Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Billboards Crashing

Yesterday was a windy day. Karachi is a non-scenic city with a dense cloud of billboards all around, each pointing in a different direction held high by trunks of various thicknesses and strengths. A particular road where the traffic is pretty rough is blessed with more than its fair share of billboards. One of these was huge with a picture of a lady lying on a matress.
Obviously larger the area of a board, the more impact the wind would have on it, and since there is no way the air can go AROUND the board, it tries to go through. So the board flew straight on the road as would be expected, crumpling two cars and a motorcycle. God knows what happened to the rest of the traffic as cars screeched to a halt banging into each other like bumper cars.
Uncountable casualties by a small oversight. The road was a wreck and remained closed for hours until the authorities returned with a crane and cleaned the area up.

I would advise that if a few small holes were drilled at strategic locations in the billboard the wind may pass easily through and such accidents would not occur. On high wind days it would probably only rip the board appart (so the holes must be reinforced) but probably wont be fatal.

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Answering machine message at a Mental Hospital

No offences intended for anyone.
"Hello, and welcome to the mental health hotline......"
If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly.
If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.
If you have multiple personalities, press 3, 4, 5, and 6.
If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want. Stayon the line so we can trace your call.
If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferredto the mother ship.
If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a small voice willtell you which number to press.
If you are a manic-depressive, it doesn't matter which number youpress, no one will answer.
If you are dyslexic, press 9696969696969696.
If you have a nervous disorder, please fidget with the pound keyuntil a representative comes on the line.
If you have amnesia, press 8 and state your name, address,telephone number, date of birth, social security number, and yourmother's maiden name.
If you have post-traumatic stress disorder, s-l-o-w-l-y & c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y press 0 0 0.
If you have bipolar disorder, please leave a message after thebeep or before the beep or after the beep. Please wait for thebeep.
If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss,press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.
If you have low self-esteem, please hang up. All operators aretoo busy to talk to you.
If you are menopausal, hang up, turn on the fan, lay down & cry.You won't be crazy forever.
If you are blonde don't press any buttons, you'll just mess itup.

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Downloading Games and Apps on Motorola C975

Can you believe it? Here's something useful on this blog!!!
This is for Motorola cell phone users out there...I used this on a C975, I'm not sure about other
models but I'm pretty sure its almost about the same.

Here's what you need:

Motorola_MIDway_v2.8
JADMaker (or maybe JADGen)

Other useful software include Motorola's PST which are used to update/flash and do other mods to the phone. I've heard pkman is also a useful software but to d/l games I guess Midway and JADMaker will suffice.

Here's what to do:
(Instructions from Midway)
Dont connect the cable yet.
1). Power up the Phone.
2). In the phone select Menu->Settings->Java Settings->Java App Loader.
3). It shows a Dialog on the screen "Insert Cable Now"
4). Insert USB Cable.
5). The phone should display "Jal Link is active."
6). Run MIDway
7). In MIDway, select menu item File->Settings... and change COM Port (The COM Port should be set to the same as the Motorola USB modem is set in Device Manager)
8). From File Menu on MIDway select "Open JAD..." 9). Select appropriate JAD file from your computer.
9). Click on "Send JAD" icon.Some information from JAD File will be displayed on the Phone Screen. If Right Soft Key reads "More" select it. It should then display "DOWNLD". Select "DOWNLD". This will start downloading the JAR file from computer to phone. Upon download successful, it starts installing the application. When installed successfully, the phone displays
"Run ?" with YES & NO as soft keys.

If you are planning to download more games, select "NO" otherwise follow steps 8-9 again.
All downloaded applications are listed under "Games & Apps"

JADMaker is used to make .jad files from .jar files. The .jad file contains information about the jar file and is just needed by Midway anyways.

Cant find the above apps? Dunno why they're hidden pretty deep somewhere. Try these links before they become dead.
Midway: http://www.grapnel.co.uk/v620/files/Motorola_MIDway_v2.8.zip
JADMaker: http://www.grapnel.co.uk/v620/files/JADMaker.zip
Motorola PST: http://www.aparys.dsl.pipex.com/PST_6.7_GENERAL.zip
Motorola PST Patch: http://www.aparys.dsl.pipex.com/PST_6.7_Patch.zip
PK2Manager: http://anton.tbg.ru/files/p2kman.zip

And yeah...you can get some games from here:
http://download.getjar.com/downloads/
http://t610wap.com/
http://www.motopage-downloads.uk.tt/

Ofcourse there are millions of more games out there...so happy gaming ;)
Finally I'm going back to doing Level 10 of Caveman ;)

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

What next?

Here comes some more useless stuff...I guess I'm just overwhelmed by this stuff...Sooner (or atleast later) I'll come around and then start being myself over here
Another reason why there isnt much on this blog is since there isnt much happening around in my life right now...thats why I started this blog! Sounds Paradoxical,huh?
Well...the reason why there isnt much going around in my life isnt becuase I'm a bore person or that I'm just lazing around...I am at a really critical stage in my life but there isnt much I can do even now...except for waiting...and thats what I'm doing...and thats what I'll do...until this vast amount of wasted time takes its toll on me and then I go paranoid...

However you can see that I'm pretty good at churning lines over nothing huh? Infact I become completely mindless when it comes to writing about something...
Talk about creativity and then forced spoon-fedded ideas...

Monday, February 06, 2006

Second Blog...

Here I start my new facade...this is my front...nobody knows who is really behind these words...
Living already in a hypothetical world, the internet adds another layer and thus we are burried further from the fabrics of reality...maybe someday I'll come across my own blog and wonder who the author was...I'm not sure right now who to be...I could write this blog as myself or I could be someone else...someone I always wanted to be...Millions of people use the internet as an outlet...just to become what they can never be...

Well...either way blogging proves to be way cool.

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Here we go!

This is it! My first ever post on my first ever blog!

Officially I'm a blogger and now an important person on the web! I publish content (only junk till now)...yeah!

So...its kinda cool writing in the dark on my laptop with other websites popping up all the time to distract me...Listening to Blue Chip by Corduroy...Staring at my laptop trying to get inspired

So in due time...people out there will know who I am...and then hopefully someone will tell me too!