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I had a small hobby of doing some neophyte art images on computer when I was in my college. I lost that after college. Some good old albums made me remember good old days of passing time tryign to render the 3D worlds on a 700Mhz processor computer with 128Megs of RAM. Today, I wasn’t able to sleep properly, was little sad that my DSLR’s sensor wasn’t cleaned properly by the service center guys, and was extremely bored. Well, this is result of the boredom. I would love to take a snap like that on my cam though. Anyway, now its going to be my desktop wallpaper for few days.

Scared and bored of this stuff. Even before the traces of VTech were gone, one idiot did same crap in Finland and now another idiot did the same thing in Northern Illinois university.

As everyone tells, US Govt. should do something regarding this. I’ve no clue what they should do, but they should do something. They should do that ’some thing’ so that this ’same thing’ wont happen again and again. Bloody they really should do ‘that thing’ as fast as possible to avoid another occurrence of ‘this thing’.

Enough crap. I’m pissed off by the idiots who are killing people just because they’re losers and they want to die. Guys, there is something named suicide, bloody do it if you want to die, don’t kill others.

All you psychopaths there, understand this. Live is a long process for others unlike you guys. They have had worked very hard for their life. They have had worked very hard for their relations. Bloody, atleast one of them must have called 100 times in a weekend to apologize his girl friend. Atleast one of them must have slept at 5 AM for a week to finish his homework. Running behind the bus to catch it so that he don’t miss the examination. And you guys have no clue about desi-students there. I know how hard is life of an Indian student. Competition, competition and more competition. Just in search of better life, they’ve left their loved ones, friends, city and even country and are living in your place. They’ve had lived all their life to make the rest of their life better.

You being one annoyed kid right from your child hood, take one bloody pistol and shoot in the crowd and when it hits one of the above students I mentioned ….. That’s it. All the trouble he has taken for whole of his life, for the rest of it, is gone in vain. Because of one ass’le like you, not only his dreams are shattered but all his loved ones hearts are broken.

After doing all that, you don’t get any satisfaction. You just want to kill yourself. Why the hell you wont consider this option first when you really want to go out of this world ? If you want a normal solution, bloody consult a damn psychiatrist. He will certainly give you a solution which doesn’t involve bullets and broken hearts.

Well, after writing this, all I can understand is, argh, who’s going to read, understand and change ? Just chillax with a joke. Thanks XKCD.

Guess you understood what I’m going to tell. I should have written this a week before, but I thought - readers of this blog would anyway be knowing all the information. But, yesterday an old teammate of mine gave me a very big shock with a mail with subject “Fw: Beware!! Aids can spread like this too - Unbelievable!!!” To add to that shock, it was forwarded to him by another old teammate of mine.

Guess what is the mail about ??? Yeah, our same old pani puri story, but instead of pani puri, it was pineapple. If you don’t know the story, here is the line up

• Kid fell sick (General news)
• Parents take him to hospital (End of the day news)
• Docs diagnosed as AIDS (Shocking news !!!)
• None else in the family has AIDS (Happy news !!!)
• Kid tells that he had pineapple (Exclusive news to Docs !!!)
• Group from Mallya Hospital (Wow, they named hospital name too) finds pineapple guy (Reporter news from crime scene !!!)
• Pineapple guy don’t know that he’s got AIDS (Yet another shocking news)
• So - Don’t eat vada pav and pani puri !!! (WTF ???? News)

I didn’t believe this even when I was in my junior college and its hard to believe that software engineers, who are 25 years old, not only believe this but mail it to a bunch of their friends with in 10minutes and they end up in mailing this again.

I’ve changed little bit and I’m not as assertive as I was couple of years before. So, I didn’t mail him back with technical details of AIDS and tell him that it doesn’t propagate through this way like I did to one of my college friends (regarding Bill Gates giving money to who-ever-forward a mail) and I actually demanded many of my friend to mail everyone in the To-list or CC-list of the mail that whatever he has mailed is “wrong or inaccurate” and to let them know the validity of the content. Some of my friends actually liked that habit and many hated it. Anyway, I’m not going to do that again unless a very close friend end-up in forwarding faltoo information.

You know these, even then as information is wealth [Pun Intended]

• AIDS doesn’t spread through Pani Puri walla as long as you eat just pani puri from him
• As one Telugu movie tells, wear a helmet whenever you fight
• Don’t try Hollywood and don’t fight strangers
• A mint with a hole can be polo but Helmet with a hole can send you to Apollo
• As Balayya[¹] tells, Hand For Hand can be hit in movies but, blood for blood can sometimes shut your life
• HIV-positive need not mean that you are community-negative
• Mosquitoes have more deadly disease to spread, Malaria kills one in every thirty seconds[²]
• HIV is slow[³]. It takes nine to ten years to become AIDS. In those ten years, some bright scientist might find a cure. But, why take risk. Trust helmet.

Gave you enough information that you already know. But, be sure that you spread it to guys who don’t know. I’m going to mail my teamie, atleast for a noble cause. Pani puri is great.

An 18-year-old student gone nuts and killed Eight, more than 10 injured in Jokela High in Tuusala, Finland. As per a Finnish friend of mine, he was taken down by Karhu (something like SWAT of Finland) and now he is in a critical condition. This is what he wrote about himself on dreamland.

I am a cynical existentialist, antihuman humanist, antisocial socialdarwinist, realistic idealist and godlike atheist.

SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM! JUSTITIA SUUM CUIQUE DISTRIBUIT! SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!

I am prepared to fight and die for my cause. I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit, disgraces of human race and failures of natural selection.

You might ask yourselves, why did I do this and what do I want. Well, most of you are too arrogant and closed-minded to understand… You will proprably say me that I am”insane”, “crazy”, “psychopath”, “criminal” or crap like that. No, the truth is that I am just an animl, a human, an individual, a dissident.

I have had enough. I don’t want to be part of this fucked up society. Like some other wise people have said in the past, human race is not worth fighting for or saving… only worth killing. But… When my enemies will run and hide in fear when mentioning my name… When the gangsters of the corrupted governments have been shot in the streets… When the rule of idioracy and the democratic system has been replaced with justice… When intelligent people are finally free and rule the society instead of the idiocratic rule of majority… In that great day of deliverance, you will know what I want.
[copied and pasted from one of his pages]

Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum! Justitia Suum Cuique Distribuit! Sic Semper Tyrannis! is a Latin Sentence - Translation is “If you seek peace, prepare for war ! Justice renders to everyone his due ! Thus always to tyrants !”

I can understand that he is completely pissed off by the society and decided to kill people. He actually wrote a Manifesto in English for also for English readers. He uploaded some videos and photos and he tried in every possible way to convince people that the is not a psycho but just a person who had enough of this world.

He is not dumb. But, his decision to kill people is stupid. I can tell that its a decision but not just aggression, as he created his manifesto, uploaded some videos in Youtube with title -”Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007″. He has actually decided the date too.

I am self-aware and realize what is going on in society! I have a free mind! And I choose to be free rather than live like a robot or slave. You can say I have a “god complex”, sure… then you have a “group complex”! Compared to you retarded masses, I am actually godlike.

That is taken from his manifest which suggests that he might have been suppressed a lot by the society. My Finnish friend thinks that this guy must have been a nerd who had no-life and was hated by everyone else. That could be true - “Group Complex” and “Retarded Masses” are the phrases he used to describe others. If you read what he wrote about Naturality, You can understand that this guy got a very good intellectual knowledge.

He knew that people will take him as a psychopath. Yes, they certainly will take him as a psychopath because he is one psychopath killer. He tried in every possible way to convince us that he is not one. But, his convincing skills rather proved that he writes well. He would have made a very good writer if he wasn’t a psycho !!!

You can find the manifesto here as well as this web directory.

I was talking to a friend couple of days before. Because of my “The Road Not Taken” problem, he was already little pissed off that I’m about to take a decision which would prove that I’m scared of trying something new.

Leaving that aside, yesterday he saw that Safari 3 Beta for Windows was released (It might be released long time before, he don’t know about windows as he is OS X user) and told me to give it a try. I replied him that I’m quite happy with the way Firefox works. He tried telling me that rendering speeds of Safari are better that firefox etc etc. What ever he is telling is true, actually many people consider that Safari is the best browser available (atleast on OS X, and thats debatable) But, I wasn’t ready to give it a try.

Then he told me something which made me think, actually think a lot. He told me that I tend to become comfortable with my Good Old Life and I don’t want to try anything new. After recollecting so many things like in both life as well as technology aspects. I don’t want to about my out-of-comfort actions in life. The following are few things which came into my mind when I thought about Technology and my Out-of-comfort actions.

• I wouldn’t have tried installing Windows 3.2 on a computer with Windows 98, when I hardly knew how to shut down windows just to see how an old version would look like …
• I wouldn’t have tried having multiple operating systems - 98 and 2000, when I hardly knew that there are many filesystem types, and 98 doesn’t support NTFS …
• I wouldn’t have installed Redhat 7.2 on my computer in my B.Tech second year, when none of my friends or my lecturers or me hardly use to use linux or even knew about it …
• I wouldn’t have tried installing Gentoo on my machine, when I hardly knew whats a Gentoo portage was …
• I wouldn’t have tried doing Linux From Scratch or creating a distro of my own-rules and called it KiX after doing my B.Tech even before I knew about those steps involved it doing it …
• I wouldn’t have tried installing DesktopBSD on my computer and mess up my Partition Table and then edit the partition table by calculating sectors of partitions manually using some tool (This itself is a big journey which I don’t remember clearly, but I’ve used some tool given on Hiren’s Boot CD and a calculator and managed to get my partitions back without losing any data .. But, I remember date exactly 19 Aug 2005, 1 day before I gave aptitude test of my current employer)
• I wouldn’t have installed three operating systems(98, XP and Gentoo) on my machine just to make sure that I can run all the applications
• I wouldn’t have done my B.Tech project in Python when I knew that I’ve to start my project review by explaining the guys sitting there that this Python is NOT a snake but a programming language
• I wouldn’t have tried to move my blog from blogger to my own domain when I was pretty much OK with my Google blogging service
• I wouldn’t have changed 15 mobiles in last 18 months

Guess, these are good enough to convince myself that I’m not a person who is scared of trying something new. But, then, to make him happy, I installed Safari on my box. It’s a good browser, but I’m yet to become comfortable with it. I’m just letting it stay in my box along with 3 other browsers - FF, Opera, IE (and Lynx, installed on cygwin, which I use once in a while for fun)

Yes, I tend to be happy with my Good Old Life, but, I’m not scared of trying something new. I would certainly try if its worthy of giving a try.