Harsh J

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.

Watched Avatar, and it seemed to me that James Cameron’s been busy playing popular video games ever since Titanic.

Movie was good at entertaining, although I had this thought; that in his focus of developing the alien ecosystem, he failed to improve ours in the time-line portrayed. Must’ve seen it in 3D to avoid thinking so much during a movie. Now to wait for the Avatar I know.

Well, that’s a year end coming up. Hope 2010 has a lot of surprises for you too

Update: Whoa! What’s this?! I like the sound of it, Jack Black-ish.

CCV (Community Core Vision) today almost made me wish I were on Ubuntu and not Linux.

Trying to build it on ArchLinux x86_64 took about 2 hours of searching solutions, building-installing and locating libraries, adding references, counting off one compile-error after another. Nothing has ever thrown errors harder at me. Makes me remember dependency hell.

Well, at least its not Windows and its lack of helper core programs.

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