Its been more than a month. Things had improved to slip back again. I’m back at square one. Thrattle, so apt I named; there’s been so much provocation & disturbance that I cannot blog about. Thou shall 09′ be good.
Happy Holidays & a Fresh New Year.
Nobody is dispensable.
My ex-team-lead kept saying this. After about 1 yr working under him; one fine morning, I heard the news that he hung himself in his house. What a pity? A few weeks passed & we didn’t miss him much at work. All the responsibilities he had, were transferred to some other person. The project went on. I think his family would hav moved-on as well.
Each one of us living in this world is very much dispensable. We are utterly trivial comparing the massiveness of this earth & the space around. Every person’s life is to be overwritten by people who follow. The loss of a child or a member of your family or the love of life are all just temporary feelings of sorrow & dejection. Things would eventually come & fill those doleful crevices.
Very recently, I re-learnt the meaning of the feelings: remembering someone & missing someone. The intensity of pain is greater in missing someone than you remember someone. I think remembrance tends more towards happiness. Also, you can’t miss someone all the time. It is so painful & you unconsciously restore to remembering them. Making them dispensable.
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Love is like a food-poison. It becomes a part of your daily intake & gets in your blood stream. You keep thinking that food is good, being totally unaware of its ingredients. You’ll not realize that you are sick until you puke one day. It makes you weak & miserable. All your screws would be loosed & would let things go.
You’ll also enjoy some comfort in going thro’ that suffering. It is like that feeling of liberation when you confess something. Although many would disagree, I think this is the case.
Love sucks until the last drop of your bodily fluid ceases to exist. Period.
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I came across this post at LifeBeyondCode. To quote:
A path where the journey is better than the destination!
Think that journey is very much better only when the final destination is gonna cause some discomfort. Slam those brakes & bring your wagon to a screeching halt when you foresee things to go crazy weird. Although it is hard for your ears & confronts your balance, you get time to re-plan. Assert your desired destination, pull-up your direction maps & re-check your routes. You can go nowhere after you hav reached the original destination. So know where your brakes are.
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Let me reinstate: I’m OK!
Doesn’t this sentence, sound oxymoronic just like a const variable?
Change is the one, that is always constant.
The speed of light which you might think to be an universal constant, actually refers to something that is changing. It denotes the rate of change of the position of a photon.
How about the radius of earth? Is it constant? It denotes radius of something that is in self-rotation as well as on the move around the sun. What if the earth stops all its movements? Will its radius be the same? Will it still be spherical (~)?
Did I hear about the mass? Well! Take the mass of anything. What makes a mass? Its protons, neutrons & electrons. All are under constant move.
Leave living-things, even non-living things change. Every mountain grows. Sea levels change. Clouds float to places. Stones roll in diff shapes, the environment around carves it. Tables crack with age. Chairs bend. Oxygen eats metals. Dead bodies disintegrate.
Earth’s gravity, number of chromosomes in humans, your parents (think abt it), your interests – all denote change or will subject to change.
Change is everywhere. Everything surrounding you changes. Embrace change.
(ps: Even the spelling of “Change” can change, you may never be sure of!)
IMHO, Chrome isn’t any better apart from UI tweaks & V8 JS engine. Separate process per tab is a part of IE8 too. But the total memory used is real BIG. V8 is opensource, if Mozilla wants it, they can pick it. Infact, Firefox 3.1 has a better JS engine than the V8.
Google has opensourced their vector graphics library called Skia. Wondering who would use, when everyone is going with Cairo?
GOOG has entered a mature market like they did with Android. It amuses you becos it is brand_new. Firefox has a big sense of community. Their extensions such as AdBlock Plus is a real plus, which Google in principle, shudn’t support. I guess, Chrome’ll eat up IE’s market share in the long run. Loyal Firefox users wud fallback.
Chrome is opensource & still not available on Linux? What a pity? It is a little nuisance. Better, ignore it.
I believe, Google uses “Opensource” strategy while entering mature markets & when its products are not all that great. It makes all techies “feel” good & embarks ease of acceptance & adoption. GReader is not opensource. Picassa is not. That’s because they are pretty “featuristic” among the comparable ones. Google’s contributions to opensource with GSoC is commendable thou’.
11th hr inclusions:
Update #0: Contrary to what I said about Google, I found this.
You can’t deny quoting some rare exceptions!