Adding a Flickr! slideshow to your blog

Found out a great way to add a Flickr slideshow to your blog. Sharing a few of my Flickr favorites.
Cool! isn't it?
Disclaimer: These are not my own pictures.
Pssst: to view the other pictures in the slideshow, move your mouse over the frame :o)

Know your Impact on Others

Yesterday was a better day at work. Today was quite different. 'twas one of those "Did Nothing" days. I feel guilty and at times, restless when I'm not productive or say not doing any work when I'm in the office. So you can say that I can sometimes get away with this:

To put it straight, I really didn't feel very good about it. I've been hired and am being paid to work. But to do away with my guilt, I guess I have a good explanation.

I wanted some topics to be removed from the user manual and had sent a mail to our client if she approves of it. Sadly, there was no reply from her end and my guess was that it was partly because she has been too busy.

My deadline is this Friday and whether I like it or not, I will have to complete it :o(

Sometimes people just don't think, or realise their impact on others.

Sunday Morning

Sunday, 8:30 AM, and my Nokia goes *BEEP* *BEEP*...*BEEP* *BEEP*.
A small vibration, and Voila! a new message!

"hi jimmy how r

thngs? got your num

from your bro wen

i ws in del. M

in Dubai dese days,

really miss u and

our Wonder Years

:) - Love Binu"

'twas a message and a contact from Binu after a gap of 7 years. Won't talk about who or what Binu is but he was there throughout my "Wonder Years". My first crush at school - Nija *sigh*, those fights with our seniors for snatching our TT table during lunch, or those silly jokes, like "Monal Salhotra".
I replied to his message with a smile and with a feeling of being someone special. :)
A few 10 minutes later, Shuksi calls up!! I knew it was Saturday night in his part of the world and well, 3AM. :D
Here's what the highligh of our talk was-"Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem". Its basically about a theorem demonstrated by the Czech-born mathematician Kurt Gödel in 1931.

Shamelessly pasting some of the contents from that website:-

..Kurt Gödel demonstrated that within any given branch of mathematics, there would always be some propositions that couldn't be proven either true or false using the rules and axioms ... of that mathematical branch itself.

Gödel's Theorem has been used to argue that a computer can never be as smart as a human being because the extent of its knowledge is limited by a fixed set of axioms, whereas people can discover unexpected truths ... It plays a part in modern linguistic theories, which emphasize the power of language to come up with new ways to express ideas. And it has been taken to imply that you'll never entirely understand yourself, since your mind, like any other closed system, can only be sure of what it knows about itself by relying on what it knows about itself.

What this says is that, in mathematics, there's always a true and a false. But beyond that there is this thing called incompleteness, which in a layman's term says that there are things that go beyond the usual "true or false".. and that there's are things that are neither true or false!
Go there, its a nice read and even if you're not a mathematician, you'd still find it interesting..."http://www.miskatonic.org/godel.html"

Thanks for calling Shux!
Love ya and come back soon. Captain Saab and me eagerly await your return. ;o) hope you had a Gute Nacht!
Some Sunday Morning it was! :o)

A relatively temporary state of feeling

I was out for a ciggy break and well, I could feel that gentle wind hit my face and small droplets of rain. Its been drizzling since yesterday and the weather is what I must say-Perfect. Not for some folks here in the office though, what with some Holi celebrations having been planned in the office premises and I guess there won't be much celebrations today. Maybe indoors but not outdoors, that's for sure!
Anyways, I more then welcomed the weather and would love to go to Delhi tomorrow. But then Sukhna Lake it will be! A friend has promised to get me some Bhang and just chill out at Sukhna lake. I'll be taking this derivative of cannabis, I don't know, maybe after 4 years.
Just read this line about Bhang:
"It is inevitable that temperaments should be found to whom the quickening spirit of Bhang is the spirit of freedom and knowledge"

BTW, Tomorrow's some holiday for a festival and I hated being at work today!

Chandigarh: The experience so far!

Just completed a month here in Chandigarh and the experience has been quite mixed. Finding a good room wasn't tough but the conditions laid out by most house owners were hard to comply with. No smoking, no drinking, no girls, and some conditions like, no entering the house after a certain time. Coming from Mizoram and having Asian looks, I was at times mistaken for a 'Nepali' and well, Sikhs don't have a very high opinion for "Nepalese" people.
Finally managed to find a good house but then as luck had it, the landlady saw me smoking in the balcony. And to add to that, we had a beer party at my new place with my friends here.
So, there was this nice talk that the landlady had with me the following day.
"Beta, you can always go to the park and smoke. And we don't have any problems with you partying with your friends here, just that, don't have drinks in the house, there are so many pubs and bars in Chandigarh!" Sweet lady she is.
Anyways, I'll be moving out from this place on the 15th of this month. My colleague is leaving his place and I'll be taking over the house from him by end-of-day, tomorrow. Its in sector 16 and is quite decent.
"You'll have your own entrance and the landlord doesn't bother you much. But don't tell them that you smoke. Mind you, no Sikh family will give their house for rent if you tell them that!" was the warning from my friend.
He added, "For that, there's sector-15".
Well, sector-15 is where most of the students studying in Punjab University live. I wanted to take a flat here, what with most of my fellow Mizos putting up in that area.
Captain Saab - a localite and a senior in college - has already expressed his desire to share a flat with me. I guess I won't be putting up in sector-16 for long. Let's see how things work out.