Silence that needs to be broken now and then

Oh great wheels of time, this time I am NOT allowing you to cheat me out of my desires...for I am no longer the same person who stared while you snatched away my dreams,my love, my hope...and left me lifeless and hopeless...


You thought I would wither away with time,so did many fools..but I stuck on,found my own path...made mistakes and had wrong turns..but found many gems on the path..gr8 friends who filled me with hope and soothed my wounds..

Today I can stand up straight and challenge you...try as much as u can to break me..oh evil winds...but u shall fail miserably,coz i am strengthened by faith and hope in myself...

Its true that what I have gained so far is nothing compared to what lies ahead,but if i can do this much in such a short period of time..let me make it loud and clear for the deaf and blind world...
"You might never be able to understand my ways,but I will once create such a noise that would open your deaf ears and light so flashing that your blindness would be cured and the veils you have on your hearts will disappear by themselves.."

Fear not my friends, coz I am neither mad nor angry..and not senti too..and this is not related to any one incident or event in my life..but an overall outcry of my emotions...coz i have been through hell and heaven..alone as well as with gr8 friends...there are things that you don't have to talk about,but there are things that you need to...whether it makes any difference or not for others...it does make for me :D

PS: didnt find any pic matching the mood..i am already out of hell..i am a new person...flowing new blood..with adventure in my heart

today's crawl

I present a few sites I just rounded up in this edition of my usual crawling process('parakke thappal')...of varying interests..

Sounds to help relax-concentrate-wakeup: This is a nice article from makeuseof.com that talks about different sounds that can be used to relax,concentrate or wake you from sleep. It is just a view of the author who is a Mac user and lists applications in Mac and a few in windows for that purpose. It sounded interesting and in fact most of us have a special tone or type of sound that simulates various parts of the brain,but many are not aware..so just try out!


Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: This is a pretty interesting book from MIT that speaks of some good concepts. Its for the passionate programmer..

Ideas worth Spreading: Now this is a site with a novel concept.They talk about ideas about almost anything..even about creating ideas...sounds crazy,but I feel its pretty innovative. There is a similar site, with a more social aspect to it ideas4all. Its the concept that sparked my interest, I haven't checked the quality of type of contents yet...

Trace people online: Another interesting article that speaks about how insecure private data is on the web and gives methods to track someone over there..could come in handy ..and as a precaution for the needy..

100 vim commands: This is for the programmers who wanna master the use of vim editor in Linux. If you don't know vim properly, this site could help you.It has an exhaustive listing of useful commands, so you learn if that is you preferred way of learning( mine would be to combine manpages with web tutorials and books) ...

Economy of Giving it Away: Now this is a really good article . People interested and involved in the concepts of free/open source software or are plainly interested in web commerce would love the way points have been handled, without taking any sides...makes sense..

btw all these sites were obtained using Delicious bookmarks. I simply love it...check My bookmarks.

Happy surfing...

FOSSmeet@MEC

Hi all!!
This is the banner for FOSSMeet@MEC being conducted at Model Engineering College on 25th of January 2009. I am one of the organizers of the event. Its being planned and conducted by a group of dedicated free software enthusiasts which includes Sarath Lakshman, the creator of Slynux and a contributor to Google Summer of Code 2008.

Its a one day event and there would be sessions by eminent speakers of FOSS,like Atul Chitnis of FOSS.in, Shreyas Srinivasan of Gnome foundation and Santhosh Thottingal,the project admin of Swanthanthra Malayalam Computing. Its gonna be great fun and a good learning experience.

The event is being conducted alongwith our annual South India level techno-managerial symposium Excel 2k9 from the 23rd of Jan to 25th. MEC has been using Linux and Free Software in its labs for over a decade and is very active in promoting the same among the student community. As a part of its various community service packages, the computer students of MEC have been conducting introductory workshops for school students,polytechnic students and for unemployed youth on topics like Linux, Web Designing, Animation, Image editing,advanced Linux programming,embedded systems, Internet usage etc for the last one year. The staff too are actively involved in reducing the digital divide.

Even though that is the case, this is the first time we are conducting an event of such a scale and format. The response from various eminent personalities in the world of Linux/Free software has been encouraging.Hoping to see all of you FOSS enthusiasts and hackers at MEC on the 25th..make haste and register online as seats are limited.