Category: Live Journal Entries

In the dichotomy between your heart and brain it is my rationale and love which are the victims

When people say “They don’t have a choice” they usually mean that they don’t want you to have a choice… …

Have you ever regretted having seen a person, you knew virtually, in real life?

Have you ever regretted telling someone they lied when they lie?

Have you ever regretted dreaming and achieving?

Have you ever regretted regretting?

Regrets?

Hmm… If I did start thinking all these things I would have wasted too much time. Currently I am busy compiling Apache 1.3 with PHP 5 on Red Hat 9 running in VMware Workstation, at the same time I am trying to tweak the photo gallery script my website. Been wondering whether to embed my LJ there or not… currently the inclination is to let is remain as it is.

has really rekindled my interest in photography. I finally have a real actively pursued hobby. I wish I could start saving for buying a new camera BUT damn it! I never have any money – must start moonlighting ;o)

Having tested the Alpha, I am thrilled at the features of PHP 5 but at the same time not jumping up and down with glee, given the history it will be at least one more year before I use it in my production environment. See change log at https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

That said, PHP5 for me will definitely redefine a whole lot of things for me in terms of programming style as it incorporates a lot of real OOP features.

[update]
A question is everyone’s mind is about unbundling of MySQL client library from PHP due to license issues. At the onset it looks bad BUT if you read around carefully you will notice the MySQL extension itself is not gone – it is just not bundled with the PHP download.

Lets see whom it hurts more MySQL or PHP – IMO it will be MySQL.

As an aside notice PostgreSQL is under BSD Licence
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[Further update]
Ugh – but this is the place to say this…

I have been wondering if I as a developer distributed only PHP scripts would I be in violation of the MYSQL GPL?
As I understand GPL – No! I am not incorporating any part of MySQL code into my scripts nor am I distributing any part of MySQL code.
[/Further update]

I enacted “Early to bed and early to rise” today, only that I did not intend it to be this way. I wanted to sleep real late today completing the sleep deficit for the week.

Except for the fact that I still need about 4 hours of sleep I am really liking it. I am sitting in Aasim’s room (he crawled into our bed sometime late night) with windows open watching the sky change colours and listening to the babble of birds outside. I just realised that it is weekend once again 🙂 time once again is flying…

This week I had to tighten the reins on the programmers. How so ever I hate doing it, it comes with the job of being responsible and sadly there are very few emplyees who really understand this. For almost everyone I see around me – “Its just a job”

Yeah! It is a job that needs to be done. I guess I might as well ask for the moon… …

Sometime yesterday evening, Just as Aasim walked into the room Swati said to me “You should have an open mind”, Aasim without even pausing his stride queried “Shall I get the screwdriver set?” (to loosen the screws)

All of us had a hearty laugh – The kid is getting a wacko sense of humour.

This weeks challenge for was dreamy. Most people have been posting sunsets, landscapes, sleeping babies and the likes. I wanted to actually photograph a projection of clouds on Swati but the slide projector refused to co-operate… I am not too displeased with what I ended up with 🙂 – A larger version is here. Although a whole lot of you have complimented generously about my pictures I have seldom got many votes. But rather than the votes the biggest motivation for me to post is the fun I have while doing the photography. I am slowly accumulating props and equipment for my home studio, an old tripod, couple of table lamps, white card, black card, white bedsheet, black bedsheet, a 24″x18″ glass pane, a similar sized mirror… …

The week itself proved that there is always hope, almost when even I had given up. Things are still on thin ice but atleast we are not in water.

Long back I had seen a nifty tool which show link between any two LJ users by going through the friends list, The “Six degrees of separation” between any two LJ users – Does anyone have the URL to that script