Freed.in is rescheduled this year in Feb, earlier it used to take place in September. Though the month of Feb is short, but it is full of freedom, with many open source events scheduled in this month. I missed the Open Source India Week but will surely attend freed.in. This year it will be more better, as i find more interesting talks and workshops in freed.in '08. So catch you at freed.
With almost every one entering the juicy IT sector, it seems that there will be a flow of pink slips. But what is this pink slip? It simply dictates that you are fired. Think what would be the situation, with a pink slip in your hand and tensions roaring in your mind. The thing that pushed me to hit keys on my keyboard, is that IT giants like TCS and IBM showing doors to their employees. IBM lays off 700 and TCS kisses 500 figure, more to fall in list are DELL and Yahoo. Yahoo plans to shed 1000. The cited reason for this is, employees failing to meet the standards of the company and also are fired for disciplinary reasons. It is a big thing, it is not easier to survive in this booming industry, and it could be that I or you standing with a pink slip in hand and thinking what to do, it's better to think now than to think when it's late. Next week i have sessional tests in my college, and i find everyone (even me) fed up with these sessionals which come after a month or so, but what will happen when each and every day will be an examination day for us. This is a big question for people like me, that how will we get so disciplined and serious? Hope everyone answers it well.
It happens mostly in my leisure time, that i just open picasa, nowadays it's GIMP, with groovy tracks on xmms setting the mood, and i just go editing and refining pictures and my photos, i call it my hobby. I just enjoy doing it, sometimes i just go on editing the photos and increasing bytes of the image, and end in finding the right extensions to save them. Today i just logged in to my orkut account and thought that my profile photo needs to be changed, browsed to the folder "trip to bhopal" on my desk, found one snap of mine in goggles, but it wasn't good enough to be there on the profile page, not even in my "public" album, GIMP was the way to get it done, just 10 min. of hue level variations, additional effects and a bit of intelligent scissors gave me satisfaction. Oh thats need to be uploaded..... Crop it... update profile .
This is one of my favorite songs, actually the first & main reason is the lyrics, and second is Akon - The Best Rapper, really well sung. Actually i was just looking this video on youtube, and was shocked by seeing the number of views of this video, it was mammoth 10,364,055, oh i realized that it is really one of Akon's best. As the embed code of this video was not available there, so i simply added the same video by some other user.
Lyrics :
As life goes on I'm starting to learn more and more about responsibility I realize everything I do is affecting the people around me So I want to take this time out and apologize for things I have done And things that have not occurred yet And the things they don't want to take responsibility for
I'm sorry for the times I left you home I was on the road and you were alone I'm sorry for the times that I had to go I'm sorry for the fact that I did not know That you were sitting home just wishing we Could go back to when it was just you and me I'm sorry for the times I would neglect I'm sorry for the times I disrespect
I'm sorry for the wrong things that I've done I'm sorry I'm not always there for my son I'm sorry for the fact that I am not aware That you can't sleep at night when I am not there Because I am in the streets like everyday Sorry for the things that I did not say Like how you are the best thing in my world And how I am so proud to call you my girl
I understand that there are some problems And I am not too blind to know All the pain you kept inside you Even though you might not show If I can apologize for being wrong Then it's just a shame on me I'll be the reason for your pain and you can put the blame on me You can put the blame on me *4Times Said you can put the blame on me *3Times You can put the blame on me
Sorry for the things that he put you through And all the times you didn't know what to do Sorry that you had to go and sell those packs Just trying to stay busy till you heard from Dad And you would rather be home with all your kids As one big family with love and bliss And even though Pops treated us like kings
He got a second wife and you didn't agree He got up and left you there all alone I'm sorry that you had to do it on your own I'm sorry that I went and added to your grief I'm sorry that your son was once a thief I'm sorry that I grew up way too fast I wish I would've listened and not be so bad I'm sorry your life turned out this way I'm sorry the Feds came and took me away
I'm sorry that it took so long to see They were dead wrong trying to put it on me I'm sorry that it took so long to speak But I was on tour with Gwen Stefani I'm sorry for the hand that she was dealt For the embarrassment that she felt Just a little young girl trying to have fun Her daddy should never let her out that young I'm sorry for Club Zen getting shut down I hope they manage better next time around How was I to know she was underage Enter 21 you know the club they say Why doesn't anybody wanna take blame For rising back out disgracing my name I'm just a singer trying to entertain Because I love my fans I'll take that blame Even though the blame's on u *3Times I'll take that blame from u And you can put that blame on me*2Times You can put that blame on me And you can put that blame on me
