He will come, He will see, He will conquer

Brother Bono has finally spoken.
Rather, his Manager, Paul McGuinness has! ;)

Ladies and Gentlemen, Brothers and Sisters, Lads and Lasses, mark your calenders!

10 June Brussels - King Baudouin Stadium
12 June Gelsenkirchen - Schalke Stadium
14 June Manchester - Manchester Stadium
18 June London - Twickenham Stadium
21 June Glasgow - Hampden Park
24 June Dublin - Croke Park
29 June Cardiff - Millenium Stadium

2 July Vienna - Ernst Happel Stadium
5 July Katowice - Slaski Stadium
7 July Berlin - Olympic Stadium
9 July Paris - Stade de France
11 July Zurich - Letzigrund Stadium
13 July Amsterdam ?- Arena
19 July Milan - San Siro
23 July Rome - Olympic Stadium
27 July Oslo - Vallehovin Stadium
29 July Gothenburg - Ullevi Stadium
31 July Copenhagen - Parken

3rd August Munich - Olympic Stadium
5th August Nice - Parc des Sports Charles Ehrmann
7th August Barcelona -?? Camp Nou
9th August San Sebastian - Anoeta Stadium
11th August Madrid - Estadio Vicente Calderon
14th August Lisbon - Alvalade

Gothenburg it is!

Monday madness!

Here's what bogus mathematics and pseudo-science really boils down to!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4187183.stm

History does repeat itself

I look at the times gone by, and at the chain of events of the recent past; and a paragraph from 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight' by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman comes to my mind.

[ "We may not have won the war," Tanis began, "but surely we have won a major battle --"
Raistlin coughed and shook his head sadly.
"Do you see no hope?"
"Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain hope to reach it."
"Are you saying we should just give up?" Tanis asked, irritably tossing the bark away.
"I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open." ]

What goes does come around - sometimes sooner, sometimes much later; but it indeed does. Maybe, it is an interplay of fate, karma, destiny or providence. Why does it really happen, I probably will never know.

But what I do know is that, today, my eyes are wide open.

There's a "penguin" squatting on that XBOX! :)

The project to barge past the XBOX's restrictions on what software you can load on it, has now borne fruit:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/xbox-cromwell

The spiel for the uninitiated:
The import of this, as I understand it, is that a certain large corporation with monopolistic predilections has been subsidizing this box in order to get its foot in the gaming market's door. This would become somewhat less economically viable for them if, the masses were to buy the XBOX purely as a piece of cheap generic computing hardware to run Linux, which is free! They'd be subsidizing the hardware, but would be getting no revenues from games to run on it -- the post-market on which the loss-leader subsidy model relies.
If such use becomes widespread (can anyone pronounce "Beowulf" ?), they might even be obliged to sell the hardware at an non-subsidized real-market price and compete on a level playing field with the incumbents in the gaming market.

I say, "serves you right, big fella!"

Bheja Fry...

Busy are the brilliant ones, for they have their seeds to sow. Buffing and polishing their glint & glimmer, in their quest to retain the luminous show.

I choose not to be, 'cause I want to be the above average guy. Without the burden of prominence, or the hunger for dominance. Mistaken I aint about ambition, for I have my own vision. I dont need no validation, for I know of its own radiance.

Audacious as it may sound, I want to change the world. And there is a belief which tells me, it aint the brilliant one's turn...

2005! You are mine!

2005!! yooooooooooooohoooooooooooooo!!!

I spent New Years' Eve in Copenhagen, Denmark, and it was undoubtably one of the coolest NYEs I've celebrated.
What with the nightmarish NYEs I've celebrated (celebrated? "spent"!) at the MIG Club for so many years!
We landed up at a party thrown by AIESEC alumni (why am I not surprised?!), and I must admit, I will definitely remember this one for a while! :D
Watching the clock strike 12 at Radhusplatsen - town hall (on TV), champagne corks flew, cake - for it was Emma's birthday, skies floodlit with flashes of crackers, 'Apple-pie shooters', drunk but very interesting people, raffle-draws, good music, coctails, fireworks, pandering to the whims & fancies of drunk friends (and not to mention their histroinics), gate crashers, AIESEC jives, we had it all!
Finally, left for home at 7 in the morning!
If the year 2005 is to draw precedence from its first night... phew, are we in for one helluva year!!! :)

2005 has come in with good news! Elating news!
(T-be-blogged-soon; have to break it to a few special people before it crawls over the web) :)

2005 will be the year of doing things, and doing them right!

The year gone by...

The year 2004 will probably remain in my memories all my life...

Quit a job with a big consulting firm.
Left home, left the country, moved to Europe.
Observed a lot - about myself, about people.
Learnt so much on the job.
Enjoyed all that I did - a feeling few in this world can relate to.
Learnt a few important lessons in love & life.
Built friendships to last a lifetime.
Dared to dream.
Travelled to some amazing parts of the world.
Discovered an appeal for Russia!

Its been an eventful year, and I am thankful in many ways than one for every minute that lent its character to me.
As the clock ticks to end this beautiful year, the feeling that I am left with, is one of being fortunate and blessed.