When you are in a relationship, don’t intentionally say something which can hurt the other person.

But does that means you should not express yourself freely? – Well, no! There can be 10 different ways of conveying your point across. Though, fastest ways aren’t always the best ways.

That said – love you always.

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Be it work, personal life, friends, or just anything.

3 years ago when I was at the brink of taking an important decision (personal and professional) – I read this article by Paul Grahams who went at great length to explain about two categories of people – One – those who make a living by doing things they love to do – and Two – those who make time and money for things they love by doing things they don’t love so much.

Quoting yet again from Paul Grahams article – How to do what you love.

Finding work you love is very difficult. Most people fail. Even if you succeed, it’s rare to be free to work on what you want till your thirties or forties. But if you have the destination in sight you’ll be more likely to arrive at it. If you know you can love work, you’re in the home stretch, and if you know what work you love, you’re practically there.

Leaving HCL Tech and joining Red Hat in Pune was almost a direct consequence of reading that article. For the year that I worked with Red Hat, I had joined the elite group who actually liked what they did, to make a living. Whatever I did during the day, used to give me an immense sense of belonging and contribution.

Today, almost 3 years hence, I’m now part of the second category which Paul Grahams described in his article – desperately trying to be back in first category. Things are complicated now – even though I want to get back to the first category (and I can) – I still NEED to be part of the second category. I need this “piggybacking” right now.

With Fireflies from Owl City playing in the background and Planet Ubuntu open in front of me, I’m simply missing my days at Red Hat – the time when I was actually happy.

Missing the feeling of doing things I love doing.

“I like to make myself believe, that planet earth turns slowwwly… Its hard to say that I rather stay awake when I’m asleep…”
“Leave my door open just a crack… Cause I feel like such an insomniac…”
(lyrics)

This day shall pass too. Brighter days await
Hope shall never die.

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I just bought a new 23″ Samsung LCD for my new desktop. The screen is so huge & so bright that the 14″ screen of my T61 actually looks timid when compared side-by-side!!

Accompanying the awesome VDU, is an equally well built CPU – It sports a dual core AMD Phenom 3.10 GHz processor, 3 Gigs of RAM & a 512 Megs ATI Radeon onboard GPU

Next up in my shopping list is a good audio system which compliments the 7.1 channel audio output my CPU supports! Looking forward to an amazing movie viewing experience!

I’m happy…
A ton of thanks to Sam and Sandy for helping me get the 23″ LCD!

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However, to my surprise Google’s Chrome beats it hands down when it comes to speed of the javascript engine each of the browser deploys. Google has V8 tucked under Chrome’s (v4.0.213.1) belt, while my shiny new (nightly updated) Mozilla Firefox Minefield 3.7a1pre has TraceMonkey.

So why am I this sad today? Well… check this out…

Peacekeeper JS test – Chrome was nearly 59% faster here!

SunSpider test – Chrome was almost 76% faster

Chrome vs Firefox – SunSpider test, merged view.

I purposely ran the tests in side-by-side browser windows, launching Firefox tests just about a second before the Chrome’s tests – and to my surprise, I could actually (visually) see Chrome finishing faster – it was that fast!
Afterall… 59% or 76% actually does seems a pretty huge boost, whatever functionality it might be in.

Here are by browser versions… (both are stock builds as provided by repositories/online).

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Well… to me, this is healthy competition. Talk about the times when Chrome wasn’t there, Firefox used to make IE look timid. Come Chrome and now Firefox is doing the catch-up. Whoever wins, we – the end users – get the best of all the worlds.

That is like – have your cake & eat it too

However, I seriously hope that by the time Firefox 4.0 launches, its javascript engine is at par with Google Chrome’s.
And by the time Google Chrome matures, I wish it should start sporting the same plethora of addons as does Firefox.

From UI’s perspective, Chrome also packs an extra bit of punch, which I really like and would like to blog about. But thats for a later post.

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But its okay as I said…
So would that mean I’d move away from Zoto? – No.
Support from their users is what they need the most – to get past this painful 90 degrees turn.

However, that being said – I’ll be more cautious this time. I am going to fix up an s3 account for myself and keep a dumb backup of my pics there as well. So Zoto does all the intelligent hosting for me, while I still have my pictures safe at S3 – so that my pics can survive any divine intervention

So, here’s the first pic I’ve uploaded to my zoto account after a looong time…

Thats Chhavi and me and IBM Silo canteen – Gimme Red! (pic courtesy Garfield )

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