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Do you see what I see?

So I just got inspired by a friend of mine, Suneet, who just started blogging and I felt I should start again too. Besides, preparatory leave a.k.a. the mini-vacations have begun and I've got quite some time at hand now.

Anyway, I thought I'll make a mention here about this theory/concept/paradigm I'd thought up quite some time back regarding our perception/sight as humans. It's actually been several years since its inception but then I've finally decided to put it to paper, uhh.. pixels, here. It's not game-breaking but then it's one of those things I keep wondering even now when looking emptily at whatever falls before my eyes.

So in a line, it's this; "Although we may see the same colors and each one recognizes them correctly, we may not really perceive them as the same."

Yes, I'll explain..

What I think is this; when Mr. A looks at a color, say a tree, he'll recognize the color of the leaves as Green. Now Mr. B looks at the same tree and he too will recognize the color as Green. But, they actually perceive those colors differently in their brains. I mean, the same color as Mr. B perceives as Green in his brain would've been called Purple in Mr. A's brain. Get my drift?

I'm not much of a biology pro, but then I believe all the perception lies in the brain. An eye-transplant wouldn't make any difference here. If Mr. B had Mr. A's eyes, he'd still see the leaves as the same Green that he always used to. But I believe if a brain transplant ever happens the same pair of eyes would see the same colors differently now.

I mean, if Mr. B now had Mr. A's brain transplanted to his skull, the colors brought into Mr. B's head by his eyes would now be perceived differently. i.e. The leaves would now look Purple (which was Mr. A's Green) to Mr. B's eyes.

But then, now Mr. B has actually become Mr. A, since he's functioning on Mr. A's brain now and it's always just the brain that decides a person's personality, character and thoughts. And so we're back to where we begun. We haven't really managed to get a particular individual to view the world in ways more than the way their brain perceives colors.

Brain-transplant major fail. :P

But then I'm guessing or predicting rather, that there could soon be (soon being a century or two) ways wherein a person could function on multiple brains. I'm taking this from the way computers work where two processors work in parallel. There could be Dual Core Brains and then with two different brains, maybe we finally could really view the world 'from someone else's eyes'.

And now they want to ban Skype.

The Indian Govt. really acts stupid when it comes to cyber crime issues.

Orkut allowed groups to be made with private discussions which facilitated some anti-social groups and consequently they wanted to ban orkut.

Some jobless guy goes and makes an Anti-Shiv-Sena community for kicks and everyone's behind orkut's ass again!

Next, they go and ban Savita Bhabhi when there are millions of other pressing issues to be dealt with. They'd rather spend their time stopping us from innocently enjoying a naughty comic (by taking the trouble of tracing the respective webhost ip and whatnot), than bolster our security measures in the city which is a way more important issue as of now.

Now they learn about VoIP and how the terrorists used the technology to receive their instructions and they now want to ban Skype!
The effing tards!

A friend of mine made a pun; "Next step: Ban backpacks coz terrorists carried arms in their backpacks."

Here's another dumb****ed idea our Govt. had regarding the censorship of the internet, I remember reading about.
You don't kill your dog when it runs away during a walk. You leash it the next time.

Javascripting!

Well I've managed to get good at Javascript these past months and this is a tiny little Tic-tac-toe game that I wrote purely in JS.

Check it out here: http://keithxm23.110mb.com/tictactoe/tictactoe.html

It's only 2 player. I haven't added single player functionality yet since the computer AI isn't something I wanna spend time on right now.

I've planned to add a scoreboard as well to the right. Hopefully that will come up soon.

Giving Flash a try right now...

Fly away flies!

It's July and it's raining heavily outside!
You're at home since the roads/rails are sleeping with the fishies and you can't go nowhere else.
You get all cozy your couch, munching on some delicious hot onion bhajjiyas and sipping on a mug of tea (well tea is my fav drink!; "Mocha" for you coffee lovers) and reading your favorite novel.
It's so *bzzzzzzzn* bhah!...
It's so calm an *BZZZznnnnn* bhack!!
hmphm..
It's all so calm and seren.. *BZZZZZZZMMTTT* bhwahhh!! DAMN YOU F'ING FLY!!!

Ok, so I've managed to get a decent build-up. Uhm, if I haven't, stay with me anyway, this is useful.
So the damned fly keeps crawling on your feet or hovering on your food, rubbing it's scrawny hands/legs like some evil villain and then when you're just about to squat it, it teasingly flies away while you squat something that shouldn't have been.
So here's the solution,
Repel flies with a bag of water!
LifeHacker feeds to the rescue again. LH explains how this works;

Evidently, houseflies, being highly edible and defenseless, are nervous types, and don't like to sit still when they see something moving nearby, because it could be a predator. The water bag acts a bit like a lens—try it some time—in which the movements of people in the area are reflected. Even if the fly is too far from the action to see it directly, it can see a shifting of light and dark in the water bag, which it interprets as nearby movement, and it will fly away from the bag.

Simple. Nu?
Fly away then mateys...

Hoax Orkut site looks neat!

So I was checking out the updates from some of my friends on Orkut, and I have this one particular guy saying in his status message: "New Orkut Look Beta Version[www.0rkut1.justfree.com]"

Sad how people still fall for sites like these. But then you can't blame most of them.
This particular site as you may have seen is a perfect replica of the Orkut login page.
However, on signing in, a certain Javascript code runs which was blocked by my NoScript addon. What I presume this Javascript does is, it logs the user-id and password to a remote server and then as you may have seen (after entering a 'fake' id/pass) it redirects you to the Google accounts page asking you to verify your password, giving the user a feeling that he/she entered the wrong id.
However, I presume what happens when you do enter a correct id/pass is that it logs you on and the Javascript updates your current status to the above mentioned message.

Anyone with an extra/useless id please do try it out and lemme know. I've gotta go study DBMS now. >_<


EDIT: Just bumped into one more via my Orkut-updates: http://www.orkut1.my3gb.com/ Basically the same hoax-site on another subdomain!

Looks like what I presumed is true. The script changes your status message to increase the size of it's phishing net.

Christmas has come early! Very verrry early! ^_^

And I love early Christmases! ^____^
So dad sent down some stuff along with some chocs today and here's what Santadad got me...

An Acer AL1717 17" TFT Flat Screen Monitor !
Complete with 5ms Max Response Time, 160degrees Viewing Angle, Wall Mountable, 1024x768 Native Resolution and 16.7 Million Colors among other specs. (Damn I make things sound good! XD)
I'll unpack it only later though. Currently having problems with my desktop. Will post a pic of the pixelated beauty once I'm done setting it up! :)


Next, 16GB Ipod Toch!
I won't be opening it now though. That would be due only around the 2nd or 3rd week of June; after my 4th semester exams. :/
I can't risk another distraction with IPL, UCL, EPL and Dreamweaver around!
And no, I won't bother showing off the tech specs this time, just check em out here.


And finally, my favouritest of em all; MY ARSENAL SCARF!
I simply love it! ^_^ I've already hung it up on the curtain-rod in my room and I can't stop looking at it, dreaming of myself holding it high singing "Arsenal!" at the Emirates and watching Cesc and the rest do their magic!

I'm just so so very happy! ^_^