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There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come, Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up; Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes, As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and indu'd Unto that element; but long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death. - selene

The area of Meteora was originally settled by monks who lived in caves within the rocks during the 11th Century. But as the times became more unsure during an age of Turkish occupation, brigandry and lawlessness, they climbed higher and higher up the rock face until they were living on the inaccessable peaks where they were able to build by bringing material and people up with ladders and baskets and build the first monasteries. This was also how the monasteries were reached until the nineteen twenties and now there are roads, pathways and steps to the top. There are still examples of these baskets which are used for bringing up provisions - selene

What's the relationship between the 'results' and 'idea for a movie'? - Mahesh Aravind

Well the "dream" was so fabulous and strange, I thought it fit to call it movie material ;) And my results will be out soon yea, strange dreams are an indicator of strange news in the future :p - selene

In May 2007 Google began adding Street Views to its Google Maps service for San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami and Denver. Within weeks, people starting spotting unusual, interesting and unexplained street scenes and sharing them online. - selene

During our trek through Google Maps we found a chicken carcass the size of a large SUV, a car covered in Post-it notes and what looks like a UFO parked in a backyard. We've collected a few of the oddest and most intriguing sights! :) - selene

"Dsadd" - Dsadd.exe is a Windows Server 2003 program that enables you to create new Active Directory objects, complete with attribute values, from the command prompt. When you have a large number of user objects to create, the advantage of using Dsadd.exe is that you can create a batch file containing multiple commands and create as many objects as you need at one time. - selene

Basic Syntax - dsadd user UserDN [parameters] - selene

"Don't look at the clock, don't look at the clock.." :D - selene

"A place to go - that's what my mother always instilled in me. You need a place to go. And you're worthless unless you have a place to go." Oh yeah, what do you think? - Mahesh Aravind

I think the man has a point ;) Now where should I go, uhm? Care to join me? :p - selene

Anywhere... :) lead the way, my lady. - Mahesh Aravind

That's a very romantic quote, dear. And the picture creates longingness inside you for unknown feelings. - Mahesh Aravind

Bulls Eye!! :D - selene

LOL.. that was the purpose? ;-) But I liked the way they hold each other. Very romantic pic! - Mahesh Aravind

How? Just look at how he shakes it :p It's the biggest turn-off, and that hair.. oh no no no - selene

Oh cmon, haven't you guyz heard of toothpaste? Good for teeth and scratched CD's :p - selene

Answer files are like high-school chemistry crib sheets. They're lists of answers for questions that you know the setup program is going to ask but the user is not prepared to answer. You use them to automate the setup process. - selene

More specifically, answer files look just like classic INI files. They are text files. They contain one or more sections, and each section contains one or more properties in the form name=value - selene

As mortal entities, there are a series of biologically determined events that are common to most human lives, and some that are inevitable for all. The ongoing way in which humans react to or cope with these events is the human condition. - selene

Some thinkers, like Enrico Fermi and others, deny that human nature has really changed in any fundamentally meaningful way over time and that, despite all of our social and scientific advances, human beings remain essentially unchanged and merely have been transplanted into progressively more complex environments. Transhumanist theorists agree; however, they argue that this is precisely... more... - selene

This is where I am now, at crossroads.. - selene

In order to scale to hundreds of millions of web pages, Google has a fast distributed crawling system. A single URLserver serves lists of URLs to a number of crawlers (we typically ran about 3). Both the URLserver and the crawlers are implemented in Python. Each crawler keeps roughly 300 connections open at once. This is necessary to retrieve web pages at a fast enough pace. At peak speeds, the system can crawl over 100 web pages per second using four crawlers. This amounts to roughly 600K per second of data. A major performance stress is DNS lookup. Each crawler maintains a its own DNS cache so it does not need to do a DNS lookup before crawling each document. Each of the hundreds of connections can be in a number of different states: looking up DNS, connecting to host, sending request, and receiving response. These factors make the crawler a complex component of the system. It uses asynchronous IO to manage events, and a number of queues to move page fetches from state to state. - selene

Recommended read! - selene

They did it in C/C++ in the begining, eh? And it ran over Solaris. Now Google is (almost) fully in Python running over Linux - Mahesh Aravind

This is a film that speaks on many different levels about the struggle between individuality and conformity in response to external ideals. But I think it's also a comment on reaching ever higher for physical perfection in our image-obsessed society. - selene

When inspired Ada could be very focused and a mathematical taskmaster. Ada suggested to Babbage writing a plan for how the engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers. This plan, is now regarded as the first "computer program." - selene

@Mahesh : Yes, I get the drift, I find it difficult myself to be around people who think too high of themselves, thankfully I don't keep such people around when I come across one :) But really, checkout Ada's profile, you will like her!! - selene

Although, I have spent a big chunk of my life in "Asia", those dishes were new to me :-) Tasty and just different.. - selene

One of my HAPPY SONGS :-D Do what you want.. what you want.. Like nobodies watchin ;) Do what you want.. what you want.. - selene

You wake up: The curtains are on fire, the paint is peeling, and the water is boiling over. Which do you deal with first? - selene

Grab whatever you can, run out hollering! - Mahesh Aravind

Kick it, don't grab it!! :-D :p - selene

These pictures were taken by my clumsy sister! You see the green coat sliding past the camera? That's my hyper-mom :-D It seems the duo caught the president at one of Kuwait's popular tourist spots.. she even managed to shake the "under-guarded" guy's hand :p Is it just me or are some VIP's like Obama, Ahmadinijead and obviously this guy, too sure of their security? Public appearances like these are the new trend or what? Anyway, was an exciting experience, with the public and reporters climbing on top of each other.. and my "Ma" in the midst of it all.. shaking the President's hand :-) - selene

"Dr. Duncan MacDougall was an early 20th century physician in Haverhill, Massachusetts who sought to measure the mass purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed the body upon death. In 1907, MacDougall weighed six patients while they were in the process of dying. He took his results (a varying amount of perceived mass loss in most of the six cases) to support his hypothesis that the soul had mass, and when the soul departed the body, so did this mass. These experiments are widely considered to have little, if any, scientific merit, and MacDougall's results varied considerably from 21 grams, but for some people this figure has become synonymous with the measure of a soul's mass." - selene

Ridiculous but something to ponder about.. if there IS something such as a "soul" How much would it weigh? :p What about bloated ego's, does that mean you could possible be suffering from a FAT soul? - selene

Bought a present for someone special ;) Can't ruin the surprise.. hehe - selene

Ahaa.. caught you! Wonder what it is!! - Mahesh Aravind

" Gazelle's Browser Kernel is an operating system that exclusively manages resource protection and sharing across web site principals. This construction exposes intricate design issues that no previous work has identified, such as legacy protection of cross-origin script source, and cross-principal, cross-process display and events protection. " - selene

"It looks like Microsoft wants to build a browser with the security power of an operating system to better cope with the threats that highly-dynamic webpages bring forth." Read their paper on it http://research.microsoft.com/pubs... - selene

"Created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod; Globalization & The Information Age. It was even adapted by Sony BMG at an executive meeting they held in Rome this year. " - selene

Grrl, you are being too sweet to me :D Friend don't let friends get diabetes ;p - selene

@Anomit : You were? What's your handle? :) - selene

Oh dad, please say it isn't so..say it isn't so.. I can't take it :'( :p - selene

Don't laugh, show some sympathy by giving the ego's a rest.. - selene

True! Interface is a bit of a turn off for me.. or else I would be crazy about it like I am now about max.. I will give it another try :-) - selene

This is part of an 8 episode documentary by BBC :) You can watch these on youtube, each episode lasts approx 50 mins - selene

Awesome, love TED videos.. !!! - selene

My laptop just had a short bumpy fall on its side, tx to my sudden ninja act :@ Now the slightest movement causes it to shut off! And no, its not anything to do with the heat sink, or critical temperature levels.. I must have broken/disconnected some intricate circuit :( On scouring the web, it would seem solutions ranging from HDD to motherboard replacements might well be on the way.. fuck my clumsiness! - selene

/me gently finishes typing the above.. - selene