farewell my ROKR

My phone is atlast about to die. It is down, and doesn't work on battery or with a sim inserted. It was awful. What that city could do to you. When i took it to the service center, after a 2 day analysis they said that the whole internal board has to be replaced and it would cost aroun 6.5 k and the same bought new costs 7k. But it was too much, i had retire the device. It has been of great service to me, and i can never forget that extension of my arm..... To buy another piece of the same would not be proper. Until something worthy of your successor arrives, i will have to make do with some other device. Am looking around, but everything is out of my budget. Ever the DEXT is around 35K which i am not in a position to buy. (it is not a question of affordability, it is about the question of value for money).

Microsoft Silverlight & Linux.......

It has been a long time since i wrote. Well it has been really a long time, stuck in the worst city Bangalore, then moving back. Being in there in certain things. Having a fifteen minutes of fame. Everything was there. I did miss writing here in blogger. Though there was twitter to write to, it is not fun. But a great way to say out ideas short and sweet.

Well, after a long time, and trying to figure a way out to make Linux my main os at work, i succeded last week... Yes! DimensioN Studio 2.4 started to work in linux, it took a little hard work to figure out which files were missing. With a little more help from winetricks, i did get it to work properly via wine. It was so much fun doing it. I was just happy that i need not have to move into windows anymore.

Then i just thought of giving the new browser based cloud product of ours a try from linux. But this darn Microsoft agains comes into frustrate me. Silverlight doesn't seem to work with linux. and every attempt to make the new product work with Mono Moonlight also failed. It was frustrating to think that i have to login back to windows just to work with something which is browser based. This is not fair.....

Talk about microsoft and fairness, what am i talking? So i had to give the error messages and i was able to only hope that either mono team will release Moonlight 2.0 soon and it would be compatible with Silverlight 3.0, or our engineering team will make sure it will make changes to accomodate the moonlight too. But who knows....

The suddenly today when we were just discussing things, suddenly it turned towards the new product and linux compatibility. And My interviewer asked me why don't you try with wine or whisky and run the windows version of browser and try to make it work. This was a nice idea. Firefox 3.5.3 was up in 5 minutes, but then again Silverlight decided to play bad. Everything i tried was in vain. Nothing worked. Now i have others in the race. It's got to be me or the Engineering who should find a way out.... But if others find, that is also fine.

Why?! Why is it that at everyturn a new obstacle arises......

Gold Star! - followup

i had mentioned about unconference which takes place in my office every alternate week. and how i missed a gold star last week. Well this time i made it. But i don't think i was worth it this time. After the question by the other tall lady, i didn't stand a chance. i had lost all hope once that question was posted. mine never had a chance, and i was also not able to think of anything else. i had lost all hope of making it this session, i was not even a single position of getting even a silver. But somehow i made it to 13 votes, and the tall lady too managed 13 votes for the best question. i couldn't believe it. But the fact that i had to share the gold is not great. But this is the first gold. But still it should have been her. She was the one who had shared, with me. her question was best. But you can never stand in front of the people. See there is a saying in tamil. "Makkal Theerpe magesan tirpu", meaning the people's decision is the god's decision.

Next time, next week. i will work even more hard to be solo winner of the gold. But i have already set my eyes on the red bell which goes for challenge and which is a point more than gold. i have challenged some. Seems i have to read more and be cautious, coz in the next session i will be travelling thru hot waters, one small mistake could create large slides and falls.

Aegan = Main Hoon Na!

To Miss Nayanthara,

You ain't no sushmita, to do justice to that role.

A Hard Decision

i don't know weather i am doing it correct by writing this post. But, as the saying goes, when in doubt....

It is not everyday that some one who is up the ladder at the near top of the organization would call you for a chat.

It is not everyday that, that one person at the top of the organization, would offer a dream chance to join his elite team.

And it is not everyday that you would reject the offer and live the rest of the life as though nothing had happened.

There were not so many reasons why i said no to his offer... only a few,

• His thinking of only his solution is correct.
• Being asked to stay in Delhi.
• The rest of office's attitude.

If he can work around the first 2 points, i can work something out of the 3 point. But i can't do anything. and the verdict had been spilled out of my mouth.

As i have heard, it was difficult to say No. But somehow, i did......

India Strikes Gold on the 4th day of the Beijing Olympics 2008

BCCI Rs.25 lakhs

Haryana Rs.25 Lakh

Karnataka Rs.10 Lakh

Punjab Rs.1 crore

Chandigarh Rs.5 lakh

Madhya Pradesh Rs.5 lakh

Free travel in Spice Jet

Free Travel pass in First Class Compartment

This aint a wish list. This is what Abinav bindra gets for winning the gold medal in Olympics, not to mention to his favourite dishes from his sister for this raksha bandhan...

Well I am not saying no body should reward him for winning the olympic gold medal.. he has made india proud. But the very point which all these government bodies miss out is what makes me angry...

Lets list the facts first.

• Abinav never used any government facilities.
• Abinav never went to the academy to practice.
• all other shooters failed to qualify, baring a few who went to the first round..

when these idiotic governments can shell out so much money on to this winner, then why not shell some thing like this for a academy where the people can practice and can get us more medals, that this only lone some till date, while china has already raked 32 (and counting) gold medals....

And for the whole day, (also for the following next 2 days) they were telecasting and talking and wishing to only abinav bindra, everything else took a back seat... They talked about nothing. All these tv channels which carry many a sting operations to uncover so many things, why not they do a investigation on why so many athletes failed to qualify. Why don't they raise this question everytime they are hailing some one. This time, indians struck gold on the 4th day itself, now they will not worry, even if nobody else is going towin a medal in the rest of the days in this tournanemt. why worry, we already got a medal and that too gold.. FUCK off

This makes a point like this, tat only those with money can sharpen their talents and go about and try to win the gold. The previous versions silver winner Rajavardhan Rathore was supported by the Army and not by the government in any means... and now he is getting all the money back. again. and what the rest of the people who relied on the government systems, there futures will be in doubt, they might be let off for some days, then everything will be forgotten and they will be doing the same things again...

what the hell is this government there for, what is the sports ministry doing. Why the hell am i writing about this?!!

Normal Eyes

Hmm,

The verdict is out atlast after so many years of hard yearned chance to atlast get rid of these glasses. it was a waste. all these efforts, the different ways i used to make my parents go with me for the laser test. twice i came close to success, but now all is just dust......

No i can't leave my glasses behind, i can't have normal eyes like everyone else around me. i have to be dependent on the glasses. it has been a dream which i had been chasing for nearly 15 years.... all those vivid dreams, colorful dreams in 70 mm with all those jazzy effects went poof when the ophthalmologist spoke those words, poof like how smoke disappears into thin air, everything disappeared. I just couldn't speak anything more, i just left. and when i exited the room , it was like the whole was laughing at my face, saying, yours was just a dream, nothing more, just a dream which just went away.

what else can you expect from a failure like me.. only non materializing dreams, just like the designs of my e-bike, just like everything else that has the trademark of me.....

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