stairway to heaven

stairway to heaven

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

comfortably numb

comfortably numb

Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

Come on, now.
I hear youre feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.

Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts:
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I cant hear what youre sayin.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I cant explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

Ok.
Just a little pinprick. [ping]
Therell be no more --aaaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.

Can you stand up?
I do believe its working. good.
Thatll keep you going for the show.
Come on its time to go.

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I cant hear what youre sayin.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

coming back to life

coming back to life

Where were you when I was burned and broken
While the days slipped by from my window watching
And where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless
Because the things you say and the things you do surround me
While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun

Lost in thought and lost in time
While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted
Outside the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime

I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life

I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And I headed straight..into the shining sun

drool

What wouldnt i do to get my hands on these. Btw its a toddy shop .. see the photo

Wanna get inside Google?

This made me sentimental http://benjismith.net/index.php/2006/06/07/interviewing-with-google

dogfriendly

Tim Sweeney at E3 2006

Here is an interview with Tim Sweeney at this year's E3 Expo. He also expresses his thoughts on Carmack's MegaTexture

Update:
Here is an interview with Carmack at E3, the interviewer is annoying though

Kripa on Duet

In someway im connected to duet. Here is my colleague's blog on the same

Carmack's new Mobile Game

http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/johnc/Recent%20Updates

Satisfied

I loved the San Marino race yesterday. Michael the man!, of course ppl are bound to disagree for some reason or another. But i loved every moment Alonso tried overtaking Michael and failed. Inspirational :)


Saw From Dusk Till Dawn and i must say Robert Rodriguez got steel balls to do that stuff.


You can watch it for at least the Salma Hayek dance sequence. The song+dance was one of the best, and she's got the young innocent look. Ive been infinite looping on that song over the weekend.

which reminds me of the movie Four Rooms i saw sometime back. It is directed by 4 ppl with Quentin and Rodriguez among them. It is a funny movie and Tim Roth rocks.

The Wheel of Time

I have been reading Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time". It is a great fantasy book(s). Currently im approximately in the middle of first book (The Eye of the World). If everything goes well, i plan to read the series completely (Currently there are 11 books and dog knows how many more he has planned.) I only hope he doesnt die before he finishes.

Schrödinger now and then

He is now 4 1/2 months old, and the older photo was taken when he was around 1 month old. Now you might want to know his breed. Im fed up of hearing this question, so im gonna let it out. He is of Dan breed, more precisely NaDan.

V for Vendekka

Saw Vendekka on friday. It reminded me of The Mask of Zorro for obvious reasons.

XPS 600 Renegade

Dell just announced the XPS 600 Renegade. It is one of the most expensive pc's out there, and costs around $10000. Lets see what it has
Pentium D 965 Extreme Edition dual core processor overclocked from 3.73 to 4.26GHz
2GB DDR2-667
Dual 160 GB 10,000 rpm Western Digital drives in RAID 0 configuration
Secondary WD 400GB 7200GB Hard Drive
and now the main part
Quad-SLI system with 4 GeForce 7900 GTX graphics card with 512MB mem each .. my dog :0
The 7900GTX was released just some weeks back!
Ageia Physx processor for physics
DVDBurner, Klipsch Pro Media 5.1 speakers or Logitech Z-5500 500 watt 5.1 digital surround speakers, Sound Blast X-Fi Fatality sound card with front-side controller, 30" LCD with resolution 2560x1600, 10 USB 2.0 ports

links 1 2 3
Zeus (or is it USMAN?) come on!

Drool C Programmers

F1 Season

The Three Stars

Hats off to Kimi for finishing third after starting from the last .

Alonso said - ''I'm surprised he was on the podium because he was starting from the back, I thought Jenson (Button) was third. I think he did a good from where he was starting.''
Michael said - "He's very quick. How quick, we'll find out''

Also nice to see newcomer Nico Rosberg scoring the fastest lap. Seems like its a good season ahead.

Emacs learning curve

Irréversible

The Horror! The Horror!

online tools

Web has progressed so much that some people have coined buzzwords like Web2.0 .I will explain some tools which i found interesting
Blogs.
blogger, wordpress ..
If you are reading this, you already know this. If you dont have one, start one now!
RSS Feeds.
Dynamic content sites like news sites, blogs supports something called RSS feeds. You can subscribe to these feeds and use a feed reader to read them, just like mail. I think Joel Spolsky once remarked the difference between reading a feed and going to the site. Its like looking every second whether it is 3'o clock / setting an alarm for 3'o clock. There are many varieties of feed readers ranging from desktop clients, browser integrated to online ones.
Desktop.
RSS Bandit, Omea Reader etc.
These readers also support tabbed browsing.
Browser Based.
Firefox builtin live bookmarks, Opera, IE7 If you are using Firefox, you can get good plugins like Sage. The builtin live bookmarks are pretty primitive. Opera has a very good feed reader integrated. These tools have added advantage that if you are browsing a site having feed, a button will be shown in the address bar which you can click to subscribe. In desktop/online clients you have to manually copy paste the rss link.
Online.
Bloglines, Google Reader, Newsalloy
Advantage is that you dont have to install any client side things.
Opml
Most of the readers support something called Opml format. This represents your collection of feeds. You can import/export opml. Once you create your opml, you can experiment with various clients. (opera9 supports importing/exporting of opml). Try out some opmls from http://indibloggies.org/nominations-2005/
Bookmarking.
del.icio.us, furl, scuttle, google bookmarks, yahoo myweb2.0
These sites support saving your bookmarks online. There are many advantages like being able to access yor bookmarks from any computer, accessing others bookmarks etc. Many of them allows accessing others bookmarks as rss feeds. For eg you can access my bookmarks here. So if you have any interesting links to share, share it using these tools Posting a bookmark while browing is easy. You just need to get the bookmarklets from these sites and click on them. del.ici.ous supports firefox extension which is little more easy. Also there is another browser called Flock (built on top of firefox) which makes it very easy to add bookmarks. It also support client side caching of your bookmarks
Many of these tools (blogs, bookmarking sites etc) support something called tags. This is the category which the link belongs to. You will be able to access the popular links for that tag etc. For eg this is the link for popular links tagged with name ai in del.icio.us
Online chats.
gtalkr, meebo
Again advantage is you dont have to install any client side things. meebo supports multiple chats like yahoo, aim etc
Picture Sharing.
Flickr
Here you share your pictures. Flickr has tagging mechanism like del.icio.us
Blog Searching
Technorati, Google Blog Search, Icerocket
pretty much self explanatory
Dictionary
Answers.com, wikipedia
If you need to know about anything, just go to these sites and search. Most of the browsers support adding search plugins to these sites.
News sites
digg, slashdot, reddit
Of course i will link only technology sites :). digg is one serious contender for slashdot. You have to subscribe to the feed because it spits out tons of news items in a day.
Im not saying anything about podcasting as i dont use it now.

onlisp

Pleasant surprise in the morning. Paul Graham's OnLisp is now free. Go get it http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html