Scribble of the day – 21

1950: Declaration of Republic of India on the model of Socialist Democracy

2008: Somewhere, Nehru’s dream of Socialist Democracy goes down the drain and Ambani s’ dream of Capitalist Democracy begins to show its ugly head.

Me: What the fuck is the Judiciary doing?

Alter-ego: What? I mean, WTF are the elected representatives doing?

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Get your own binoculars

This post draws heavy inspiration from Eddie Vedder‘s “Long Nights” song. I recently watched the movie, “Into the Wild” (2007). It is such a terrific film and would recommend it to anyone that liked “One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest“/”House of Sand and Fog“/”A Perfect World“. “Into the Wild” introduced me to Eddie Vedder’s work . . . → Read More: Get your own binoculars

Amores Perros | Ayutha Ezhuthu ஃ

Without doubt, I can assertively state that ஃ (Ayutha Ezhuthu – 2004) or its Hindi version (Yuva) is heavily inspired by Amores Perros (2000). The Director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Writer, Guillermo Arriaga deserve credit for their close-to-reality depiction of life in Mexico. The movie weaves the relationship between the main characters and their canine. . . . → Read More: Amores Perros | Ayutha Ezhuthu ஃ

Scribble of the day – 20

Carpediem

“The whole battle of life is figuring out one’s identity and the constant flirtation with meta-physics. If you hate it then better soak yourself in the love of family.”

Version Control – Setting Up

This is a very generic set of instruction to get one started with SVN. The setup environment is assumed as Linux. To be precise, this should work for Ubuntu.

Make sure you have the required svn libraries and svnadmin tool installed.

Execute the following as a super user:

mkdir /usr/local/svn mkdir /usr/local/svn/repo mkdir /usr/local/svn/repo/trunk mkdir . . . → Read More: Version Control – Setting Up

Scribble of the day – 19

“Is Government job an excuse for running families?…To me it is all about bureaucracy, paperwork and formalities”

Olympics by numbers

Thought, I would come up with a compilation of statistics per Olympics Discipline and the Countries that have dominated it since their inception. Here is a set of five images. If you are creative enough, you can correlate something from History on the performance. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the gender wise contribution to these final . . . → Read More: Olympics by numbers

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