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Remember the dialogue between Alice and the Cheshire cat
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where –" said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
"– so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation.
"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."

Why

Who was right and who was wrong? Why does it have to be right or wrong? Why can't it just be an individual's opinion? Why judge it?

I am supposed to be a grown up adult and should manage to sort these things out all by myself. Sometimes I get so mad, I feel everything should get blasted off my mind into the outer space. But I am supposed to convey my thoughts clearly and quietly. After all, the best form of communication is not yelling at top of your lungs. In a few moments I can say anything I want to, in the process hurting the people who matter the most and later regretting about what I said and why I said it.

There are a lot of things about your life that might seem simpler to a third person. For them, it might not be a thing to ponder over for more than a couple of minutes. But it happens with everybody. Lets try not to make a big deal out of it.

Well, people get their hearts broken. They suffer alone, over the choices they have made, knowingly or unknowingly, willingly or unwillingly. Some are just unfortunate incidents. But at some point in the night the ideas of right and wrong, the disagreements, sort of dissolve and you are left with people whom you care for the most.

A thought

Just wondering... How do people come up with something to write every single day??? And even if they write everyday, they don't sound monotonous, worked up. Its nothing but refreshing to read their thoughts every single day.

What can I say, people are just gifted!

Google Vs Microsoft

Kinda unrelated comparison. But still, people love to talk about it. Its more like a religious issue for some. Well, I would like to join the party too!!!

I think as long as google doesn't come up with their OS, there is nothing to compare. But then also, if it is google, it will be open source. And frankly, there are very less tech savvy people on this planet who will say "ok... I am gonna download/install operating system on my laptop today". And when you buy a laptop, you will get windows with it. Because microsoft pays these guys. Dell is not going to give any open source OS on its laptops. Even if one fine day they decide to give google OS with their laptops, it is gonna take a while to uproot a giant which is already in business for 15 odd years. People are so damn used to windows and they love it. Microsoft knows how to make crap, and they know how to sell it!

How google makes money still beats me. Yea, I know its through advertisements. When people click on the link, google gets money. But there will be one day when these ad guys will realize that advertisements done through TV/radio fetch more clients as compared to online stuff. Really, how many people will be buying stuff through online ads. And even if it is large, as compared to microsoft who have a constant revenue generating product, its nothing.

But imagine this. Google n apple coming together. One is the king of online searches and the other is master of hardware. Together they can kick microsoft's ass... big time...

IE sucks

This is exactly the reason why I hate IE. How hopeless is this message man. It doesn't tell you anything about the problem, and kills the process, sometimes taking windows with it! When you release some product worldwide, it should adhere to certain standards. Otherwise it becomes unworkable for both the end users and the web developers. People should stop using things just because they are getting it for free with some cheap ass windows machine.

Its just crazier at office... Because the microsoft guys have paid them, we are asked to make the apps IE compliant. The damn thing can't support CSS 2.1. Quite annoying. Everyone knows about the horrible track record of IE7 as long as security is concerned. Though the most irritating bit is easily the applications that refuse to work in firefox, RDP included!!!

When you google for "IE sucks", you will see a number of blogs dedicated to the topic. I am just adding one post. I feel like a non existing non entity thing.
Read this analogy online.
Internet Explorer == Microsoft Product,
Microsoft Product == Buggy & Insecure,
Buggy & Insecure == Poorly written.
Thumbs up to whosoever has written it!

Click here to see your browser crash if you are using IE.

Perl is a pearl

Attended the Perl Training given by George Ball... yes again! Perl is such a amazing language, known for its "expressional powerfulness" and very easy for a beginner to learn. Sometimes a task for which you will write 100 lines of code or a performance killing loop, can be written in perl in 2 lines. Perl cookbook, Camel book prove to be really good for reference if you have some scripting to do.

When you have really big number crunchings to do, perl sure is the thing to go for. Regular expressions make it so powerful. On second thoughts though, something like java can pretty much do everything that perl can. All languages aren't created equally. One's knowledge of a particular programming language will help him determine which is the best language to carry out a certain task and which one will fall short for them. One can extend this thought far more than programming language or even beyond computer matters!

Coming back to perl, if you want, you can write most mysterious program so much so that no one will be able to make head and tail out of it. There have been people trying to write most abstruse perl code (I believe some of them have been hired by our firm and I am having hard time comprehending what they are trying to achieve through a piece of code) Having said that, I am must admit, it is very much English language like, syntax wise. Writing a clean, humanly readable and understandable perl program should not be a big challenge as people actually have perl haiku contests... lol. I initially thought its just a joke. But there are so many of them available online!

Here is one that I found:

y? use Lisp? or C? ;
use less keystrokes, B::Concise;
bless Wall for our @perl

I am not sure whats its output is though.