Archive for March, 2006
links for 2006-03-30
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links for 2006-03-28
Info
From the information in the comments section of my earlier post, Yeshwant Sardeshpande’s plays “Sahi Re Sahi” and “Dil Maange More” are being performed this weekend (25th-26th March) in H N Kalakshetra, Jayanagar. Interested people, go grab a seat. Laugh till you drop and let me know your feedback in this comments section !
And thanks anon informers !
links for 2006-03-21
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Here it comes….might increase efficiency by 40%
links for 2006-03-16
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To those who were asking what was Google earth for, other than to blah blah..
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What ??!!
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So what ?
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Day per se, some joy:), some surprises. 
Some disappointments more acceptances. 
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But at the end of the day, the truth that is not very welcome, is reminded again, that it is going on….that it has flown too fast. That there are regrets. That there are memories. Gains. Losses. Regrets. Accomplishments.
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Its been quite long here..but touchwood it has been smooth also…learnt, absorbed, questioned, argued, fought, won, lost, fell, walked, spoke, dumbed, cried, laughed and all that…yet, it looks incomplete. Probably coming quarters will require me to teach along with learn, radiate along with absorbing, answer along with questioning and so on. But where does it end ?
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Confused. Determined. Controllable. Unpredictable.
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Sometimes I feel it is too early, sometimes quite opposite - its over. Wonder which will be proved correct. Irony is same as the advantage - to be a part of the process.
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And yeah.
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May the insanity never decline. 
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. - Rabindranath Tagore
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard
Laugh-Cry
What makes us cry when in pain and laugh otherwise and not vice-versa ? 
In other words, is it possible to condition a child from the start to react otherwise ?
links for 2006-03-14
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I’m not creative enough to come up with something novel. Entrepreneurs have these great ideas, and even then it’s not always enough to make a new business work.. Spot on!! I would have echoed 1,3,4,7 too. But he probably missed these: No support and Concern about Financial Security
links for 2006-03-13
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Work on the international airport has begun in right earnest. The Metro Rail project has received the green signal and is all set to chug. A Monorail to complement it is on the cards. Nineteen prime roads have been taken up for major repair.
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Strong protest outsourcing
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Doing most of this and more …:)
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WoW
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I’d buy another BMW because, although there was a problem, it saved my life in that crash
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Another popcorn offering. Why popcorn ?
Here is gyan:
Popcorn is
1) Light weight
2) Not very nutrious
3) Taste is temporary
4) Over priced
5) Well marketed and has a clear target audience in mind.
6) Good profit margin
Film:
1) There is no underlying strong story or theme.
2) There is no requirement of a technically rich content. - songs/lyrics/cinematography nothing.
3) Not many things from the film linger in the mind once we are out of hall
4) Definitely not worth the money to see in a hall.
5) Rap song or otherwise good marketing and well targeted to so called multiplex crowd.
6) Easily make profit with only intial run.
Previous recent such films very Bunty-bubli and Bluffmaster (yeah..Sippy there too).
These are also trying to fill the void left by David Dhawan’s weekly releases. But a good point is that they are not trying to be overtly hilarious but succeed to tickle the funny bone here or there. Main characteristic is the simple connecting events not carrying much intensity themselves.
When you sit down to review such a film or even to tell a neighbour about the film you are struggling for words. There is no particular story to tell, nothing to highlight. On one spectrum is a film like Yuva or RDB and on the other side of spectrum are these, which just come and go and add to the number. But for the 3 hours it might just be able to relax someone. Be able to make someone try to laugh. On asked your opinion about it, you are still thinking - liking such a film depends higly on personal taste [I don't like popcorn either]. I neither dismiss them nor recommend them, but just add that going to a theater is not worth the time money and effort.
Before signing off, one sentence about Nana. Nana is back in the skin of a semi-mental good hearted, helpless etc etc character. How I wish he does more of Apaharan stuff.
links for 2006-03-09
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Move over How Stuff Works, this site rocks. Via Swaroopch.info
Sleep
Sleep is a good companion of me - I feel tired, I go to sleep. I feel bored, I go to sleep. I have nothing to do, I go to sleep. I have lots of work and don’t know where to start, I go to sleep. I have lots to think, I go to sleep[Latest study says sleeping is best to take complex decisions also..heh I knew it long back..sleeping reduces the intensity of the problem and lets you think in a calm mind]. Boring books, boring TV programmes immediately put me to sleep. During exams, sleeping is my first priority.(which was later found to be a good decision when one of our profs said “Your sleep, your hunger, believe me, these exams do not deserve them”. Yeah!)
Even in 5 minute local bus journey, if I get a place to sit, I can comfortably sleep. Once during local train journey in Bombay which lasted for an hour, I slept and missed my station. The train went further and came back and luckily by that time I was awake to get down in my stop. I even slept while I was a pillion rider, but that was a different story(Lack of sleep caused it).
There are few things I could bargain my sleep for. But, ironically, some of my memorable moments point to my sleepless nights - either with kid cousins gossiping thru most of the night or during Goa tour [played or gossiped till wee hours in morning] and few others.
But lately but not neverly, I have realised that sleep is a waste of time. Especially the excess sleep that I seem to be making. I realise it because, there is not a single moment when I am awake do I waste. Also lately, I value time, than I ever did before. [A separate post on this I will do if time permits].
And this lately is not that lately. I decided to regulate my sleeping habits before last year. (You can see the goal setting here). The fact that I could not achieve is out of topic for this post! And thus the goal continued to this year and also there was a modification to it.
Now coming to the reason why I started telling all that is, when I found the article on how to rise early by none other than Steve Pavlina, the article, one of the most read , touches upon similar thoughts that I had before forming those rules for myself. But the difference is, Pavlina succeeds in getting up early and I fail miserably to put to practise my own set of rules. That is a shame.
However, not to take away anything away from that beautiful article which might finally help us to get up early giving this solution:
The optimal solution for me has been to combine both approaches. It’s very simple, and many early risers do this without even thinking about it, but it was a mental breakthrough for me nonetheless. The solution was to go to bed when I’m sleepy (and only when I’m sleepy) and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time (7 days per week). So I always get up at the same time (in my case 5am), but I go to bed at different times every night.
He followed up with another article and two things were hard hitting for me
One why we should get up early(oh..forget those health benefits for now):
A small amount of extra time each day adds up to significant amounts over the course of a year. 30 minutes a day is 182.5 hours in a year. That’s more than a month of working full-time (40 hours per week).For me the savings was about 90 minutes/day. That’s like getting a free bonus year every decade.
This comes back to the “Time” factor I was mentioning. This point, if none others, should make me serious about executing my sleep habits well.
If you can’t get yourself out of bed when your alarm goes off, this is likely due to a lack of self-discipline. If you have enough self-discipline, you’ll get out of bed no matter what. Motivation can also help, but motivation is short lived and may only last a few days. Discipline is like a muscle. The more you build it, the more you can rely on it.
The second point is about discipline. I have come to understand that it is quite tough to be self-disciplined, regularly.
But the whole point of writing this prelude is to tell that I want to practise Polyphasic sleep. Heh! Polyphasic sleep, in short, involves short duration (20-30min) of sleep every once in 6 hours! Again compelling advantage is the extra time gained! After I retire, probably, I will try it. Pavlina has tried it, has detailed reports about it and is very happy with the result. At least I was thinking of a variation that can suit me, but it looks any variation will not help.[Of course with a rigorous adaptation period it should be possible but might not be as beneficial as the original one.]
And one more thing, before I finish, after the success of above result encouraged him to conduct one more experiment, which is very interesting! It is about earning million dollar by intention-manifestation model. That is, you wish for it and you get it. Something on the lines of Power of subconscious mind, I feel. There are 850 odd people publicly registered and the result -approx $401,000 manifested - is very tempting!
And I am planning to extend this experiment for my own benefits into two more secret wishes I have Wish me luck.
links for 2006-03-08
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I wish there were few other ones…that drumming episode..that painting episode…
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Ajax dictionary..wow superfast.
Counselor Idealist
Before starting, please go and fill this (if you feel you know me). This should give the result so far.
Hope you did that, thanks, now forget what you said and continue reading further. I am sure, I will trust what you have to say about me rather than the following. Anyways…
I am Counselor Idealist. In short I am iNFj.
I took this personality test, quite long for my patience though, filled with some questions meaning same but with different wordings, some questions differing very little in words but meaning more different. At the end I turned out to be what I mentioned above.
Analysis reveals some highlights like the following.
* distinctively expressed intuitive personality
* moderately expressed feeling personality
* slightly expressed judging personalitySome more insights:
Oh yeah…
Say that after me 10 times…I am always noted to be difficult to understand and after a point of time I started taking pride in it. You will never know me…Which explains the tagline of the blog (the stranger part).
Rich inner life ? A very ambigious statement and I will let that pass. But the second part was my unconscious decision and I was surprised when I realised it myself. Rest, I leave it to those who have suffered the result.
No horoscope was so accurate! Lets see more…
Yeah….am puzzled…
I know…I call it intuitions. All you, beware !
Btw, what are you ?
links for 2006-03-07
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Nice pics
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500 experiments any one can do.
WP201 and more
I reluctantly, finally upgraded to WP20 (201 to be accurate). It proved to be much seamless contrary to my apprehensions(I was mainly concerned about the breaking of plugins). Even though I use DB backup plugin, I also download the backup. To my shock, the database has grown thrice in size since previous backup, and with weak connection it meant I had to wait long time before I could proceed (that would be next time I am free at home in Blore…)
Problems:
All my plugins worked just fine except the Adhesive which required an upgrade. But the page redirect that was fine earlier broke down now. I tried all possible solutions on .htaccess side but later came to know that the problem lies in the way the pages’ url treated in wp201 which is different from earlier. I am yet to fix this.
I wanted to change the way the link posts are treated - to disappear from main page but to be present in main feed. I wanted to do the fix in main index.php and after many trials I found a workable solution that worked fine on a wp201 in my another test blog but it failed here. The posts either appeared at both places or disappeared from both places, both the times failing the logic[as I understand] of the code. After much hairloss, as it stands today, the link posts will not appear in main page as well as in main feed. So if you are interested, you need to go here for the link posts, and this will be the feed only for links posts. But I intend to make it work the way I want (either using a plugin that was all the way with me from beginning but I did not make use of it or by using Asides or taming the index.php itself) but not immediately.
Another major nagging issue is that theme switching requires one additional F5 (refresh). Since there is no update of the Theme Switcher plugin for WP20 and since it is already present at “Plugins that work for WP20” list, I do not know if I am facing the issue for some other reason or it is an issue with plugin/wp20.
Along with the upgrade few other changes are installed on blog such as few new plugins/themes which should give me/you more power/ease and make this place look prettier.
Before I finish, Semiologic and K2 and Skippy plugins are just great.
Till later …
Update: Let me know if something is broken
Update2: More issues. I am facing issue with sidebar when ThemeSwitcher is activated along with Semiologic and even otherwise in other themes. Some strange behaviour. So no theme switcher 
RDB, Page 3 and Shantaram
From RDB(Between DJ and Sue):
Sue: kaha milte hain aise dost
ek din ye sub kuch nahi rehna
sab apne apne raste (pe) nikhal jayengeSue:kabhi kabhi mil hi sakte ho
hota nahi ji..wohi duniya di zamele
naukri doondo paise kamao ghar basao
phir life de ishar pe nachte jao
tim lak lak te, tim lak lakcollege kii game mein is tarah hum life ko nachate hain
to duji taraf life humko nachata hai
tim lak lak te tim lak lakyou know gulabo, university se pass out huye menu punch saal hogaya
phir bhi, I am here onlySue:main samjhi nahi
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mainu bas university mein hi rehna haiSue: kyuon
idhar campus mein log jante hain menu
DJ ki ithi koi aukad hai
log kehte dj mein badi baath hain
kuch karega djlekin bahar duniya mein ache ache dj phis gaye
lakhon ki beed mein
From Page 3:
kitne ajeeb rishtey hai yaha pe
do pal milte hai saath saath chalte hai
jab mod aaye toh bach ke nikalte hai
kitne ajeeb rishtey hai yaha pe
do pal milte hai saath saath chalte hai
kitne ajeeb rishtey hai yaha peyaha sabhi apni hi dhun main deewane hai
kare wahi jo apna dil ki hi mane hai
kaun kisko pooche kaun kisko bole
sabke labon par apne tarane hai
le jaye nasib kisiko kahape
kitne ajeeb rishtey hai yaha pekhwaabon ki yeh duniya hai khwaaboh main hi rehna hai
raahen le jaye jaha sangh sangh chalna hai
waqt ne hamesha yaha naye khel khele
kutch bhi ho jaye yaha bas khush rehna hai
manzil lage kareeb sabko yahape
kitne ajeeb rishtey hai yaha pe
do pal milte hai saath saath chalte hai
jab mod aaye toh bach ke nikalte hai
kitne ajeeb rishtey hai yaha pe
A conversation between Lin and Karla in Shantaram
“That’s why I like you, you know.”
“I thought you did not believe in love.”
“What do you mean, love ?”
“I ..I thought thats what you were talking about.”
“No, I said that’s why I like you.” she said laughing and looking up at moon. “But I do believe in love, everyone believes in love.”
“I am not so sure. I think lot of people have stopped believing in love.”
“People haven’t stopped believing in love. They haven’t stopped wanting to be in love. They just don’t believe in a happy ending anymore. They still belive in love, falling in love but they know now that…that most romances almost never end as well as they begin.”
