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Don’t play with driver’s life !

One of my friend from online community fell in love with a girl and to show the limit of his love he went to a Railway Crossing and did this daring act. Now I got a wicked idea to represent it ! The line is in hindi and translates to “Please don’t play with driver’s life”. I sincerely respect this guy’s love towards the girl from the bottom of my heart but couldn’t help making this :p

Good to know that the girl is too in love with him now. Guess next time do something crazy (but don’t include me) to win your loved ones.

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Another (stupid) day in my tech life !

Objective:

• To troubleshoot my LAMP installation and local Wordpress install not working (just showing a blank page).
• How to rename multiple files the most efficient way in Linux. yes its CLI way.

A little in-depth view to above problems:

• Ok so I followed the Arch Wiki to install Wordpress in a jiffy. Yeah just one command and then few configuration files editing, its that simple. Checked that installation was successful by running test file. Then downloaded Wordpress 2.6 and a backup of this site. Yep, it worked like charm ! I was running my own local Wordpress blog with default theme. Then I did the mistake and copied this website theme and pasted it in themes folder in local Wordpress install. And when I selected the theme I was no longer able to see my blog, there was just this blank white page. So what to do now ?
• The second problem started when I tried to rename multiple files in Linux. The thing was that I was able to rename files having no space between file names, but if there happens to be a space then it will treat those two names as separate files. So I made sure that no file was having a space separated name. But I wanted a permanent solution to rename every file, no matter how its named.

Where to get support ?

• For local Wordpress issue I first sought out Arch Linux forums, as am using Arch Linux. But I guess no one knew the answer as everything was correct in my installation and every other php files were working except for the blog inside Wordpress local install. I then went overboard and asked same question in Ubuntu forums, but there too I was left with nothing but a faint hope.
• “Mass renaming using command line” - I started a thread named like this on Arch Linux forum. And guess what I got a reply within an hour. Thereafter I got many informative replies with some eye openers. Guess what ? Now I have the correct answer and few other tidbits too. Thanks to all the people at Arch Forum for their replies and the thread is still running…lolz.

Did I get the Answers ?

• Not from the forums but yeah me myself got the answer by trial and error (this strategy rocks). I found out that my customized theme’s header was the problem. There was some tracking code by Google Analytics that was conflicting. So, I removed it and yay I can see my local Wordpress blog running again.
• Yep, I already got the answer from THIS thread. And now am learning regular expressions and revising bash scripting (yeah me so bad at remembering things but this thing can’t be left forgotten).

Now what ?

• Most likely a post coming up for regular expressions and mass renaming files using powerful CLI way

• Author Name: T
• Author Webpage: http://visio159.com
• Listening to: Rain of Brass Petals - Silent Hill 3 OST
• Mood: ewhz

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Lolz text effect using GIMP !

This time its about some fancy text. “Lolz text effect” - as I call it. Here is the sample and outcome.

Sample Text

Final Text

Now it time for tutorial ! So read on…

Read on…

• Author Name: T
• Author Webpage: http://visio159.com
• Listening to: Dirge for The Planet - S.T.A.L.K.E.R OST (Firelake)
• Mood: Jai Hind

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Gimping Kate Becky :p

Lolz…tis is pure ecstacy. I wish I had a digital pen etc to do things more fine

Anyway here is some mediocre editing by me.

Sample Greyscale Image

In-transition

Final Image

Inspired from: http://purplink.deviantart.com/art/Colorization-Kate-Beckinsale-33822062

• Author Name: T
• Author Webpage: http://visio159.com
• Listening to: Road Movie - Yonderboi
• Mood: ecstasy

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A Bittersweet Life - Movie Review

Prologue:

I always had a longing for writing about this topic for a long time. But somehow I couldn’t, uptil now. Yes its about the title of this blog. Probably my first movie review too. A Bitterweet Life

Time, as we see, flow swiftly in one direction. We don’t have mighty Sands of Time powers to reverse it and set back things right in least entropy. Nor we possess a Time Machine yet. To put it straight, life is irreversible. The decisions you take are irreversible to an extent. What once done can’t be make more comfortable, it clings to one throughout. One wrong move and you are screwed. Its a Bittersweet life, hence the title of my blog.

Life is a revolution too. One must fight till the bittersweet end. You can’t predict the end but if you will start this then may be the ones after you will be exposed to a better space. Inadvertently every move of yours affect a inch or two every other being around you. The action is rippled through time to reflect on you in some other frame.

Lets get back to my firs movie review - A Bittersweet Life. It has stirred a lots of emotions and thoughts in my mind (I have watched it a year back though). Not a typical fairy tale story but dark and somber movie with gritty feel. It shows the fall of a perfectionist from zenith to nadir. Just a flash of time turned the tides on him.

Introduction:

If you liked Godfather, Taxi Driver and movies like Scarface then this movie is a must watch for you. But don’t think it as a copy of any of these movies. All characters are chosen perfectly and plays an important role. Somewhere a gamer can relate it to Max Payne too. Its an action noir with some amazing cinematography and background score. Never before seen moments and vivid intensity of emotions. Attention to every minute details from character to space and costume makes it a masterpiece.

Read on…

• Author Name: T
• Author Webpage: http://visio159.com
• Listening to: Dreams Come True - S.E.S.
• Mood: umm

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