Bug on bug

while sending a patch to pidgin, I came across these two cutting edge -- next generation bugs. Smart ones, intelligent. Have a look ---

What the hell Ron Paul has to do with pidgin ??

And this is classic one. When I give you the best of juice from the most rare tree of the garden, they came back and say -- hey ya actually now I am used to others and like it more.

There were long discussions and numerous request on pidgin to provide "Escape' as shortcut key for closing a conversation (through UI). After sometime, they finally pulled that in 2.4.2 release.

But then someone came up with this bug: God knows what was his intenti... or may be God doesn't know.

Adieu ...

Bangalore rain and Traffic

That was ... last Tuesday when it rained heavily and I was on my way back to home from office. Bathing roads, heavy traffic, signal failures, signal disputes ... all you can guarantee if you are in Bangalore.

So on the 3 inch of water on the road, I missed on stone underneath it and that did the trick to me. Bike 60 degree on the right and I am few inch away from it head to head. Very first reaction was to jump out for few inch cause I knew traffic was behind and a alto behind me.

So I jumped back, stand up and tried to find out what I hit -- there i sense a big stone on the road (big enough to do for anyone if he misses). Got the reason and went toward the bike to pick up and as soon as I bend down heard a huge honk from behind. The same alto person was honking continuously as if I am making some drama or something on the road on my own to steel their time. On any of my other day, I might have stopped on there for few minutes probably and feed few words in his mind. But just to see heavy traffic behind and not to hurt others behind, I simply moved out.

That incident give me a sense of selfish Bangalore breed yet again. Not to change you mind - I faced that quite frequently but always on the road.

I know there are some problem with neighbor state people, but to the best of me I never faced it personally. The way everyone else treats me - be it neighbor - close shops, local peoples out there - every one is good. Even I see a change in them. Call it my effort to influence people with my language or best of them -- but they are better. Point is they are trying and its so satisfying. Its so good. Not to point some one -but I been in Chennai and Cochin - but none of them can stand with Bangalore.

But as soon as its out of neighbor, friends, colleagues to road-traffic, its all different. Its a different people. Every one is on run, don't mind to hit you, driving on the wrong side speedily and look at you badly if you tend to block them. Its all together different people out there. Totally inhuman.

May I bring it to their knowledge, its doesn't help. May feel I am few meters ahead but that just till the next traffic jam. Only way to improve is to bring some traffic sense among us. Follow the rules. Today you might be helping others, tomorrow all of them to you.

Major problems, I guess, are blinding headlight, three(or may be four sometime) way traffic, no turn signal, sudden lane change, no dipper signal, disallowing overtake (I have faced it many times - when I send a dipper signal and speeds close - they increase speed and turns in your lane to avoid overtake), breaking traffic light, and importantly pedestrians who just don't want to wait for signal to go red as if dare to hit me.

Unless this change, it would be the same sweet but souring Bangalore.

WTF

Last weekend, I thought I did well enough to survive to come office after being hit by some crappy internet experience. And when I thought I escaped, I caught up by traffic police.

Not much harm though. 100 bucks and it was over !!!
So here are few classic one's I faced last weekend:

I guess yahoo messenger has forgot its own address to download full messenger.


Yes, I need to remember that. Wish they should say "Remember to remember to remember your password!

Never thought there are so many. In the next version they might have two drop down option as select gender 1. Guy & 2. Male!!

How many cats do you see. And how many letters with cat??

And the most classic one

I think their idea for confirmation code is to save from those who cann't write automated scripts for arithmetical expression. A neck to neck battle with this classic.

Grr .... Guess I need a another break.

Three question

1. What is the output of a vacuum pump?
2. Do coffins have lifetime guarantees?
4. What's the *free* gift? Since when has a gift NOT been free?


Well freaking question deserve a similar answers!! So here they are ---------------

1. Whatever it S$%^S (or definitely not what it S$%#S? ;) )
4. Yes they do. Its guarantees to *live* under 10,000 feet of mud till decades of years. Don't believe me?? Try it out ................... yourself!!
6. Who said gift are free? Ask the one who buy them. It's said for not to predict the value!

Scratching your head ?? Well ...... that's what all it meant to be!!

Soyonara ....

Deleting coments

I hope you already know how to delete comments from your post. That makes sense on analogy with human communication .

The other day I was trying to delete a comment (some casual one's) which I posted on someone's blog. Surprisingly to me, my comment got deleted instantly. You may find it useful, but my instinct that its a basic use case problem.

1) Making a analogy with man-2-man communication, deleting a comment is like taking your word back, like say "Nope, I don't want that". But it depends how others react. Some say "Whatever, mark your word", others say "Its okay". So point is when I delete my posted comment, it should send a notification to author for confirmation, cause once you post a comments, words belongs to post. You have control until you post.

2) Deleting immediately can make the complete comments thread senseless. Confirmation to author can help in reducing this. For the least, author may wish to remove the comments that are related to "to-be-deleted" one.

3) Taking about blogger, deleting a comments leaves a message. Something like "Post is deleted by author". That's really ugly.

What's you say ??

Now I need to look for ways to repost my comment at the same place :(

[Yeah, no liner in this post, now you know its not easy ;-) ]

Added at 11:47 PM:
And blogger doesn't even say who has deleted that message!!