Thought for the day..

'When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.'

- The American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

Essentially - Whenever something goes wrong, those with the ability to do something, have the responsibility to go ahead and do something.

[Courtesy: National Treasure!]

~ Ankur.

Interesting..

Interestingly, and amusingly, the first link I get on putting my name on google and searching these days is my IIT Bombay alumni profile! I have such a smiley photograph up there :) - http://www.alumni.iitb.ac.in/details.asp?scn=28305

This page doesn't seem to get a mention in the search, even though I have put my name in the meta tags of the template. I wonder how can one make a page climb up the google search rankings :?

~ Ankur.

So it begins..

Location: Near Crossword, Hiranandani, Bombay
Date: May 4, 2004
Time: Late night

This is my first image post, in life. I had resolved to never post anything not clicked by myself, yet making this one allowance. Though this one was clicked by Taxi using his digicam, I like the output a lot - it seems more like an old scanned photograph.

Anyways, even though a digicam is still in my wish list, it is much closer to my hands now. And I hope to click many, and keep them safe here. By Feb-end, I plan to open up an online album, and obviously put up a link to it here.

By the way, the real reason for the shift in blogs is my new expected digicam. I wanted a much more customizable environment, and a white background, and LJ didn't allow that. And once I was at blogger, thought I might as well start afresh :)

~ Ankur

New, new! Extra shine, extra white!

A new year, a new blog!

At this rate, soon I'll have to maintain a long blogroll for my own blogs :D Good in a sense, I can then choose where to post according to the subject. Or maybe according to the place. That'll be great! And maybe we can have a function for every mood. Like if I am happy I can post at the happy blog, and if I add a few years to that, if I am sad, and at home, I can post at the sad blog, which is dark blue in colour, and not violet, because I am not that sad, and not at workplace, and further down the years, not red because I am not hungry, and not in a movie which has Angelina Jolie in it and I am not wearing sneakers. And then when we are out of colurs, we can do it by a combination of fonts! Wow, a blog in wingdings would be interesting! And then I'll maintain blogrolls of my blogrolls. This is getting even more exciting!

But what the hell are all the programmers doing? What is dumb Google doing? Taking over a primitive Blogger. Don't they understand my simple needs? I need programmers to work for this. And everyone says future, advances, technology! Where are they today? They say blogs are in top 10 things in 2004. Where are the blogs? I need blogs, more and more of them, and what are these geeks doing? Sleeping in their dumb holes! What's the matter with these guys? What's the matter with the world?! Don't they understand what the world needs?

I think noone will ever understand what the world truly needs. Nothing's going right around here. And they don't give me enough blogs too. I revolt!

Welcome aboard.

~ Ankur.