The Lonesome Road

Ever wanted to spell your name with pictures? Well, Flickr Spell allows you to do just that.

Type in your name and it goes through Flickr images and picks out the letters you have chosen. Also, it randomizes the images so you may or may not get the same image type every time.

For instance :

There is a small bug where some letters may not show up. Keep at it - it will work. May just take a couple of clicks more.

Enjoy!

I’ve been neglecting writing and posting a lot of vidoes. Promise to rectify that situation soon. My excuse (and really, it’s true) is that I’m not feeling well today.

Here are two more vidoes I liked. Video number one is possibly the worst coke commercial - ever. And it has am amazing lead - Bill Gates. Who would have thought. A dude on the video site happily pointed out a factual error in the ad though. ALL soda in the Miscrosoft office is free

The second video is more martial arts mayhem. Don’t need to say anything more - actions speak louder than words…

Enjoy!

This one goes out to all the “game widows” of the world….

PS : Guys, hang on for the first minute or so of the song…It definitely gets better. Sort of lulls you then gives the old one-two. The dudes responsible are the Aussie comedy group Tripod

Adios

I’m a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and the Prince of Persia series.

The dudes in this video seem to be inspired by both these guys

Really makes you think what the human body is capable of….

Enjoy!

I’m not Sachin Tendulkar’s biggest fan (big whoop - the guy has enough of them). I do however respect his skills as a cricketer - especially as a batsman a lot.

So, it’s really annoying to see idiots writing him off for the smallest reasons - again and again. Why don’t they learn that this man will retire when he knows it’s time?

Here is the article that’s been bugging me since this morning. Big “surpise” that it’s from Moin Khan. Here are some quotes.

Why he thinks it’s the end :

“The more I look back at his dismissal, the more convinced I get that the downhill journey for the little champion has started because it has been established that, according to the laws of the game, he was not out as the ball had made contact with the right glove that was not in play.

What is even more mindblowing is that he did not look at the umpire and immediately started his long walk towards the pavilion.”

Mr.Khan feels that the reason Tendulkar did not protest was

“Hostile bowling by Shoaib Akhtar, or the tension-filled dressing room atmosphere that often gets on the nerves of the batsmen who start feeling suffocated?”

i.e he basically wanted to run off. Yeah right.

I just wish Mr. Khan remember that Tendulkar loves to prove people wrong. If you need proof, just ask all the bowlers who tried to intimidate him in a match. All of them would love to erase the match that followed from cricketing statistics.

Here’s another :

“Maybe when he takes an emotional walk in the National Stadium in Karachi, the desire of continuing for a few more years with distinction and merit will be re-ignited. But for the moment, the Sachin I saw batting at Faisalabad was certainly a shadow of the Sachin who courageously faced and ruthlessly punished the greatest bowlers of the past decade.”

I hope to God that the third test puts Moin Khan’s foot squarely in his mouth.

Later all!

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Bird (by day), originally uploaded by shadowfall.

Well, my flickr page finally went pro. My thanks to all the people involved in the decision

Now that I have a larger play area, I’ve uploaded a few photos I could not earlier.

Hope you enjoy them.

Adios!

I’m a big believer in keyboard shortcuts. Of course, the major motivation for that fact is that I am too lazy to take on of my hands off the key board. This I feel most keenly while playing songs. Come on - why should I have to open the player window, click next song, and then go back to what I was doing!

So, I went searching for a plug-in for Media monkey that gave me access to the required global shortcuts of next/previous song and volume control. Found something that does a lot more. It’s called Hotkeycontrol. And it seems to do a lot more than just skip songs.

Here’s a list of features :
* Use additional keys on your multimedia/internet keyboard with Hotkeycontrol
* Display of volume and other messages on screen using OSD
* Use hotkeys in 3d games too (For ex: change volume while you play)
* Display any image or text file on screen with translucency
* Run up to 50 programs or open webpages, files, folders via hotkeys
* Macros to automate keyboard and mouse actions or type frequently used text
* Turn off monitor and Eject cdrom drives
* Shutdown/restart/hibernate/suspend your computer
* Can use single keys such as function keys instead of combination hotkeys
* Display list of configured hotkeys on screen by pressing a hotkey
* Extend features by using plugins

Of course, a certain someone will tell me that with mac, Quicksilver (this is one program I would absolutely love to see on the windows platform - as I have said so many, many times) would do all this with no problem.

Of course it would - but I am on a windows box and have to make do. I personally haven’t used this software yet (plan to do so today). But do have a go and let me know your experience.

Adios!

Well, I came across this test on a link from Digg . It’s a little long - and as the title states, it rates your geekiness.

I managed a score of 28.79684% which puts me somewhere between a Total Geek and a Major Geek (closer to Total Geek).

Think my score was a little low due to my hate of coding. Ah well.

Do put up your scores and pass on the test.

Adios!

It looks like some gnomes in Sweden are working on a way to share music wirelessly among mobile devices.

From the site :

“Push!Music currently runs on WiFi-enabled PDAs and allows users to actively recommend songs by sending (or “pushing”) music to other users in the proximity. Users can also get spontaneous music recommendations as songs recommend themselves: songs that either come from your own music collection or from another user’s device nearby! ”

Considering the “state” of the recording industry, with the large amounts of “revenue” lost via P2P software, I presume the RIAA will react very strongly against this kind of technology.

More information can be found on the Push!Music site (though details are still sparse at the moment)

Later!