Harsh J

Another random update, in both time and space.

I’ve got less than a week left before I’m officially over due-date for a 50% working demo of my undergraduate project, hah. I hate it when they give me so many holidays – I get lazy and am too lazy to do anything about it too, hence a quicksand.

Guess the year has a lot of music stored in it for me, as my 21 has begun with plenty of those.

I have nothing against religion, but I absolutely dislike this missionary nearby with its loud volume and irregular sermons. It’s been three years since I told myself I’d get used to it, and not a day of those go by where am not thinking of ways to get their speaker wires cut. I’ve thought of the rat training too, so I am going insane due to that – yep. Then there’s this renovation fixation the people around me are having with their not-comfy-enough homes, and that’s making the head ache. I probably think I’ve mutated and have acquired a higher hearing sense.

Anyhow, back to work now. Here’s my current desktop, plastic as usual.

Deadpool all loaded up.

This preview comic cover totally cracked me up today, especially after having read so many Blackest Night comics (Blackfest?). Absolutely gonna read the mini-series when it comes out – Deadpool’s never boring, and this is gonna be a bomb!

Days are getting a little tiring, but plenty interesting things to do nevertheless. There always will be, until I don’t have any more time for them.

Having finally seen my previous semester scores, which would be way better if instantaneous, I had a long talk-and-work session on LED wiring with Harshid. That bore a quick-fruit of this, my first ever ‘friode‘ which is cool but I never got to see the smoking diode stage if it happened, darn. The whole afternoon was lots of fun, thanks to him.

Then continued some gruelling search-work for my el-crapo Microdia Webcam drivers on Linux – It (ID: 0c45:614a) works with gspca_sonixj drivers right now but there are a few ‘JPEG format’ battles not won yet (unless v4l2 is used), I’ll probably not bother for another week if I can. The whole search thing has made me dizzy and makes me think of weird solutions like grabbing a video input source and feeding it back to another video input source after decompression via a loopback (sounds impossible too?) – a feat I’d need to achieve with a ton of manpages(3) and manpages(5) and an insane text-editor with motivating syntax highlight. No! Or, maybe…

Anyways, am looking forward to reading Marvel Comic’s Siege #1 as early as possible this week. I know I shouldn’t like him so much, but I absolutely enjoy reading Captain America – His shield and field mastery, it is just too… awesome.

Been a while since Google launched its Public DNS service and having used it for that long, I felt it was very unreliable. I had issues opening websites that had a lot of external items in it, and the most frustrating experience was with BBC UK’s site whose newsimg sub-server failed to resolve when using their DNS – I do much news reading on BBC during my random bursts of surfing.

However, I noted that these failures in resolving (or could be something else) were very odd, happening even after I’d successfully opened a web page. Switching to my former DNS, OpenDNS, makes all the issues go away, making me certain about the fault lying within Google’s service. I’m continuing to use OpenDNS here-on, until a good news article about the other trickles down my feed reader someday.

I leave it to my lurking readers to identify an oddity in the speedometer image used on Google’s DNS page.