Mission Statements

We have committed to proactively fashion principle-centered content so that we may completely create scalable methods of empowerment to exceed customer expectations

The Pointy Haired Boss will give you a few more of those on Dilbert.com


[Mission Statement Generator] at Dilbert.com

Learning about vehicle suspensions :)

I guarantee you, no one can teach you vehicle suspension mechanics better then this Jeep advertisement!



I would call it: Hilarious Bull-Shit Advertisement!

New RSS feed

I have recently updated the RSS feed of this blog and now the latest and greatest feed, with a lot of cool features which I'll add in the near future, is available here.

I would request all my readers who read my blog via RSS feeds to switch to those feeds for the following reason:

1. The new feed is going to include some cool new features, like headlines etc.


2. The old feed is causing me some problem in numbers management so I am planning to get rid of that feed altogether.

I am sorry for the inconvenience it has caused but I hope to compensate that with the refreshing new feed.

[New Feed]

The All TIME 100 Albums!

TIME Magazine has published:
"A selection of photographs of artists from TIMEs 100 best records of all time"

I'll mentions the shots in Order:

1. Johnny Cash
   1968, At Folsom Prison
   


2. Little Richard
   1957, Here's Little Richard
   


3. James Brown
   1963, Live At The Apollo
   1991, Star Time
   


4. John Coltrane
   1964, A Love Supreme
   


5. Aretha Franklin
   1967, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
   1968, Lady Soul
   


6. Ray Charles
   1962, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
   


7. The Beatles
   1965, Rubber Soul
   1966, Revolver
   1967, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
   1968, The Beatles a.k.a. The White Album
   1969, Abbey Road
   


8. Bob Dylan
   1965, Highway 61 Revisitied
   1966, Blonde On Blonde
   1997, Time Out of Mind
   


9. Phil Spector
   1991, Phil Spector, Back to Mono (1958-1969)
   


10. Carole King
    1971, Tapestry
    


11. Willie Nelson
    1975, Red Headed Stranger
    


12. Neil Young
    1970, After The Gold Rush
    


13. Marvin Gaye
    1971, What's Going On
    


14. Sly & the Family Stone
    1969, Stand!
    


15. David Bowie
    1971, Hunky Dory
    1972, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
    


16. Miles Davis
    1959, Kind of Blue
    1969, Bitches Brew
    


17. Bob Marley
    1984, Legend
    


18. Prince
    1987, Sign O' the Times
    


19. Elton John
    1973, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
    


20. The Sex Pistols
    1977, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
    


21. The Ramones
    1976, Ramones
    


22. Talking Heads
    1984, Stop Making Sense
    


23. Run-DMC
    1986, Raising Hell
    


24. Public Enemy
    1988, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
    


25. Metallica
    1986, Master of Puppets
    


26. Nirvana
    1991, Nevermind
    


27. Kanye West
    2004, The College Dropout
    


28. PJ Harvey
    2000, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
    

The All TIME 100 Albums! [Via TIME]

Awe-inspiring, astounding, stupefying

Just saw the chip of AMD's processor, The Next Big Thing, to hit the market. It was an exhilarating experience. I had it in my own hands!
Mind you, I am not talking about the packaged processor that you get in the market with the all the plastic surrounding it; It was only the chip, bare chip!

It looked like a hologram and upon moving it around in my hand, I saw the floor plan. OMG! I saw the core(s?), the caches and the interaction links.

Such a small piece of hardware, and it earns me my bread, butter and all the South Indian mini meals ;-)

And they do it again

Heard Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Media Player 11 is out of Beta? Yes it is.
My reaction(s) to this piece of news item: Wow! Let's see what it offers! Has to be cool!

• So I do a "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google search for "Windows Media Player 11", from right within my favorite browser: Mozilla's Firefox (here).


• I reach Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Media Player 11 homepage and guess what... I am unable to find a download link!


• I find my way to the download link. Thank to the lord and the site designer, it is on the very next webpage I open


• I look at the screenshot and can't help saying: "Cool... Awesome".


• I start the download of the application and while the download completes, I decide to read the "System Requirements"


• I start reading the table from top to bottom, both the Minimal and Recommended configuration: Operating system, Processor, RAM, Free hard disk space, ... !!!
  There it says, recommended amount of "Free Hard Disk Space: 60 *ucking GBs!"
  
  I wonder, what on Mother Earth are they going to do with 60 GBs of hard disk space? and what comes to my mind for Microsoft(R) is:
  Oops! ...I Did It Again!

I did not install the application. What if it starts hogging my system, like the resident OS ;-)
Looks like I learned from my past experience.

To Install A Software (on Windows)

Update: Bought the book last weekend :)

I tried to give this post a title similar to "To Kill A Mocking". Just in case you didn't know, I do not have this book, neither have I ever read it so if you are planning to present me a gift in near future, now you know what to buy.

Anyway, coming back on track, this is yet another post dedicated to the most widely used operating system in the world today, Microsoft Windows XP (what a shame!). So here I was, reading the review of a software called "Paint.NET" at TechCrunch. The review, among so many other things, says that it is a good software for PaintShop users. What the review does not say is, it should be named "Pain.NET" for all the pain you go through in installing the software, thanks to the software's dependencies and more than that to Bill's Microsoft.

Step 1. You download the installer of the software, Pain.NET from the home page.
Step 2. You try to install it. It displays the most annoying thing in the world, a message box! A message box that says, "You need Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. Press OK to download it from Microsoft's website". You press OK.
Step 3. You download Microsoft Framework 2.0 installation binary from Microsoft.com
Step 4. You run Microsoft Framework 2.0 installation file hoping that in another few minutes, you'll be able to try out the "great tool", Paint.NET and what you encounter is another dialog box, which says "Setup has detected that you the following prerequisite programs are not installed: Microsoft Windows Installer 3.0"
Step 5. You shout a few swear words and proceed to download the Microsoft Windows Installer, again from Microsoft's website, but the ordeal is not over yet. You are asked to download another exe which validate your copy of Windows. WTF! Just let me download it and program it to not get installed if it detects my system is not running a genuine copy of Windows.
Step 6. You would be stupid to carry on beyond this point. Microsoft has already made a fool of you so many times in the past 10-15 minutes that you should show Windows a finger and go out to a friend's house, collect your (or his) favourite Linux distribution and install it on your fu'ed up box still running XP.
Step 7. If you still decide to stick to Windows for some reason beyond your control (like in my case, I am not allowed by my employer to run any non-Windows OS), you run that damn validation-key-producing software, get your copy of Windows validated, and install Microsoft Windows Installer 3.0 (like I did).

Still haven't been able to install Pain(t).NET since all other installations are going on. Paint.NET better be damn good!

In hindsight, I think I should not read and follow all the reviews as religiously as I do.

I have a new address!

This is where I will be: http://afterallwhocares.blogspot.com
Ciao!

Justice, at last!

Dunno how many of you read the news so forwarding a news item:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2191535.cms
http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/18/stories/2006101813540100.htm
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/oct182006/index20311320061017.asp

More than feeling good because the accused has finally been convicted, I am feeling bad for the girl.

Gross... Grosser... Grossest

Let's see who can stand these!
http://bouncy-bubbles.net/?page_id=75