Graduation

This week has been one of the fastest week of the year.

Most importantly I feel that I have successfully extracted myself from the quagmire of my “late quarter life crisis” which I have been wallowing in for past few months. Thanks to Swati who gave me the rather melodramatic mantra “You can’t be a maverick all your life you have to graduate one day and become Top Gun”.

Plus I realized that I was being ungrateful to myself and my dear ones by belittling what has been achieved. This was shoved down my throat by a rather rude awakening to the fact as to how easy it was to lose everything I had.

I have had my “So you were the one” moment(s) and right now don’t know what *Top Gun* really means BUT I do intend to find out by late mid life ;0)

In other mundane things I am abandoning work on the LJ Stats projects, just be aware that depressingly large number of people view your journal – Non believers look here.

My rant on PHP

Learning PHP is easy anyone can do it over a few hours on a Sunday afternoon. That was one of the primary goal of creating PHP and has been very successfully achieved. Today everyone and their cousin twice removed can write PHP. Combine that with sites like sourceforge and freshmeat and you have got phenomenal

The weekend was…

Rather than crib about Monday I am relishing the sweet after taste of a wonderful weekend. Saturday was amazing – for the first time I did something I never did before. Despite being in-station I did not go to office! Not even once did I step across to see whats on in the lab or

Testing stat

Just testing how the stats will work out – you will not see anything in the post per se, but will update soon if the test works out [update] Go to https://www.sanisoft.com/pot/phpOpenTracker/docs/examples/simple_report/?page=total&client_id=1 and see the results with a uniqueID for each posts further fine tuning can be done. [/update]

Touching Base

The week has largely been uneventful though very tense… Nothing to write here about. This is again an Aasim’s Post. Have uploaded 15 more pictures taken by him to his album. These are all taken by him without any assistance other than commenting which picture was OK and which was not. Have introduced him to

Thank you and part II

They should list Monday Morning as a mood in LJ… I am still in yesterday but the time has changed to today how irritating. But before any more cribs a heart felt thanks once again to all of you who wished us. It was very overwhelming to say the least. Saturday evening set the mood

Till boredom do us apart ;)

It was summer of 1991, they were young, both of them heartbroken. Her boyfriend had copped the excuse “I love you, but I can’t marry you”, his girlfriend a bit less pathetic said “I love you but I love my dad more”. Oh! yes they were very good friends. So they would sit through evenings

Published Again!

The only sunny spot in an otherwise hazy start to the week is that my article “Doing Distance Calculations in PHP” has been published in php|architect. The editor liked the stuff I wrote so much that my article has been made the showcase (read free download) article, must say a kind editor that one. Before

City Life Photo Challenge

Have posted my entry for the city life theme in the community, I am sure glad that they have started differentiating between photographed and photoshopped images. This is a 100% in camera effect, no photoshop not even compression. The picture was taken on a rainy afternoon in Bangkok, from my hotel room on the 10th

Really?

The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Fifth Level of Hell!Here is how you matched up against all the levels: Level Score Purgatory (Repenting Believers) Very Low Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) Very Low Level 2 (Lustful) Very High Level 3 (Gluttonous) Very High Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) Extreme Level 5