Month: October 2009

গতকাল মেহদী হাসান এর সাথে মোলাকাত হল. পন্ডিত দের বৈঠক এ ডিজিটাল এর চেয়ে মেডিকেল বিষয়ক কথাই বেশি হযেছে.

Today I was bathing with pants on. To my horror, I discovered the phone was in my pocket. I took it out and it refused to turn on. I placed it against the laptop vent, against the heat. Then it came alive. I told my phone – So you live to die another day.

Dr. Medhi Hasan, the developer of the hugely popular software Avro, has come to tour in India. He is also an old friend of mine, as Niponwave has been a loyal supporter of his Omicronlab and I have been attached with Omirconlab in more than one way. Interestingly, Mehdi Hasan is a medical guy! He has completed his MBBS only recently. It is going to be great to meet this geek-doc friend for the first time! Glad that Siliguri falls on his itinerary. He is staying at Hotel Central Plaza in Siluguri.

For the unitiated, Avro allows you to type Bengali on Windows platform – be it on any webpage or any application like MS Word, etc. Very recently, Omicronlab has come up with a Linux version of Avro that I mentioned here earlier, making it truly a cross-platform Bangla writing solution. 

Avro is used in lakhs and lakhs of computers. The current version 4.5.1 has been downloaded more than 1,25,000 times from download.com, 37,ooo from Niponwave and many more times from Omicronlab server. There is also a portable edition of Avro. It has been used by the Bangladesh election commission in their National ID Card project. See link

I ordered some books on flipkart last night.

1. The latest novel from Chetan Bhagat – 2 States: The Story of My Marriage – which is a story of love blooming in 2 young hearts from 2 different states and their struggle to get married. Once again it is priced at Rs. 95, but I got it at a heavily discounted (32%) price of Rs. 65!
2. Anuja Chauhan’s Zoya Factor – this was in my to-read list after a friend mentioned it esp. the use of ‘Indian English’ in the book.
3. Milton’s Paradise Lost – this one I wanted to read since a long time back but never really ended up doing so.

All of these for Rs. 384!

Sex is the celebration of highest human values from Ayn Rand’s philosophical viewpoint. Sex should be seen in the light of broader ethical and psychological theories introduced by Rand in Atlas Shrugged. It is not a mere animal instinct. It is not an act of depravity. People who have no purpose in life finds sex meaningless. Sex is a phsyical response to intellectual and spiritual values, a real concrete expression that could otherwise be felt only in the abstract.