Race Against Time

Everything is a race against time. From waking up in morning to sleeping at night. We are always running after the hands of the clock. In our homes, on the roads, in offices, in relationships. Why can't we all just chill and take it easy?

We can't because then we'll die.

Progress is a violent emotion. There is no peaceful progress. Something is built because something was broken to make it.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. There are tiny bits of violence involved in our day to day lives. There is violence going on inside our bodies, as the body's defence mechanism kills all harmful bacteria and somewhere in space, black holes are eating up the space.

If anyone truly thought for even just one second, would they really want to live?

Yes. I think yes.

What do you think?

Blank

There comes a time in life when everything goes blank. It's a strange time. I was sitting in office today and i happened to look out of the window and i saw the hills. It was a strangely disturbing experience.

Yup, that's all.

Blank.

Angels of Chaos

Some people carry a cloud of chaos with them. Things go boom when they are close, people lose temper and God himself sheds a little tear in his soul of souls for he made the mistake of creating such a person. But God is God. Maybe he chuckles a little bit, on creating an angel of chaos, just to introduce some anarchy in the system.

Just thoughts in my mind.

How are you?

Taking The Leap, Leaving Windows Behind.

When you first buy a computer/laptop/netbook there is something installed on it by default. It's called Linux. But because friends, family, office workers, and almost everyone you know uses Windows so, you get an installation CD and install Windows on your new machine. Then things work fine, for a while. Then one day you find that the system is taking too long to start up. You grit through it and wait. When you are finally able to log in, you see a pop up which can say anything from, "there is a virus on your system" to "important files are missing".

The end result being that productivity suffers, you go under stress, you search online to find ways to solve your problem and you find that there are millions more who have the same problems. Someone tells you, "hey, get a Mac, they don't have the same problems as Windows" You get excited, you log on to Apple's website, you find out that buying a Mac would make you poor instantly, unless you are filthy rich, in which case you have no business reading this blog.

I digress.

The little story told above is what happened to me, not you. (You can relax, for now). I tried looking for a solution to the problems given to me by Windows, and when it crashed on me and I had to re-install it, it was a pain in places I don't want to mention here. Anyway, someone suggested Linux Mint. I gave it a spin. Used it as a dual boot with Windows for about two months and today marks the day when I've totally removed Windows from my laptop and made it a Linux Mint only laptop.

Thanks Linux Mint.

Find out more >> www.linuxmint.com

In some future post, i'll describe the easiest way for a n00b to install Linux Mint.

Meeting Strangers

When you meet someone new there is always the apprehension of what the person will be like.

Are all strangers strange?

Most are.

Anything Is As Good As The Hype

I've been talking about movies a lot here. Well, if you have a problem with that, do let me know in comments. K?

Anyway, a movie is as good as the hype it can create. There is no publicity that is bad publicity, that's one good thing that I learned while studying Journalism. if you don't make noise, how will you be heard? The recent hit movies like Three Idiots, Avataar, HouseFull, (last one was shit, but so were the other two, in their own ways) but the end point remains that these movies did good business. (What? You asking me for statistics? Are you so curious? please use this link.)

One good movie that passed the radars of the people is, Road Movie. The one with Abhay Deol. I saw this movie in a morning show and it was...magical. Really. I am not lying to you, why would i lie to you? I'd not. So, believe me when I say this, Road Movie was good. But that good movie didn't do good business on the box office, it just came and went, a compulsory one week in the theater. Then poof, zilch, nada.

The problem was that the movie was not hyped. Hype in today's media helps a work rise above the noise. Hype might be bad, but it works and what works is good than nothing. The nothing that doesn't even work.

That's it. That's what I wanted to say for today.

See you tomorrow.

HYPE IT!

Can I Blog Everyday?

I've been blogging for a long long time. I remember making the first blog on a free site and this was somewhere around 2003. I think. I've written a lot since then. On and off. So, i was just thinking to myself, can i blog daily?

It might not be a write up, but an image, a quote, a video, anything that might catch my fancy, maybe multiple times a day. I am going to let this place be full of a little chaos.

Right?

Right.