Memoirs of a QWERTY Keyboard
Some bands/artists I enjoy listening to, for this current factor of time in which I enjoy trance/derivatives/near-trance:
Psst. I left last.fm for … nothing, just left it. Like I left Twitter and Facebook. They are for people with no time and I got plenty, plenty, plenty.
The topics remain unrelated, as always.
Welcome to yet another random, rand(), whatever 
First off, music.
3 Doors Down
3 Doors Down
This band is pure awesomeness, rock awesomeness specifically!
Though their latest self-titled album had released a few months ago, I only got them this week and every track on it is splendid and not even one makes me skip to the next! The only other album that I’ve enjoyed so much would be Flipsyde’s We The People. Here’s their Last.fm page if you are interested in trying them out.
However, there is always a favorite no matter how much you like all the tracks on an album and mine were It’s Not My Time and She Don’t Want The World.
Their older album, Away from the Sun was also good, with great tracks like When I’m Gone and Here Without You. Nice music!
Didn’t like the even-older album The Better Life though.
Off to Programming.
Ruby
Ruby Programming Language
I messed around with Ruby a few days. It’s brilliant, and nearly as easy as Python is. But it didn’t fit me so well that I’d shift from Python to it. My prime reason to try it was for seeing how good Ruby On Rails development could be, my interest being sparked by the rave reviews its been getting. It sure is good, web-dev stuff but I’ll go ahead with Django finally.
But doing things in Ruby is sorta easier than in Python. Sort of. But I haven’t poked around much to be sure if it wins over Python or not. Ruby is definitely more Object-Oriented than Python, with every darn thing being an object. With a good editor, ruby files look great and are easy to read as well. Might explore more with it at Project Euler perhaps.
Now for some more KDE4 mixup.
KDE’s Dolphin is a boon for external-storage device users with its neat split screen feature and not to mention the tabbing power. I’d say this is overkill, giving both! And if that were not enough, there’s a button
KDE's Dolphin File Manager
that would launch the terminal below the window in another splitter pane. This power feels good to handle, too good. Ironically for me, its philosophy page says otherwise. Ark, the KDE’s default archive-extract/create program is just not good. It fails at basic tasks and stalls while extracting from split RAR files, but thanks to it am more comfortable with the unrar and tar command line programs now.
Am building Amarok 2 (Alpha 2 – 1.86) as I type this now. Will write about it in a later post, if I manage to get it built and running properly. KTouch is another nice application, for improving your touch-typing skills and am addicted to KBattleShip and KHangMan in my free time, for some educative-arcade fun.
Finally, about my life. (Hey who said all above is for people with no life?!)
Not much is happening at college except for some mild interest of mine rising up for IBM’s TGMC 2008, but I most probably won’t be doing any worthwhile thing in it, I don’t like being forced into Java and accompanying technologies from IBM. This Java thing can form another post actually, haha.
Implementing those OS Job-scheduling algorithms in a preemptive manner in C is a nice practice though the syllabus doesn’t clearly require it. And what is this whole Rational Rose thing, I never get it why designing the construct of a software project is easier this way than hard-coding it down from scratch, I find it too confusing drawing diagrams!
Saw some old Sonic the Hedgehog videos thats been doing some spikes lately, and also saw Hancock and The Dark Knight off which the latter was the most awesome movie ever! Its IMDb rating is justified IMO, with Heath Ledger’s death clearly contributing a lot to it.
Thats all for this syscall of random. *Urgh, goes back to the OS Concepts book*
Added ATB – Trilogy album’s song lyrics.
Album Art:
Here’s the list:
Track Number – Artist – Album – Title
01. ATB – Trilogy Lyrics – Justify
02. ATB – Trilogy Lyrics – Desperate Religion
03. ATB – Trilogy Lyrics – Renegade
05. ATB – Trilogy Lyrics – Stars Come Out
06. ATB – Trilogy Lyrics – Feel Alive
07. ATB – Trilogy Lyrics – Made of Glass
09. ATB – Trilogy Lyrics – These Days
10. ATB – Trilogy Lyrics – Better Give Up
11. ATB – Trilogy Lyrics – Some Things Just Are The Way They Are
12. ATB – Trilogy Lyrics – The Chosen Ones
(Rest tracks on Trilogy – 2 Disc Edition don’t have lyrics, just deep and enjoyable music.)
Download ATB – Trilogy or buy it, worth either way. 
A while ago I blogged about my purchase of a Transcend T.sonic 630 4 GB Music Player here.
Now Transcend has given it a complete looks overhaul and has released the newer Transcend T.sonic 650 players!
Here’s how they look: (Very delicious looking, and curvy compared to my 630!)
If you ask me, its just the same 630 in features, with a 610 style 2-Color OLED screen. All the other features as seen in this Press Release by Transcend are exactly the same as the T.sonic 630 except an additional memory for 10 FM stations. (The 630 has 10 slots, the 650 has 20)
Comes only in 2 GB (The White one) and 4 GB (The Black one) variants.
I’d listened to this crazy song like 3 or 4 years ago. Just stumbled upon it again today, and wasted around an hour listening to its repeats. Its hilarious!
Click the image to listen to Scatman John’s Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop) song:
You can find the lyrics to this song here.
And no, “scat” here isn’t what your dirty mind might be thinking, its a style of singing.
