Adventures of an High Elf Sorcerer

I hope all the GATEs open up to me :-)

Just had a passing thought - do we all see the same colours? I mean, it could be possible that one person sees green what another sees red. There is no way to tell really, because an individual has been told that "leaves are green" and "sky is blue". He will associate the colour he sees the leaves with 'green'. Is it possible to tell what he really sees? It could very well be the sensation I get when I see red, for instance. No wonder then ... beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder! Doesn't matter really. Beauty is relative. And the beautifull things will even then seem relatively beautifull ... or will they? Again, how do we decide if something is relatively beautyfull without taking into consideration the sense of colour? God, this is a recursive cycle. Frankly, I would rather do factorials if recursion is the way to go!

The IIT techfest was beyond words. The best technology from the country was at display and the lecture series was also amazing. The best part was perhaps the laser show. Then there was the 'Robo-cup' - dog like robots playing football match and then dancing in synch to "Who let the dogs out". There were so many amazing things that it would require a full fledged report to describe them all. Maybe www.techfest.org would be much better. One thing that 'stood' out was a 6 foot tall, six legged walking robot (Natraj). It's manufacturing price is about 13 lakhs ... compared to $2 million of its US couterpart with the same functionality. There was a lecture by RMS (teleconference from Boston). Thankfully, he spoke not on free software, but on current copyright laws and their ill effects. It's sort of sad that the space shuttle had to crash during the event though. Maybe NASA should have thought about an abort after something went wrong during the launch. ...

Well, it's been a while ... I had my foundations of C programming shaken up a bit, and I am still recovering from the shocks. I got the hang of the .bmp file format finally, and I am now seriously hooked on to image processing. I am leaving for the techfest at IIT Mumbai tomorrow. Looking forward to a few days of good, fascinating technology.

Thinking of positive feedback, you should see a white screen if you hold your webcam in front of the computer monitor. Maybe this can be used for something useful. And by the way, damn the bitmap file format ... at least till I can get things right with some images.

Managed to get a net connection here at the CMDA exhibition. Others are breathing down my neck ... so the rest of the stuff later :-)

I'm about to leave for the CMDA exibition to help out at the PLUG stall. I beleive its the least one can do to support a good cause. Its a bit (literally) ironical that the stall is positioned next to the Micro$oft stall. Hopefully we will be successfull in promoting the linux philosophy and the use of the GNU/Linux operating system. Linux - The choice of the GNU generation :-)