around 70 days long drama.
I wonder what the hell goverment has done for this, well you can it was almost nothing they did except from the fact that they publicize it alot and made good public statements and now offcourse like all good Indian politicians do, let that credit come-en, who did it? how it happend? go to hell, keep that credit come my way.
But for the matter of fact we must think how come indian hostages freed successful after all
well many reasons, Those guys knew these poor truckers will give nothing and after all they took alot more than they could expect after beheading those truckers, KGL steppin back really has given a good shock to US militry contractors and now I Believe there is only one more one left...But once again this drama has proved status of India, how much we respect of citizens, and well yes I don't deny, how we can respect citizens when there are so many citizens
- Every month more than dozen local train travellers die JUST in Mumbai
- East India, well media hardly can cover all those murders
- J&K, media is bored of covering all those 1-2 daily deaths, no more in media.
- Rest of India, why the hell we local news papers for, in national news let those credit come en.

Difference between aggregation and association

Was reading UML Distilled over safaribooksonline, tried hard but couldn't determine it clearly explains difference between aggregation and association, so decided to ask couple of gurus i know. Here are 2 replies
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Mat reply
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Hey. Its a very fine conceptual difference, and I don't think anyone would
fault you for using one in place of the other.

The rule of thumb is, associations are graphs whereas aggregations are trees.

Think of it this way:
An association is a two-way possession (or perhaps more complicated
reference which is cyclic though not immediately visible as such). A
husband object will have an association to his wife object, for example,
and the wife would have an association to her husband.

An aggregation is strictly a one-way possession. A simple example here is
a ArrayList of String objects. The String cannot have a reference to the
ArrayList or a reference to any other Object with a reference to the
ArrayList so the ArrayList has a aggregation of many Strings.

This brings us to the last reference type, composition.
These are basically references to "parts of" the greater object which need
not be private. In UML it is supposed to be treated the same as
aggregation, though in practice, I've seen way more associations than
aggregations come out of a final product. The key difference is that the
lifetime of aggregates is governed by the lifetime of the parent. The
example here is a hand object consists of a composition of 5 fingers. If
you lose the hand, you lose the fingers too.
Note that this harder to pull off in Java because there are no explicit
call to "free" so unless the member is private, its possible to hold a live
reference to a finger from a hand that has been destroyed--it does help to
think about who is referencing what, and how they are getting their references.
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Vguru reply
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Huu.. Good question to ask,

If u want to implement this aggregation is like array of objects and
association is signle element,
in java terms.
public class C {
private DependentObject[] members; // is aggregation
private DependentObject member ; // this is association.
}

In general, During Class design time u need to think of how does the
co-ordination is required with other classes.

Remember the life of any of these DO(s)are not actually with Class
'C', which meen, There are externally created and 'C' will use those
instaces. may be the array of DO (dependentObject) will come eaither
from the Constructor or some method, but they will exist after the
scope of instance C, Doesn't meen some other object will also cache
these references and they exist further life of the C. The creation
should not happen in C in such a case that should become a
containment.

The other way to find same scope is when u design a Class diagram and
decide on the classes and their behavior with CRC (Class Resposibility
Card), they these two objects C and X will have same scope, scope here
represents the preception of resposibility they do in the system, and
some functionality of one will requirea handshake with other or others
for which the relation between the classes is aggregartion and
association , dependency or containment are defined.

In the life time of C and X, there should not have any comparisions.
they both are indepndent , The more independent is the less dependent
or handshake with other objects, so desin principle is to achive mode
independent objects. want to make more indepent, then u will be
designing interfaces, for other less dependenting that reduces
dependency and provideds flexibility.

The more interfaces and abstract classes it has is more flexible or
easy to write a pluggable code to that framework or extensible.

Ofcoure there are some syntactical elements of above, which can change
depending on the language which u choose to implement ur design.
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give me my luck

As more and more I am moving to year end...I have strong feelin probably my luck is again going to be with me{Hopefully}
now I feel most important month for this year will be november, don't asko me why***
Well its friday, another 60 mins and will be FREE beers from office, i hope so free, if not free than on subsidised price, which is again okay :)

Nokia 3650

Surprisinly I havn't knew about it, Till I face this problem that nokia 6 series fone have problem with there vibrator, I have 3650 and one fine day it refuses to vibrate making me miss calls and i wonder why from morning I havn't got a single calls{Where are those personal loan hunters}
Anyway it finally worked, but how ... Well you need to hit on bottem left with ur finger, yes you heard it right, i said HIT with a finger though.
Now I asked couple of guys and they say ya ya 6 series do come with this firmware problem, maybe because it comes with smartness like it don't vibrate when your charging, etc but this code shouldn't cause this level of problem in firmware and than why the hell on this earth it require hitting by finger and it works, no wonder nokia is loosing...
Now going to read website of hiresh ram chandani the famous website resource for j2ee

Monday 12 July 2004

Once again
I am not feeling like working on monday[though i will end up working late nite] it is being 11.45 am and not started yet with anything though seen what is happening in the whole world :)
at the moment busy reading about lake vostok.
Hopefully after this I will start...ohh will not the lunch start than

GIFs are free now in ca too

Today 8 july 2004 IST last patent of famous LZW (Algo used in GIFs) is expiring, this last patent was in Canada(so canadian time it was 7th July 2004, it expired.) So now US, Europe, And Canada all are free for LZW usuage
Will be interesting to see what unisys do now
or sites like this will still be needed, I request unisys let it be free now, it is long time they have stopped popularity of GIFs and who can forget who the popularity of GIFs declined since 1995, and yes, you IBM you also don't jump in fight this time.

Interesting story - Tale of two cities

I was just searching and trying to find the free version of paid story of forbes story
http://www.forbes.com/premium/archives/purchase.jhtml?storyURL=/forbes/2004/0412/094.html&_requestid=11987

I was expecting there must be a free version somewhere in some uni website but to my wonder it was found in forbes.com domain itself, I wonder! don't they know that google crawl forbes.com also
anyhow here is the link
http://www.forbes.com/home_europe/free_forbes/2004/0412/094.html
Pretty interesting story, and seems forbes has done good work of collecting facts.

Email world is changing -- thanks gmail

Now with the latest hotmail move of giving its user from as lil as 2mb(are we biggers?) to 250mb(here is story)
Complete email service scenario seems to be changing,
Best of hotmail was
- Its speed among internal users and notifications
- U can configure to get zero spam in your inbox, I said Inbox!!
- Great integration with its messanger, which makes email like phone call.

And well now visit yahoo, its best was:
- Reliability
- Wide platform support
- 3x more storage than hotmail
- Good local services, this was the reason most of the people in india used yahoo mail and messanger only
And than started comin time that everyone thought free email will no longer will remain free and indeed many indian email service providers literally made it paid after the both hotmail and yahoo taked out there paid version, and only reason it never got paid at that time that both of them was worried of each other, and noone wanted to take this bold step and than slowly regional players in country (like india, indiatimes, rediff; Russia, mail.ru, etc and so on) also started becomin stronger that also stopped these 2 giants to make there emails paid, but they continued putting strings around like 30 days must check mail, small size attachment, etc, etc.
And then comes the google with its plan of gmail and indeed this got so effective in its early beta that having address with gmail people took it as proud and wildely tried different way of getting one, look here for details.
And now we see these giants changing there face as with increasing ad money(yahoo makes BIG money using mail ad now) also came in picture and no one wanted to loose that good spinning cash. so now you see each of them extending there hand, yahoo has made its inbox size 100 mb, well pretty enough for normal users, so than msn started looking too small and decided to go for 250meg, though according to original track of MS i was thinking it will do this but either 25 meg or max 50 meg, but with changing face of MS(some code finally came out) now, this is also a new thing.
Lets see now what the actual future of gmail is, and no matter what gmail future is, atleast it have made sure that free users will have enough space and good services atleast for comin good years, and this can be one of the reason to say, thanks gmail.

Yahoo!! I can crash Gmail always

Trick is pretty simple
Oh okay, let you know first my configuration
Mozilla 1.8a1
Winbox: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] ( as usual sucker)
Now login to your gmail account, oh wow it logs in successfully and work unlike before, hey but just see what happens after you press F5
hehe, mozilla crashes, why didn't gmail team consulted me before that heavy usuage of layering ;-)

Gmail allows another 3 invitees per account

Ok it is most important to update everyone about whats up at gmail side
So latest is, It no more crashes over my new winbox(coori's system) and
yesterday google gives a option to existing gmail users to invite there three more friend, and hehe I am just done with distributing all these sweets :)

Migrating even from windows to windows so painful

It is so hard to migrate even from one window to another window, So many things, First install most important blood line, MSN messanger, and that dam will give you error code 0x8100031a Now think how u fixed it last time, and go and kill urself and fix it(High priority bug)
Than comes mail client, so what I use is thunderbird, I have no doubt it is excellent email client, One of the best I have ever used, But ehh, It also cries in migration, And how do you move your filters? and I ended up moving the filters manually again(Previously they use to crash, somehow mozilla guys fixed in 0.6, so nice of them !!)
Anyhow I was determined of the migration, But it was pain, so I thought I will let other knows how it painful and save others time, so filed this bug over mozilla

Anyhow I am here now on my new system, well well not new It is cannoi system and my previous one was IBM, But you see this is 70 MHZ more powerful and most important have 256 MB extra RAM(Main reason of migration)
So I can keep many things in parallel now, Specially my buddy iTunes :)

Another monday

I guess it's being long time I got this monday fever, when I just don't feel like working but, do what is just sit or think, sip coffee, or listen to music and ruine half day that also most important part, I have strong feeling if I get late in office say after 8.30am than only I get this lil feeling, But IF I happen to reach over monday around 7am than usually I start working bit early...But If I could come early than why this lil feelin,as that means weekend was GREAT :-)
Anyhow It is being long I wrote here And I YET to enter my experience I had with meeting with Mr James Gosling Goes without saying, He is great guy, But I am not sure why I was not much impressed after meeting with him, even his blog is so interesting, That probably I thought this man is gona be real COOL, But again I strongly believe that I maybe wrong, this dude just got a surgery around 10 days back and maybe he didn't had that much energy to fire around the people, and maybe he was too tired of his trans atlantic ocean drives, or who knows maybe this dude was feeling who the hell I the great among :)
Anyhow, In this presentation I like the way he use huckster and he got a nice vision of future too...

ok Gmail is insane

Okay, the posting I did last time about gmail down was actually wrong and seems some issue with browser, as it anyhow worked in mozilla 1.7b, But strange only after some good crashes and everything else works in my browser but why not Gmail and no html ever crashed my mozilla but gmail did...so gmail is insane...still ?

Start of the day's king Monday

Here is how the monday starts
Try reach'in office @7 am but anyhow able to lend there by 7.40am and there lies email asking status so early morning you compose the status of what the dam you did from 2 weeks and what you plan to do next 2 weeks and than send it across and than as soon as you open indiatimes, bull sh!t again filled with news of Outsourcing...is that is the only news remained in country of a billion anyhow convenced and read something and here I am doing happy blogging and than plan to go back and look at serious stuff of life(yes work!!)

Gmail Gmail Gmail...

Gmail is Great
Gmail gives great space
Gmail is scalable to 100millions users as of now
Gmail is lightening fast
Gmail is very user friendly
and lab lab like this...you can found daily in news and around you, Does anyone reported that Gmail is down...yes it is down since yesterday IST and today after 12 and it is still down, ahhhh don't say this is your browser issue or your system issue, I have checked on more than one system and this is not the only failure it have, it shows like almost always the piece of junk characters while forwarding on some other page and that too on IE, than what the hell google team test gmail on,
Google Guys please people have lot of expectations, do something now or you smarty!! doing this just for beta testers, should nt it act as real ?

day goes on

Day goes on and Led Zeppelin keep on singing banging on my head big dog.
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Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move
Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove.
Oh, oh, child, way you shake that thing
Gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting.
Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way
Watch your honey drip, can't keep away.

*Ah yeah, ah yeah, ah, ah, ah., Ah yeah, ah yeah, ah, ah, ah.

I gotta roll, can't stand still,
Got a flame in my heart, can't get my fill,
Eyes that shine burning red,
Dreams of you all thru my head.
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah.

Hey, baby, oh, baby, pretty baby,
Tell me what you do me now.
(Repeat)

Didn't take too long 'fore I found out
What people mean by down and out.
Spent my money, took my car,
Started tellin' her friends she goin be a star.
I don't know what I've been told
Big lipped woman ain't got no soul
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Day goes on this way and I guess recover from my that little feeling and look around and see the big world, and feel again small.
Well this all goes on like this, so decided to burn mozilla source and VC6 in CD move ahead to home, that s the way life will go on and you will never know...talk again little?

little feeling

It's a little bit funny this feeling inside
I'm not one of those who can easily hide
I don't have much money but boy if I did
I'd buy a big house where we both could live

If I was a sculptor, but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show
I know it's not much but it's the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one's for you

And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross
But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song
It's for people like you that keep it turned on

So excuse me forgetting but these things I do
You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue
Anyway the thing is what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen

Trekking to Sunkalsa

I think it was good idea to decide for going to trekking, as I was really bored of routine weekends and looking at mozilla code over the weekends. So I decided to chip along with guys who was going to trekking. Sunkalsa is around 350 odd kms aways from Bangalore and around 20kms before a small town named Kalsa, It is towards the Mangalore, i.e. is more closer to the Sea.
We started around 10.30pm on friday nite(2nd April 2004) in the bus from kampagowda bus station, Well bus was not that kool but still one could manage with it, With the start of journey only it started raining making it better journey, but only for travel as rain could be really disaster if one wants to trekk over rocks with dry leaves layering over them to make it worse. Really tried sleeping but no lucks, But I knew if I don't sleep in the nite for couple of hours than morning will be hell to climb so not stopped trying and around 2-3 am I could had a nap but just to wake back at 4am, and another 90 mins we was at our destination i.e. in SunKalsa, it is far smaller than town and bit bigger than a village. It was all dark so we guys decided to wait on the roadside only and start journey only with dawn, So another 20 mins we waited and started journey around 5.50am in the morning and once again it proved how early down to full sunlight occur I guess it took hardly 10 mins and there was all good amount of sun light all around the area.
For sunkalsa only the valley starts but still for 3-4 kms there is stone kindof broken roads and once can manage to drive(and few can manage to rally!) as there comes small small village, But after 3-4 kms the fun starts all dark forest covered by tree both side and small valley and sometimes you have to create the way too. Was good fun walking for around 5kms and than having breakfast which includes honey which really rejuvenated. There was really couple of nice water streams in the way, the big ones we could not reach as they was all covered by dangerous tree and had no access but we can always use the smaller ones and we did. Another good experience in the way was hearing the voice of rattle snake first time in open and that too right ahead of head...voice made me feared for the first time but not next time I tried locating but could not locate the ratlle, Though again proved I love the voice of rattle and really wantto see someday how do they manage to make such sound using there tail.
We reached our destination around 11 am after covering around 10kms, Just after reaching we had a energetic drinks rested for a while and putted our tents and than had lunch than moved here and there for a while and sleep for couple of hours(This weekend I slept more than I in normally when im at home :-) )
In the evening we again moved here and there but made sure we don't go far away, and than started the mist show, I really never thought mist can look that beautiful, mist was flowing over the hills and given really good hills though these kindof scenes can be hardly captured in a camera, but it was good scene than we had dusk view though it was not that good because of all the clouds around. But best scene of the trip I saw in nite around 9pm, we was at point where we could see complete half side of western ghats and then the wind started blowing and covered all the hills we could view and than stopped keeping all those hills covered and this became more beautiful with the presence of full moon and than after around couple of minutes small mint started and slowly unveiled the hills range, that was just the most beautiful scene of nature I ever saw and I still that have snap of it in 1k megapixel and 32 bit colors in my mind :-)

Who is better linux or Windows ?

Ok here I got time from my day job, and I want to write, so here It goes.

This is actual fundamental Question, and probably above the level of believing one person or a group of person or a community, So lets do this way...We do the survey who is better.
I can bet on this MS will win by 99 votes out of 100 on this issue. Because they still have something good and still something is evolving to be better, And what happens in Open source is all people start fighting over piece of thing and atlast leave it with nothing...I am not saying this because I am STRICK opponent of Open Source, But I believe at the moment(Indeed never) working properly. Following point will prove it clearly.
Tell me how many flavours of linux we have ? That makes so many parallel efforts to go all together and all in waste. Thats really waste, seems open source don't want to work together and get something out from it, But seems now open source is just become famous for donations or just incubating a project and than sell it off, Otherwise how come this RH once for free became paid? And how about SuSE who owns it now?
Tell me we ended with how many window managers?Current one being KDE, For how long we will keep on doing this re-invention of wheels?
Tell me why do you think window have so many bugs in it? Yea rite because those dam programmers sitting in Redmond base leaves that bug, But is that Open source developers don't leave the bugs Gee...they also do? Yes goes without saying they also leaves the bug. And indeed hardly there code get reviewed too and tested? Well I know how much I have been some of the open source project for some couple of years for a stretch(Will nt name you to find bugs in it :) ). What the point I am trying to proov is that Windows is JUST not a great piece of software but it is far better than linux desktop. And why it gets those security holes everyother week is just because of reason that it is tested by gar dam millions of people and those dooods expecting so much and try so many billions of combinations that it is natural to get even in best piece of code...What best MS should do is, Do better networking and eliminate all those sh!t trick which it is doing, which includes adding some features in OS for its Office program(Ever heard of OS getting patched for product :) ) and its IE monopoly in which he do some bad ethics to reduce its start up time and worse which I came to know latest was sites are much faster when IE opens and IIS runs, Simply because than they use there own protocol instead of following complete HTTP, For GOD says Microsoft have to stop all this and try to take control over the complete internet if they really want to be in business and don't want to pack there bags and run aways with those billions of dollars they have at the moment.
And here is 0.2 cents advice for Open source guys, don't be under realism that people have to use your product because it is for free, there are millions of them out here too, put ur combined efforts, and go for it and dont take Luxury of ignorance in your products.
And make your product out there as good as windows.

This for geeks, next time something for consumers like me.