iiO- Rapture

here is this great clubbing music i found.... its awesome... i am loving this at the moment

The big shuffle up

so, todays entry begins with a bit of a sad news really. my sister and my brother in law are moving away with their beloved pet jack and as part of their moving away wind-up, they are getting rid of most of their possesions by doing what normal people do and selling a lot of them on trade-me. but to save them the hassle, i agreed to take a few of their things. shelving units mostly.... coz only i know how badly my room needs it.

so, today i picked them up and brought them back to my room... and surprisingly, they fit pretty much as well as i guessed they would (prior to what other said). but as part of that fitting to take place, i had to get rid of my "box-o-memories" which is where i had taken all of my stuff after year 1 semester 1 from uni and put them in there.... with all my high school stuff and had sealed it.

i finally opened that box today.

and i must say that it took me forever to go through all my memories.. some of them are about 9 years old... and still as fresh as the day i packed them. my favorite of them, my sheet music from high school band (i used to play the trombone). not many friends who claim to know me very well now know of that. but at one point in my life, it used to be a big things for me.

stuff included my year 13 electronics final year report. harry potter and david gemmell books. all my high school year books. letter of rejection from auckland uni from when i had applied there. so on and so forth. wow.... wasnt this a trip down memory lane.

oh well.. best to leave the past behind and move on... i am over my nostalgia moment now...

but i leave you with this question, have you ever tried this, packed all your memories up to a certain point in your life?? everything including bank statements and university letters. you will remember a lot more things than you packed when you open them..


try it out
ciao

Square Root of 3

Square Root of Three

I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three

The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine

For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic

I know I’ll never see the sun,
as 1.7321
Such is my reality,
a sad irrationality

When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three

As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer

We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands

Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed

Sticking it to the inbuilt nokia GPS software

so. this episode starts ever since i grew tired of my old nokia 7610 and decided that i wanted a new phone, which has been long overdude... as i have had my trusty old 7610 since i started uni...

but never the less, decided that that phone was just too damm slow and i am getting mad at how an old granny can react much faster than my old phone...

so i started looking out in the market for whats out there that catches my eye. there is obviously the iphone. but me being the fanatic nokia fan i am, decided that i wanted a nokia, and i had my heart set very much on the N95 until i saw the 5800 XpressMusic.

the reason i like this one above all others was the fact that its fully touch screen... and also has an inbuilt GPS. fastforward a few months, and i got my 5800 on my birthday.
YAY i am all happy and over the moon and cant let go of my phone and all the usual yada yada yada....

i even connected it to my PC and loaded the maps on and all and started using the GPS. which worked great for the first week. after which it decided to be annoying and started asking me for money to navigate my around. and not like a one time payment of $29.95 or something... a "YEARLY SUBSCIPTION OF" $200 or something along the lines. WTF!!!

kinda reminds you of your broke friends who want you to pay for their movie so they can watch it with you. and THAT JUST PISSED ME OFF!!!! so after a lot of hard searching that (unofficially) to the mecca of searching (GOOGLE), i found a cracked version of Garmin for mobile XT. and like with all garmins, there is a ton of free open source stuff online. everything from maps, POIs to even customized voices of stewie from family guy or cartman from southpark.

and the best part is, it works!!!! so i am a happy camper now with my brand new and lets not forget FREE software that navigates. and its all updateable whenever i want.... its all just a click away.

mind you, it is a bit of a hassle, took me about a day to get it all up and running. but then again, all good things take time.

so before i go, i leave you with this:
Ask not what open source software can do for you, but what YOU can do for open source software.

take care
Sankalp