Lost

For over a week, I did not step out of the apartment. My phone was dead too. Hadn’t spoken to a soul in all those days.

After so many days when I stepped into company of people I was lost. I didn’t know what to say or how to act. I wanted to run back into my cave. I was comfortable there. Alone in my room, I didn’t need to play the game for which I no longer seem to know the rules. Or maybe I know them too well.

I know the rules. I know the game and my part in it. I played it before, and I played it well. Said and did all the right things. I was successful, I was adored by everyone. At the time I did not know that I was just following the rules. The innocence created a sense of romance. I am not innocent anymore. The romance is lost. I know that if I play by those rules again, I will be successful/liked again.

It was never about me. It was always just a matter of playing by the rules of the game. The ones who play it well win. I know that now. Once that romance is lost, it doesn’t feel great when someone says “Srivani is kind”. Because I know now that it has nothing to do with me. I just played the game right. If it doesn’t make me feel special, why should I go out of my way to be kind to someone? Why should I ask how they are doing or say they look great in that outfit?

I am losing interest in this game. But what else do I have?

Crazy!

Okay, normally, I am not the kind who would go anywhere near writing hacks. However, for the past few days I have had this itch to write a script that would help me post directly from Yahoo! Photos to Flickr.

While I was at it, one thing led to another, and finally decided to setup DynDNS on my modem yesterday. Was successful and was quite happy about it. Just when I was revelling in my humble entry into geek-dom (if that!), I happened to read this blog entry of a fellow yahoo. And I thought, “Now, that’s a geek! A really crazy one at that.”.

Flash for Firefox on Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 64bit

I had been trying to install the flash plugin for sometime now. Tried a number of things, nothing went through. Was wondering what could be wrong. At last it struck me that I own a 64bit machine now and there lies the deamon. I guess, I did not yet get used to the fact that I am 64bit now.

Anyway, the process is pretty straight-forward. This post helped me out. Enjoy!

Hilarious

Check this out! A very funny prank on telemarketers

Talk about user experience!

This was the error message I got when I tried an innocent search for trains.