Not always you hit the dirt and get to breeze past cold mountain wind
Not everytime a tired body is nourished by soothing calm water
Not always a tired soul is cheered by nature

But with a comparatively cold January end of 2010, and with the roaring bikes over the silky smooth roads; The above always tends to be true.

Bhandardara

Jan 30, 2010
The wait is over, I could barely sleep with all the excitement of filling my Unicorn to the brim for the day's ride to Bhandardara. Rajo too couldn't keep with the excitement, he was already @ Khar station while I was having my bath. I took off with my now 'heavy' bike with Rajo to Mulund Check naka where I was to meet Danny (Dinesh) and another of his friend.

Danny was late, he was treading through Aarey colony while we were already closing in on Godrej Soaps near Vikhroli. I decided to use the extra time to start off with my Canon PowerShot S3IS. A few snaps of the bike, the riders and the Vikhroli sun rising over the Vikhroli mangroves and we were moving. At the checknaka a few minutes of wait and another biker on a new Red Pulsar 180 came in.

तुम लोग दिनेश के लिए रुके हो क्या?

Read this post today, http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2010/02/dude-where-is-my-link.html. And I was amazed to find that on mysql.com it was so hard to download the community version of MySQL Server.

On the home page, could see links for

• Enterprise Products
• Resources
• Consulting
• Training
• News and Events

Couldn't find a link for Community Server Download or something similar, I've been working with MySQL for over 5 yrs, I know that the downloads and most of the useful stuff for open source devs like me is on http://dev.mysql.com. The Developer Zone hosts the following for us

• Community Server Downloads
• Documentation (which keeps changing its links)
• Articles
• Forums
• Beginner articles
• MySQL forge
• ... and much more

I'm really surprised and ashamed of this MySQL's or Ora@#$'s move to hide such a widely used link.

I've done my part in adding rel='nofollow' attribute to http://mysql.com

Facebook has been working a lot, Cassandra, Scribe, u name it. The new kid from Facebook is Hiphop PHP which is an automated system that converts PHP to C++

HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it.

Read More here: HipHop

Firefox 3.6 is now officially available. It now features some of this

• Gecko 1.9.2
• CSS: Gradients
• CSS: Multiple Backgrounds
• WOFF font support
• Poster frame support in HTML5 video
• In built Personas support

Find more information

Just in case its difficult to pick up the chords
D, Em, G and A

great Performance by the way! :)

My favourite Javascript library, jQuery has a new version, jQuery 1.4.

It features some of these

• Even better performance compared to v. 1.3.x
• Serialization like PHP, same param serialized like foo[]=bar1&foo[]=bar2
• Easy Setter Functions
• The performance of .css() and .attr() has been improved
• All Events Can Be Live Events

If you guys are addicted to typing using Google's transliterate tool and felt that you would've loved to have a desktop based tool, look no further, Google has got its IME. Google IME features a range of languages from Hindi, Marathi, Bengali to Arabic, Urdu, Nepali. It works with Windows' input method / language bar.

Click here for Google IME

Here is another blogpost about my Harishchandragad trek via nali chi vaat. I've kept a different idea of writing this blog post, its more of the thoughts zooming out as I jot down the trek. This writeup moves in and out of present and past tense.

This post is somewhere between the normal blog and far away 140 chars tweet.

Fri, January 8, 2010

* Karjat train for kalyan, sandwiches Mallik brought
* reached Kalyan about 9.00pm
* bus for Nagar , dropped us at Khubi phata instead of Savarne as both the conductor and the aspirants dozed off!
* took 2 trucks back to savarne, my truck driver advised to stay near the police chowki and be aware of the villagers at savarne
* almost 12.30 when we reached @ savarne, Mallik, Rajo and Vj followed after 10 mins
* decide to sleep near the police chowki, in our sleeping bags, till the alarm rang at 4.45

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Everytime Manchester United have a good defender, in-form defender, It happens that Real Madrid wants it. Rumours are going about Nemanjia Vidic, It happened with Gabriel Heinze, finally he left Madrid. Madrid didn't allow him to settle peacefully.

Reminds me of a quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Madrid copies or steals, while ManU develops someone else.