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Good News ... ! Finally some good news - Ill be chugging off to Calcutta tomorrow; I'll be there for the next 3 weeks at my grandfather's place. So hope to keep you updated from The City of Joy ! Its more than 2 years since I have been to Calcutta last.   Some respite this will be ... 

HIDDEN THOUGHTS, DESIRES, DIRECT CONFLICT AND IDEALS Well basically a signature on one of my colleague's mails :'Dont forget you are unique just as everyone one else is ...' makes me ponder over quite a few things. As I realise I have often and often compared myself to the next guy or a couple of guys and felt happy or miserable based on that analysis. Let me be frank here. To some extent even aping or imitating behaviour and mannerisms.Often my cribs were utter nonsense on the lines of - he can ride a bike I cant ... ; he seems to be aware of all the places in Bangalore and I dont know most ... Kiddish no ? A psychological anxiety - I maintained these thoughts in the subconcious even though always acted as if I did not care and as a result did not try to develop those very skills or percieved skills that I thought I lacked. Maybe not very simple thought processes I agree, cant help it. I am basically trying to break free and develop a unique stamp/seal...

[ Futurama Redefined ::: Me and my future ] Future Rama - All loaded with stealth stun weapons and the muscular super-ape in toe. I wanted to be a writer, a scientist, a paleobiologist, a history scholar, anything; but ended up being a software engineer. SOFTWARE ENGINEER : (n.) someone who surfs the net at work and checks mail every hour and earns cash for this. Software engineer = tension (says who ?) - not here where I work. Dont get the tension up to your head - its so cool out here (where is the AC remote). As I blogged about the disgust at life, work and stuff - it all seems so foolish now. Why am I wasting precious bandwidth(says who, see what happened to the tech savvy AP Kar and Vajpayee governments). Tried to boil my blood, instead should have tried to convert my extra flab (loads of it) onto more important things probably brain matter and turned as slim as that Barbie doll my little cousin back in Calcutta has - hey shes going to faint of anorexia. Just...

LINUX KERNEL 2.6.3 AND OTHER STORIES   Well I just built the Linux kernel 2.6.3 and installed it - first time it booted it gave some errors but no problems - it did not have vfat support enabled. However the speed is much better and mouse motion is fluid.  So again I built it - this next time it gave a kernel panic while booting up - something about not being able to read the file format - I had missed out mkinitrd (or make install ) left it at make modules_install ...   The .config file need to be generated and its tedious through make menuconfig - you may miss out many options. Instead this is good idea : cp /boot/config-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl .config   (for FEDORA CORE 1 that I am using)   The 1st build is still working but its not reading the CD-ROM drive (block device), floppy drive and no vfat reading support as I mentioned.   Check this site out - http://stopdesign.com/  - A famous web designer ...

Just started reading The Rainmaker by JOHN GRISHAM. Its about a lawyer just getting out of law school and literally penniless, as he starts his career with a millionaire lady and a leaukemia victim fighting against a insurance firm, as his first clients ...

BLOGMIND DUMP - Blog Self Censor :: Deleted last post - was too gross for sensible readers - Amitav Ghosh's next novel is out - 'The Hungry Tide' - based in the Sundarbans (should be good !). - Currently reading : Selections from Swami Vivekananda's Complete Works. - Expect less - Motto of life 'Simple living High thinking' - Indians are loosing this simple concept mentioned above and hence all the miseries. - The spiritual development in East has been emphasized and respect/affection for fellow humans is more Poverty and Purity being the essentials. - The material aspect has caught on like a bug from the western outlook - which is totally artificial and deadly delusive. - Indulge yours senses more and the more yours senses will ask for - much much more. Eg : Get a CTV; then a Flat TV, Then with combo drive/DVD , then HDTV then what not ... - Spiritual comfort/development >> Intellectual >> Physical ... (LEGEND : >> = greater t...