Wrapping up another phase, bracing for the next

Well, now I am on the verge of wrapping up this phase of my life. This phase started with the world and life showing it's true and harsh face to me. Out from my adolescence, these realities were a great jolt to me in the beginning. Later they replaced themselves as my teachers and today I have a much better knowledge of life and it's ways than I had 10-12 years ago.

I have learnt many lessons. However harsh it may sound, there are only certain relationships in life that are genuine. I have also learnt that one should dream to the fullest, no harm in that, but one should not get carried away by them. One should act towards them taking all the limitations of one's surroundings into consideration. If one is hardworking, he or she never fails. My work taught me that, hardworking necessarily does not mean slogging, it means smart work and work that is effective to achieve it's desired goal. Also, you may be right on certain issues, but there is no point in getting worked up to make others believe in it, if their belief or disbelief doesn't matter to you much. Argue definitely, but there is no need to go overboard after a certain point. One should exercise "controlled aggressiveness".

Out of the many mistakes I have made, one of the biggest seems to be my premonition that love (as in two young individuals) and subsequent relationship is doomed to be bad. Rather it is a challenge that should be accepted as a part of life. One needs to be ready to alter drastically one's lifestyle till now, and also be ready to make more "un-selfish" sacrifices. 2nd April this year onwards, my views definitely took turn in the right direction, and it is for this new phase of my life that I now prepare myself to fight and enjoy!!

Praying to god and expecting blessings from all my well wishers in making it a success!!

Virtualization - New Age Coming

During my recent project experience, I was introduced to this wonderful concept of virtualization. This concept allows one to install the true installations of "guest OSes" on a host OS. For example one can install Windows XP, Windows 2003 server on a PC running Windows Vista. What's more you could install the Linux flavours too! And the best part is that you could setup a virtual lab of these systems!!

Leading software provider of virtualization is VMWare. However, VirtualBox from Sun (Oralce??) offeres a free and GNU/GPL license for use. What then? I have installed VirtualBox on the laptop. The laptop runs the office version of Windows Vista and I have installed Ubuntu as the guest inside VirtualBox. In a few days I plan to setup a mini lab of my own, depending on how the hardware fares ;)

Below is a screen shot of the setup. Check out the Vista logo in the bottom left corner... and the Ubuntu desktop covering the entire screen. In fact, I am posting this blog from within Ubuntu!

Second Chance and more

There are few relations, that are always there for you. Like your parents and God (or whatever power you believe is equivalent to that).

Even after thousands of mistakes, if you go to them and accept your wrongdoing they will forgive you. Why? Because it is unselfish love, something that is very difficult to cultivate with every other person. When you do enter into such a relationship, ego on either side is lost somewhere in a deep dark corner and you are filled with an overall pleasant feeling.

I thank God, for making me so fortunate!

By the way, here is a video on the same lines. From "Colonial Cousins", featuring Hariharan and Leslie Lewis. The part of Hariharan is a classical Kannada song, "Krishna Nee Begane, Baaro", composed by Vyasaraya Tirtha in the late 15th century A.D. The meaning translates roughly as: "Krishna! You come soon"

Travel Time Again!

Well, next week would be travel time again. This time to Sweden for around 3 months or so. They say it is already cold there and going to get even more colder by the coming months.

We will be off to a city named Linköping. Work there should be hectic, and let us hope it is hectic. The laziness and the lethargy gained here in Athlone, would wear off somewhat.

Also, starting to get excited about December. The counter says:

14 weeks, 06 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes 48 seconds, and 288 milliseconds
but she says that it is not going to be before 07:30 in the evening that "shubho-drishti" shall take place. Hmmmm......

Also what is this fuss that I hear about dependent visa in Ireland??? God!! I pray to you! please....

HTML 5

I started to read about HTML 5 since yesterday. It promises to bring revolutionary changes in the way we write mark-up code for our browsers to render the hitherto "static" web pages. What interests me specially are the new video, audio and the canvas tags.

Watched the seminar held by the Google guys involved in the development of Google Chrome regarding the HTML 5 support in that browser, for the future. Most impressive.

I also got to know that Firefox has started to provide support for the video and the audio tags from version 3.5.2 onwards. So here it goes... listen to the promo of "Inteha". The player you see below is from a pure HTML tag (the audio tag). No flash plugin involved, no Silverlight or Shockwave either.... :D... And if you are seeing a "Your browser does not support the new HTML 5 audio tag yet." message.. then that is what it means.. Grin, Grin...

Countdown timer to the Kaaboom day of my life

My Kaaboom downcounter

:D

From my very first days of programming the 8085 micro-processor and later on the 8051 microconrtollers, the x86 family and the Pentium micro-processors, I have a facination for the digital timers and counters. Well, decided to program this one in javascript. It is a down-counter, with a large number of bits in its register bank!!

The code is obfuscated, though you guyz using your grey cells may not require much of an effort to decode it. I hope. Grin, Grin!!!

Sweetest wish

.. Well I got that in the morning today, for the first time.