Wow, I'm sick of doubt
Live in the light of certain
South
Cruel bindings
The servants have the power
Dog-men and their mean women
Pulling poor blankets over
Our sailors
I'm sick of dour faces
Staring at me from the TV Tower
I want roses in
My garden bower; dig?
Royal babies, rubies
Must now replace aborted
Strangers in the mud
These mutants, blood-meal
For the plant that's plowed
They are waiting to take us into
The severed garden
Do you know how pale and wanton thrillful
Comes death on a stranger hour
Unannounced, unplanned for
Like a scaring over-friendly guest you've
Brought to bed
Death makes angels of us all
And gives us wings
Where we had shoulders
Smooth as raven's claws
No more money, no more fancy dress
This other Kingdom seems by far the best
Until its other jaw reveals incest
And loose obedience to a vegetable law
I will not go
Prefer a Feast of Friends
To the Giant family.
- Jim Morrison
Related Links: A Feast Of Friends
Friday, December 26, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Form follows function
Its really shocking that educated people at this era thinks "Form follows function" is gibberish. I'm not saying that I understand all of it but at least I'm not dumb enough to say that its gibberish and have the curiosity to learn about it.
Just in case you don't know what that means -
"Form follows function is a principle associated with modern architecture and industrial design in the 20th Century, which states that the shape of a building or object should be predicated by or based upon its intended function or purpose."
Anyway it's been used worldwide, from designing a simple website to a complex space shuttle. Before building something doesn't matter what it is, it can even be a paper plane, you have to know the function or purpose of the entity. Its not rocket science is it? If you fail to understand the purpose of the entity you are building, the entity is ought to be a complete failure at the end of the day.
Between the purpose of a paper plane is to glide when you release it from your hand, the more it glides the better your design is. Just in case some of you don't have enough brain power to figure that out.
Related Links: Form follows function
Just in case you don't know what that means -
"Form follows function is a principle associated with modern architecture and industrial design in the 20th Century, which states that the shape of a building or object should be predicated by or based upon its intended function or purpose."
Anyway it's been used worldwide, from designing a simple website to a complex space shuttle. Before building something doesn't matter what it is, it can even be a paper plane, you have to know the function or purpose of the entity. Its not rocket science is it? If you fail to understand the purpose of the entity you are building, the entity is ought to be a complete failure at the end of the day.
Between the purpose of a paper plane is to glide when you release it from your hand, the more it glides the better your design is. Just in case some of you don't have enough brain power to figure that out.
Related Links: Form follows function
Monday, December 8, 2008
Letters from Iwo Jima
I like Clint Eastwood as an actor but as a director I truly had doubts. His first directed movie I saw was "A Perfect World", I think it is a great movie. But since then he started making movies that are shallow, dramatic and somewhat pointless, at least I think so.
For the last couple of weeks I started watching any war movie I can get my hands on. I was almost out of it when a friend of mine suggested a movie about the battle of Iwo Jima WWII - "Letters from Iwo Jima". It is without a shadow of a doubt a cinematic marvel and by far the finest piece of work from Eastwood.
Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (played by Ken Watanabe)
The movie is based on the Pacific Campaign of World War II 1945. The last stand of the outnumbered Imperial Japanese Army lead by Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (played by Ken Watanabe) against the United States on the island of Iwo Jima located 1,200 kilometers south of mainland Tokyo.
Invasion beach seen from the top of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima
I'm a great admirer of Japanese honor, pride, glory, code and ethics. If someone saw "The Last Samurai" they will understand what I'm talking about. Ken Watanabe did an outstanding job in both the movies to show what Japanese honor is. The music is overwhelming it gives the exact amount of profundity the movie needs. Eastwood was right on target in every aspect of the movie.
We all know that soldiers of Allied Forces fought for survival and for the greater good of humanity but the question is will the soldiers of Axis Alliances be forgotten and will always be remembered as evil just because of their fascist leaders?
Related Links: Letters from Iwo Jima, Battle of Iwo Jima, Iwo Jima, Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Ken Watanabe, Clint Eastwood
For the last couple of weeks I started watching any war movie I can get my hands on. I was almost out of it when a friend of mine suggested a movie about the battle of Iwo Jima WWII - "Letters from Iwo Jima". It is without a shadow of a doubt a cinematic marvel and by far the finest piece of work from Eastwood.
Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (played by Ken Watanabe)
The movie is based on the Pacific Campaign of World War II 1945. The last stand of the outnumbered Imperial Japanese Army lead by Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (played by Ken Watanabe) against the United States on the island of Iwo Jima located 1,200 kilometers south of mainland Tokyo.
Invasion beach seen from the top of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima
I'm a great admirer of Japanese honor, pride, glory, code and ethics. If someone saw "The Last Samurai" they will understand what I'm talking about. Ken Watanabe did an outstanding job in both the movies to show what Japanese honor is. The music is overwhelming it gives the exact amount of profundity the movie needs. Eastwood was right on target in every aspect of the movie.
We all know that soldiers of Allied Forces fought for survival and for the greater good of humanity but the question is will the soldiers of Axis Alliances be forgotten and will always be remembered as evil just because of their fascist leaders?
Related Links: Letters from Iwo Jima, Battle of Iwo Jima, Iwo Jima, Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Ken Watanabe, Clint Eastwood
Friday, November 28, 2008
What is Socialism?
Our world is going through a rather harsh and disturbing time. Doesn’t matter how well off you are and you think it’s not your headache but the fact is at the end of the day it’s really hard to ignore the things that are happening around you. “Human beings are the finest and highest creation of God, we are the only intelligent life form in this entire cosmos” as said by the follower of God and yet we still struggle to measure up as finest creation. If we are the finest and we are alone why are we killing ourselves? Why can’t we leave in peace and stop fighting over insignificant things? Why can’t we help each other instead of drawing ourselves towards extinction? I believe the unfair concentration of power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and creates an unequal society is the greatest cause of everything. Also religion is an extremely powerful thing and a group of politically cunning theist are using that in their favor to control the rest of the world. I believe the next step of human evolution is to get out of these religious idiocy, racial discrimination and imaginary boundaries. If we can’t do that than maybe our extinction is inevitable.
I was reading about Socialism for the past few days and I was really amazed how much the views I have matches with Socialism. Every time we talk about Socialism or Communism, the first thing that come across our mind are the wars but you have to understand that it’s not the ideology that caused the war, it’s the evil inside us that failed us in the past to carry out the ideology. A huge percentage of the world’s population fails to fulfill their basic necessity every day, they go to sleep at night without food and without shelter. Human civilization is like a huge engine, it won’t function properly until all the parts are working, even the tiniest one. A small percentage of the world’s population holds the fate of the rest of the world. We have to think for those who can’t think for themselves. If we are blessed than why can’t we share our blessings? If we can’t do that than how are we the finest? We have to come out of our imaginary boundaries and unite ourselves in order to end the chaos that we are in. We are not citizens of a country, we are citizens of this world. A world which was never meant to be divided.
I believe this Capitalist Democracy won’t work. We can’t take opinion from those who only think for themselves or those who are not capable and doesn’t know what’s good and what’s bad for them and others. A strong leader have to arise in order to convey the message to the people of this world. A message which clearly states that “We are one race, human and this is our world”.
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” – Carl Sagan, The Pale Blue Dot, 1994.
I was reading about Socialism for the past few days and I was really amazed how much the views I have matches with Socialism. Every time we talk about Socialism or Communism, the first thing that come across our mind are the wars but you have to understand that it’s not the ideology that caused the war, it’s the evil inside us that failed us in the past to carry out the ideology. A huge percentage of the world’s population fails to fulfill their basic necessity every day, they go to sleep at night without food and without shelter. Human civilization is like a huge engine, it won’t function properly until all the parts are working, even the tiniest one. A small percentage of the world’s population holds the fate of the rest of the world. We have to think for those who can’t think for themselves. If we are blessed than why can’t we share our blessings? If we can’t do that than how are we the finest? We have to come out of our imaginary boundaries and unite ourselves in order to end the chaos that we are in. We are not citizens of a country, we are citizens of this world. A world which was never meant to be divided.
I believe this Capitalist Democracy won’t work. We can’t take opinion from those who only think for themselves or those who are not capable and doesn’t know what’s good and what’s bad for them and others. A strong leader have to arise in order to convey the message to the people of this world. A message which clearly states that “We are one race, human and this is our world”.
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” – Carl Sagan, The Pale Blue Dot, 1994.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
High Hopes
Well everyone who know me knows that I'm a Pink Floyd addict and to me David Gilmour is god. Its really impossible to choose a song from all those amazing, remarkable, marvelous master pieces they gave us over decades. So today I'm just gonna talk about one of my all time favorite, a song which I just can't stop listening, a song which I can't have enough of. Its like my kryptonite, freezes me down every single time I listen to it.
"High Hopes" is a song from the 1994 Pink Floyd album, The Division Bell, written by David Gilmour and Polly Samson. Its lyrics speak of the things one may have gained and lost in life and also an autobiographical flair to it for Gilmour. It was the last song recorded for the album and was practically completed in a day. Its hard to explain how you feel when you listen to something extraordinarily unique but I will give it a shot.
Well the lyrics have a very pure, green, divine feeling to it. Some also says that Gilmour is talking about the other side but I don't think so. The calming music just add another dimension to it. It has a versatility in it, depends on your mood how you are feeling right that moment. The structure of the music the changes just makes you feel like flying. The more you listen the more you get connected to the song and the more you can connect yourself to it. As I said earlier it gives you a divining peace. The two minutes plus lead at the end of the song which starts around 5:15 is the best lead I heard in my whole life (Lead from "Time" and "Comfortably Numb" are also tremendous).
"High Hopes was really the last one, it was written after all the other (songs) were sort of, in some form or another. I think I wrote it in July or something. It was very, very quick. It's one of those ones that works, quickly, but beautifully, almost immediately and, I came up with a tiny bit of music, just had it on a cassette, just a few bars of piano. And then I went off to get away to a small house somewhere with my girlfriend, Polly, and try and make some progress on the lyric writing. And she gave me a phrase about something about before time wears you down. And I took it from there, and...got stuck into a whole sort of thing about, I suppose, my, it's autobiographical really, I suppose I'd have to say on that one, it's about my life, Cambridge life, and my childhood, I suppose. Yeah, we came up with it very, very quickly, we wrote the words to it in, most of the words to it in a day. And then I went back to the studio, with no one else there, the minute I got back, and put a demo down of it. Did everything myself on it, and it was virtually complete in a day." - David Gilmour talking about "High Hopes" from the US radio premiere of The Division Bell with Redbeard, March, 1994.
It is also the very last song that Pink Floyd has written to date (and its placement at the end of their last album of new material to date) lends itself to the interpretation that the song narrates the story of the band's career, from their beginnings to their grandiose success (with The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall) to their breakup to their carrying on. The final line ("The endless river, forever and ever") ties into one of the band's first hits, "See Emily Play" ("Float on a river, forever and ever").
Related Links: Lyrics, Video
"High Hopes" is a song from the 1994 Pink Floyd album, The Division Bell, written by David Gilmour and Polly Samson. Its lyrics speak of the things one may have gained and lost in life and also an autobiographical flair to it for Gilmour. It was the last song recorded for the album and was practically completed in a day. Its hard to explain how you feel when you listen to something extraordinarily unique but I will give it a shot.
Well the lyrics have a very pure, green, divine feeling to it. Some also says that Gilmour is talking about the other side but I don't think so. The calming music just add another dimension to it. It has a versatility in it, depends on your mood how you are feeling right that moment. The structure of the music the changes just makes you feel like flying. The more you listen the more you get connected to the song and the more you can connect yourself to it. As I said earlier it gives you a divining peace. The two minutes plus lead at the end of the song which starts around 5:15 is the best lead I heard in my whole life (Lead from "Time" and "Comfortably Numb" are also tremendous).
"High Hopes was really the last one, it was written after all the other (songs) were sort of, in some form or another. I think I wrote it in July or something. It was very, very quick. It's one of those ones that works, quickly, but beautifully, almost immediately and, I came up with a tiny bit of music, just had it on a cassette, just a few bars of piano. And then I went off to get away to a small house somewhere with my girlfriend, Polly, and try and make some progress on the lyric writing. And she gave me a phrase about something about before time wears you down. And I took it from there, and...got stuck into a whole sort of thing about, I suppose, my, it's autobiographical really, I suppose I'd have to say on that one, it's about my life, Cambridge life, and my childhood, I suppose. Yeah, we came up with it very, very quickly, we wrote the words to it in, most of the words to it in a day. And then I went back to the studio, with no one else there, the minute I got back, and put a demo down of it. Did everything myself on it, and it was virtually complete in a day." - David Gilmour talking about "High Hopes" from the US radio premiere of The Division Bell with Redbeard, March, 1994.
It is also the very last song that Pink Floyd has written to date (and its placement at the end of their last album of new material to date) lends itself to the interpretation that the song narrates the story of the band's career, from their beginnings to their grandiose success (with The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall) to their breakup to their carrying on. The final line ("The endless river, forever and ever") ties into one of the band's first hits, "See Emily Play" ("Float on a river, forever and ever").
Related Links: Lyrics, Video
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG Black Series
What is a super car? A super car is something which have to have technologies that are far ahead of its time. It should have an intimidating looks and should make your jaw drop when you put your foot down by the sheer power and noise of it.
Well to be frank I was never that fond of Mercedes's super cars, I'm a Ferrari guy. The last Mercedes I adore was the 1955 300SL Gullwing, that car was a piece of art and had great racing history back in the 50s. It has a 3 liter straight 6, 4 speed manual which produces 215 bhp (218 PS) and 203 ft·lb (275.0 Nm) of torque, an all aluminum body shell, direct injection, independent suspension, coil springs and a kerb weight of 1293 kg. I know it might not sound that great now but it was the first production vehicle to break 150 mph barrier on road. So trust me on this guys its mind blowing.
OK now back to present. Few years back Mercedes gave us the McLaren Mercedes SLR which is also an astonishing super car but not completely a Benz because it was designed and developed by a British Formula 1 giant McLaren.
Finally after 53 years they came up with another, the SL 65 AMG Black Series. It has a 6 liter V12 turbocharged power plant which produces a staggering 661 bhp (670.2 PS) and 738 ft·lb (1000.0 Nm) of torque. Oh another thing, the carbon fiber dress it wear, allows the SL to reach 200 mph. Last but not the least the sheer looks and presence of it feels like a jolt of electricity shooting through your veins. If you don't believe me just take a look.
Well to be frank I was never that fond of Mercedes's super cars, I'm a Ferrari guy. The last Mercedes I adore was the 1955 300SL Gullwing, that car was a piece of art and had great racing history back in the 50s. It has a 3 liter straight 6, 4 speed manual which produces 215 bhp (218 PS) and 203 ft·lb (275.0 Nm) of torque, an all aluminum body shell, direct injection, independent suspension, coil springs and a kerb weight of 1293 kg. I know it might not sound that great now but it was the first production vehicle to break 150 mph barrier on road. So trust me on this guys its mind blowing.
OK now back to present. Few years back Mercedes gave us the McLaren Mercedes SLR which is also an astonishing super car but not completely a Benz because it was designed and developed by a British Formula 1 giant McLaren.
Finally after 53 years they came up with another, the SL 65 AMG Black Series. It has a 6 liter V12 turbocharged power plant which produces a staggering 661 bhp (670.2 PS) and 738 ft·lb (1000.0 Nm) of torque. Oh another thing, the carbon fiber dress it wear, allows the SL to reach 200 mph. Last but not the least the sheer looks and presence of it feels like a jolt of electricity shooting through your veins. If you don't believe me just take a look.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Broadband, Bandwidth and Bangladesh
Eeeepee! we now have submarine cable and the bandwidth price will decrease. BTRC has slashed the domestic bandwidth charge by 60 percent to reach the internet facilities to the rural people, which will help alleviate poverty and ensure development.
"I still have to pay the same amount of monthly subscription fee and get the same crappy connection and they are talking about rural people, FUNNY."
Well after I heard this, which was almost 3 years ago, I thought finally opportunity will open up for freelancer and small software companies, who does outsourcing work. But as you can see 3 years has passed and only the big companies who can afford 10/15 MBPS connection are getting the benefits.
As you all know bandwidth price is a very big issue for small software companies. If you have a great idea of doing something you can't do it cause of money in this country and your government won't do anything about it. They will sanction loan to someone who already have heck lot of money but not to a guy who have a vision of doing something for him and his country. I know people who are rich and getting richer every day, thanks to the government.
Well government & people of this country think realistically for a minute - rural people needs food, shelter and want to stay alive they don't need internet, they want to survive. So think about the companies & individuals who can bring money in your country and help them, by doing that you also help the rural people.
Information Technology is the future and your country can really do good in this sector, look at India as an example, so help them every way you can. Make sure the price you implemented for bandwidth is actually carried out by the distributor and the bandwidth is not miss used in any illegal facility.
"I still have to pay the same amount of monthly subscription fee and get the same crappy connection and they are talking about rural people, FUNNY."
Well after I heard this, which was almost 3 years ago, I thought finally opportunity will open up for freelancer and small software companies, who does outsourcing work. But as you can see 3 years has passed and only the big companies who can afford 10/15 MBPS connection are getting the benefits.
As you all know bandwidth price is a very big issue for small software companies. If you have a great idea of doing something you can't do it cause of money in this country and your government won't do anything about it. They will sanction loan to someone who already have heck lot of money but not to a guy who have a vision of doing something for him and his country. I know people who are rich and getting richer every day, thanks to the government.
Well government & people of this country think realistically for a minute - rural people needs food, shelter and want to stay alive they don't need internet, they want to survive. So think about the companies & individuals who can bring money in your country and help them, by doing that you also help the rural people.
Information Technology is the future and your country can really do good in this sector, look at India as an example, so help them every way you can. Make sure the price you implemented for bandwidth is actually carried out by the distributor and the bandwidth is not miss used in any illegal facility.
Losing my patience
Well for the last few days I was sure my 2nd hard drive will die and the inevitable has happened. I took this drive to the retailer 3 months ago cos I had doubts about it but they said its gonna be ok and now its dead with almost 300GB of data.
Its really f**ked up that whenever you buy something in this country you are bound to get f**ked by the retailers. Their moto is "customer is always wrong". I don't know if I'm going to hit the retailer when I go there cos I'm seriously losing my patience.
Its really f**ked up that whenever you buy something in this country you are bound to get f**ked by the retailers. Their moto is "customer is always wrong". I don't know if I'm going to hit the retailer when I go there cos I'm seriously losing my patience.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
BAD PC, BAD PC
Well for the last 2 years or so I am really struggling with my PC. I mean in the meantime I have changed it twice every piece of it.
Tonight I came home from office and found out my on board LAN aint working "JUST FRICKIN GREAT" can't connect to net. Finally after 1 hour I fixed it, don't know for how long but I'm connected.
So before I get disconnected just wanted to say to you all never ever buy an ASUS motherboard cause my last 2 screwed me big time and I don't think its just bad luck. Also don't buy Hitachi hard drives no never.
Tonight I came home from office and found out my on board LAN aint working "JUST FRICKIN GREAT" can't connect to net. Finally after 1 hour I fixed it, don't know for how long but I'm connected.
So before I get disconnected just wanted to say to you all never ever buy an ASUS motherboard cause my last 2 screwed me big time and I don't think its just bad luck. Also don't buy Hitachi hard drives no never.
Indian "Chandrayaan 1" orbiting Moon
After an 817 second burn from the engine last Saturday (8th Nov 2008), Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft is captured by the lunar gravity.
Launched on 22nd October 2008, Chandrayaan 1 mission was to capture the polar orbit of the moon and compile a 3D atlas of the lunar surface and map the distribution of elements and minerals.
The Indian spacecraft includes a 30kg MIP (Moon Impact Probe). It will be released from the spacecraft to slam into the lunar surface. On its way down it will record video footage and measure the composition of the Moon's tenuous atmosphere. The probe also carries an Indian flag which will be dropped on to the lunar surface.
More about Chandrayaan 1
Launched on 22nd October 2008, Chandrayaan 1 mission was to capture the polar orbit of the moon and compile a 3D atlas of the lunar surface and map the distribution of elements and minerals.
The Indian spacecraft includes a 30kg MIP (Moon Impact Probe). It will be released from the spacecraft to slam into the lunar surface. On its way down it will record video footage and measure the composition of the Moon's tenuous atmosphere. The probe also carries an Indian flag which will be dropped on to the lunar surface.
More about Chandrayaan 1
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Hello Everyone
Its 5:24 PM local time (11:24 AM GMT). I just started my blog don't know what to write but I'm sure something will surely come up :-) soon.
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