Observing Human Attitude: Simple things that we miss

07Feb10

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I have read/heard of something called profiling a person. Studying a lot of various traits of the person. You get better with time, if you make an effort and your speed of profiling increases. People with a knack to observe trait patterns quickly are obviously better at that. However, there’d be those also who’d let their preconcieved notions influence their judgement of which they have great confidence in. That leads to misunderstanding/misconception, before even one word of a conversation has been communicated. ever.
I’ve really short bits of experiences to share here and thus this is a freestyle post. It just flowed out of my memory, mixed with some feelings, some reaction and right out to my Q10. So let me start with saying that this time, I swear that I’ll try my best to honestly take an impartial look at all things, all beings around me. This year, if my posts get abusive, they would for a fuckin good reason!

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Tags: Add new tag, Human, Twestival

Hash TweetupGoa: The buzzword for a cause

11Jan10

The first one that I know of and been part of; in Goa.

So this ain’t a detailed description. Better ones can be seen here and here. I ended up reaching late, despite having left for office 3 hours before. As I was dead tired with hardly any sleep, I went to hostel to see if I’d get to meet my juniors and yea to rest a bit if possible. Well didn’t get as much time to rest, but got loads to learn from my immediate juniors who are now employed as well about their projects and the tools they used. Although of the two juniors, one was quite vocal about the technical details that made it sound all the more interesting, the other fellow was much more reserved. 10-0 sort of.

Eventually I ended up staying till 16:20 and yes even that was way too much time to reach the tweetup venue which was nearer to university than Panjim. Yes, I’d work in Panjim and when I’d driven all that way, I thought of making the best use of it. Not taking into account the lack of parking space at any time of the day in Panjim, followed by beating round the one-ways took away almost all of the remaining time till 5pm, when I started off through the slow evening traffic to Miramar.

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Tags: TweetupGoa, Twestival, TwestivalGoa, twitter

Deathalizer: It Dwells Within

03Jan10

Cover art for “It Dwells Within”

You thought the bug of lazyness got me for good, huh? Well here’s your answer. A review of an interesting kind: of a metal E.P. (Extended Play, shorter than an album, longer than a track), of a metal band, of free and legal music and of generous artists. A review for which I laid out the structure some time ago, now making the best of 2 day-weekend (in ages) to get it up on my blog. Although this aims to review the EP in particular, I can’t avoid covering the new channels of distribution that upcoming artists like Deathalizer take to reach out to audiences without help of any labels.

Completely Free

With today’s technology, prices for music content is decided more by users/downloaders than artists/labels themselves. Some artists/labels get angry at the users for having their music enjoyed but not being paid the price and then there’s Deathalizer and the likes who let listeners choose the price of the music content starting from as low as $0.

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Tags: Creative Commons, deathalizer, independent music, review, social network

Reactions to Mininova policy and other tidbits

30Nov09

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Another week passing by as i try hard to catch hold of interesting thoughts and memories to put down on blog, but nothing seems worth noting or sharing with the general public. Times have been interesting, exciting, educating, depressing, but old times go and new times come.

• Trying to keep this post as non-tech as possible. but nothing so non-tech happening in life. Stuck for 8 hrs in front of a comp. there is only headlines from the non-tech world i can recite from my RSS and twitter streams.

Twitter’s a fun thing. Everyone’s on twitter. Best way to spread the word, get the word. Only place where you do interact with just about anyone from “who the fuck” to the “who’s who”

• Currently, my choice of twitter client is PeopleBrowsr. It is heavy on computer resources if your machine is not from the last 1-2 yrs atleast, i’d say. Atom processors are weak. Lighter alternative would be twitiq, but once you use PB, there’ll be too many things you’ll be missing on other web based twitter clients.

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Tags: BitTorrent, Mininova, twitter

Data Security in Simple Terms

01Nov09

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Getting back to technical topic now, but as usual aiming to make it plain and simple for every person. In short this post aims to get you a practical idea of how easy and important it is to protect your data from falling into the wrong hands. It does not matter who you are, what data you think you store or where you store, there are people and programs who have a keen interest in everything you save on your hard drive or pendrives. Security tools in today’s age has become more and more freely available and with the dire need for them, more popular. Having a set of security tools to keep your data safe is not a geek status but an essential part of any person’s computing setup.

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Tags: Computer data storage, Encryption, Security, TrueCrypt