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Moving to blogspot blog
Dec 26, 2009 4:11 PM
It's with a sad heart that I say, that while I developed this blog site with all love and affection on appspot; for now I have moved back to my blog on blogspot.
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God is not great.
Sep 25, 2009 7:47 AM
I have been reading book "God is not great" by Christopher Hitchens. Man I must say, it's a marvelous book. Not only have I got a deeper insight into the arguments I could pile up to prove my atheism strongly next time, I think I am getting more inclined to know the dirty history of World War I and World War II. Especially the part that religion played in those loathsome genocides. You would not believe the examples he's found and arguments he has given. Nothing but top-notch. A must read, for those who have a prolonged longing to push me into finding my spritual side. :) I would probably, never believe in that fluff again. Religion may provide hope and support sometimes, but true fact is you cannot name conincidences as miracles and yes, religion does poisions everything. Amen. :)
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One of the greatest movie dialogue!
Jul 31, 2009 4:23 AM
Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
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Words of wisdom
Jul 30, 2009 8:16 AM
An excerpt from my diary on a hopeless day.
Because someone didn't ask you, doesn't mean they don't care. Some days are like ocean; thick and deep. the weight of water and fatigue of effort weighs you down. The taste of water is nasty and it evokes vomit. but what we need is not repulsion; rather imagination; because while world around you will never cease to deteriorate; the beauty of life will depend on your ability to perceive and percept the uncommon truth. For instance, a swim in cool ocean under a sunny blue soot free sky is a dream of many and while you may think life isn't stopping being a bitch; maybe all it is being is a lucky draw! sometimes you need and like what you get and sometime you don't. But if you really want something; work for it. Nothing, including nothing, is served on a silver plate to anyone. Behind a momentous breakthrough of those few minutes there is diligent hard work of years. May be you hate your life, maybe you don't but just don't run away from everything for wrong reasons. Don't be needy and treat people you love like sand; more clenched is you hold; faster they escape. When there is no one to ask you; why your day was bad because everyone who was capable of doing it; were riding their moments on presumptions; you can take comfort in the fact that only if they kept their cool and thought about it; they'd give a hug and not rejection. And in any case you have me! :) Don't melt away in pressure; cause no pressure, no diamonds. :) |
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Installing Windows Mobile 6.5 on HTC Touch (Elf)
Jun 26, 2009 6:12 PM
I have been meaning to put some info somewhere about installing Windows Mobile 6.5 on HTC Touch (Elf). I did it few days back and results have been splendid for me. Works like a charms and I thoroughly enjoy the experience.   Although I must mention clearly; I am not expert and I am reading and learning too. This post provides only a outline of step by step process that I underwent to install it successfully. But it by no means in warrantable or guranteed. :)  To note; I chose ONYX Windows Rom; which includes several other apps pre-installed. Following are the things you'll need.
 That is it! So once you have all of it present on your computer; we are all set to go. Few precautions that you must take though.
To give little background about whole process; your cellphone comes with a Official Bootloader which basically installs only signed ROMs and since the ONYX Rom that we are going to burn is unwarrantable and unsigned; it would refuse to burn it. And that would be; once you have deleted everything from your cellphone. So it bricks, if that happens.  Take backup of all your data. My Preferred tool for backup is PIM Backup but of course you can use your fav. Once data has been backed up; follow the below given steps with some common sense and guidance provided on screen by various tools:
Once you are through; you can set up your screen and settings. PIM Backup comes preinstalled to reload all the data. And if you were as lucky as me; in as less as 45 minutes you will be done. For more help; contact XDA developers forum; they have all your answers and tips/tricks there. Also for a more detailed process follow this link. |
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Everyone Deserves Some Change
Jun 23, 2009 12:23 PM
Today, I sold my guilt and 5 bucks for some perspective in return. Truth is, it happens everyday of my life; it's just that today is "Sunday" and it's a day of realizations. I was sick of drab and lull air that engulfed my "living room". And though usually I overcome my athletic inclinations of any kind very quickly with inherent laziness; for a change I decided to go along with it today. I'm not a man of plan who believes in contemplations and contrived actions; so it wasn't a surprise when I started off in my car without any clue about my destination. Idea was to feel some fresh air and lighten up my spirit with serene view. Unfortunate as it is; such a sight is an uncommon experience in a city I live in; so I just chose to move along with traffic. I usually drive with windows down; as nothing feels better than a gush of cool breeze on face ruffling your hair and mellow music in background strumming on the strings from the past in your head. But in certain areas of city; pollution and smoke level is unbearable; owing to stagnant traffic and obstinate morons who refuse to kill the revving engines on red lights. So when I reached one such junction; I wondered how does a Traffic Cop survives intense pollution throughout the day. How does he ensures that while he is trying to do a public service (irrespective of how slandered his profession and ethics are); he himself doesnt fall prey to terminal illness which is never far from continuous exposure of black soot. And while I was still reckoning the professional hazards of a simple man and trying to decide whether I should draw my window up to block the smoke; I noticed in rear view a feeble figure limping towards my still open window. It doesn't take special skills to identify a beggar on a street. He was an old man in his 80s; limping with one stick; overgrown shabby hair tied into a crude pony. Scantily clad; his frowned forehead was no less than a highway billboard which screamed of bitter reality and a miserable life. It doesn't take a genius to read that; but it takes a frigid heart to overlook. Although he hobbled by a small step at a time, he was noticeably close to my window. Music was blaring; overtly loud; and it almost seemed rude to be exhibiting opulence there, on the other hand, toning down the volume at that moment felt awkward. I didn't know what to do! I wanted to pull up the windows and look onto the other side. But I sat spellbound trying to decipher story of his life. Eventually he reached the spot and moment which I dreaded for those few seconds. He asked me for some change. I fumbled around and I found a 5 bucks coin lying in my wallet. It wasn't a value I'd usually contribute but I had no choice, that was the only coin I had; I was suddenly neck deep in guilt. I don't know why I felt guilty. I did not contribute to his condition and in a very non-moral way his life and condition is not a concern or a liability to me. And yet I sat there ashamed of being more privileged and happy in life. With my contribution 2-5 times greater than usual helping; he was ecstatic with the sudden luck that life had bestowed upon him. He murmured several verses of blessings and strode off with his renewed confidence in humanity. Once he left and I tried to recapitulate in my head; what really happened in those few minutes. Above of all, I tried to understand that why did I resist inside to give that coin to him. Throughout the evening I spent 500 bucks but not for a moment did I mull over the amount as much as I did for that coin. Probably because; while everyone gave me something for my money; that beggar had nothing to offer. Or at least I thought so. I shook away my guilt when I handed over that insignificant coin. As if; I have justified my existence by that peanut contribution. It was only later when my meandering chain of thought made me realize that; that old man sold to me something that people won't get even if they spent fortune of lifetime. He sold me some "real perspective" for just as less as "5 bucks". While he is the one who asked for "change"; it's me who was really on the receiving end. It's me who ended up getting the "change" he deserves. On a dull Sunday evening of my soporific life; I learned something that I'll probably remember. For a person who trots on a highway junction; where world comes to a momentary standstill, pollution is not a concern. To find his daily bread, he yearningly stares back into loathsome eyes of people who are too fretted with petty musings of life. And frail and feeble that he is; biggest irony of his life is that if he doesn't make it to that single piece of bread today; he will not have strength left to find one for the next day. And that is "perspective". While we ride away on our plush lifestyles when light turns green; we must remember that he is a part of society we live in and brag about.So if we can't give him the change that he deserves, we should at least give him the change he asks for.
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Love should come with a disclaimer
Jun 23, 2009 12:21 PM
"All the good things in life are free". Whoever said that; probably didn't love too many and too much. Here is a perpetual truth to elucidate the minds of my prudent friends who have been living by this saying till now. NO, most of the good things in life are NOT free. And maven that you are; if your rapid counter-arguments are "Love and Happiness"; then let me tell you that happiness will probably not stick by your side for long if your spirit is the one, that is heavier than your wallet. On the other hand love and affection comes for free, only from a wet Dog looking for a warm cuddle. And considering the radical marketing that dogs get in TV commercials these days; I doubt if you'll even get a unpopular breed for about $500. That too when you don't get me started on the price tags of Dog food and flea removers. Now that I have your eyes and ears on truth; please know that Love is in all probability, by far, the most expensive luxury you can afford. I know masses won't agree; but at the end of the day reality is that oodles don't have love; it's a prerogative of the select few. Love is like a 30 days trial software; it's ushered into your life by luck or will (most often by a wretched specie called friends); you make best of it in 30 days and before you can think or blink you are hung up on it. While hugs and passionate kisses, all come flying at you in trial period; once reality mode begins a petty gift may only qualify you for as much as a quick peck on the cheek. And as you try to feed your famishing inside to quench it's hunger for love; the "so called love" starts to eat away on your opulence; that you indubitably enjoyed once upon a time. As rightly said "reality is stranger than fiction", let me tell you once again that this is not even the beginning of "worse" that you are going to see. As the norms would have it; all things including kickshaws that are paid for, are shipped and sold with their respective trade-offs, shortcomings and most importantly "disclaimers". Working in warranty vertical of manufacturing; "disclaimer" is one word that is conjugated with my soul. It absolves a trader from the shackles of obligation in case of an uneventful failure of the product, "**if not used as specified". More expensive a product; more stringent and bold are it's clauses and limitations for usage. Ironical as it is; but there is no disclaimer ever attached with love. There is no guidance, decrees or rules associated. It sounds like a sweet deal; but world that we live in; is used to "DISCLAIMERS" my friend. With the absence of disclaimers you trip over the line and before you know you are so far ahead from where you should be. So until we have "time machines" to undo the deeds that have been done; we shall rely on plain old disclaimers. And until one is indited for love; most of the meritorious bachelors will forfeit their ambitions to the astute son of Aphrodite. Love is a deception with a charm which subterfuges your sense of reality. Once captivated; it gradually deprives you of your aspirations and dreams; Or so I think. My friends say; it's just the unstoppable nagging of the spouse that drives them crazy. While half of the world struggles to cave their way into love; rest of the half is trying to shake away the hobbles. And as we stand here on either side; we look up to a resolution which will confine the bloodshed of dreams to only ill-fated. |
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Bomb with a religion
Jun 23, 2009 12:20 PM
I-pod has taken world by an unprecedented force. And had it not been for the indisputable large scale outcome of Industrial Revolution; some may have termed I-pod as the greatest revolutions of Human Kind. Not that everyone takes the insane scribblings of Wikipedia seriously and so refrain from actually terming I-Pod so; but then you can't alter beliefs; can you? However, I really think that what this world avidly awaits now is a "Bomb with a religion".
No..No..I am not saying it because today is a Friday night; and if I am staying up late writing a blog then I must be incoherent with truth and sopped with liquor! On contrary my flummoxed soberness will actually beat the undisputed atheism of a bomb also; hands down that is. I have a very noetic belief to reason my argument. You see, a tin box full of volatile chemical combined with piercing shrapnels with an acute and indiscriminating aim; cannot asses or appraise anyone of his religious inclinations. Neither can it make a righteous judgment of his/her character and belief in designated omnipotent authority. So when one actually goes off; it potently shreds the limbs of all beings equally. Which I feel is quite unfair. To prove my point; you tell me what good is a master who slaughters his own pupils? It would be no more than an ironical fiasco. It would be somewhat analogous to Americans choosing George Bush's administration for third time in a row; we definitely don't want that, do we? So what do we do? We instill a moral and religious police in a bomb; so that now not only human kind; which by the way isn't anyhuman or kind if we go literally; can choose to blow up a city of people, but it can also choose "which people". I wonder; when God created (if he did at all); all the animals and humans; while he chose to impart each characteristic with varying degree to all species; he gave religion ONLY to us. Or maybe even Dogs have religion but smarter specie that they are; they choose to ignore it (not to mention skin color too). Whatever said and done; bored with our mundane and soporific lives; while we devise the ingenious ways to get back at humanity because we hate to live in a crowd where we are not one of our own; this world needs a bomb, bearing the morals that this world needs; because if a maker can't make a choice then a bomb must. |
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Blekko is lurking somewhere
Jun 1, 2009 12:41 PM
Blekko is being reffered to as a Google Killer, while the company (or rather a small team of few people) is lurking silently somewhere. They are tight-lipped and far away from making any promises. It shows, they are holding their wits and using their heads. I don't know why, but I like them out-right. Maybe because I have a inclination for people who play it cool and silent. :) Well lets see what time brings to them and for us! :) Cheers to blekko team, although I have no idea what they are upto!
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Thoughtworks is Recruiting
May 27, 2009 1:50 AM
In the time of recession, we have quite a bit of recruitment still going on in thoughtworks. You can count on some of the things being very interesting, for example work, people and culture. There are lot of amazing people working as part of Thoughtworks and thanks to open culture that company hugs on to, it gives you ample oppurtunity to meet them and learn something new everyday. Thoughtwork's interview process is one of the most talked about one and is for sure and experience in itself. So If you'd really like to give it a shot and be a part of one of the most dynamic and challanging culture, do get back to me at priyaaank[AT]gmail[DOT]com
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