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England Provisional 30 man squad for the WC Finals

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Goalkeepers: Joe Hart (Manchester City), David James (Portsmouth), Robert Green (West Ham).

Defenders: Leighton Baines (Everton), Jamie Carragher (Liverpool), Ashley Cole (Chelsea), Michael Dawson (Tottenham), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United), Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Ledley King (Tottenham), John Terry (Chelsea), Matthew Upson (West Ham), Stephen Warnock (Aston Villa).

Midfielders: Gareth Barry (Manchester City), Michael Carrick (Manchester United), Joe Cole (Chelsea), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Tom Huddlestone (Tottenham), Adam Johnson (Manchester City), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Aaron Lennon (Tottenham), James Milner (Aston Villa), Scott Parker (West Ham), Theo Walcott (Arsenal), Shaun Wright-Phillips (Manchester City).

Forwards: Darren Bent (Sunderland), Peter Crouch (Tottenham), Jermain Defoe (Tottenham), Emile Heskey (Aston Villa), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United).

EPL 09-10 Winners

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Well.. what can I say?

Chelsea winners of 09-10 EPL Season

Chelsea!

The dirty, murky, world inside the Apple

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Steve Jobs has been in limelight recently, for his letter against Adobe. As if that wasn't enough for his 'My Company', 'My Money' like stand, He was again found locking horns against FSF (Europe) guys. This time in response to their Open Letter for his views on Apple's adoption of H.264.

Physics

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Its so pleasing to read (yet again), go back from the Basics to the thrilling phenomena that can be explained so beautifully in this branch of science, Physics.

I don't have to learn the equations or bear the load of the oncoming exams. But just simply enjoy... Physics.

I'm reading the book Physics: Classical and Modern by Keller and Gettys

gEdit interesting plugins, scripts

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I was browsing and found some interesting scripts, tools for working with gEdit, the default text editor for GNOME.

Chrome total memory usage in Fedora

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To find out Google Chrome's total (quite heavy) memory usage in Fedora u can use this command on the terminal

ps axv | grep chrome | awk '{sum+=$9} END {print sum}'

It basically sums up memory usage (in percent), filters and adds using awk to display final result as something like this 11.8

Subversion, Mercurial ... ?

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The master from joelonsoftware.com, Mr. Joel Spolsky has written an absolute cream on SVN and Mercurial.

Hg Init: Mercurial Tutorial

I always wondered why new versioning systems come up, like Mercurial. Joel has really helped my damaged brain to de-toxify everything and have a cleaner approach.

Here is a quote from it

Almost every Subversion team I’ve spoken to has told me some variation on the very same story. This story is so common I should just name it “Subversion Story #1.” The story is this: at some point, they tried to branch their code, usually so that the shipping version which they gave their customers can be branched off separately from the version that the developers are playing with. And every team has told me that when they tried this, it worked fine, until they had to merge, and then it was a nightmare. What should have been a five minute process ended up with six programmers around a single computer working for two weeks trying to manually reapply every single bug fix from the stable build back into the development build.

KDE 4.4

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Just yesterday had an update on Fedora 11 for KDE 4.4. I expected from KDE 4.x legacy that the overall product would be a bit tacky. But opposed to my original thoughts it turned out to be an extremely well polished 'Desktop'.

The settings were very easy to navigate, with lots of Compiz settings available easily without a lot of 'extra' installations as in GNOME. The overall stability of the desktop too was strong. I'm considering to run KDE 4.4 for atleast a week as suggested by one of my sysadmin friends.

This edition reminds me of the good old stable days of KDE 3.x

the road, the walk and the run

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The other day I was walking on the Carter Rd, Bandra, having already done more than 2-3km. The lovely carter road (in all aspects :P) was even more interesting.

It was then that I suddenly had this urge, some kind of hidden energy suddenly began to effervesce. I felt an uncontrollable need to put myself into a run instead of walk, and before I knew the brain had ordered the legs to go overdrive!

Has anybody felt such a thing ?!?

Irony of Social Networking

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Its such an irony today, guys/girls around me are more busy in updating their status and adding friends on online Social Networks than actually meeting those friends and saying 'hello' or a 'bear hug' gesture in person!

Gmail started with another of the Online Social Networking stuff called Buzz! which would help people to stay in touch through their Gmail interface.

Aren't there many websites who do it already, Facebook, Orkut, u name it. According to Wikipedia there are about 178 notable and popular such sites! ,List of social networking websites

I have accounts in 3-4 most popular of those Websites. What compels me to write this is a statement of a very good friend of mine who said

Unlike u I'd go to great lengths to meet friends

Thanks for reminding, I'm sorry. And that is not sarcastic.

PS: Such a paradox, this post of mine would be an update in Google Buzz or somewhere else!