payday

today i got a payday ( a candy bar with slightly salted peanuts glued together with caramel and which i really like ) for FREE!! u might ask, “what the big deal mate?” well, the last time i got something for free was many years ago.. the big guy who refills the vending machine had [...]

sept 11, 2001… 5 years later..

i view the events that happened on 9/11/01 in couple angles.. i’m not being insensitive, just objective..
1. years of meticulous planning executed in almost precise fashion in just couple of hours..
2. a catastrophe that brought majority of the whole nation under the banner of prayer… when was the last time a prayer was offered in [...]

xv6700 firmware update and s/w

went here and installed the new update as per instructions… although it said itll take 20 min, it just took around 10… also applied the
1.portrait/landscape speed increase and
2. storage card cache increase
registry changes as seen on the linked page… was concerned if it would screw up my phone but it didnt… now i have a [...]

good opensource alternatives

to spare myself from some guilt (for reasons i dont want to discuss here… coz i can see MS eyeballing this place! peekaboo!! i c u!), ive decided to turn to free/cheaper alternatives… listed below are couple of ‘em i found pretty OK but honestly not as satisfying as their commercial counterparts.. (prolly because [...]

steve irwin and reuters report

great guy.. everyone in my family was awed with the risks he took… “crickey!”… though not an avid follower of his show “crocodile hunter” on animal planet, i felt sorry when i heard about his freakish demise..
i saw two reports on reuters about him.. the headings were different.. posted approx 12 hours apart.. but exactly [...]

happy labor day!!

thanks to all the labor force who fought for thier rights… social security, healthcare….. without the fight, this country would of had existed as a capitalistic country in its purest form…

wireless frustrations..

for the past couple of days, i would loose connection to my wireless connection, ceteris paribus.. i would get it back but only after 15-20 min… right when ur in the middle of doing something, ur connection looses.. really frustrating.. but the funny part was that the dumb card wont admit to that fact… [...]

the BB boys – Blair and Bush

what happens when 2 world leaders join hands? u come across a scene where there is plenty of blood, misery, distress, hunger…..
go to google.com and enter ‘failure‘ and press the ‘im feeling lucky button’ – u’ll be taken to george bush’s biography
go to google.com and enter ‘liar‘ and press the ‘im feeling lucky button’ – [...]

does God still punish?

YES! God’s punishment = death.. nothing less than that.. Nahum 1:3 says “…the LORD will not leave the guilty unpunished…” punishment for both believers and unbelievers is death … Romans 6:23 say “…for the wages of sin is death…” but for a believer, God inculcates disciplining measures too… If you are a legitimate child, God [...]