Can't dispute that

Can't dispute that

I'm slowly moving towards new year along with lot of dejavu feelings of 2007 & wishing to burn all those on 31st night with as much spirit as possible ;) . Bangalore is geared up for new year night feast & even Kingfisher breweries too...

I'm driving around in my car
I'm driving too fast
I'm driving too far
I'd like to change my point of view....
But nothing ever happens and I wonder

...I am humming along with Fool's Garden while driving around in hot Bangalore of December. I come back home to find TV news fizzing around the murder of wonderful politician Benazir Bhutto a day back. There are thousands of theories doing rounds about her gruesome murder. Some are really hilarious & some really serious (for Mushraff) in coming days. May she rest in peace, and may God lead Pakistan to a better future. World clock is ticking ahead for one more year...

While reading the comments of online videos, I found this interesting comments by 2 readers in youtube:

World's greatest question. How do you stop a suicide attacker?

feed him,
give him a decent job,
and some hope.
don't starve him,
don't impoverish its country
avoid desperation.
That should work OK for him and global business

Look at our stupid ignorant people why they have to destroy public places and cause so much damage, you can see kids as young as 13 following their elders & smashing cars when they probably don't even realize whats going on, wake up ignorant people you are destroying generations to come..

Photographer's nail gun: Histogram

Photographer's nail gun: Histogram

A histogram is nothing more than a bar graph. It shows how the luminance values in a digital or digitized photograph are distributed. The linear scale in a histogram runs from black at one end to white at the opposite end.

It's about Histogram in DSLR cameras. It looks like a small criss crossed bar graph, but it holds true information on color scattering details of the photograph. I mostly shoot pictures in RAW format (ARW in sony alpha 100). Though I'm able to read Histogram partially, it needs to have a perfect & expert knowledge on how histogram holds information about luminance values in a digital photograph.

I found a detailed read on histogram & what histogram has to offer in digital pictures.

>> How To Read and Understand a Histogram

Usability is a Conversation.

Usability is a Conversation.

Skelliewag takes one more road to reach the 'common sense design approach: a.k.a usability: Usability is a Conversation.

“Usability” can seem like a pretty abstract term, though. What does it really mean? What does it involve? How do I get it? Do I have it already? In this post, Skelliewag discuss just how useful it is to think of your site’s usability as conversational.

>> Link to Usability is a Conversation

"Acres of Diamonds"

"Acres of Diamonds"

There was a farmer who lived in Africa and through a visitor he got to know about diamonds & wealth it can churn out. He became tremendously excited about looking for diamonds. Diamonds were already discovered in abundance on the African continent and this farmer got so excited about the idea of millions of dollars worth of diamonds that he sold his farm to head out to the diamond line. He wandered all over the continent, as the years slipped by, constantly searching for diamonds, wealth, which he never found. Eventually he went completely broke and threw himself into a river and drowned.

Meanwhile, the new owner of his farm picked up an unusual looking rock about the size of a country egg and put it on his mantle as a sort of curiosity. A visitor stopped by and in viewing the rock practically went into terminal convulsions. He told the new owner of the farm that the funny looking rock on his mantle was about the biggest diamond that had ever been found. The new owner of the farm said, "Heck, the whole farm is covered with them" -
and sure enough it was.

The farm turned out to be the Kimberly Diamond Mine...the richest the world has ever known. The original farmer was literally standing on "Acres of Diamonds" until he sold his farm.

Moral:
Each of us is right in the middle of our own "Acre of Diamonds", if only we would realize it and develop the ground we are standing on before charging off in search of greener pastures. Opportunity does not just come along - it is there all the time - we just have to see it.

>> Russell Conwell's rhetorics

why dilute the purity ?

why dilute the purity ?

Few excerpts:

"There isn’t much you can do to help those who think their ***** is smaller. They will always be insecure. They won’t come out and say it but you can make out they have a ‘problem’ by their behavior in other issues."

"...all I want to say is: India is my country, if we have a problem, we will solve it. Please don’t waste your bandwidth and web-design skills on creating hate. Take down your website by the end of this month. If you don’t, I will be reporting this matter to the Government of India and the US authorities. I will not let losers like you create divisions in my country."

Alright. What's this all about ? Is the problem really about small thingy ;) ? Naa..

It's a nice blog about some cowards holed up somewhere on the other side of the tunnel & trying to tickle the calm sense of nationalism in the name of conversion. Though published in Feb'07. It's relevant all through..

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