One day things will be different.
One day the world will change.
On that day it won’t matter who was right or wrong.
On that day it won’t matter what you did or who you are.
On that day there will be chaos and everything will finally be set right.
The universe is pissed. Prepare yourself.
I just made some changes to the blog’s theme because I was fed-up of the background.
If anyone reads this blog, could you please give me some feedback?
Keep the music fresh.
That’s all I am saying.
But what happened to that depressed and suicidal person living down the street?
What happened to him/her?
Why are their stories lost??
So start
Living This Day As If It’s Your Last
No seriously. This blog is just AMAZING. Tegan is on a whole different level when it comes to blogging. Not to mention life. It’s no wonder that I am addicted to this blog 
Recently, I read something on one of the blogs I follow that had something to do with the lost art of letter writing and how that person started to write a letter to a person who he misses.
Now, I whole heartedly agree that not many people take the time to write hand written letters to one another due to the email revolution which is one of the only downsides to everything and even though I am a tech guy, this saddens me. Even writing proper letters to another person via email is not the same. It lacks a certain something that only hand written letters can deliver. Due to most people being thousands of miles apart nowadays, I don’t think this is going to get any better, it’s only going to get worse.
So what can we do? Nothing much really. Maybe write more letters to people you care about? That’s one thing. But in the end, I am clueless. Sure, I still take the time to write to people in the once lost method of letter writing to friends but even then it’s via email so it loses some of it’s power.
The only upside to this is the amount of poetry now available to everyone. It’s really amazing that there are some people out there who are so in tune with their emotions to manifest them in others through words but again, since it’s not handwritten, it probably loses some of it’s power. Probably.
I really don’t think this is something that is going to get better as time progresses but hopefully it will not be something that is lost forever.
A little over a month ago, I posted here saying that I would develop a pyGTK client for twitter. A few days ago, I got a few questions regarding it and I though I would post here about it.
I have not abandoned Tweety. It is in a somewhat stable state and in fact it’s almost done. The only problem I am having with it is that it tends to freeze when doing anything oauth related. I believe this is a problem with the oauth module I am using. I have tried other modules but it seems that all of them forked from one module so no luck :-\ And I do not have the time to sit and understand oauth and design a module for it. ANd even if I did, I have no doubt it would end up like the rest.
Since I said I would develop Tweety in Python using GTK, I will stick by that but you will have to deal with the freezing and shit. So far only a few functions are ready and others will take time (since I have college) so I will try to launch Tweety as soon as I can.
Also suggestions or anything is welcome. If you want to beta test Tweety before I launch it then comment here and I’ll give you a shout out when it’s time.
Edit: I have been experimenting with C again and I discovered that the threading abilities it has are much better than in Python so I will also develop a C version of Tweety. Once its launched, I will decide which version to continue developing (which I feel will be C). I really love Python but sometimes, C just kicks it’s ass.
Edit 2: Tweety will not be released to the public for several reasons, the biggest one of which is the changes made to the twitter ecosystem guidelines. If you are still interested, I will be more than happy to provide you with a working copy of the current code.
So I just removed usplash from my jaunty installation and installed splashy. The problem was that when I rebooted, splashy did not start and the verbose showed this error:
Splashy ERROR: Connection refused
So after searching the web for fixes and nearly cracking my head, I found the problem.
When splashy is installed, it adds itself to the boot parameters of the kernel but it forgets to add the video mode. So after installing splashy, the kernel boot line looks like this:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=d3cef047-ce4f-434e-8091-9236d5785f61 ro quiet splash
All you have to do to get splashy to work is add vga=792
So after edititing /boot/grub/menu.lst, the kernel boot line should look like this:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=d3cef047-ce4f-434e-8091-9236d5785f61 ro quiet splash vga=792
Save the file and reboot and splashy starts as is should.
Note: You need root privileges to edit the boot menu.