Sunday 06 June 2010 at 01:38 am
First you go unethical by forcing users (stating security concerns) to upgrade to a newer firmware. And then, you don't even do a good QA on the firmware you release. It clearly looks you were in a hurry to strip off the "Other OS" feature.
I lost all my gameplay in the firmware upgrade.
Tuesday 01 June 2010 at 3:37 pm
The blog entry is about the F word.
What the fuck? You don't know what the F word is. Sigh!!!
Mea Culpa! Not your fault. It is quite offensive, no? More offensive than BC, MC, BsdK, LkB ?These are some of the usual terms used in our local derived languages in all its locally derived richness.
The word Fuck, many times, either from people with authority (HR) or the receiver, is termed and reacted to as a very offensive term. Usage of the word fuck is kind of blasphemy. In organizations, its usage can lead to harassments (to all those ultra fuckin' dumbs) and terminations. Sigh!!
Well! Yuck! to all those, who think that way.
Fuck is the most neutral word to express all kinds of feelings, be it anger, agression, disappointment, love, sex, celebration or anything else you can think of.
See. How offensive it is. Now let's localize it with its equivalents.
See. How nice it is. Not offensive at all. One can always argue that those words are not required to be used in the local languages, rather it is offensive terms not preferred. But be honest and ask yourself if you haven't used them when expressing yourself.
So when someone uses the F word, there isn't really a good reason to make those fucked up faces and feel offensive. The person is just making use of the best expressive neutral word to express himself.
At least, this way, while expressing himself, he still is sparing families and friends. So go ahead and make use of this wonderful F word and educate people on its endless possible usage. Or else if you still don't get it, I got 2 words: Fuck You.
Tuesday 01 June 2010 at 3:15 pm
So this past weekend, me and my friend, went on a drive to Yellagiri Hills. It was exciting driving on the highway in an entry level Indian car, Maruti Suzuki Alto.
Unfortunately, we couldn't make it to the destination. 5 kilometers before the destination, while we were uphill, the car b0rke down. On one of the hair-pin bends where we had to cut down the speed to zero, switch to the 1st and 2nd gear failed. Hmmm!! At that point, we were on a very steep road, with the car stalled and the gear box (for 1st and 2nd) broken down. Nice!!
Somehow we did manage to turn the car back (Don't ask me how) and reach down the hill with the slope. That's when we started "thinking". Now what. Still another 200+ kilometers to go.
Called up the Maruti "On the Road" pick-up service. Being Sunday, the contact was unavailable. Nice!!
We took the plunge and drove the broken car. How ?? The 3rd, 4th, 5th and Reverse gears still work. So we somehow managed to reach near to "Vanyan Badi" at a restaurant and asked for help. Luckily we did get a resource to help us out. Unfortunately, the resource was not resourceful enough. He recommended us drive down the b0rken car all the way back home. Nice!!
With not much choice left, and with all the Cats & Dogs rain (ah!! Yes. I will talk more about it in a while), we decided to move on with the b0rken car. Plan was: worst case, we dump the car and catch a cab (hopefully).
As soon as we started, we were welcomed with a very nice and heavy rainfall. Heavy enough that the water was near to on the road, the speed breakers were not visible and a very good amount of water was clogged at the sides of the road. Well! Fuck happens. We continue.
We did hit a big breaker which went unnoticed because of the water clog. Apart from that, otherwise, there weren't any issues. We covered 3 toll gates full of traffic with out b0rken car and reached back home safely. Then hunted down for food/booze, ate/drank and CRASHED.
So, when your car goes b0rke and you are just a bunch of dudes stuck, don't worry. Fuck it. It ain't gonna screw you that bad. 
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