Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

While browsing through various torrents I happened to come across a torrent called Hollywood Rose Demo by Guns N Roses. I was thoroughly intrigued as I am a hard core GNR fan and decided to download the stuff. After all it was just 11MB so even if it turns out to be fake it wouldnt hurt...much. So I downloaded the torrent and it was an EP. EP is usually a miniature of album having 3 to 5 songs and is limited edition with about 500 copies pressed. This one had 3 songs in it and I click started winamp to play Shadow of Love.I was greeted by a cool Rhythm Guitar riff and I thought "Cool! Even if its fake I could live with this." Then came a barrage of vocals unmistakebly Axl Rose's, though pretty fast for a GnR song to clear all doubts. The next two songs (My Way Your Way, Reckless Life) were also pretty fast but they too had a typical GnR touch to them. What I really found was that my boy Izzy Stradlin's rhythm Guitar was much more prominent than in later GnR songs and...

At last! An IM from Google! I have been anticipating such a step from Google for a long time now. The IM is called Google Talk! and is very inituitive little piece of software. Very light weight at just 900K when compared to 10's of MB taken by others. But it has to be said the feature wise the product is simply spartan. No emoticons :(( or even offline messages or conferences!!! Thats too bad. We simply have a blast in Yahoo with the conference and lot of emoticons are throwb around. Well, the software us beta so we can hope for more feature addition soon enough. Google needs no course on innovation! The voice chat is present though and seems to be much better than Yahoo in terms of quality. Me and Rajeev tried it. Unfortunately my mic was not working, but I could hear him clearly and he was using a dial-up connection. Here is screenshot of a chat between me and Panackal. I think the software can do with a lot of a lot of additions before I embrace it fully. ciao

Hi I just finished reading Harry Potter Series back to back in the last week. Some record breaking speed reading. Also, the amazing fact is that I read them all on my computer. (No Rowling, You dont need my money!) I am contemplating a biased review! Wait for it! Also some music reviews as well. May be Megadeth or Deep Purple or Jethro Tull. And for the record Iam doing absolutely miserable in my AIMCAT series. Got some good rank in the 2nd one(completely unexpected I may add.360!) and then it has been downhill. Has to pull up my socks now! Its my one chance! Finally, my seminar is looming around the corner may be next week after the series tests. ciao

Bad Naru!!! More Surveys to slow this page! But I can't resist showing off! Promise! The last Set! (Until new things come) Your Dominant Thinking Style: Visioning You are very insightful and tend to make decisions based on your insights. You focus on how things should be - even if you haven't worked out the details. An idealist, thinking of the future helps you guide your path. You tend to give others long-term direction and momentum. Your Secondary Thinking Style: Modifying Super logical and rational, you consider every fact available to you. You don't make rash decisions and are rarely moved by emotion. You prefer what's known and proven - to the new and untested. You tend to ground those around you and add stability. What's Your Thinking Style? Life is all about balance. Darkness can't be without light, and light can't be without darkness. You see everything through different angeles to gain perspective over situations. You act rather rational and people ...

Some surveys about myself! June, Thinks far with vision. Easily influenced by kindness. Polite andsoft-spoken. Having lots of ideas. Sensitive. Active mind. Hesitating, tends to delay. Choosy and always wants the best. Temperamental. Funny and humorous. Loves to joke. Good debating skills. Talkative. Daydreamer. Friendly. Knows how to make friends. Abiding. Able to show character. Easilyhurt. Prone to getting colds. Loves to dress up. Easily bored. Fussy. Seldom shows emotions. Takes time to recover when hurt. Brand conscious. Executive. Stubborn. What does your birth month reveal about you? (read memo) brought to you by Quizilla Your soul has Cute Wings You are very fun to be around, but can sometimes be a klutz(>. and whats not, and you always seem to be in the in croud. But that doesn't make you a bad friend, and in the end, you're a very good person. Your wings give off a cutie type of personality which makes people, want to be somewhat like you. But you seem to change j...

Hi thought I would post my blogging persona here. I am going to add some links to some other good blogs I have been reading. Your Blogging Type is Artistic and Passionate You see your blog as the ultimate personal expression - and work hard to make it great. One moment you may be working on a new dramatic design for your blog... And the next, you're passionately writing about your pet causes. Your blog is very important - and you're careful about who you share it with. What's Your Blogging Personality?

Today was a day of inspirations(?). Our 'beloved' Prinicipal Dr.Ashalatha Thampuran had called a meeting of organising commitee of Illuminati-05. She gave a really inspiring talk about responsibility and stuff like that. Since it was targeted more towards the juniors we were just fooling around like idiots. Anyways the talk was so inspiring that I couldnt get my lunch box from the class. Had a lunch with Nitin. Two meals for the price of one!(hihihi!) The good stuff had just started. Passed for the Artificial Intelligence paper! Really astonishing after the kinda stuff that our sir had to say about our class. Then the downside came: no Counterstrike for Illuminati. Prabi said no chance that its going to play well on our network. He said he wanted Age of Empires :(. Then the wonderful news came: Nitin has landed a job in iGate. He has been a very good friend of mine for a while now and I am extremely happy for him. Anusha also got selected, kudos to her too. Then I saw a good in...

Recently a dog has come to our place. A mongrel. A white, fairly emaciated creature. Not very clean I have to add. I am afraid of dogs and have been since I was a child. So I avoided it at all costs. On the contrary my Father is quite fond of dogs and had been deterred by my mother not to get one since she hated dogs. Back to our story. Once, I went out in the night to a shop nearby. When I came back I found the dog inside and me outside. I screamed for my mother and my parents came out. The dog couldnt go out. (I closed the gates) and it waited by the gate wagging its tail. I climbed the wall thinking I could walk along the wall and jump down safely. The dog started to climb from the other side. I was dead stuck. I was wearing a lungi and nothing underneath. Now I know how the American Pie guy felt in the movie. To cut a long and boring story short, my parents took charge and shielded me safely inside. Then on the dog was a terror for me. I couldnt peacefully exit and enter my house. ...

I just finished hearing the greatest hits compilation by Alice in Chains. Its a good one. A fresh musical experience. I heard about this band ever since I started digging up info about Nirvana. For those who don't know Alice in Chains was a grunge rock band formed in 1987, but gained a lot of prominence in the 90's in the wake of Grunge Revolution. following is from Wikipedia The group signed with Columbia Records in 1989 and released a demo album Sweet Alice , then in July of 1990 they issued the We Die Young EP. The title track became a moderate hit on metal-oriented radio, setting the stage for the release of the group's first full LP later that year, Facelift . The album spawned an unexpected hit with the crunchy and infectious "Man in the Box", the video for which went into regular rotation on MTV . Supported by a tour that saw the band opening for Van Halen and Iggy Pop , "Facelift" would go on to achieve gold status by the close of the year. ...