Evolution of a Programmer
chekout this link.. this one's nice :) stumbled across it while lookin for some dev stuff..
http://weblogs.asp.net/israelio/archive/2004/08/31/223443.aspx

alternate links: http://www.icarus.net/johnjo/evolutio.htm
http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer.html

Movies in my To-Watch list
Over the Hedge
over the hedge, it's all food ;) the trailer, I just loved it.. it's funny.. great piece of animation.. expression of every character carefully crafted. environments beautifully made.. it's funny to see Steve Caroll burpin the ABCs :)) can't wait to see it.. but the only problem is, I've to suppress my excitement for now coz itz gonna be a while before I can see it.. releasing May 06 :(

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
Releasing Nov 14. The trailer was pretty impressive. based on book and the trailer, seems like the movie's gonna be awesome.. Voldermort er.. sorry, you know who's gonna return in this one taking a proper form. so it's gonna be interesting.. unlike the previous movie (Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban), which was VERY poorly made, I guess this one's gonna rock.. might turn out to be the best in the series.. that's what I feel, but there's every possibility that I might go utterly wrong..

Corpse Bride
[a grave misunderstanding ;) ]
liked the trailer. tho the trailer wasn't all that funny, the concept of a Corpse Bride tickles my funny bones. I'm goin for it.. [particularly coz I love anmation :D] btw I dint know its already out! I dont follow movies much :(

Sin City
[walk down the right back alley in sin city... and you can find anythin]
haven't read the comic.. but glanced over a few pages sometime.. from the trailer, the movie has the same feel as the comic and 's nice. gotta see it.. it's already out.. but guess it's not bein played anywhere right now.. gotta find a VCD or somethin..

Doom
[if it breathes, ... kill it]
I'm plannin to watch this movie for the sole reason that I played the game (it's a different thing that I never got time to finish it.. psst.. in fact it scared the hell out of me.. that was one of the reasons why I dropped it halfway :D ) but otherwise, might not be a good idea to waste time on this movie.. the trailer feels a lot like Resident Evil to me.. xcept that the hunting is on Mars, I dont see much difference b/w them.. both r a lil sci-fi plus insane (I mean insane) action and huge monsters.. I'll give it to doom when it comes to the scary factor of the monsters.. might be a coincidence, but a similarity I couldn't help noticing was the Hell Knight (Doom) looks a lot like the Nemesis (Resident Evil) and the Imp (Doom) looks a lot like one of the huge monsters that appears in Resident Evil (I movie) towards the end of the movie when they're about to leave the underground..

Chicken Little
[some heroes are born great.. others have greatness, dropped upon them :)) ]
the sky is faling and our hero is out to save the planet. . . . . can he make it? I know the answer [provided i know the question;)] it seems interesting tho.. cant quite say the animation is excellent or anythin such, but well, it remains to be seen ;) I've just seen the trailer.. I'm goin for it..

Young, younger, youngest...
yesterday there was a lil discussion about my age.. people seem to find it surprising that I'm still 20.. well, I'm used to it.. wherever I go, beginning from my school till here, I usually end up being the youngest among my batchmates. and that is because I was born on 23rd Dec, 1984 while most of my friends' DOB falls in the range of mid 1982 - mid 1984. so when all my friends are 21-22, I'm always a year younger :)

here's a nice snippet of code that shows my current age.. if you find any bugs, blame the guys (/gals) at http://www.mathcats.com/explore/agecalculator.html.
and if you think the snippet is cool, you can appreciate my code scraping and refactoring skills :)

hover your mouse over this text area (or click on it) to find how just long have I been on this planet (ignoring all 'out of the world' voyages, just out of my noble intention to keep the code simple ;) )

[for some stupid reason, this works only in IE but not in FireFox (while I xpected it to be the other way around :( perhaps I shud giv a lil more time to the script]



[P.S. still lookin to find some code in the post?!]

Take my inn-sewer-ants, this book is worth a read..

This's about "The Colour of Magic" by Terry Pratchett. his first in the Discworld series. it's a pretty good read, with his Discworld and it's (lunatic? weird?) inhabitants.. read it about a week back, and became a Pratchett fan with it.. some people said it's not one of the Pratchett's best.. but I liked it, and am waiting to read his best.. and expectations of course are high.. right now I was reading "The Wyrd Sisters" - 6th novel in the Discworld series, but feel like it's not as good as the first one.. But considering that I'm still about halfway (and the fickle mind that I'm), I expect my opinion to change soon..

basically it's fantasy, with lots of humour in the way Pratchett chooses to express certain things.. It gets funny when Pratchett uses certain words in pretty foreign and disconnected way (inn-sewer-ants). And it's funny whenever there's Twoflower - carefree, curious and maybe a Tourist (a.k.a Stupid when translated to the local lingo of the city of Ankh-Morpork) It's funny when Rincewind (a wizard of sorts) is scared, or is baffled by the stupidity of Twoflower (he's a tourist after all) It gets really funny whenever Twoflower's luggage - a box made of Sapient Pearwood - comes into the scene making funny expressions (which in fact are scary for the people inside the story.. it's just that you're safe outside as a reader). and btw, Sapient Pearwood is believed to follow it's master ANYWHERE he goes.. even to death ;)

it's funny to see the Discworld gods playing a dice game (and cheating in that).. so is it to see the frustration of Death and Fate.. I can go on listing (and have half the novel out here, which definitely isn't good).

One of the pretty funny snippets I can remember goes something like this..
Rincewind begins to hear voices in his head.. he thinks "I'm going out of my mind".. and the voice replies, "That's good. It's getting very crowded in here"
Not a particularly funny snippet as such, unless you read it with the flow of the story..

Some snaps taken from my new Samsung X620 phone


Attempt to capture the Sun towards evening.. but not really during sunset


Some photogenic jungle bells


A flower (thought that aint obvious ;) )


One more..


Trying to be a little kanjoos about the resolution here coz I thought interfacing with my PC is hard. But it turned out to be really easy since my laptop had IrDA :). No more worrying about the image size..

And here's why you should avoid digital zoom, if possible..
Two of the otherwise nice snaps spoiled by my excitement to tryout the zoom :D
[psst.. I heard noob photographers tend to use zoom a lot ;) ]

Btw, all these photos were taken during my last visit to my native (which was yesterday ;) [15/10/2005])