Father Part 1

Father Part 2

Mother Part 1

Mother Part 2

Rehab

Let me tell you about the education system. The education system produces left brain prisoners. Do you know what that means? Well I’ll tell you what that means. Our brain has two sides. The left brain and the right brain. The left brain is information, data. It’s dead. The right brain is individuality.  It’s where the soul lies. And the education system, it works like this -  “I will give you a world view.  And if you repeat my world view,  if you reconfirm my world view, you will pass your exams and you will  go higher and higher and higher and you will become a policeman, a magistrate,  a lawyer, a general, a politician,  and you will be happy and you will succeed. But if you think for yourself, if you think outside of the box,  then you will be unhappy and you will fail.” That’s how the education system works.

Though these words are of a psychotic driving instructor, still makes perfect sense.

After their previous venture of trying to check the average height above mean sea level of the Chepauk pitch, Ramudu and Shyamudu got really busy with their work. So busy that did not feature in any of this blog’s post till today and this post happened because they finally got some time off. So they sat down, having Kaju Kathli from Dadu’s, and started chatting around like how two young men with nothing else to worry about, do(You dirty fellows).

The conversation started with, of course the Kaju Kathli from Dadu’s and how it tasted so much better than the lots that they had been recently chancing upon at many unsuspecting friends places. Then they started discussing about different sweet shops in Hyderabad & Secunderabad. Ramudu swore by the Balaji Mithai Bhandar opposite Uppal Bus Stand and their fresh plain Kalakhand. It so happened that he had gone to school with the shop owner’s son and that always meant discounts and free rasmalai samplers. Shyamudu was more of the adventurous kind in the sweet testing and tasting business, known very well  to drop by randomly at unknown sweet shops to sample every sweet on display and then finally say, ” Pau kilo peda pack kardo bhai”. He also wondered why almost all the sweet shops owned by Marwadis in the twin cities were named Sri Balaji Mithai Bhandar.With an ever increasing database,  Shyamudu was the to-go man for all his friends and family for spontaneous sweet purchases in unfamiliar localities. Some friends of his had suggested for him to post his views online for those who might be in need of such help. So he started frequenting restaurant review websites and posted reviews of sweet shops. He was now mentioning the same to Ramudu as how convenient it has become to access even such specific information  through the power of internet and continued on by talking of all the various avenues of social networking aka blogs, facebook, twitter and what not.

As we have already seen in the previous story, Ramudu is a bit old fashioned. So all the talk about online social networking wasn’t really going down well with him. He started to talk of the paradox that is today’s social structure where there is loss of personal contact due to all these contraptions and at the same time those very things now have other stuff that let you connect with people with whom you lost touch in the first place because of these things. He also detested the in-your-face 24-hour updates that all of these services seem to be encouraging. Why was there a need for everyone to know everything about everyone, he felt. Why the need to get enrolled in so many websites for almost the same thing, when plain e-mail is more than enough. This was his line of thought and got a bit hyper, while explaining this to his friend.

Shyamudu went on the defensive saying that the user is free to choose what he chooses to show of himself and see of others. He also suggested of the upcoming service chi.mp which allowed for you to gather all your online presence as a single entity and then from there choose what to show to whom.

Ramudu at this point said something which made no sense and it went something like this. – ” Let’s say there is someone, who shares my feelings. Let’s say that he does not like this idea of every third service provider seeking my details from another service provider albeit with my supposed intent and permission after verifying my credentials. Let’s say he wants his thoughts on this known to everyone and decides to play an insider joke kinda thing. Let’s say he creates a simple website that in effect does nothing but uses your credentials to a commonly used service to let everyone else know that there exists a portal that will let you see what you can do by logging in to your commonly used service. May be people will know then, how vulnerable they really are to all this.”
Shyamudu thought that though it was a pretty naive way to look at things, especially with so much to gain with all the flexibility provided such integration , it would really be nice to see how people react if such a thing did happen. At this point, they moved on to the Ariselu and back to the sweets.

( This is my take on the ViddyHo.com phishing running around since morning)

I did the unthinkable a couple of weeks back. I wiped out the Windows 7 Beta partition and did a clean install of Ubuntu 8.10. A friend of mine wanted the likes of me to make the switch and started a blog, but the bugger has been  so slow in updating his blog that I made the switch irrespective of his climaxing post which I am sure will not see daylight  in the distant future.

I have had some problems getting certain things to work ( like this ), but things have been okay till now. Though I would not recommend anyone to do what I did ( for heaven’s sake, keep the Windows partition, for , you know, just in case), but then again it’s not all that bad either. Biggest downer has been inability to use Yahoo! Messenger for voice chat.  There have always been some replacement software that I have found for the usual timepassing that a student’s laptop ends up being used for.  Rhythmbox is a great choice since it includes Last.fm which I have come to use a lot recently. OpenArena is getting me back to FPS gaming( Aah Wolf3D) . After a little bit of messing around came the beginning of deadlines and I needed to get back to work quickly. But alas, no Matlab ( For my laptop’s  previous avatar : there was God and then there was piracy).

“Don’t fret my boy, Octave is here” is what the alternative Gods told me. I tried it out but got bugged using it in the command window and returned to the Library to use Matlab there.

In the mean time, came the Spanish Alternative Gods who said ” Abey aalsi kamine, ye le GUI” and showed me the path to QTOctave.

So there you have it my Windows  friends. Matlab for  Free= GNU Octave for Windows + QTOctave for Windows. Greed being omnipotent, the next question is : Where is Simulink for Free? Here it is and supposedly it integrates with Octave. ( ***I have not used SciCraft yet. Just adding some bull to the cock story***)

It is another story my laptop is undergoing some rejuvenation at DELL.

I hate Barkha Dutt.

There. I said it. Come sue me.

Here is a wonderful line from the great fred54:

” Don’t try to rationalise football, its not worth the hassle.”

The same is so true about everything else. Why don’t we take things for just what they are?

.. an insensitive prick, again. I want to be rude to everyone else and call myself frank, again. To hell with this maturity and growing up shit, I want to be that characterless fellow, again.

Blogswara is out with its lastest album, V5.  Check them out; I liked them and it’s free to download. I may update this post after listening a few more times.

Last December, I had written this  while comparing Happy Days and Kalloori: 

 I pity the Telugu town/village student community who could not relate to themselves in Happy Days. I hope Shankar dubs Kalloori into Telugu and at least gives them a chance at that.

This December, it is finally happenning.

Just in case you guys did not know, for those of you who like to use Google Talk but end up using Gmail for the Invisibility ( aka feigning invincibility) factor, the Labs version of Google Talk allows for you to go invisible.And no, it doesn’t yet have the Video chat capability that came in Gmail a few weeks back. Seems like the Labs Edition has been around for a while but I noticed it just recently. Check it out if that is what you need and let me know how it goes. I found it getting  disconnected and reconnected on its own quite a few times.

For those interested, here it is.  Ever wonder how you get to something while surfing. I got there in the following steps 

1. Movies in which a character comes back after presumed death

2. Aisi Deewangi Song

3. Divya Bharti’s Suicide/Murder

4. Pratyusha’s Suicide/Murder ( Note how the title says Murder case, but the sentence is for abetting in a suicide. It may well be public belief that it was a murder, but when reporting on something, shouldn’t it be just that. The Editorial section is there for opinions )

PS: ( I am dishing out a lot of half cooked drafts that have been lying in my dashboard. Kindly excuse and ignore )

What is with the desi blogging community that makes everything  to be random and every other thing be a rant and every other other thing to be a puke?

There is such a thing.

The spirit of Mumbai prevails and they all  lived happily ever after. Just that they deserve better.

Guys shouting 1 2 3 4 Push 

Climax of Salaam Namaste or a couch stuck in between the walls of the stairs at 51 Crittenden.

Update on 11 Dec 08: Now that Chrome has made its way out of beta, Greasemonkey is supported by default but still needs a bit of tweaking.

1.  Right click your Chrome shortcut to get to properties.

2. In the target line, at the end of the path ( after the “), paste ” -enable-greasemonkey” and save the properties.

3. Copy your scripts into the folder C:\scripts\ 

This should let you work with your scripts on Chrome. 

Original Post :

A tool to run user scripts in Chrome Beta. Does the same what Greasemonkey does with Firefox and Greasekit with Safari.

http://greasemetal.31tools.com/dist/GreasemetalInstaller.exe

Instructions to use :

1. Close Chrome and run installer.

2. Place your scripts in C:\Program Files\Greasemetal\userjs\

3. Open Greasemetal. It will start Chrome with your scripts loaded.

Enjoy

Voice & Video in a browser. Let’s see how it is.

Update : Video clarity is awesome. Far better than Skype, which is anyway better than frame by frame slow motion replay video of Yahoo. But one problem I have found is that after ending a voice call with one contact, it takes about 2-3 minutes to allow for another call to be made.

Kaadhal Sadugudu

Rangon Mein 

Aadat

Who says this US Presidential Election is just about race. Its also about caste. WordPress tries to help the cause in its own way.

Nader Gets Help From WordPress

 ( click on image to see clearly ) 

PS: Everyone – Post relevant only to Tamil type people.

PPS : Tamil type people – Kindly excuse

There are somethings that just cannot be scripted better. Some perks of living near a cemetary.