I wonder why
An ode to heroes everywhere. May their tribe grow. Inspired by Strings’ Naajane Kyoun. This isn’t the exact translation, but one of the english translations. How do I explain Sukh Ban gaye sapne?
Clouds on a blue hill,
Will they rain again?
Flowers in my hand,
Were they all in vain?
Did I ever laugh?
Or did I dream it in my sleep?
All I have dreamt.
Was never mine to keep.
The days they slip.
Many have I lost.
No nights to sleep.
When have they paused?
All passions spent,
All races run,
As the frames of my mind,
Twist and Burn,
The flames lick the sky,
Far and high,
I wonder why
I wonder why
Like faintly ghosts,
Memories return,
As the frames of my mind,
Twist and burn,
The flames lick the sky,
Far and high,
I wonder why
I wonder why
May 27th, 2005 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 1 Comments
a pug in the system
I finally managed to reformat my computer. Due to a shiver in the power system my computer melted on me and I have been busy pulling out the hard disk parts and trying to reformat the system. The computer didnÂ?t go down quietly. It was a vicious hit, it not only hit my boot sector, it took out random bits in files leaving me with 2 MB in bad sectors spread around my disk like dust.
Quit like dust in fact. I put in Knoppix and tried doing a system check, and all seemed fine. But WinXP refused to boot and since I had previously configured my primary partition to just 4GB I decided to thrash the system and go for a new partition scheme. But first I had the job of backing up my music and video collection, some of which had bad sectors right in the middle. Whoops!
Thankfully most of the time I use a utility to download, so I knew which websites each song came from (crucify me RIAAA) so I wrote aPerll script that copied those songs which were corrupt into a new database.
I then reformatted the system and promptly lost my downloaded copy of dhaani by strings, including the music videos I had downloaded from the strings website and a few more mp3 files that contained a recording of my nieceÂ?s voice. Aarrgghhhh!
BTWtw, I am going to the next stringÂ?s concert which is within 300 kms of wherever I am. These guys are terribly nice.
I have reformatted my hard disk so I now have four partitions, two whopping 40 GB partitions for media, one 40 GB partition for downloads and a 20GB primary partition and a 20GB partition to play around with. I have got a 10GB Linux install which I am now using to play around with Asterisk and PUGS.
BTWBtw, I think PUGS is great. Whenever you wanted to write a new language it was mandatory to bootstrap it using C, which meant lex or yacc, which meant a lot of trouble, long build cycles and a lot of teeth gnashing before you could even solve simple problems. ItÂ?s great to see something as malleable as Haskell being used to develop Perl 6. You can quickly get your hands dirty restructure the language and very quickly prototype, prototype, prototype. It gives me a warm fuzzy glow.
May 27th, 2005 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 0 Comments
Hey lookit them monkeys
In a sudden break with tradition the RIAA appeals to consumers to fight monopoly!
Whoa!!!
What’s been happening here?
May 27th, 2005 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 0 Comments
Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe
Just been reading Haripi’s blog on
the angst of being a tambram lad
Hari we are not alone. It’s almost as if all of India is along with us.
Read on……
New Tech-Support Caste Arises In India
NEW DELHIÂ?Thanks to widespread outsourcing of telephone-service jobs, a sixth caste has blossomed in India: the Khidakayas, a mid-level jati made up of technical-support workers. “I am happy to be a Khidakaya,” said technical-support agent Ranji Prasat, who speaks English with a flawless American accent and goes by the name “Ron” at work. “While we rank below members of the reigning order, those of us responsible for helping Americans track their online purchases and change their account PINs share many privileges not enjoyed by the merchant class below us.” Prasat said he expects to marry another tech-support worker.
Courtesy The Onion
May 27th, 2005 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 0 Comments
Wishlists
Bookmarks. My kingdom for a set of bookmarks. Nice, java scriptable, server side stored, intelligent, with rss feeds and integrable with google or yahoo, so I know if the third result on page four has already been seen bookmarked by me, and if that’s a favourite for me.
And also a good search engine, for blogs. Google sucks at tagging content. It would be great if I could do something like humour blogs and get blogs that others think are funny.
Belive me, it’s the links which are important, not the content by itself.
Music on my cellphone. Streamed to it. So that I can sit away quietly wherever I am and listen to music. Or a mp3 player as a present. I am not too picky.
A rather good digital camera.
Six pack stomach. The ability to do a three point backflip. Run ten kilometeres without fainting at any point of time.
My very own server running off on a nice super cluster.
Radio shack in India. My very own research labs.
All the monty python movies and tv-shows.
A copy of bob dylan’s “Things have changed”, as a good quality mp3.
A copy of Harry Potter’s latest adventure.
A chance to sleep, to sit and enjoy.
To drink tea, in the rain.
Space to put my books.
To not have any books, except on my server. To be able to read them everywhere.
To remove my glasses once and for all.
To sleep perchance to dream.
May 7th, 2005 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 1 Comments