Nostalgia from last year

I was home last year in May. Had this gr8 gettogether with old pals from my school. Was gr8 to catch up with everybody. Made this slide during tht time, but failed to publish during tht time. Here it is.

Ah ! How i feel nostalgic.

Bubble 2.0 The Video

Its an hilarious video. Gives an account of the current internet startup craze(i have already bitten by this bug)!!!




Good imaginative one.

CHRISTOPHER McCANDLESS "INTO THE WILD"

As the train squeezed to a halt at Altona Station, images of the movie 'Into the Wild' were still swirling in my mind. I had just seen a masterpiece of a movie chronicling the final years of Christopher McCandless.

The wikipedia entry for McCandless goes thus - " Christopher J. McCandless (February 12, 1968 – August 1992) was an American idealist/wanderer who died near Denali National Park after hiking alone into the Alaskan wilderness with little food or equipment. Author Jon Krakauer wrote a book about his life, Into the Wild, published in 1996, which was adapted into a 2007 film directed by Sean Penn, Into the Wild, with Emile Hirsch as McCandless." More here -
Wikipedia Entry


"I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong." this really lifts your spirits up. You automatically tend to get into a body language of deep thought beginning with a deep breath,with the current events in one's life, and how there is a drastic need to have daily contemplations, to take things into perspective, it somehow hits you hard and you feel like a battle-hardened soldier.


Following is a list of quotes by Christopher Mc Candless aka Alexander Supertramp

"The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences."

"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."

"Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past."

For the full list see
here


Clearly this movie has won me over and makes an entry into best's list and gives me a fresh perspective.

Good cerebral workout.

Found this good IQ quiz link. Try it out. Good cerebral work out to escape from the daily drudgery.

Moving to a new place

Change is the only constant.

Moving to a new place brings in its own nuances.

Moreover if you have to travel everyday by a train.

1. You can catch up with that long pending list of books to read.
Currently reading - Fountainhead (2nd Run)
Need to get a big dose of Objectivism once again.

2. Gives you time to get into the groove for the professional rigmarole ahead.

3. 5-6 songs in the morning really makes your day (what with some beautiful maidens to bowl you over sitting right across)

4. Really makes you appreciate your own time in a much better way.

My New Favourite Haunt

There is something about a bookshop that makes you go back again and again. Its so easy to ge lost in the myriad collection of books for hours together. One wanders from 'Biography' to 'Travel' to 'Management' to 'Fiction'. Of late I have started liking to spend my weekend free time in BORDERS.

Grab a grande latte and a cosy corner and u can spend 2-3 hours of world-class thoughts swirling in ur head. I see a copy of Khaled Hossieni's masterpiece 'Kite Runner' on the recommended reading list. Have to find some time for this book very soon.

'Billions of blue blistering barnacles' goes a young blond kid marvelling at Captain Haddock's trademark dialogue from one of Tintin's adventures. I smile and reminisce when I used to do the same many years back.

As I move out of BORDERS with my second cup of coffee I have already fixed up my time for the next weekend to visit my new favourite haunt.

Open Social ... Way to go Google

Its out. Google stealthily has conjured up an amazing idea which is better for itself, the internet and last but not least millions like me.

Basically, OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. Using standard JavaScript and HTML, they enable developers to create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds to begin with and more going forward.

See this video.



Start creating some applications rightaway!!!

Information Revolution

Information R/evolution from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Kansas State University, the same chap behind the viral Web 2.0 video. Will post the video link soon.

Amazing video . Makes you wonder on the structure of information on the internet. Have a look.