November 23, 2006
And the reason is you .....!!
Million times......i heard the song - "the reason" from Hoobastank TODAY for the first time! Lyrics goes as...
"I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know
I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you........"
The word hoobastank is somehow raveled to me for today at least, so curiosity made me to search about this word. Here is what i found (randomly)- {Hoobastank, at the time it was formed, spelled as Hoobustank (pronounced the same way as "Hoobastank"). In an interview with Launch Yahoo!, Doug Robb (the band vocalist) said the name had no particular meaning: "You're going to ask me what it means. It doesn't mean anything. And it's really cool, it's one of those old high school inside-joke words that didn't really mean anything."}
Apart from this, i just tuned to this song in my vlc player this morning after reading the newspaper and when the song started playing for the first time the initial guitar chords reminded me of something and i went some 6 months back when i was trying to catch-up the chords of this song, unknowingly the song comes from band Hoobastank. Even i was untouched with the lyrics of "the reason". Now i feel like ..... why i left learning those chords man ..!! why ..!! How sweet the song is ... !! I never minded playing & learning guitar, but now semester pressures are loading up more and more... so i had to leave it. And nostalgia never ends to blast my mind..... and i always feel like bellyached to myself....! People use to demarcate the things coming in their life usually which depends upon the situation. Inevitably the same thing made me to get secluded from playing and learning guitar and i started keeping myself amused. And the song closely relates my pathetic situation, if someone don't consider the visual part of the song. And i can never forgive myself for this abysmal as well as wistful act........ Because the reason is you and the reason is unraveled now !!
November 16, 2006
Internal crush matters....???
Another insane logic boggling up in my mind at this time, like i was just dreaming about it last night. I couldn't resist myself to share this logic with people. So the point is, "CAT is knocking on the door, 3 more days to go, 2 and half hour fight with some 100 ques" .... not for me this year, but for lot of my friends who are either in 3 year course or senior to me. Again i couldn't stop myself to make wishes to all of them. Incidently i start to talk myself, a monologue starts in my mind, things just came up like 0's and 1's .... all binary formats. So interpretation was not that easy and my machine level interpreter stopped working. Finally i came to know that i was doing nothing at all and was in zero. I don't know why it happens and why with me only. May be, i don't know whether the same goes true with others too or not. Why sometimes i feel happy and jolly and why the sadness comes next second to make me look in zero ??? Is this going to turn around something in my life ???... no worries, but why not??? I have a great desire to see myself in one of the top institutions of
Anyway, now it's time to feel good as my elder brother (Bhaiya) has finally got in a company having nationwide reputation, the wages, package and facilities are the best he ever got. He seems to be happy with this job now. I'm a bit happy too with this news. But, Guwahati is some 18-22 hrs train-journey from
November 15, 2006
A new glass glue opens the path to optical computing
==> Scientists at Intel and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have managed to combine an indium-phosphide light emitter and a silicon chip to produce a hybrid laser that, years from now, could lead to cheap terabit-per-second connections within and around computers.
It has been a difficult quest. Silicon is not a natural for producing and manipulating light. Nevertheless, Intel and Luxtera each have been able to produce silicon versions of optoelectronic components, such as waveguides and the modulators that encode data onto the laser. Intel even produced a silicon laser chip, but impractically—it had to be powered by light from a separate laser [see “The Silicon Solution,” IEEE Spectrum, October 2005]. Now the researchers have been able to overcome that problem by binding a light emitter made from indium phosphide to a silicon laser cavity. The key was in making a kind of “glass glue,” a thin layer of oxidized material, on both the indium-phosphide light emitter and the silicon laser, and then bonding them together [see illustration, “Stacked Up”]. Applying a voltage to the indium-phosphide device produces light that passes through the glass into the silicon. Intel still has some kinks to work out of its new laser. For one, the laser peters out if the temperature rises above 40 °C. Commercial chips typically must work at up to 80 °C. “We have a pretty good idea of what the limitation is. We have a new test chip in design and hope to move [the working] temperature up above 70,” says Mario Paniccia, director of Intel’s photonics technology lab. His group is also looking to reduce the amount of current needed to get the laser shining. Right now, it takes 65 milliamps, but Paniccia hopes to get the device operating on less than 20 mA.
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