Crossed the crucial foremost part of my journey – being embarrassed for my ignorance. Hopefully the miles ahead are filled with lot of learning and fun.

God and Prayer

Prayer is, in my opinion, a meditation that helps to reinforce things that mean most to us, things that we want to happen to our loved ones, things that we want to become. In short, it is where we give ourselves an opportunity to define/redefine our value system: our view of right and wrong. I think it is very important for everyone to reflect in this context every day, a few solitary minutes, to make sure where they are heading; no matter what they name it – prayer or whatever. I don’t think it as just a coincidence that they tell you should pray first thing in the morning and as the last thing before you go to bed. It sure has an impact.  And I don’t know where God fits here. He is there, may be as a simplified destination point, for those who cannot comprehend this definition of prayer. It is more like how the concept of God is considered more substantial than the concept of Love towards humanity. I remember reading somewhere that the greatest motivation one can get in a race is having his target on sight. Yes. It motivates more, in other aspects also, than chasing an abstract thing.

People tend to do more good things when they believe it as a way to reach God. And for many out there the concept of God seems more convincing than the abstract concept of Love. As long as good things happen out of this belief, there is no point in questioning it. Let them believe what they want and be good. Ignorance, in this case, sure is bliss!

Damn. How many more sleepless nights do I have to spend?! I hate this muggy climate.

Is it a Bug?

Has anyone experienced this before or is it just me? Before a couple of months, I had this strange thing happening. Whenever I unlock my office  PC, it gets logged off. Initially I thought something had tampered windows explorer. Then again today, the same thing happened. But this time, it got restarted. Something smelled fishy. And upon squeezing past experience out of my memory, I found out what the actual reason is. Damn, all the time  I HAVEN’T LOCKED the screen at all. Most of the time, when I come back to my desk after a break and see a black blank screen (because of the save-energy-save-world self of me who sets power options for monitor), I immediately press C-A-D and begin typing my password and press return. Then, the I-am-still-functioning CRT monitor slowly powers up and I will see all my windows closing. The interesting thing is when I didn’t lock the PC and do this accustomed humdrum to unlock the screen, the fate of my next five minutes depends on which one of these comes first in my password: K or L or S. K, I will be locking the screen, L, logging off and S+return shutdown. Since I chose passwords that are not too difficult to type and which I use often, I keyboard it at reasonable speed, that my CRT monitor never keeps up to my speed. I would  have pressed return before it starts to show anything and the damn machine would be shutting down even before I realize.

Now, is it a bug? I think so. Anything that prevents intended behavior should be a bug. The guys at MS should have expected this. When I press any key that’s not a hotkey for any of the action, they should have had the focus off the screen. This may be a Heisenbug: the fact that I am trying to lock it down means I am carefully unlocking the screen and that means I have altered its cause – my inattentiveness to the fact that I haven’t locked the screen. The typical Observer Effect.

WTFs/min

Cool..

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Sometimes its extremely important to put everything  beneath our dignity.  And more important is to have pride in what we are doing: even if its close to being called arrogant.

Got my laptop.

Dell really rocks at least when it comes to delivery. My expected shipping data is next Monday, but I got the shipment today – a whole week early and within just five days after I placed my order.

After having couple of tries, I decided Kubuntu is not for me, until I again get a broadband connection. There is no driver support for my Nvidia in the vanilla disc and I’m tired of hacking at the offline package management

Maybe I’ll stick around with Vista for some time.

Dell Vostro 1510

After so many months of thinking and rethinking today I settled down with Dell

and ordered Dell Vostro.

hmm.. maybe I should have bargained more..

anyway.. Cant wait to get my hands on it . . . .

5+ and still counting??

hmm…  easy come easy go

i’m not regretting…

rain and hurricane

yesterday was wonderful

some wonderful news..

a nice rain

and a nice walk

and finally a awesome movie..The Hurricane…Denzel was wonderful