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Just cause I had to post

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Heh, yeah. Randomize once again!

These are the comics I subscribe to and enjoy:

  • AppleGeeks – Full and Lite – Both are awesome!
  • Ctrl+Alt+Del – Who doesn’t know this one? Ethan’s the Gaming God!
  • Decorum – Too much of *-tons but funny nonetheless.
  • Evil Inc. – Everything evil, and funny.
  • Explosm – The BEST comic online! Nothing, absolutely nothing beats its crude humor!
  • Least I Could Do – Absolutely hilarious! One can never match Rayne’s way of thinking.
  • Little Gamers – Another one of the very best Gaming comics. This one runs very high on sarcasm too.
  • PC Weenies – Tech Humor Toons, and a pretty old running one at that!
  • Penny Arcade – Yet another
  • PVP – Slightly Apple oriented but good, very good!
  • Sheldon – The drawings there are pretty humorous in itself.
  • Starslip Crisis – One of the very few Sci-Fi humor comics I’ve found online
  • Questionable Content – Lots and lots of sarcasm.
  • Perry Bible Fellowship – Tiny strips but very deep!
  • The Warehouse – Explosm-like drawings and nearly the same sort of crude humor applied.
  • XKCD – God of all web-comics. Enough said.

Do share yours too!

In other news, I found it a bit surprising about how dumb some people can be at times. Totally pissed my evening off today, the things that went about. Sigh, I need to be calmer and quieter. :|

Written by Harsh

December 3rd, 2007 at 8:38 pm

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Disturbance in force

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Just before a few hours days to the release of the overhyped ‘greatest’ book in history of jupiter earth.

Yeah right, even my blog needed a Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows spoiler news post.

Well, if you are up to date on the leak, here’s a bit of what am talking about:

The bloke who snapped off a few pictures of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and showed it off on the internet is likely to be identified because investigators can make his pictures talk.

This week the anonymous bloke or blokette took pictures of the book and posted them on the world wide wibble including the last chapter.

According to the Times, investigators have scryed into the pictures and are fairly certain they can nab the bloke wot did it. The method did not involve the sacrifice of any goats or chickens either.

Each of the photographs has metadata built into each photo. Canon says that the pics were snapped with one of its cameras. In fact it says it was a Canon Rebel 350D and the model is three years old.

This means that if the owner had the camera serviced at least once then they will have his or her name and address.

However, if the pirate didn’t have it serviced, Canon’s UK head office said it was possible to find out which country the camera was sold in and in turn the warranty.

The owner is probably from the US or Canadian because the camera was not sold anywhere else. Publisher Bloomsbury has promised to send every legal demon it knows at the offender.

Inq via Giz

Now why do I get a bad feeling that people who think they made a damn good gadget purchase 3 years ago will regret their decision?

Here’s what they’d probably get soon:
Attn: U r a prim suspct in takin pix of HP:TDH, plz srrndr fer interrgtn. kthxbai.
Damn lolcat, doesn’t leave my mind.

Written by Harsh

July 20th, 2007 at 9:51 pm

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Google Desktop Search for Linux and More about the same

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Google launched its new Desktop Search software for Linux and it looks like the widget below.

Google Desktop for Linux

It searches only a few kind of files as of now, but then, Google Desktop never was the best in searching. But it sure gives a handy application to search the web quickly.

Download as [ DEB ] or [ RPM ]

Or if you wish to add Google’s Linux Software repository to your OS, look here.

But the thing with me is, I never really needed a search in my daily OS use. Over the past five years I’ve learned how to manage your files side by side as I work. Sure it was difficult at first, but when some friend of yours dumps about 500 songs on your HDD, you realize how painful tagging is. Yeah, I tagged them all manually (Right Click – Properties, Google for info) on Windows and then after I finished the 3 day work and arranged them well, with Album Art and all, I discovered that MusicBrainz did the same. Only, automatically. Haha, I felt like deleting the entire collection after I discovered the software.

It might be that I don’t really keep a lot of files, like documents and all. And even if I do, not for a long time. The only thing I start the Search applet or software of an OS is to find a system file or something hidden deep under the User Profile folders. But otherwise, I always know where my files are and never really have hassles searching them out.

Sorting music is now much easier, thanks to both Amarok and Windows Media Player 11 coming with automatic file tagging and Album Art downloads. My music folder is arranged in the Artist – Album – Files and Art way. Like the breadcrumb view below:

Music arrangement

And though its arranged in such a way, its still obsolete cause these modern player libraries are beautifully sorted and very easy to use if your files are well tagged.

I don’t think anyone these days actually goes through the File Explorer and selects something to play. Its way easier in a library or a manager, can be sorted in a hundred different ways and all your files are accessible from your player itself, thus making playlists from them a cake.

So what am I getting at? Nothing, just saying that once tagged and categorized, your files are way easier to navigate through. But don’t categorize like /home/name/Documents/Office/June1 and /home/name/Documents/Office/June2 and so on. That’s just stupid and makes it more difficult to browse through. Instead just stop at the Office sub category and dump all files with proper descriptive names in it.

No one really listens to all this crap but if you actually keep categorizing and spending that extra few seconds in placing the saved file in the right folder with the right name, it makes retrieval way easier, and completely reduces your need on the search module of the OS which usually gives you a hard and dumb time searching. I mean, how innovative can a search get and be helpful to you when you simply don’t know what and where you seek.

And after the long off-topic blabber, I just wanna say that this GDS tool is quite heavy, just like Beagle is.

Written by Harsh

June 29th, 2007 at 12:52 pm

Spider-Man 3

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Ever bitten a spider? No, not ‘been bit by’, but bitten? No? Watch this movie and you’ll chew the tickets into pulp and spit them out. All cause the popcorn got over.

It starts with a kiddy Tobey and that’s all he is throughout the movie. Wait, the movie’s name was going to be Peter Parker 3 actually. Cause there simply is no need of a mask while fighting as shown by Peter. He thinks his face scares more shit out of the villains, and yes it does indeed, considering we, the tomato throwers, are them.

Sandman

The Sandman was well created but making him fly around in a sand storm was a fool’s idea. Did they even know that if Sandman loses a part of his integral sand molecules, he goes unstable and disintegrates and dies? And then, in the end, letting him learn the identity and leave was another big violation of the comic code of  ‘Whoever learns his identity, dies’. And his reason of fighting for his daughter’s sake was so useless. The game, instead, actually shows Venom using his daughter to blackmail him into fighting. A good character put to waste also by making him Ben’s killer. And why was it always black and white and so retro with slow motion in place? Sigh.

Venom

Venom was a fat thighed bad-fat-ass. Eddie’s face emerging from it was like the most comical thing I’ve ever seen. Eddie must have been much more muscled, for the real terror the character Venom causes into the viewer’s heart. They decided to stick to reality, in a comic movie. Best error one can make. And the final symbiote-only Venom, though looked real good, died just too easily. I mean, he is weak to fire but it doesn’t vaporize him like it did in the movie. And what’s with Eddie being vaporized as well? Poof.

New Goblin

A completely unwanted villain in middle of the movie. And they killed him off, but then, Goblins never die. Am sure you’ll see another goblin in case you do dare to watch the future movies, with 4 having either Scorpion or Lizard in it. And the Goblin was only as powerful as a small time crook on a flying LED decorated Skateboard. I mean, it’s another person of the Goblin ‘Osborn’ family. He’s supposed to be Spidey’s biggest villain of all time, striking flawlessly and only going down by the actions of a revengeful Spidey. Am sure killing Gwen Stacy off instead of Harry would’ve made more impact. But Gwen’s role wasn’t much more than another girl in Peter’s class, and not life. But Bryce Howard sure does look way better than she did or acted in The Village. I feel James Franco would’ve done a better job than Tobey Maguire in this one.

The Black Suit

Peter keeps his symbiote suit, a suit which’s supposed to bond to his cells and enhance his strength all the time, in a f_cking case! It’s like a costume too! Comic fans, kill Sam, kill him now!

And look, it’s raining symbiotes everywhere. Quick, go to a park with your girl and become Venoms. Recreate the Smith-effect of The Matrix in Spider-Man and perhaps it’d have gone well! Of Peter getting rid of the suit, was another big stupid thing. While he fights Sandman in the subway, the noise of the train should’ve affected his costume, but it didn’t. (The Game shows it does.) And he is actually supposed to go to a church not because there’s Jesus, but there’s the bell in it.

The movie was simply zero at logic. And dialogues? If the dialogues would’ve been more meaningful this blog post wouldn’t have existed. The dialogues were slow and were all attempting to be over sentimental. All the hype that was really worth watching for were the CGI effects they put in it. While swinging wasn’t a new thing, the sand monster and Harry’s Skystick were. A total of 120 bucks and 2 hours of time gone waste. It’s not even worth a kiddy watch. Not for anyone with a brain and above 5 years of age. I guess my friend liked it a lot :P

P.s. Did no one notice William ‘Norman Osborn’ Dafoe, the Green Goblin, sitting in the coffee place behind Harry?

Written by Harsh

June 4th, 2007 at 2:26 pm

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Roasted peanuts

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Title explains my current condition in this 37-fing-degree-centigrade boiler of a city, Chennai, in boiler of a month, May. Got to finally cut down on 75-degrees computing and get an cooler of some sort, for both, my room and this hell-hot baby am writing this post on.

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May 10th, 2007 at 1:50 pm

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