OpenCerti Logos
nirav January 18th, 2006
Which one do you like? Here are some logos that Ashok Suthar created for OpenCerti. Voting starts now!
Archive for January, 2006
Lorem Ipsum
nirav January 17th, 2006
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Sorrow !!
Magnet January 17th, 2006
Sorrow
All he heard was a click on the other side and it took him a moment to fully comprehend what came and hit him. He could hardly move his jaws as tears moistened his cheeks. It was too late and his life had shattered in front of his own eyes.
It was a bright sunny afternoon with clear skies. He had never felt so happy before. He got what he always wanted. As he turned around and looked into her eyes his heart skipped a beat. He knew he could never love anyone as much as he loved her. The more he looked into her eyes the more mysterious they became. It was an enigma that he couldn’t fully comprehend. He was sure it was love and he had never felt any better before. He held her hand tight in his hands and vowed never to let go of her. That was perhaps the only promise that he had intended to keep. He whispered in her ears and sent a chill down her spine. Her skin broke into sweat as she wrapped her arms around him. He lifted her head and kissed her passionately as she melted in his arms. They made love on the cool beach with sea waves breaking at their feet.
She didn’t even look at him as they drove to the airport together. He held her hand to comfort her but couldn’t stop the stream of tears flowing down her cheeks. They did not utter a single word for the full one-hour, which took them to reach the airport. All she did was cry. He had never felt that sad before.
For couple of years they kept in touch through letters. They knew deep down in their hearts that someday they would be together forever. Then one day he got a call from her.
Her words still resonating in his ears as he tried to come in terms with his life’s biggest tragedy. “ I think we will have to say goodbye for good” is what she told him. It took him a second to do it. Tears mixed with blood soaked his quivering body. Her picture kept flashing through his mind as he came crashing down on the kitchen floor.
When they found him his eyes were wide open and his body curled in an awkward manner. He wore a sad look on his face. Nobody knew for how long he had been dead but all they could say was that they had never seen a horrid picture like this before.
Mark Shuttleworth visiting India
nirav January 17th, 2006
Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu is on the Asia Business Tour, and will be in Mumbai this weekend. (21st and 22nd January). He is going to speak during the GNU/Linux Users meet on Sunday and people are all excited about the event.
I was not paying close attention to the thread on the mailing list, until I saw BG’s post giving a strong piece of advice 
I knew Mark is the founder of Canonical and Ubuntu. Ubuntu changed the whole Linux distribution model and lot of people have switched to Ubuntu - including us. For me, Ubuntu was a friendly Debian and it rocked! So I went ahead to read more about him.
And boy, was I surprised! This guy founded Thawte! We have been using Thawte certificates for a while and I never knew Mark was the founder, sitting in South Africa! Mark, true to his surname, has also been an astronaut. He runs a venture capital firm, and has a lot of other community interests. I am thrilled!
I am sure it’s going to be inspirational to meet him!
Value Yourself:
Magnet January 16th, 2006
A Well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $500/-
note. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this 500 note?”.
Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this note to one
of you but first let me do this”. He proceeded to crumple the note
up. He then asked, “Who still wants it?”. Still the hands were up in
the air.
“Well,” he replied, “What if I do this?”. And he dropped it on the
ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He
picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty. “Now who still wants it?”
Still the hands went into the air. “My friends, you have all learned
a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still
wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $
500/-.
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into
the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our
way. We feel as though we are worthless.
But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never
lose your value. You are special Don’t ever forget it! Never let
yesterday’s disappointments overshadow tomorrow’s dreams.