The End of All Things To Come

SEM - Search Engine Marketing

2008-06-20T15:43:00.002+05:30

I wrote something for some office folks, thought it would nice thing to have on my blog too, hope someone finds this an interesting read.

Search Engine Marketing, generally involves a subset of operations in order to to make your site more visible on the internet, ie. Appear at fairly visible / the most effective postion when being searched on the internet on major Search Engines like Google, Yahoo!, AltaVista, Microsoft Live, Amazon etc.. Higher the position better it is.

Except for a handful countries, Google gets maximum search volume, about 70% of the total, It's extremely important to focus on the geo-target for proper optimization, for example if you're targeting india audience, you need to make sure Google is your priority one on optimization, over 90% search happens on google, Japan on the other hand seems to favor Yahoo!, US is a split of 65% on google rest of the traffic with rest of the providers Yahoo! holding about 19%.

For most part, Good URL's, META Tags, Title and Alt Tags, Spilling Keywords all over the document, Semantic structure of the document a robots.txt file would be the most obvious (and fundamental) things to help you be search engine freindly. You can also use number of online tools for key word generation, you can use third party tools or tools provided by search engine itself to make URL submissions.

Other tactics include getting your link to be on as many sites as possible (preferable, ones with higher rank on Google! than your site [Pagerank likes this]), Get some one to blog regular articles on your site etc etc..

The other thing you can do, of course is, buy positions in Search result sheets, like adwords.google.com, searchmarketing.yahoo.com, adcenter.microsoft.com what you can also do with these is create campaigns, generate / submit keywords, setup daily budget (min, max), pause campaigns, decide who to target (geography, age, culture blah blah..) and a whole lot more.

Besides all this, Google Adwords, Yahoo! Marketing and Microsoft AdCenter provide their API's out in the open, So you can get your programs / application to think for you! What you can do with them is only limited to your creativity.

Yahoo! The "could be" and "Not to Be!"

2008-06-19T14:22:00.002+05:30

Phew.....

I've quit the job now, been over a month, haven't taken a break from never-ending home-office-jam routine for over three years. I would love a break of doing nothing but sleep and relax and travel and play drums. I hope i get that luxury. I cant afford to stay out of job for too long either, I got loans to pay.

I have just been taking interviews with Yahoo!, Its been 6 technical rounds of interviews, i think, i've done fairly well, I haven't recieved an offer yet, But i hope, that when (or if) i do, i get to work on perl.

perl's my favorite these days, i favor it over PHP which is something i've been writing for a while.
There are other languages of course that i like but don't find enough jobs on them back here. I like Ruby, its a fun language much like perl, I prefer it over python, I like python 'cause its clean.

If you're interested in cracking Yahoo! jobs, I wouldn't say interviews are hard. It's just too many. You need to be cool with PHP and have knowledge of UTF support in them, must have basic knowledge of how to optimize PHP for performance, Must have basic idea of HTTP transactions and Cookies. Must have some idea about MVC patterns, I hardly got asked SQL questions. You need be good with JavaScript, need to understand OOP support in javaScript, closures, defining private methods, using inheritence in JS. You need to know basic browser event handling, Browser quiks, Sematic Mark up, HTML DOM, XML DOM, AJAX, optimizing CSS for performance and for other browsers.

if not very well you need to understand these concepts.

Lighning Strikes Twice!

2008-06-17T12:51:00.006+05:30

Pictures of Awesome Royal Enfield Lightning 535

Days of Lightning : "Gimme fuel, Gimme Fire, Gimme that which i desire"

2008-06-16T17:27:00.006+05:30

It's been just over a month since i bought myself a Royal Enfield Lightning 535, I wasn't prepared for the BIG buy, i already had RE Bullet electra (That's officially my brother's but practically mine ;)). I was reeling under FAT loans and credit-card shit, But when the offer came and i took a test ride, i couldn't resist anymore.

She's the best darn monster riding on two wheels, smooth as cheese, powerful as Kalashnikov, I live in Bangalore, more popular for its chaotic traffic than anything else, i still managed to make it to 115 kph on with a pillion, I never felt like the bike couldn't do more, Its HUGE, It gives me knock out punch every time i start it, I have ridden so many bikes, nothing beats a Royal Enfield, And nothing ever feels like a lightning. Its just PURE RAW POWER. At 535 cc, 25 BHP, Torque 38 nm, It is the most powerful bike in India. All metal, silver and black, Smooth Sounds, Comes with a Tachometer, Exceptional performance, Its just incredible ride.

I've had problems with it though, Spark plugs burn out, The water leaks into my timing box, my battery went flat, The bike does funny things when water leaks into the carborator, Milage is relative low, But trust me, When i get the engines running hard smooth and clean, and i rev it up, Its just the that makes me forget everything and enjoy in bliss, while the "Lightning rides me".

Will put the pictures in with the next post.

The inappropriate interview

2008-06-16T11:58:00.000+05:30

Okay, I was in this company for an interview recently, I believe it's called Encora Technologies, for this "PHP" position. I got interviewed by this funny manager they had, don't even remember his name, honestly, don't think it carries any significance anyways.

First, I don't think this manager had and qualifications to conduct a technical interview. By qualifications i don't mean some jazzy certifications, but the knowledge, aptitude, attitude and most of all modesty in accepting things outside his knowledge box.

I don't consider myself "brilliant!" at what i do, I know there are better ways to do certain things, and i'm always seeking those better ways, I have no shame in accepting that there are million things i'm yet to know, but i find it extremely offending when some tells i'm wrong, when i'm actually right. This manager was one of those kinds, "If he din't know it, It must not exist" .

So his company runs business running PHP, Everybody in his company runs Windows (huh?), So the conversation goes like this:

manager: Have you worked on linux?
me: yeah, All my working life.
manager: Whats a 'pipe'?
me: --- A long response --
manager: have you used sed / awk?
me: yeah, a long time ago, I use Perl now ;)
manager: sed's faster, (..sort of suggests why sed's better than perl)

I mean If he really wanted to quiz about UNIX, did he just want me to know pipes, thats it? nothing more on UNIX? nothing at all.

Anyways, the thought of using sed because sed's faster bust me into two,

1. Why would a company that's so concerned about speed use PHP anyways?
2. Perl's quicker, Java is quicker and of course C is way quicker!

Then i rattled a little about perl's awesome regular expressions and compared it with regular expressions and back references in sed. I realized at this moment with his clueless nods that he'd never used sed either. Shit! Im being interviewd by a technical duck head, who wanted to prove by the way of force that his way was the correct way. I soon found out that, If i did join, i'd be reporting into this crack head, I called the HR and told them i wasn't interested in this job.

The most annoying part about this whole interview process was the fact that this manager wasn't even listening to me, he dint want to give me sheets of paper to describe Singleton Pattern's implementation in PHP, He dint think he could use LIMIT on UPDATE and DELETE statment in SQL (MySQL of course).

I do believe that during an interview process there are two parties forming their perceptions about each other, I do not say that interviewer has to be technically a better programmer than the interviewee, but he needs to be open to that fact.

At work again....

2008-05-19T18:06:00.000+05:30

It's really boring these days, this is technically my first entry in the blog about my work, or anything personal. Just been reading all day and smoking my lungs to death....phew.

Drum Tabs, Dull Boy, Mudvayne

2008-05-07T16:25:00.000+05:30

Dull boy - Drum Tabs
Author : V2
Email : superpulse.x@gmail.com
Note : Simple song, easy to Tab, Must have left out some cymbal notes and stuff I think I've got about 90% Correct. Please mail me if you have corrections to make. Cheers and have fun playing.

Cc1 - Crash Cymbal 1
Cc2 - Crash Cymbal 2
Hh - Hi Hats
Hp - hi Hat pedal
Rc - Ride Cymbal
Sd - Snare Drum
Bd - Base Drum
T1 - Hi Tom
T2 - Low Tom
FT - Floor Tom
Sp - Splash Cymal

Live in secret, Live in lie....
Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Cc1|X-------------------------------|X-------------------------------|X-------------------------------|X-------------------------------|
Rc_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Hh_|----X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|----X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|----X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|----X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|
Sd_|--x-----x-----x-----x-------x---|--x-----x-----x-----x-------F---|--x-----x-----x-----x-------x-x-|--x-----x-----x-----x---F---F---|
Bd_|x-----x---x-----x-x-----x-x-----|x-----x---x-------x-----x--x--x-|x-----x---x-----x-x-----x-x-----|x-----x---x-------x-------x---x-|

Live like a Transian...
Cc2|--------------------------------|----------------------------X---|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Cc1|X-------------------------------|X-------------------------X---X-|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Rc_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Hh_|----X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|----X---X---X---X---X---X-------|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|
Sd_|--x-----x-----x-----x-------x---|--x-----x-----x---x-----x-------|--------F---------------F-------|--------F---------------F---F---|
Bd_|x-----x---x-----x-x-----x-x-----|x-----x---x-----x-----x---x-x-x-|x-x---x---x---x-x-x-x-----x---x-|x-x---x---x---x-x-x-x-----x---x-|

Payback....
Cc2|X-------------------------------|X---------------X-----------------------|X-------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
Cc1|X-------------------------------|X---------------------X-----------------|X---------------------------X---|----------------------------------------|
Rc_|----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|----x---x---x---------------------------|----x---x---x---x---x---x-------|----------------------------------------|
Hh_|--------------------------------|----------------------------------------|--------------------------------|x---x---x---x---------------------------|
T1_|--------------------------------|------------------x-x---x-x-------------|--------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
T2_|--------------------------------|----------------------------x-x-x-------|--------------------------------|----------------x-x-x-------------------|
FT_|--------------------------------|----------------------------------x-x-x-|--------------------------------|----------------------x-x-x-------x-x-x-|
Sd_|--------x---------------x---F---|--------x---x---------------------------|--------x---------------x---F---|--------x---x---------------x-x-x-------|
Bd_|x-x-x-----x---x-x-x-x---xxxxxxxx|x-x-x-----------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-----x---x-x-x-x---xxxxxxxx|x-x-x-----------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Im not the reason...
Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Cc2|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Rc_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Hh_|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|
Sd_|--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|x-------x-------x-----------x---|--------x---------------x-------|
Bd_|x-x-x-x---------x-x-x-x---x-----|x-x-x-x---x-----x-x-x-x---x---x-|x-x-x-x---x-----x-x-x-x---x---x-|x-----x---x---x-x-----x---x-x---|

Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Rc_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Hh_|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X-------|
T1_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|----------------------------X---|
FT_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|----------------------------X---|
Sd_|--------x---------------x-------|x---------------x-------F---F---|--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
Bd_|x-x-x-x---x-----x-x-x-x---x-x---|x-x-x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x---x---x-|x-x-x-x---x-----x-x-x-x---x---x-|x-----x---x---x-x-----x-----x---|

Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Rc_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Hh_|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---X---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---X---|
Sd_|--x-----x-----------x-------x---|--x-----x-----------x-------x---|
Bd_|x-----x---x---x-x-x-----x-x-----|x-----x---x---x---x-----x--x----|

All work and no play....
Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Rc_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Hh_|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Sd_|--x-----x-----x-----x-------x--x|--x-----x-----x-----x-------x-x-|--x-----x---------x-----x---x---|--x-----x-----------x---F---F---|
Bd_|x-----x---x-----x-x-----x-x-----|x-----x---x-------x-----x--x----|x-----x---x---x-x-----x---x---x-|x-----x---x---x-x-----x---x---x-|

Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|----------------------------X---|
Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------X---X-|
Rc_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Hh_|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X-------|
Sd_|--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x---F---|--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
Bd_|x-----x---x---x-x-----x---x-x-x-|x-----x---x---x-x-----x---x---x-|x-----x---x-x-x-x-----x---x-x-x-|x-----x---x-x-x-x-----x---x-x-x-|

Payback....
Cc2|X-------------------------------|X---------------X-----------X-----------|
Cc1|X-------------------------------|X---------------------X-----------X-----|
Rc_|----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|----x---x---x---------------------------|
Hh_|--------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
T1_|--------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
T2_|--------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
FT_|--------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
Sd_|--------x---------------x---F---|--------x---x-----x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x-|
Bd_|x-x-x-----x---x-x-x-x---xxxxxxxx|x-x-x-----------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Im not the reason...
Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Cc2|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Rc_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Hh_|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|
Sd_|--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|x-------x-------x-----------x---|--------x---------------x-------|
Bd_|x-x-x-x---------x-x-x-x---x-----|x-x-x-x---x-----x-x-x-x---x---x-|x-x-x-x---x-----x-x-x-x---x---x-|x-----x---x---x-x-----x---x-x---|

Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Cc2|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Rc_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Hh_|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|
Sd_|--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|x-------x-------x-----------x---|--------x---------------x-------|
Bd_|x-x-x-x---------x-x-x-x---x-----|x-x-x-x---x-----x-x-x-x---x---x-|x-x-x-x---x-----x-x-x-x---x---x-|x-----x---x---x-x-----x---x-x---|

Cc1|--X-----------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Cc2|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Sp_|X---X---------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Bd_|x-x-x---------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

By the way.....
Cc|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Rc|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Hh|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---X---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---X---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---X---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---X---|
Sd|--r-----r-----r-----r-------r---|--r-----r-----r-----r-------r---|--r-----r-----r-----r-------r---|--r-----r-----r-----r-------r---|
Bd|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-------|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-------|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-------|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-------|

By the way
Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--X-----------------------------|
Cc2|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Sp_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|X---X---------------------------|
Hh_|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---X---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---X---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---X---|--------------------------------|
Sd_|--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-----x-|--------x---------------x-----x-|--------------------------------|
Bd_|x-----x---x---x-x-----x---x-x---|x-----x---x---x-x-----x---x-x---|x-----x---x---x-x-----x---x-x---|x-x-x---------------------------|

Im not the reason...
Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Cc2|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Rc_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Hh_|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|
Sd_|--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|x-------x-------x-----------x---|--------x---------------x-------|
Bd_|x-x-x-x---------x-x-x-x---x-----|x-x-x-x---x-----x-x-x-x---x---x-|x-x-x-x---x-----x-x-x-x---x---x-|x-----x---x---x-x-----x---x-x---|

Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Cc1|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Rc_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Hh_|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---X---X---X-------|
T1_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|----------------------------X---|
FT_|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|----------------------------X---|
Sd_|--------x---------------x-------|x---------------x-------F---F---|--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
Bd_|x-x-x-x---x-----x-x-x-x---x-x---|x-x-x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x---x---x-|x-x-x-x---x-----x-x-x-x---x---x-|x-----x---x---x-x-----x-----x---|

Outro
Cc1|--X-----------------------------|--X-----------------------------|--X---------------X-------------|--X-----------------------------|
Cc2|----X---------------------------|----X---------------------------|----X---------------X-----------|----X---------------------------|
Sp_|X-------------------------------|X-------------------------------|X---------------X---------------|X-------------------------------|
Hh_|------------------------X---X---|--------X---X---X---X---X---X---|--------X---X-----------X---X---|--------X---X---X---X---X---X---|
Sd_|------------------------X-------|--------x---------------x-----x-|--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
Bd_|x-x-x---------------------------|x-x-x-------------x-x-----x-x---|x-x-x-----------x-x-x-----------|x-x-x-------------x-x-----------|

By the way....
Cc1|--X---------------X-------------|--X-----------------------------|--X---------------X-------------|--X-----------------------------|
Cc2|----X---------------X-----------|----X---------------------------|----X---------------X-----------|----X---------------------------|
Sp_|X---------------X---------------|X-------------------------------|X---------------X---------------|X-------------------------------|
Hh_|--------X---X-----------X---X---|--------X---X---X---X---X---X---|--------X---X-----------X---X---|--------------------------------|
Sd_|--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-----x-|--------x---------------x-------|--------------------------------|
Bd_|x-x-x-----------x-x-x-----------|x-x-x-------------x-x-----x-x---|x-x-x-----------x-x-x-----------|x-x-x---------------------------|

Kaashmora - Subtle arts of murder and persuassion - Lamb of God (COVER) - KREC (NIT surathkal)

2008-03-24T18:11:00.001+05:30

Kaashmora - Perverted - KREC (NIT surathkal)

2008-03-24T18:08:00.000+05:30

Kaashmora - As the palaces burn - Lamb of God (cover) - KREC (NIT surathkal)

2008-03-24T18:06:00.000+05:30

Kaashmora - Sunday Jam - Sepeltura - Nomad (cover)

2008-03-24T18:05:00.000+05:30

Kaashmora - Sunday Jam - LOG- Subtle arts of murder and persuassion Cover- Bangalore

2008-03-24T18:02:00.000+05:30

WOmen?

2007-11-28T12:25:00.000+05:30

"Son, a woman is a lot like a... [looks around] a refrigerator! They're about six feet tall, 300 pounds. They make ice and, um... [spots his can of Duff] Oh, wait a minute. Actually, a woman is more like a beer. They smell good, they look good and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! [downs the beer] But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman! - Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned" ~ William Congreve

Women would rule the world - if only they'd stop bitchin' about each other! ~ Chris Rock

Women are like elephants. They are interesting to look at, but I wouldn't like to own one. ~ W.C. Fields

If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her. ~ Nicol Williamson

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. ~ Oscar Wilde

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. ~ Oscar Wilde

* When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ~ Elayne Boosler

The stages of a woman in her relationships with men: Good--->Decent--->Slut--->Bitch. Parents (initially) and men will most of the times be the ones that accelerate, decellerate or stop this trajectory. And the worst problem is that it is nearly impossible to go back to an earlier state. ~ Average Joe

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: she changes it more often. ~ Oliver Herford

Duality Lyrics

2007-10-31T15:00:00.000+05:30

I push my fingers into my eyes...
It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache...
But it's made of all the things I have to take...
Jesus, it never ends, it works it's way inside...
If the pain goes on...
Aaaaaaaah!

I have screamed until my veins collapsed
I've waited as my time's elapsed
Now, All I do is live with so much fate
I've wished for this, I've bitched at that
I've left behind this little fact:
You cannot kill what you did not create
I've gotta say what I've gotta say
And then I swear I'll go away
But I can't promise you'll enjoy the noise
I guess I'll save the best for last
My future seems like one big past
You're left with me 'cause you left me no choice

I push my fingers into my eyes
It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache
If the pain goes on,
I'm not gonna make it!

Put me back together
Or separate the skin from bone
Leave me all the Pieces, then you can leave me
alone
Tell me the reality is better than the dream
But I found out the hard way,
Nothing is what it seems!

I push my fingers into my eyes
It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache
But it's made of all the things I have to take
Jesus, it never ends, it works it's way inside
If the pain goes on,
I'm not gonna make it!

All I've got...all I've got is insane...
All I've got...all I've got is insane...
All I've got...all I've got is insane!
All I've got...all I've got is insane!

I push my fingers into my eyes
It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache
But it's made of all the things I have to take
Jesus, it never ends, it works it's way inside
If the pain goes on,
I'm not gonna make it!

Quote

2007-10-26T13:09:00.000+05:30

Decide to feel good about life, right here, right now, and as often as possible. Put your feelings to positive use, and they'll help you build a more positive life.

Mudvayne - Trapped in the wake of dream

2007-10-15T17:54:00.000+05:30

Do I deserve these beatings?
Hating me,
well then,
Cut, cut the noose
and let me fall away...
I'm, growing weak and tired
of you
and your little shoving games
fucking...
pushing me.
You pulled the trigger,
trapped in,
the wake,
of your

Dream
You're all killers.
Always fucking pushing me;
insulting me;
I've overcome;
I have found the strength of gods in me.
Crushing
All unwilling;
This is so unstoppable.
Hard as nails,
hook that holds,
reach down and find the strength of many in you.

My sanctuary...
calling my name,
so I run through...
to the light,
weeping through a cloud.
Darkened,
by a tainted dream,
of me,
being pummeled by the tide,
crushing,
killing me
But I can't wake up,
trapped in,
the wake of a

Dream
You're all killers.
Always fucking pushing me;
insulting me;
I've overcome;
I have found the strength of gods in me.
Crushing
All unwilling;
This is so unstoppable.
Hard as nails,
hook that holds,
reach down and find the strength of many in you.

Call it;
call a truce.
I'm believing
in it more and more.
Comfort;
purge the truth, I'll belive it.
I'm so weak and sore, shadowed
Hide and seek,
but you never looked.
I wait behind the door
call out;
bite the hand that is feeding...
Compassion no more.

I hope I never wake up.

Dream-sewing, filters, distort reality of what is mine through light this mind awakens
I draw the line from then and now, awake and dreaming, forgotten past future becomes mine.

Throw the chains,
all away,
take control,
of your life.
Powers known,
this is my...
Throw the chains,
all away,
take control,
of your life.
Powers known,
this is my...

Dream
You're all killers.
Always fucking pushing me;
insulting me;
I've overcome;
I have found the strength of gods in me.
Crushing
All unwilling;
This is so unstoppable.
Hard as nails,
hook that holds,
reach down and find the strength of many in you.

Eyless- Slipknot

2007-10-15T17:47:00.000+05:30

Insane - Am I the only motherfucker with a brain?
I'm hearing voices but all they do is complain
How many times have you wanted to kill
Everything and everyone - Say you'll do it but never will

You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes

I am my Father's son
cuz he's a phantom, a mystery and that leaves me
Nothing!
How many times have you wanted to die?
It's too late for me, all you have to do is get rid of me!

You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes

It's all in your head
It's all in my head
It's all in your head

I tried - You lied to me for so long
Everywhere I go, there's a sense of it
Freak on my antics and give me a choice
Doesn't matter if I give a shit
It's shit that you gave me

You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes

It's all in your head
It's all in my head
It's all in your head

Do you wanna feel pain?
Taking my name in vain; caring never felt so lame inside
Anybody else got pride? Do you wanna take my life?
Maybe I'll reverse my ride
Who the fuck are you? Fuck you!
Better suck it up cause you bled through
Better get away from me
Stay the fuck away from me!

I feel safe - Seems your saved

Look me in my brand new eye x3

Mother Fucker

Look me in my brand new eye x3

Coming back to Life lyrics

2007-10-15T17:35:00.001+05:30

Where were you when I was burned and broken
While the days slipped by from my window watching
Where were you when I was hurt and helpless
Because the things you say and the things you do surround me
While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun

Lost in thought and lost in time
While the seeds of lifeand the seeds of change were planted
Outside the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life

I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And headed straight..into the shining sun

2007-10-15T15:32:00.000+05:30

Some cool quotes

2007-10-11T12:04:00.000+05:30

It can often be useful and interesting to wander away from your original path for a while. Sometimes you discover a new and much more fulfilling direction that way.

VI Editor Tips and Tricks

2007-10-08T15:44:00.000+05:30

Here are some VI and Ex commands, Will try and cover most commands that are important and a couple of new and funky ones.This page is categorised as:

VI Options
VI Moving around
VI Basic Editing
VI Pattern Matching
Ex Commands
Some Cool Things

1. VI options
A VI editor is a screen editor (Secretly married to another editor Ex, Both these editors are virtually indistinguishable, Ex is a line editor though, just for information, I wont dig too much details though, i want to keep this material short and smart).

A VI editor can be invoked in following ways:

Open an existing file to edit or create a new file
vi filename

Open an existing file to edit at the last line
vi + filename

Open an existing file to edit at the n^th line
vi +n filename

Open an existing file to edit at the pattern
vi +/pattern filename
2. VI Moving Around
Its quite hard to categorize VI commands as one always needs to come before the other, But i will still try and stick to the categories, whenever you need something jump to appropriate section and look up for a command, if you think there something missing here, feel free to add it in here.

To move to the COMMAND mode:

esc

ARROW Keys:

move left
h
move down
j
move up
k
move right

Move by WORD:

Move to the start of next word
w
Move to the start of previous word
b
Move to the start of n^th word forward from current cursor position
nw
Move to the start of n^th word backword from current cursor position

nb

Move by SENTENCE:

Move to the start of next sentence
)
Move to the start of previous sentence
(
Move to the start of n^th sentence forward from current cursor position
n)
Move to the start of n^th sentence backword from current cursor position

n(

Move by PARAGRAPH:

Move to the start of next paragraph
}
Move to the start of previous sentence
{
Move to the start of n^th sentence forward from current cursor position
n}
Move to the start of n^th sentence backword from current cursor position

n{

MORE Ways:

Move to the beginning of the line:
0
Move to the End of the line:
$
Move to the first non-white space charecter in the line:
^
Move the cursor to the top of the screen:
H
Move the cursor to middle for the screen:
M
Move the cursor to the End of the Screen:
L
Go to the bottom of the page:
ctrl - G

SCROLLING:

Scrolling back one window (Remember B for back):
Ctrl - B
Scrolling back half window (Remember U for up):
Ctrl - U
Scrolling forward one window (Remember F for forward):
Ctrl - F
Scrolling back half window (Remember D for down):

Ctrl - D

3. VI Basic Editing

VI comes with a rich set of commands for editing, indenting, altering, creating files, I might have left out a lot of commands from here, especially ones from VIM (VI improved), honestly this is so because my experience is mostly on VI and not on VIM, so if anyone wants to add to this list, feel free to do so.

Basic stuff:

Insert text under the current cursor position:
i
Insert text into the beginning of the current line:
I
Append text after the current cursor position:
a
Append text at the end of the current line:
A
Open a new line under the current line:
o
Open a new line above the current line:

Cut, Copy and Paste:

Yank the whole line:
yy
Yank a word:
yw
Yank n lines:
nyy
Yank n words:
nyw
Delete the charecter under the cursor, store in in the general buffer:
x
Delete n charecters under the cursor:
nx
Delete a whole line and store it in general buffer:
dd
Delete n lines:
ndd
Delete words:
dw
Delete n words:
ndw
Delete from the current cursor position to the end of line:
D
Delete charecter before current cursor position:
X
Paste the contents of the the buffer after the current cursor position:
p
Paste the contents of the buffer before the current cursor position:

A note on VI Buffers:

VI buffers can visualised to function similar to MS Word's clipboard, understanding clipboard is a key to effective use of VI and get rid of common repetitive typing, VI has 26 buffers, great!! but what are they? They are like little memmory units where you can store chunks of your text. Look at this like, there's one buffer for each alphabet in English language so each buffer is name a,b,c,d ...so on until z.

yeah, so this would mean you can store 26 chunks of text at anytime and paste it anywhere you want, now thats some advanced stuff that the normal editors cannot handle, and one of the reason why VI is so popular, its light, fast and functional, a little weird though but totally lovable.

so if you want to store some three lines of code somewhere then go to command mode type something like this

"a2yy

so this would mean 2 lines of text is stored in buffer a, in order to get it back you can simply use

"ap

Thats simple ... huh??

So any of the following commands should work to store pieces of data in a buffer.

Store two words in the buffer b
"b2yw

Store all the text from current cursor position to the end of the line in buffer c
"cD

Okay thats it about VI buffers, if you wanna add something here, feel free to add it and if you have any questions or need more clarity then ask me to add that information in here.

4. Ex Commands

The following are Ex commands that you may use in VI Editor

Quit VI
:q

Quit without saving
:q!

Save the file:
:w

Save and Quit:
:wq

Write to the filename specified:
:w filename

The good old find and replace:
:(range)s/pattern/replace/options

Show number of the lines:
:set nu

AUto-indent the code:
:set ai

Number of lines per window:
:set wi=n

Tab to space:
:set tabstop=n

Set as Read-Only:
:set ro

Show current line number:
:.=

Show total number of lines:
:=

Copy and paste:
:(range) co (destination)

Delete:
:(range) d

Substitute:
: (range) s///options (count)