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Converted my Windows XP into a Mac Leopard =)

 

I just converted my Windows XP into a Mac OS x Leopard. Click here for a preview (Don’t right click and open in a new tab/window). What I did may not be the easiest way but if you want a quick make over, just follow the links. You can transform a Windows Vista too.

Me, A Wannabe.

Photo: Me with a temporary tattoo.

Me // I’ve been through a lot in my life. It’s not always been easy not knowing where you’re going to go or if things are going to work out. Over the years I’ve been hit with so many things it’s left me with scars all over the place. Not just the kind you can see though, but the kind you can’t see. I’ve been through a lot it goes without saying. Over the years I’ve made many mistakes. I’m about as flawed as I can be. I’m also wiser than I am old. —- But I still make mistakes and live in my mistakes.

Atheist blogger // ”I don’t think I’m strong enough”, will then soon become – “You’re not strong enough.” “I don’t think this is right,” becomes – “That is wrong.” When people are against you, for whatever reason they have chosen to be so – anything they can expose as “flaw”, anything they could even possibly try to use as a weapon against you – trying, all the time, every minute of each hour of every day, to wear you down to the breaking point – because, everyone has one.

Atheist’s Grave.

Death, it has always the most captivate, dark, unknown and sometimes scariest part of the lifeprocess – for those who believe in an afterlife and for those who don’t alike.

I’ve never wanted to be buried in a church cemetery with a cross over my head. Reminds me of the joke “All dressed up and no place to go“. A cross that I never had much respect for. Its not exactly the cross that I don’t have respect for. Its the people who used it that is the reason for my lack of respect for an ancient symbol that survived centuries of history.

When does a person become dead? Is it when the heart stops beating? Is it when the last pulse rushes through the brain? Is it when the eyes die? When does death of a person become scientific and not emotional? Is it when the last person they knew die? or is it when last person that knew them dies?

How to Change the World

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Act of Random Kindness.

A small note on how to change the world. Now don’t think that I just saw Bruce Almighty and wanted to put it out on my blog. I have seen the movie many times but it is not the reason for this blog entry. This entry goes out to all my Theist and Atheist readers, as well as all those stuck in between.

A few days ago, I was thinking about the word “Activist”. I want to make alot of changes in the world that we live in, or more like, the world a group of us live in. Atheists.

Recipe For Perdition.

Atheism.

Religion is like breakfast. Its the most important meal of the day and without it, nothing goes the way you want. It gives you the energy to keep moving, to keep trying in your day’s work even if its not easy.

I like wine with my meals and quite often, I drink more than I should. My bottle of wine represents a lot of things. Its the draught that relieves me of my stress, It was my savior’s blood, and then, its a part of the recipe for perdition.

To betray your own blood is a sin. Then what of betraying god’s blood? When I used to go to church, I promised to Jesus that I will always stand for what he stood for, as a thanks for the things he has done for me. I used to have my meal only after grace. Then I find myself walking another path, one in which I’m no longer keeping my promise. One that I chose over my promises. I drink to the fact that I’m no longer governed by the Bible. What happened to me?

WebSite Update ’08: Change Log.

The website’s front page and other subpages (excluding the blog) which runs on a separate extension of wordpress has been updated. Here is a list of changes.

Change-log:

• Upgraded to WordPress 2.7. - 21/12/08
• My new theme “Lets paint” replaced “Green Bike”. – 21/12/08
• A nice little widget to pull my status from Facebook was added. - 21/12/08
• My portfolio was added. - 23/12/08
• Installed Lightbox2 effect on images. – 23/12/08
• A mini RSS feed from this blog is being burned on the front page. – 24/12/08
• More illustrations to make it look more friendly =] – 24/12/08

Known Glitches:

• The Navigation bar does not load properly in any versions of Internet Explorer. (Its not exactly a glitch, its the way IE handles CSS class tags that causes this. All the more reason for you to get yourself Safari or Firefox!)

Apart from IE, its a perfect upgrade. Its a totally different approach to web-designing for me. I tried to use Primary & Secondary colors as much as I could. Just a handful of changes, but it took me five days and endless hours in Photoshop & Dreamweaver. Getting the feed in was the tricky part, Had to learn how wordpress handles PHP & RSS to get the plugin working & to customize it for my site. This way, if you are checking up on me, you get all the info on the front page itself. The portfolio has alot more things to be added. Will do that once I get time.

Let me know what you think!

Logical Heaven

-An Atheist’s thoughts on heaven, a logical one.

(Started writing this story when I was in Bahrain. Finishing it in Bangalore, an year later.)

The church was a warm comfort compared to the cold outside, and my footsteps created a solid echo that was hampered only by the low murmur of conversation and the dull explosion of fireworks. I followed a pretty little girl inside as she looked for a good spot to sit in as I looked around the beige walls and hard brown pews. She sat near the aisle and knelt in prayer before I even found a place to sit or had a chance to take my jacket off. I looked over her with pondering eyes; her head bent for the wooden cross that hung on the opposite wall. I had looked up into his sorrowful, understanding eyes and gave a nod of respect before sitting down.

This was a new experience for me. I had been to The Sacred Heart church in Manama many times before, usually consisting of a rabble of children trying to covertly talk during the sermon while fending off the biting cold. The last time I had been in church was when I was alone looking for the old writings on the walls of the mother church that I wrote when I attended bible classes in this church. The more I learned the bible, the more I walked down the path of being an Atheist. This was different though. This was a friendly place. I don’t believe in the Heaven described in any religious textbooks, but I’m just trying to think through a Logical Theists’ (Don’t laugh! they do exist, I think) perspective. A Logical theist is a person who don’t reject Logic and Scientific proofs of creation, but still believe in the fundamental concepts of Theology.

The loud tolling of the bell in the distance echoes throughout the hallow walls of the gigantic church. The large double doors swing open, light pouring into the dimly lit place. I walked out into the bight light with alot of thoughts in my mind. The effect of the place was spectacular. My thoughts were silenced, as if everything was answered. For a moment, it felt like heaven.

Notice: Forum deletion today.

It ain’t like a notice or anything, but its cool to say it anyway. You wouldn’t even know if I pulled the plug on the forum without tellin yall anyway. The forum, it never really worked out except for the first few days. In order to keep things in balance,.. You know, something new replacing something old, I’ve added My Portfolio on a couple things I’ve done on the internet. Isn’t it ironic? thats exactly why I needed the forum. To discuss stuff I do. Was thinkin about releasing wordpress themes & plugins for free download back then. Thought I could have the whole support thing going on.. you know. But they got better artists and coders doin that stuff anyway so I think I’ll pass on that. I ain’t enabling comments on this post. So yall check out the Portfolio on the main site (still to add a couple more things) and lemme know what you think. Peace out.

To be stuck on an Island with a hacker.

I want be stuck on an island with a hacker and a cable line. (Er, not with a typewriter like in the picture)

I’m a web-designer and writer. I code in CSS, HTML, Java and PHP. I create graphics. You know, the pretty stuff. They say you can create art with hacking, how beautiful information management can be. Now, how the hell do I jump into network security?

The problem is not that you are incapable of understanding anything. Its just that you are being denied access to information by the code itself. Most hackers will not hack for you simply because they get too many requests from alot of people or because they are wearing a hat. They follow their ethics when they are on the topic (most of them). I met alot of people online once I started looking up things like brute-forcing, dictionary-attacks, sniffing, port-scanning, social engineering and all the other terms that you find related to hacking. They won’t tell you how its done step by step. They just point directions. The thing is, it never ends. I might find something which leads another – that to another…

Almost every other hacker in the world will tell you to