Who said Wednesdays cannot be all right?

Happy 28th Birthday, Mr. T!

It's a wish I made out loud already, having in mind drinks and dance!


Having in mind contemplation, if you like..
Or just emptying out your thoughts, if that suits you better.
In one week, you'll be walking away.. and I'm afraid that this is wistfulness indeed. I'm no longer gutted though, so I take it I've progressed.

Back to Awesome: Happy Twenty Ten!

Don't know about you guys, but I haven't been much in a dis-position to blog over the last few days, so this post here is what has emerged as the first opportunity to wish you all the best for the new Decade!
If only things were as cheerful and playful for the entire year the way they've been over the last few days, this would have the potential of turning into the most fan-tastic year in recent times; certainly so much so for this decade ;)

In other news, the 2nd box I had sent has already arrived, safely and in one unopened piece. Yay for that!
And.. randomly enjoying snow, seagulls, and Sunday's parks [including photo walks] continues to be a favourite passtime.
Just as randomly, today's the day to recall Sir Isaac Newton's existence.

P.S. I am slowly growing fascinated with the Yungas Road bike trip idea :)

Happy 40th Birthday, Mr. Torvalds!

Linus Benedict Torvalds [born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland] is a Finnish software engineer best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator.

Initially Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he developed Freax (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for downloading, named Torvalds' directory linux. [...]
About 2% of the Linux kernel as of 2006 was written by Torvalds himself. Since Linux has had thousands of contributors, such a percentage represents a significant personal contribution to the overall amount of code. Torvalds remains the ultimate authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel. [...]
Torvalds owns the "Linux" trademark, and monitors use of it chiefly through the Linux Mark Institute.

Text from the Wiki entry and image fished from here.
If you're curious to know what Mr. Torvalds has to share with the world these days, this is his blog.