Many years ago when lounging in the corridors of the hostel where many of us boys became men, some persisted in staying boyish and others might actually have become women if they managed to lay their hands on the money for the surgery, a friend of mine asked me to solve a particularly noxious crossword clue. It was on the lines of not fiddling with water sources - Leave well alone. Of course it doesn't sound half as cool as it felt when I solved it but we aren't here to discuss whether or not I'm cool. On my usual aside there's a difference between thinking you're cool and being cool.
The point is leaving things to their natural state of progress, egress or entropy is not something we as a race have ever managed to do. My life and work to a large extent is founded on some intrepid man who decided that maybe cutting someone up could save his life. As opposed to poking clay dolls of his mortal enemies, or poking him with enemas as the case and civilization in question maybe. This troublesome meddling thankfully is not restricted to surgery, or to just what mother nature made. It extends everywhere. It would turn out that no self-respecting intelligent being can sit and watch a creation (of any body's - God, Nature, Other beings) and not meddle with it. To see how it works, to improve it and occasionally to just take it apart and see what's inside. Category III includes 5-8 year olds and pathologists.
Why is this relevant? It doesn't need to be but it is. Permit me to meander some more. I'm on a long exam-going leash that allows for random ruminations that may or may not be... relevant. But like I mentioned surgery aside, man's need to mess around with other men's creations has in a very broad way benefited us all. Sony, Open-Source Programming are just tips of the iceberg. How does one get that sentence right? Sony and open-source are on the same tip, so to speak of the iceberg, but most icebergs (including the famous one) don't just have one tip. English apparently is a very phunny language.
The missing Navbar (for those of you who're here for the first time, you'll never know) and the cool drop down menus are the result of people refusing to sit around and let someone else's code take over their lives. Their urge to prod, tweak and hack, ethically of course, established templates is what keeps us from settling into what would have just been another web page.
Not that this blog would win awards for best design, it's the spirit that makes a difference.
Hell it's made me want to learn html, javascript, css and now gml.
The new links acknowledge this. Thanks for the code snippets.
In less intense stuff, more new music - Snow Patrol. It shall be reviewed sometime. And Haiku.
