Epping forest cycling

Wandering aimlessly through the airport shops I found this little book winking at me, still had some 6 hours for the check-in process to start for my flight and sure this book interested me as a companion, it was like buy at first sight syndrome that caught, even thou I hesitated a bit and was thinking 5 times before I finally bought this, its a book on how to communicate effectively/How to talk to anyone. The tips are pretty interesting, and here is a gist from a chapter that talked about communication with people close to you, your close friends or loved ones et al..

Communicating is hard especially with someone you’re close to (or want to be close to) because it means opening up, letting them know how you feel, letting them know what you really care about, letting them see you cry. It makes you vulnerable: maybe they’ll think less of you; maybe they’ll use it to hurt you or manipulate you.
But once you get close enough to a person, then its much better to spit it out rather than keep things into oneself, this kind of suppressing the thoughts or feelings increases the pressure inside you and makes you more nervous.
How on earth would you expect the other person to know what and why you are feeling the way you feel, nobody is a mind reader, its just that we can find to an extent that something is not all right, the rest is with each other to come to common grounds and settle the matter, be it anything, if you say you cant share certain things, then you are not in true love, for true love needs trust and if you have enough trust then there is nothing called a barrier between the minds involved.

Now that’s pretty …..

It was a photo process Sunday after the Saturday visit to the wetlands and it ended up a short Python learning session. As I started processing one of the Lapwing captures that I felt was somewhat a keeper after a heavy cropping and then imported it into Corel Paint shop pro, yes its not photoshop, its very expensive so settled for the PSP last year , I had a small script to do the picture border and framing, but came across another script that prints some EXIF details too on the picture frame, and it all started here, instead of processing I started into Python coding and trying to get the Exif script integrated into my script and finally got it done ending up with a splitting headache due to 8am to 5pm staring at the monitor and i did realize 400mm is not enough and i need more reach.

This is about cycling to work… and to other places too that are cyclable

This time last year, a wonderful sunny Saturday and my friend standing on my home front door with glowing eyes, he said lets go to Decathlon and buy a bicycle, i had that idea in one small corner of my mind, but this time with his immediate and almost certain call, i was all ready in 10 minutes on my way to buy the bicycle, and from then on its no looking back and am on my bike whenever possible and I try to avoid the tube as much.

After an year I have started to look at the benefits of it, am now more reasonably fit with less time at the Gym, cycling to work and back home gives me an hour of quality exercise every day.

The ride is as usual a bit dangerous, occasionally infuriating, a bit vigorous at times, exciting most of the times and above all its the fun factor in it, the key part is in its ability to clear the mind of any issues and gets it ready for another day in the office and the ride back home again clears off any work related issues and am back home fresh, and to top it all, its a sense of pleasure to see fellow riders around.

In all am enjoying the benefits of the Pedal power.

Finding someone who shares your dreams on subjects that matter most to you……. looks harder than a NASA mission

Perfect blue skies, happens once a while in London.. , but whenever its there, its always streaked criss cross with smoke trails of the big metal birds flying high above, the night skies are full of comet like lights that move around.

It was a total different scene yesterday and today, woke up to find a clear blue sky with no lines, no sound of the big birds, but the small ones seem to be louder than usual…

Sorry folks to those who had planned their holidays and got their plans crushed.

For all wondering what’s all this about, due to the Icelandic volcanic eruption, there are no airspace activity in and around UK, one of the worlds most busiest airport (Heathrow) is free of planes.

Read more here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8623806.stm

Anybody who’d been following my blog posts for as little a time might easily assess my liking for Win7 , so here is another post on it.

The search functionality on Win7 has been changed a lot, if you are used to the old XP style search, then you are in for a bit of shock and surprise, the old XP style search box still exists, but there are no more filter options to select from, rather you will find the search functionality wide spread across the entire OS, now its more part of it rather than a separate window for it, you can find the search everywhere from the start menu to the control panel to the folder views.

So how do you now search with filters like modified date, doc type, content type et al…… here is how to do it with the powerful Advanced Query Syntax.

Follow the links to learn more.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/mastering-windows-search-using-advanced-query-syntax.ars

Advanced Query Syntax (MSDN)

The universe is an equation, when everything that’s existing can be devised to a mathematical equation, then why not this then?, so here is a funny one I saw today and cant resist posting it, but, when I spent a moment thinking of it, I felt how true it is.

The variable go from 0-1, so the variable “looks” is a multiplier in Guys case, hence.. 0 x anything = 0, so now you know why girls spend hours to get that variable up

Rating

The latest Intel CPUs seem to the hot topic these days and cause a bit of confusion too, those are the i3, i5 and i7, so here is a quick write up on the differences and a scrum pad for me for future lookup. Collected most of the info from the forums, Intel and the fabulous google.

Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 are the latest offerings currently on the market, and recently the Gulftown Hex core were made available for a hefty price tag for which I could assemble a top end PC.

One of the main differences with these new offerings compared to the older duo or Quads is that these have the memory controllers embedded in the processors instead of the one on the northbridge on the motherboard, this provides an increase in performance and speed as there is a reduction in the communication time between the processor and the controller on the motherboard.

CORE i3
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Clarkdale – i3 530, 540:

These are the least expensive and least powerful of the lot, they have 2 physical cores and supports Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology.
They have 2 physical silicon dies in the CPU, one for the cores and L1,2,3 caches and the other for the GPU if there is no seperate video card (normally like in a H55/57 type board), also this die has the PCIe controller and the integrated memory controller, these 2 dies are linked by a Quick Path Interface (QPI)

**All i3 CPUs work only in LGA1156 motherboard.

Core i5
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Clarkdale – i5 650, 660, 661, 670:
Identical to above, but also include the Intel® Turbo Boost Technology.

Lynnfield – i5 750:
These are Quad cores and similar to low end Core i7s, they don’t have
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology.
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (Intel® VT-d)
Intel® Trusted Execution Technology

**All i5 CPUs work only in LGA1156 motherboard.

Core i7
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Lynnfield – i7 860, 870:
These are the low end versions of the i7 core, Quads for the LGA1156 motherboards, the main difference is that there are no 2 separate dies, the PCIe and memory controller are on the same die, so doesn’t require a QPI link.

Bloomfield – i7 920, 940, 960, 965, 975:
The mid level Nahelam Quads are for the LGA1366 motherboards, here again there is a QPI link between the PCIe controller and CPU, but the PCIe is on the motherboard chipset and not on the CPU die.

All i7s have Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology and Intel® Turbo Boost Technology.

Gulftown – i7 980:
Similar to Bloomfields, but have six cores and go on the LGA1366 motherboards.

LGA1156 and LGA1366:
Based on the above processor selection and the motherboard, you might want to choose the correct RAM, 1156 motherboards work only with DDR2 RAM and 1366 boards work with the DDR3 RAM and the corresponding CPU has either a Dual Channel or a Triple Channel memory controller built in.