Windows Live Writer (Beta) -- Simple and Very Useful

So today I was in a very Microsoft mood. I visited the website and went to the Live Beta section and found an application that I am very happy with.

Windows Live Writer (Beta) has made my blogging easier by simply allowing me Word functionality and then the simple push of a button to get the post onto the web.

If you like blogging and if you like to save your drafts on a machine to work offline then this is a great application to have and it even takes the style from the blog site and puts it in the drafts as well.

Wicked cool. You have done well once again Billy.

Link - http://get.live.com/betas/writer_betas

Rating - 9/10 (Simply because it lets you write whatever whenever and just post it when you are ready)

Music - Carried Underwood - In your heaven

Statement of the Day

So yesterday night we were sitting down having dinner and just talking when my roommate's brother decides to say something that must be considered in the hall of shame of things that people say when they are certainly not thinking.

 

"Being intellegent is not a bad thing"

 

I leave it to the masses to dissect this one and bring me back some comments. Considering the patronage I get to my page I am expecting a null result but I shall pass this one around work and the forums to see what comes up.

 

Name Change consideration --- Techno-Ronin
Music - Disappear - Dina D'Allesandro

Weekend Learning and the N-Queen Problem

So i'll admit, I am very very rusty when it comes to programming after being out for it for so many years but the information i garnered this weekend has actually got me interested in it once again. I learnt a bit about registers and their uses. A little more reading on Wikipedia and I am slowly getting back my interest for programming. Now the question is what do i do with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32-bit_x86_assembly_programming

Death - The Final Goal

Some people say that it takes a death in the family to sometimes bring the family together. Others say that death is the one true constant we have in our lives. The question then begs that if we know its coming around then why are we still fighting for cures and saving lives? If we all know that we are going to eventually turn into physical matter that constitutes the planet why have a science that develops medication/saves lives?

I have long thought about this topic and can only come up with one answer ... Selfishness. An article I posted some time back ... No Good Deed ... properly explains that no good deed truly has a complete selflessness associated with it. At some point in time we get attached to the people that we live with, family and friends. I think it is pure selfishness that wants us to keep them alive and see the species propagate into the future. For if we were all truly comfortable with death then we would not be finding ways to cheat it. We all know its coming and we all certainly know we cannot live forever, yet we read about people in the newspapers who get medals and awards for finding the cure to diseases we have struggled with for many generations.

We never hear good things about the people that have come to terms with the Grim Reaper and have actually accepted their fate and are dying. These are the people who truly deserve the medals and awards because they know its coming and they are not fighting something that is as innate in our physical being as giving birth or socializing. It is for this very reason that I feel people who pray for the dying, who take the challenge to cheat death and who feel that the world would be a better place through medicine truly take the cake as worldly unaware and cheating the people they are helping out of the one thing they need ... reality.

Sure I might be a bit angry and misguided while I write this article but who are they to judge me on what I think when we all know that what we think is not our own, it is a product of everything around us.

UEFA Champions League/Heroes Season 1

Season 1 for Heroes comes to an end and Liverpool meets AC Milan for a Champions League final in the same week. Its going to be good is all I can say. Not much to write today other than the usual run of the mill and my final commitment to say Fine ... Fuck You to people I choose to irrespective of how they feel or what situation they are in.

In the end, you can trust no one but yourself. However, you should never fall short of the person you can be to help other people because if you have a gift it is your responsibility to use it.

Music - The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Phrase - You will never Walk Alone

Heroes - The One I Feel The Most Inclined To Be

In the past few months I have been watching this show diligently and haven't missed a show ... yet. With the season finale coming up next week I feel that now is the time to write a blog about which character I feel I can truly relate to.

Character List
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Mr. Linderman - The Healer
Peter Petrelli - The Empath
Nathan Petrelli - The Flying Man
Claire Bennet - Indestructible
Hiro Nakamura - Time Traveller
Sylar (Yes hes an anti-hero) - The Genetic Absorber
DL - Walks through walls
Nikki/Jessica Sanders - Dual Peronality with Amazing Strength
Mica Sanders - Able to Control any machine
Parkman - The Telepath
Ted Sprague - Radioactive Man
Molly Walker - The locator

The character I best relate to is Peter. He's the guy that did all that he could when it was time and still ended up getting fucked in the end. The girl he was interested in dies. The patient he cared for the most died. His brother is worried about saving a world that is on a crash course for destruction. He has a gift that is truly one of the best powers but his ability to see his potential is shadowed by his fear of failure. His family feels that hes taken the wrong path. He finds Claire to be his sister and finds comfort is pushing her to use her abilities for good. I sometimes wonder how you cannot like this character for all the fucked up shit thats happened and his view on the world going from cheerful to sheer analytical. I cannot wait for the season finale to see what happens when Peter and Sylar finally square off and whether or not Boom becomes a reality.

Women and the missing link

Every time I seem to want to write something about women my age I am reminded of the amount of time spent on the books that I have been trying to write for a long long time now. The protagonist is a true lover of the opposite sex but just doesn't seem to hit the right note and --spoiler but who cares-- either ends up killing all his love interests or loses them because he is not interested in anything but sheer revenge and motivation for a higher cause.

In some ways I feel that I fall into the same thinking, considering I am writing the stupid books lol. I always seem to feel that a relationship that takes too much effort is like trying to move objects with your mind when you really can't. It's a more fruitful venture to consider yourself human and move on with the options given to you because of your unique placement in the mad world we live in.

Women in general aren't really bad and in some cases are the sole reason some of us find the time to put smiles on our truly depressed faces. Alas, with all the good must also come the bad considering the fact that nothing good really exists without something bad to balance it out. I think a sabbatical is in order and to do that I need to break/burn some bridges that I really do not want to. Unfortunately the end result is going to be beneficial for me and if I really and truly put my mind back into things that actually make me happy I will be a better and more wiser person for doing so.

On with the show ...

Music while writing this blog -- Xpress - Lazy (Radio Edit)
Favorite Word of the Moment -- Boom
Expected death count for the day -- too large to count
Realization for the day -- Cows don't fly, shit does.

AMD Phenom

Interesting article I came across today from the AMD Pressroom

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~117412,00.html

Super Heroes In Our Lifetime

I feel that today is going to be a long day considering that my back is really killing me but then again I guess I am to blame for sleeping in a position that makes most gymnasts look like amateurs lol. On a more brighter note, things are looking up and I have started talks to move into a job role that I think would better suit my mental frame at IBM. If all works out well then the blog will become more active as I will have more time to type and actually cover things that I have been dying to cover for a long long time.

Todays title is something that I have been passionate about since my childhood, comics. I remember spending hours upon hours reading away while my parents told me to sleep or eat or take a bath (thank god i listened sometimes lol). Most people take comics as a creative gateway for artists/writers/inkers to show the world their talent. I think that with the amount of evolution we have seen in graphic novels (what they are called these days) this statement no longer holds true. As a clarification I would like to say that when I talk about comics I am not talking about Tin Tin or Asterix or those lame-ass Archies that have filled people's bookshelves for the longest time possible. I am talking about real writing .. Batman Year One/Marvel Knight's Peter Parker/Fantastic Four EX/Etc. These writers have grown up with the readers who adore them and are now at a stage where its not just heroes beating villains or getting the girl at the end of the day. Moreover, they deal with real-life issues, Peter Parker not being able to support Mary Jane and her modeling conquest or Bruce Wayne having flashes about the way in which he has dealt with his parents loss and his choice to become the Dark Knight.

It really hurts fans and people like me when movies like Spiderman 3 come out and totally ruin the image that these artists have worked so long to create and display. Directors like Sam/Ang/Brian etc have got so much material to work with that having great script writers becomes a no-brainer, yet they go and gear these movies for the pimple popping generation we have now. I do not see how making these movies in pure 60s fashion is going to garner new fans and show them the evolution of these heroes and I don't see the point in bubble-gumming the entire situation.

I can only hope that Ang does a good job when IH2 comes out because hes got a great casting call in Eric Bana and Jennifer which should not be wasted. Bruce is a complicated character and should be treated as such. I don't really care if the movie ends with a big bang or we see spectacular SFX. I just want to see heroes being heroes and not the childhood style crap we are seeing from these mediocre directors.

Music listened to during the write of this blog - Velvet Revolver - Money
Phrase for the day - Your going to die anyways why not enjoy yourself and fuck the rest of the world for thinking they are going to live forever
Melroy Coelho Firmware Version - 1.0+

Air No More

Sometimes I think that iGoogle really is great. I have been using it for two days now and already I am reading up on stuff that I normally would never find if I was just reading around. Todays reading was no less from sheer brilliant. When I was younger we lived opposite the Michelin showroom and this is an invention that will surely go places with the right amount of funding and perhaps innovation from car manufacturers as well.

Read on

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/tweel-airless-tire.htm

Music this blog was written with - Simply Red - Stars
Word of the moment - Kohomadha

Melroy Coelho v1.0 Personal Firmware Upgrade May 7th 2007

So people, it eventually had to happen and the time has finally come. Yesterday in the afternoon I reset my personal firmware back to v1.0. For a lot of people this is going to come as a shock but for people that have known me prior to 1999 all faith is now restored in the jungle that is called my post high school years.

Things to look forward to with v1.0
-----------------------------------
1 - I do not take bullshit anymore and become vocal on it at get-go
2 - I really don't give a shit to second degree work and will let you know where you belong
3 - You know that understanding person that you thought you knew. Guess what I killed him.
4 - Cows and stray Cats get the same treatment - A kick although I prefer death.
5 - Take a stab at my lack of regional language understanding and I WILL put you in your place
6 - Weekends are finally ME time and your plans may or not fall into them
7 - I will help anyone provided they seriously want to be helped and are not just attention starved
8 - I finally want to put Football ahead of alot of things in my life and get back into it
9 - No more half-wit jokes about situations anymore

There is a lot more to come with this regression but I felt it finally was time. I am tired of being run ragged by the amount of time I spend thinking and wasting on useless ventures. A trip to Nandi Hills and I saw the light in the dark of night. I am going to apologize to all the people over the 8 yrs who have gotten used to a specific kind of response from me based on situation and my critic-style of humor. I also want to apologize to people that I have helped in the past because at some point I got so badly jipped that I had to put my foot down and tell the truth and from now on there will be no more sugar-coating.

I would like to thank Bangalore, lack of sleep, sheer human idiocy and my need for self-improvement for bringing me back to where I truly needed to be. BACK TO BASICS.

Reading this disclaimer I suppose puts a spin on a lot of people that I have met over the years but for the ones that I know and they already know are truly in the right boat there will be no difference between us. For all the rest, god help us both.

Phrase of the moment -- Everything that has a beginning has an end.
Song used to make this decision -- Cry - Faith Hill

No Good Deed Goes Recognized

Someone once said that love was unconditional and all i have to say to that is yeah right. Yesterday night I had an amazing revelation as I smoked a Davidoff cigarette and drank a glass of wine. I started thinking about why people do things in the name of love and it suddenly dawned on me that people do things in the name of love to appease themselves as the end result of doing something for someone else no matter how good they may feel about it ultimately gives only one person satisfaction, the person that performed the act.

More to come ..

Anfield Madness - Chelsea Are Just Not Good Enough

Its one thing to be called the champions of England (It means truly nothing) but to finally be called the champions of Europe is something that has evaded Jose Mourinho for a total of three seasons. Last night Anfield was on fire as Liverpool FC stormed into yet another final of the European Championship (former name for the UEFA Champions League). I have no words to describe my pure excitement and relief at the fact that we are once again where we were two seasons back and with the threat of AC Milan or Man Utd. on the horizon. But as fan of the KOP i can only say one thing ... You'll Never Walk Alone ....

And to all the supposed football and Chelsea FC fans ... go back to stitching or needle work you ignorant c$nts.

Blog written and inspired by Ryan Cabrera - On The Way Down

Big Showdown In Anfield Tonight

When the lights finally go down on the Liverpool season for '06 - '07 for their Champions League I would like to think of the finals and the repeat showdown with AC Milan that we had two years ago. When people that simply watch the sport tell you that it's all over in the first half with two goals down to one of, if not the biggest, footballing clubs in Serie A, you cannot help but feel the necessity to challenge common reasoning and logic and let the silly SOBs know that in this sport nothing is over till Injury Time puts a low blow on the proceedings. I feel and know that we can still pull off yet another amazing season by thumping Chelsea at Anfield. Tonight's betting proceedings will go to my choice of charity should we win. If we lose, I will personally take the money along with a picture and donate it to R.I's ongoing oil fund for Chelsea FC... NOT

COME ON LIVERPOOL ....

Scouser for Life
Melroy Coelho (Resident Happiness Injector IBM IGA Europe and MEA)

Song this blog was written along with - Football's Coming Home - '98 Edition - Baddel and Skinner