OMG!

There seems to be a definite problem – Aasim again took scissors and cut his hair today.

I have to give up everything and spend more time with him. We have to talk to his teachers as well. He feels awful when people make fun of him, and his classmates did make fun of him today BUT still he did it… …

Have to find out what he is trying to rebel against? Or is this just attention seeking? Or boredom – It cannot be boredom today as throughout the day he was playing with Dinesh, he talked with the programmers, played with the cat, we talked in the afternoon… …

Of late though I have indeed noticed that he just runs away from the Lab if I enter….

Despite the fact that he has not been ever told by me to go out… …

I guess he wants more time with me. More time with Swati… …

Ramble mode on.

Life Sux!!! Life is too simple and not really in my favour Net has been slow thanks to Slapper (?!) I can almost sympathise with the creator… … Hope it gave him a good kick 😀 Finally was able to get mail now 150 of them … … Aasim, in middle of watching cartoons, most

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, perhaps well-meaning but without understanding! – Justice Louis D. Brandeis

Have always felt strongly about the subject but never wrote because it was too personal and my writing this, I felt, will not make any difference. But over past few days I have repeatedly thought about the topic and concluded that writing it down at least for sake of later reference would be a good

A person can die from a reaction against “Anti Snake Venom Serum” administered as an antidote for snake bite

Today we found a teeny weeny, about 28cm long, Common Krait in our garden. Yeah! its a poisonous snake. It was promptly caught photographed, measured and put in a jar to be shown to Aasim. The Common Krait is one of the poisonous snakes found in India, though it has been really long that I

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Julie Cameron

Today finally after 6 years of faithful service the hard disk on *the computer* with which we started SANIsoft, displayed first symptoms of failure – LILO refused to boot further. Booting from CDROM of another machine and overwriting did fix the problem but I guess it is time to retire that old friend… … Though

“Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.” – Madeleine L’Engle

It was heartening to note that PHPlib by default takes care of most most of the Top Ten security flaws published at https://www.owasp.org For those of you who still think that PHPlib is for PHP3 take a look at https://phplib.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ This version uses PHP 4 session and works with register_globals off Found another interesting article

The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.

I have written about Eric Boutilier Brown and his website Evolving Beauty before but this image of his really had me entranced by its sensuality. (Has nudity – discretion advised) This man is a genius with camera. In other things Nagpur is such a dump that they don’t even update the METAR reports. Thus I

Twists in the tale.

Yesterday was one of those days which once in a while the small quirks of fate serve up. Yesterday I had to attend the funeral of my eldest aunt who died after having been paralyzed for past 6 years and in semi-coma for nearly a year. The quirk of fate was that her grandson was

Continuing on the Java Sux theme…. Throughout the day been reading a lot on how to optimize the performance of Java. Found a few things on Developer Works IBM site. It is amazing how easily your server RAM will fill up with this thing if you don’t take a whole lot of precautions. Oh Well!

Yikes!!! Java suxs big time in string handling – If I have to remove whitespaces from between a string(Buffer) I have to write my own method Duh!