Of trees and roots

I never thought that I will feel sentimental about a tree, but when the incessant rains took toll of the ancient bottle brush tree in our compound I was surprised to feel such a deep feeling of loss … …

That tree had stood there since before me… It was witness to a lot of my childhood adventures and fantasies. It was the magical place which morphed from a seafaring ship to a space pod as per the wishes of me and my friends. At times it was my only companion.

I was hoping that I would teach Aasim tree climbing on that… But…

Confucius say

https://web.mit.edu/matushan/www/confucius.html Source not acknowleged on discretion 😉 BUT this was the most relaxing moment of the day – Still cant get that grin off my face ….

BOFH ??

Mails like these bring out the BOFH in me 😀 — Tarique, Ouch! Go to school! That would hurt. I’ll contact them and see where we’re at and let you know soon. Thank you, ****** on 6/18/02 7:46 AM, Dr Tarique Sani at tarique@sanisoft.com wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, ****** ****** wrote: >

She!!

She is pregnant, due in August and she didn’t even bother to call once, this was just a mild discomfort or nag at the back of my mind – We were like that in some ways – close very close but at times aloof… … BUT Swati shed light on it in a very different

Things to come

Swati: Hey! Aasim give me a hug Aasim: Why? (eyebrows arched) Swati: Because I am your mother…. Aasim: So? (walks out of the room) Hmm… looks like the mould is being set for the shape o things to come

Image2ascii using PHP

Had been toying with this idea for some time, but looks like someone has already done it – Take a look here – 497Kb

Planetarium 2.0

If you ever look at the night skies and try to identify anything other than the moon then Planetarium 2.0 ( https://www.aho.ch/pilotplanets/) is alone worth buying a palm!! This is one of the best Star Atlas I have seen and it is really fast. Attention to small details like a “night mode” where everything is

Arrrgh!!!!!

OK! this is will help someone save some heavy head banging * SSL & MSIE & Form-Submit & “Page or DNS not found” append the following line to httpd.conf: SetEnvIf User-Agent “.*MSIE.*” nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown * SSL & href=”javascript:”: wrong onClick Handler within MSIE 5.5. Either Service Pack 1 helps or the workaround as mentioned in

Bestseller ? and !!

Manuel “phpclasses” Lemos wrote that the “Pro PHP 4” book that I co-authored is an Amazon bestseller. Really? I dont believe it, I have my own reasons, besides, the fact is that the Amazon site does not list it as such. Has anyone seen such a rating? Yeah! I should be jumping with joy *me*

Killing Bugs

Spent a rather satisfying 30 min at Scorpio resolving the issues with most of the project – now no project has more than 3 open bugs/feature request!! Bliss!!! On a different note – Yes, Scorpio is open source but is waiting for someone to write decent documentation – roughly put it is a bugzilla clone