Ieva’s Polka
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Media
Song of the week…it has a very pleasant catchy tune.
“Ieva’s Polka” is by the Finnish Quartet “Loituma“.
And if you like the song, heres a remix version that I like. Check out youtube for the other 9,999 different versions.
(Don’t mind the video, I couldn’t find another version of this particular remix)
Tags: Media
Which century are we in?
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Friends
Yes, I realize thats a rhetorical question, as any google search will immediately tell you the answer is the 21st.
But how could you convince someone of that fact when they see 2008 to mean the 20 century because 2000 must mean the 20th century.
Well I just spent the last 45 min trying to do just that to no avail. Even after trying various methods of explaining it, from drawing the similarity of the education system and “grades”, to talking about which century the years 1-100 are in.
We got to agreeing that the years 1-100 are included in the first century, but then he insists that the next hundred years (the years 101-200) are also part of the 1st century. Which if you can count, means that the 1st century is actually comprised of 200 years…which contradicts the definition of a century.
I think the whole issue stems from understanding that there is no 0th century. Which means that year 1-100 are indeed the 1st century, not the 0th. Which I agree is a bit of a challenging way of thinking at 2:30 AM, so I’ll give him some slack.
I think one of the easiest ways of relating to the concept is by talking about a particular year, where one would have been in grade XX. If we take grade 12 in our example that means that have finished only 11 years of education, as they started in grade 1 NOT grade 0. So one could say that we are in the 21st century, because we have completed 20 hundred years, and we are now in the 21st set of hundred years.
Either way, it’s not really a topic that I plan on spending too much time trying to elaborate on.
There are only a fixed number of times you can say the world is round, until you have to just wait for them to discover that fact by themselves :P
Opera 9.5
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Review, Software
Damn right, and about time!
The stable version of 9.5 is alive and kicking.
Get it here.
Partial Changelog:
- Introduced Opera Link.
- Added Quick Find, an improved full text history search tool.
- Introduced the Speed Dial.
- Introduced a new default skin.
For more information about Opera, please spend 2 min and read their overview.
It’s definitely worth the time to check Opera out, it might just change your life…
…Or at least your online one ;)
Sour Belts
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Asides
Went to Hasty Market yesterday, and couldn’t resist buying two packages of Sour Belts. I’m a total sucker for them, I eat them one after the other…my mouth starts burning…then I realize I’m really thirsty and should have had some water before eating all the sour stuff. Now I’m in a total catch 22, I can’t drink water, my mouth is burning like hell, and the only thing I can do to calm my tongue is to eat some more belts…. Arghhh.
Tags: Food
Hostmonster Sucks!
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Software
Ya that’s right, I am definitely done with them. The past week or two has been a horrible experience.
I am so angry at them right now, its not funny.
Arrgh, I’ll see about writing something intelligible tomorrow.
My Movies - Online Listing Service
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Media, Software
To anyone who took a look at the site I linked to in my last post, I wanted to give you a small example of the online database.
And yes, to reassure everyone I do have a much bigger collection than what’s currently listed, but I made a slight boo boo, and managed to delete my whole Movies folder.
I have so far successfuly recovered about 95% of the deleted files, so all is not lost, and I will update my listing when I can muster the will to go through my Movies without fear again.
index.php mixup
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Web
Last night I was up till 8AM, then woke up again at 11, been out for the last 12 hours. I come home and login to my computer, and the moment I do that Ian messages me with a link to the 540 site…
I click wondering whats up…and OH DEAR GOD…what do we have here!
Well it may not be the calamity that you imagined but it’s probably close enough…
I had been playing around with an online service by My Movies, and had somehow edited index.php in the 540 folder instead of in another folder. So I’m going crazy opening up Editplus, SmartFTP trying to login and somehow the server knew the urgency of the matter so it started rejecting all my connections.
But luckily I managed to get on, and upload an old backup file. Because the dynamic content on the page had been ‘include’ed, there had been very little content change since I had backed that page up just under a year ago.
Now the only thing left to update is the picture on the home page, I swear I had changed it and replaced it with a different one, but I cant remember which one now.
Anyway, life’s back to the regular old 70bpm, and I can try and resume where I left off in the morning - when I was in the middle of:
- 3 SSH Sessions
- 3 Browsers with a bajillion tabs
- 2 Irc Channels
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- Fixing a web application that didnt want to start with Apache
- Trying to implement muh
- And a partridge in a Ruby tree
So if anyone happened to see the perpertrating page, and also is looking at this now, I do appologize.
I also want to reassure you that I have properly scolded my text editor, and I am fairly confident it won’t try anything like this again!
