…is unimaginable.
Dec 24
I’m enjoying learning guitar these days. Dad gifted me a stylish Givson guitar on my 21st birthday, but since then I never really got a chance to learn it properly. I dabbled from time-to-time in learning guitar through some online tutorials and videos, but got successful only in understanding just some basics and terminologies.
I finally got my chance to seriously learn it when a friend Manjeet told me about the guitar tutor Pradeep who could come to our place to teach us. Thus, I embarked on my guitar journey around a month-and-a-half ago.
This is the video of our tutor and mentor, Pradeep, playing the song “Bhaag DK Bose” from the movie Delhi Belly. If you find it difficult to understand the guitar tabs from the video, you can easily find them on a simple Google search. 
Dec 07
Wrote this one last Sunday. A short story depicted as a poem.
Courtsey http://www.photobridge.nl/?p=483
Having finished all work,
I’m bored to the core.
There’s no movie on TV,
and no friends galore.A novel should I read,
or a story should I write?
Time’s in plenty, so I should write,
but really, what to write tonight?Several ideas striking my mind,
but none too cool and much exquisite.
Change of setting perhaps I need,
a crowded place I need to visit.Should I go to the market,
or go to the mall?
Fresh air and people all around,
that’s what I need and that’s just all.Off to the market here I go,
the land full of people, activities and more.
With so much to see and so much to know,
hope I get an idea to further explore.People, people fill the place,
and sizzling, dancing, colorful lights.
Happy faces, glowing bright,
away from stress and daily “fights”.Should I write about that girl,
dazzling beauty, talking on her phone?
Or the cheerful couple, walking tight?
Or that stout man, cold as a drone?What are those pricks, running around,
disturbing the scene, heavy on booze.
Whoa! Is that the actor I saw on TV?
Hell yeah, and that is some news.Even that little kid can make up my story,
squinting around, looking amused.
So much to take, so much to write,
just the recipe to leave me confused.Tired of thinking, I’m packing up,
and off I go, flying back home.
Lying on my bed, I’m thinking, I’m musing;
distracted so easily, my mind’s on a roam.Here I am, still wondering in vain.
Seems I’ll spend all night,
still undecided on
what to write tonight.
Nov 15
It was bound to happen some day. The existing init system in use by most of the present Linux distros is really not leveraging the performance capabilities of modern hardware to the fullest. Spawning processes one-by-one to get the system up and running costs a lot of precious time, when it is possible to do more in less time using the power of multi-core processors.
It was a welcome surprise to read about this new thingy systemd in the Q&A section of last week’s DistroWatch Weekly. I’m really looking forward to a faster future.
Nov 07
TweetDeck
With Adobe AIR‘s (the runtime required by TweetDeck) official support for Linux ended, and no Linux 64-bit edition already in place, installing TweetDeck it in Ubuntu 64-bit is one hell of a task. You can get it installed in your 64-bit Linux system by following one of these tutorials, but chances are you’ll end up with a partially working installation, as happened with me.
Here I list out 4 simple steps to get the thing properly installed & working in Ubuntu:
- Download the 64-bit Adobe AIR deb package.
- Install the deb using the command:
sudo dpkg -i adobeair_64.deb - (Important) Install ia32-libs:
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs. This is required for 32-bit environment emulation. Remember, the above packaged “64-bit” AIR is still 32-bit Linux version only. If you do not install ia32-libs, you may get errors like –Error loading the runtime (libxml2.so.2: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64) - Download the latest TweetDeck AIR package. Install the package by double-clicking on it. Alternately, fire the command “Adobe AIR Application Installer” (with quotes) to invoke the GUI app installer, from where you can browse to the location of the downloaded TweetDeck AIR package to install it.
Tested on Kubuntu 11.10 (64-bit)
