When asked to read for any exam, I end up doing everything other than reading. It can be cleaning my room, washing clothes, bathing, chatting, coding, reading novels and so on. This time, when I had to give my SCJP test, I ended up watching How I Met Your Mom. ;)

Btw liked the scene I’ve pasted below. Maybe, doing other things when you have to read is not a mistake after all. :-)

Scene 1:

Lily: Yes, it’s a mistake. I know it’s a mistake. But there are certain things in life, where you know it’s a mistake but you don’t really know it’s a mistake because the only way to really know it’s a mistake is to make the mistake and look back and say, yup that was a mistake. So really, the bigger mistake would be to not make the mistake. Because then you go your whole life not really know if something is a mistake or not. And damn it, I’ve made no mistakes. I’ve done all of this, my life, my relationship, my career mistake free. Does any of this makes sense to you?
Ted: I don’t know. You’ve said mistake a lot.

Scene 2:

Marshal: It’s a mistake
Ted : Maybe, but it’s a mistake I have to make.
Marshal: Wrong, it’s a mistake you don’t have to make….
Ted: Here is the thing about mistakes. Sometimes, even when you know something is a mistake, you’ve got to make it anyway. Even really really dumb mistakes.

Why should you have a nice design in your web page? Why should you have a good CSS?
I got this answer in the spider class. A nice way of telling concepts to the students.
“You know Rajinikanth right? Have you seen him without his makeup? He is old, bald, dark and certainly not an “hero” you would like to see without his makeup. But how does he look after all the makeup. A great hero and the amazing success of the movie “Shivaji” proves this. So you see, the makeup matters much. The looks make people to look at any person twice and that is true for web pages also. Have nice CSS and make people look at your web page twice.”

Nice thinking :-).

10 things i have got to say about my project, stay in IIIT, Hyderabad and other things happened during this vacation. :)

0. Madhapur is in Hyderabad. Hyderabad is in Madhuapur
1. GTK won’t work. WxWidgets uses GTK. So WxWidgets also won’t work
2. I will never ever wash my plates. I’ll rather go hungry.
3. Canteen is a place where you never get good food.
4. Anything other than dosa is bad. :(
5. Only soup in 4 season is nice.
6. A hotel can be in the form of a forest or a train.
7. Mocktail is not cocktail. It is just 7UP added with rose milk.
8. You can play games even with 4 empty orange bottles.
9. The ball didn’t fall. :( :( :(

Finally installed Windows in my laptop. :)
No more kela configuring wifi and other things. If things work automatically in windows, why bang my head so much to make them work in Linux.
Can use Office 2007. Don’t know why, but every time i use Office 2007, the urge to install windows increases. I don’t mind calling it the best software in Windows, which is done thinking only about the end users. :)
No more trouble in finding the proper device driver for my monitor.
Realized that software development can be done in Windows environment also. :) Will have to see what i can do useful in Windows. First have to read more about command prompt. Looks like it has more features than i expected.

And yeah, I haven’t removed Linux yet. I don’t think I’ll do that within one or two years :)

Not going to chaaaat anything about ‘Life is a mystery. Blah blah blah.’ Have realised it’s more than a mystey. The more you try to understand it, the more weirder it gets. :)

Have been seeing Prison Break for the past two days. Managed to finish Season 1 and it’s amazing. The way Mike plans things and the way things which can be no way related to each other are amalgamated are unbelievable. Ok now I didn’t name this Mystery to talk about Life or Prison Break. I’ll also write a mystery story here :D.

Ok. Here it goes. Thank god I’m not the hero or the villain in this story. I’m just a normal observer in this story. But since this is my story, all things happen around me. First i am a normal carefree guy. I do have contacts with many people (no, I’m not in mafia :D) . I know all of them very well and get into the good books easily. But some serious things happen around me and i was least bothered about them. I just don’t care about anything and enjoy doing what i do.

Then i was being taught how to be responsible and all. I was taught to think, eat, talk, hear and everything. I realised that I can do things. Now i know things are happening around me. Two person i know don’t like each other. The inferior person tried to get the rights back and obviously the superior didn’t like that. This resulted the superior trying harm the inferior in every chance possible. But even now i care very little about the things happening around me not because i was not ignorant but nothing was related to me. These things happen to me long time back. I was not paying attention to anything and just doing my things.

Now suddenly there is a need for me to know everything. This thing is not the key to the entire puzzle. In fact, there is no mystery here. Just that i feel things might get better if i know what happened, what is happening and what might happen.
There is one dialogue which I loved in Prison Break. Mike uses this very often.
“Trust Me, the lesser you know, the better.”
Hmmmm, yeah it’s true.

I know this story is way different than Prison Break. But can’t copy the same story. Will try to write more on this if i find time. :D. Will have to find who the superior and inferior is, how and when does the superior harm the inferior,from whom and how i learn things, why there is a need for me to find what’s happening around me.

Hmmmm, do i have to find out all these? ;)

Moral of the Story
1. If you know that you know that you can do one thing very well and don’t know about other, never try to experiment. Things you can do very well will never let you down :D. (Yeah, I should stop writing here and go back to coding :P)
2. The lesser you know, the better. Trust that.
3. It takes some n seconds for everyone’s brain to fetch, decode, process and produce the output. For my brain, it is around 2-5 seconds.

I’m alive…

Wikipedia says
“The term blue may refer to any of a number of similar colors. The sensation of blue is made by light having a spectrum dominated by energy in the wavelength range of about 440–490 nm.
Blue is considered to be one of the three primary additive colors in the RGB system; blue light has the shortest wavelength range of the three additive primary colors. The English language commonly uses “blue” to refer to any color from navy blue to cyan.”

Some strange facts ( of course i googled for them :P )

• Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, brown eyes the least sensitive!
• Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue!
• 80 percent of Americans love blue color!
• Blue and white are the most common school colors!
• Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool!
• A scallop has 35 blue eyes!
• Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other!
• Maine produces about 98-99% of all wild blueberries in the US!
• The red traffic light contains some orange color and the green traffic light contains some blue color making it easier for people with red-green color blindness!
• More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
• Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes!
• There are only two animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear and the Chow dog!
• The blue whale can produce sounds up to about 188 decibels!
• A blue whales heart beats nine times per minute!
• Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale!
• Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses!
• The blood vessels of a blue whale are wide enough for an adult trout to swim through!

Well enough of facts, I’ll tell you some more nice facts :P :P

• Sudden change to blue color makes people shout “Blue Blue Blue” all the time. This syndrome can be observed around one week even before the color change occurs.
• Any girl who works in front of computer most of the time loves blue color than anything else.
• Though blue color wavelength is 440-490 nm, the lower bound for blue color is 1200 and the upper bound is 1500.
• Though the hexadecimal triplet for blue is #0000FF, the actual blue you see in the websites is #6666FF. This can be checked in the css file. For example

/* Blue */

.coderTextBlue, .coderTextBlue:link, .coderTextBlue:visited, .coderTextBlue:hover, .coderTextBlue:active { color: #6666FF; }

Hmmmm, i wish i could write more but have to stop here :-) :-)