When I found the music video to one of my favorite songs on Youtube, I couldn’t resist posting the vid, here. The song is Nothing to fear by the inimitable Chris Rea, and the video looks to be about a bedouin tribe and also an arab village-town and is a stylized, idyllic take of the life there.

As an aside, have a look at the screenshot below, of the google result. Google, post its acquisition of YouTube finally seems to be listing results from the videos there directly in the search results, that’s how I found the video in the first place!

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Alive
“I want to feel passion,
 I want to feel pain.
 I want to weep at the
sound of your name.
Come make me laugh,
come make me cry…
just make
me feel alive.”

Sometimes, the good old riddles are amazing tests of logic.

A girl is stuck in a labyrinth, and after many hours of wandering through it, comes upon two majestic doors, with large, round  iron door-knockers with ancient symbols on them. A wooden sign placed in the middle of both of them, states thus:

Behold!

Two doors stand before you,
One door must speak the truth,
One door only utters lies.
One of them leads to certain death,
The other, to sanctuary and beyond.

Knock on each door, and you may ask it a single question.
Listen well, lest it’s answer be your last.

Choose wisely.

How does the girl get out of the labyrinth?

From a little light of love
I was born and in my cry, my cry
Was a little light of love
For the honouring of life
And the Pharos of my soul
Is this light of love
Precious little light of love

As a candle burning on
In the breezy shades of night
I keep up my faith and underset my hope
To call on a realm of light

A treasure
Your shimmer
In the middle of a shady desert
Brings on a field of light
In a light of love
Fairy light of love

-Eric Serra, The Fifth Element.

On this happy occassion of Diwali, I thought I’d remind all you kind folks out there to keep a light on in your heart and minds for all those who are without.

Have a happy, safe and light filled Diwali.

I’m a self acknowledged quote freak, and when I found this nice web application / website dedicated to quotes, I just couldn’t resist myself.

ThinkExist.com is a well written web application with a huge collection of quotes. What’s really nice about it though is the way it let’s you do stuff with the quotes once you create an account and login. You can maintain “books” of quotes to which you can add quotes that you find interesting. The adding of quotes to a book is simple and quick because the whole thing works on Javascript based background updates, much like what one experiences on Gmail.

I’m a self acknowledged quote freak, and when I found this nice web application / website dedicated to quotes, I just couldn’t resist myself.

ThinkExist.com is a well written web application with a huge collection of quotes. What’s really nice about it though is the way it let’s you do stuff with the quotes once you create an account and login. You can maintain “books” of quotes to which you can add quotes that you find interesting. The adding of quotes to a book is simple and quick because the whole thing works on Javascript based background updates, much like what one experiences on Gmail.

As a bonus, you can have a box on your own website which will display their currently selected daily quote. Alternatively, you can have them show random quotes from any “book” which you have. The process to add the quotes to your site is pretty simplistic, they let you customise the display to suit your site’s styling exactly (again, much like Google’s adsense program) and then you just copy and paste the generated code where you want it to display on your site.

I’ve been looking at these kind of applications that give you small frames or boxes like this to add to your website for quite some time and just couldn’t resist putting it up on dhigu.com. Check it out, it’s on the right bar, at the bottom, every page refresh (or navigation) you do should show you a new quote from some that I’ve liked and selected.

Since I’m not using Amieo yet, I had to do a major battle with my existing blog/site system to get it to work, but finally managed to get it working by editing (and tweaking) my site’s skin, directly in code. Not for the faint of heart, trust me.

Most definitely recommended. Make sure to check out the Albert Einstein section.

Posted while listening to Linkin’ Park - With You

Found this lovely T-Shirt at ThinkGeek. I think it would make a great gift. Now, if only I can find some one to give it to! + You can buy it from this link.