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This is the week that I feel that I've actually utilized for something..it might have just been the result of the (terrifyingly) fast two weeks I've had before this one..but man! I feel that I've grown this week. 

I've found out things I need to work on - and I've worked on them too.

Things on my list include -

1. Think less - do more

2. Get better at stuff that I care about

3. Being logical = being sarcastic

It all seems logical when I look at it now - but somehow I feel my logic has decieved me all this time

Moral of the story -Never be ashamed to be yourself.

Math was never a friend

from xkcd

Subjective Opinion

Always pick stocks in fundamentally good companies. Daily ups and downs should not matter because you always invest for the long run

Friends are important to me.

Relief...but till when

I fixed my computer.. again.. I think I like messing it up just so I can fix it. This exercise is weird because it shows me time and again how I can have single minded focus for my objective.

It comes only for computers...till now...

Lesson of the day.
GRUB - Good, NTLDR - Bad

Hawaiian Shack

 Thanks to Saurabh I'm now a fan of the Long Island Iced Tea. Its somewhat like tea (if you consider Windows and Linux to be similar). Best enjoyed with loud music and friends. 

Hits you real hard real quick.

Song of the day(s)

I am unwritten, can't read my mind, I'm undefined
I'm just beginning, the pen's in my hand, ending unplanned

.....

I break tradition, sometimes my tries, are outside the lines
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can't live that way

.....

Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten.

The Unwritten Law

I could have never imagined that it was illegal to use Opera with Google Docs.

Well you learn something new everyday.

Take Advantage of life

Stuff happens around you all the time, its time you tune in to what you want and take control of where you're heading. Begin with an end in mind and it doesn't matter if no one else but you can visualize it - its just because they lack your perspective.

On a more personal note - I realized a long time ago that people ask me directions all the time ( At least two people a day! ) , its time I take advantage of it. ;)

Oh Disinformation!

It all started with my Dad mentioning that some proteins can be bad for you. After a healthy (just kidding) discussion I started to crawl on the net for it and I was shocked to find out that MSG (aka Ajinomoto ) is not a dangerous substance! and even it causes a temporary sensation of numbness only when injested in large amounts. Now who doesn't know that too much of any thing is bad.

It was a pleasant surprise though to see Heston Blumenthal ( The Kitchen Chemistry guy ) in support of what the world still believes to be a killer. Well people are still eating MSG but they just don't know it now (Hydrolyzed soy protein, autolyzed yeast, and sodium caseinate, to name a few, all serve essentially the same purpose as MSG.)

Saccharin was another surprise, but that's another story.

That just goes to prove that

You cannot believe everything you hear.

Job Hopping

I love my job, and I think about it all the time but even I don't feel that I should carry on with a job for the rest of my life. Its just an unnecessary waste of my time.

Job security is for E quadrant folks.

If you don't change where your direction, you'll end up where you're heading.

Wonderfalls

I haven't seen Wonderfalls in quite some time now and was reminded about it only when I saw the Caroline Dhavernas has a lookalike (from Europe and non related even!). Although I can only confess to have seen only 3 episodes, I loved the concept (not the lame talking animals thing) of witty dialogues filling up a drama about nothing. (Isn't that what popular television is all about)

The philosophical irony in the commentary will definetly catch you off-guard even when you're watching re-runs!

A few good ones that I remember
From wikiquote

Jaye: I make good life choices—mostly because they’re forced on me—but I make them, and I find myself in unpleasant situations all the time. You know why? Because even if you have a choice it can and will be taken away from you. We’re all fate’s bitch. You might as well go ahead and bend over for destiny now.

Bianca: Your home is a trailer. Don't you see the beautiful poetry in that? It's a thing that's been designed to go someplace, and yet the hitch isn't hooked up to anything. So it just sits here, never living up to it's potential… but never in any danger of breaking down either.

I was really surprised when I read that there are just 13 episodes of Wonderfalls! Atleast they show all of them on StarWorld. I just hope I'll get to see the 10 that I haven't seen.

Wikipedia in your Opera

Opera is the fastest browser there is, not only because of its unique caching system but also because it's got a hundred of shortcuts to improve your efficiency.

One of them is the "Hotclick".When a word, on any page is doubleclicked or highlighted, a different menu comes up when its rightclicked. Using this menu can improve your web-experience tremendously.

The trick lies in moderating your standard_menu.ini file. Windows users have this file in their C:/My Programs/Opera/ini folder while Linux users have it in the /usr/share/opera/ini folder.

WARNING:Don't modify this file while Opera is running.

First find where your hotclick popup menu section starts, it'll probably look something like this.

[Hotclick Popup Menu]

Item, 50872 = Copy

Item, 67652 = Copy to note

Platform Win2000-Unix-Mac, Feature Voice, Item, 70494 = Speak selection

--------------------1

Item, 65184 = Hotclick search, 200

;Submenu, 291920, Search with menu

Submenu, 291920, Internal Search With

Item, 65187 = Hotclick search, 50

Item, 65188 = Hotclick search, 51



I'm in love with Wikipedia so I just had to have it in here and I've found that Googling for definitions is much faster than the answers.com redirect that is provided by default. So now my hotclick section looks like this.

[Hotclick Popup Menu]

Item, 50872 = Copy

Item, 67652 = Copy to note

Platform Win2000-Unix-Mac, Feature Voice, Item, 70494 = Speak selection

--------------------1

Item, 65184 = Hotclick search, 200

;Submenu, 291920, Search with menu

Submenu, 291920, Internal Search With

Item, 65187 = Hotclick search, 50

Item, 65188 = Hotclick search, 51

Item, "Wikipedia" = Go to page, "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=%t"

Item, "Define" = Go to page, "http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=define:&t&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8"


Now you can easily add your own favorite sites to the menu by just looking at the search string in your browser's address bar when you're searching at that site and replacing the word that you queried for with "%t" without the quotes. That's it.

  

Song of the Day

From Audioslave's Dandelion

Seasons come along and seasons go
And what they'll leave behind
I don't pretend to know
I'm afraid that all I have missed
Will loom very large when the darkness lifts

Upgrade

I thought it was all in my head the first time, but I'm positive that the humble BEST bus ticket has had an upgrade. The paper's become a bit thicker and glazed of the front too.

Trust

One would assume that a failure in trust ,in someone, will be forgiven if this failure is due to incompetence, but things don't always work the way you want them too(For an optimist it would be - things always fall into place slower than expected)

I've seen that many people are in the opinion that power begets trust. I don't really think that's possible. Its more of a moral choice. Hence, You can't trust the King - Power begets Respect

Ambition

My lifelong ambition is to be accepted into Densa. No luck so far...

Inconvenient

I think I learn about things faster when I see it happen with other people as compared to when the same things happen to me. I think of not making the same mistakes whenever I look at problems, and them it hits me that I've been making the same one for ages.

Found this on Wikiquote

Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing. ~ Warren Bennis

But I think this one fits today more aptly.

Do whatever you do from your heart, never because its convenient ~ Sanat

Patience

What is patience?
From what I've learnt its something that separates the great from the immature, but what exactly is it?

Its like the monster in LOST, you know its there, you know what it does or what it can do, but you never quite understand what its made of.

The following are some of my personal theories on what patience could mean.

Its a more personalized version of "Hope" - Hoping that a problem, usually caused by someone else's intentional wrong doing will solve itself because the person will understand what is being done is wrong. You know that the person's wrong but you accept the fact that you cannot change it unless the person decides to change by themselves, and this won't happen any faster if you keep "nudging" them to change.
Actually come to think of it, this rate of "nudging" is invertionally proportional to the rate of change of said quality and or action(atleast when teenagers are involved).
Does the same thing apply - when you realize that you are not perfect, and what you will say could be wrong and optionally what the other person's saying could be right.

That gets me to another point - Just delaying yourself - Is that patience?
More often than not I'm deleting out whole lines that I've written in a chatbox, not because it seems out of context, but because it seems rude. I have a feeling that if I could just do the same to when I start talking I could be perceived as more patient - which in turn would give me more patience.

Is calmness equal to being patient. Obviously it has to do something with being patient, but the sanity of the calmness and the situation have so much to do with it. If you're calm in an argument, that could be patience - unless you've already lost - then you're "silent with shame".

Patience to go through tough times comes partly from hope and partly from diligence - according to me, if you believe that you've been doing the right thing, or you know what it is that needs to be done and you're willing to sacrifice older habits for solving a problem.

After having said everything, I still like this

"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone." Alan Watts

A Trivial Matter

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Sanat!

1. Sanat is actually a mammal, not a fish.
2. Forty percent of the world's almonds and twenty percent of the world's peanuts are used in the manufacture of Sanat.
3. It takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the Sun's surface to Sanat.
4. Sanat can be found on a Cluedo board between the Library and the Conservatory.
5. On stone temples in southern India, there are more than 30 million carved images of Sanat.
6. Finding Sanat on Christmas morning is believed to bring good luck.
7. A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are individually known as Sanat.
8. If you cut Sanat in half and count the number of seeds inside, you will know how many children you are going to have.
9. You should always store Sanat in an airtight container in the fridge.
10. Sanat is 1500 years older than the pyramids.

I am interested in - do tell me aboutherhimitthem

Back to the Stone Age !

Sunday is the day of tech news in the newspapers, and loads of it. I found one really interesting, a world of barter has evolved around us and most of us are oblivious to it. Plus it gets interesting if you happen to read this wikipedia article about how a guy got a two storey house from one red paperclip. Sounds like something I should try.
Dug out a few trade sites related to Mumbai but the following seems dismal.I Liked a few though
http://mumbai.craigslist.org/bar/
http://beta.we-exchange.com/
http://tradeshade.com/forum.php?id=1

It can only get better.