Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Der Vagabond


“I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. 

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.” 

― James Kavanaugh, There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Rain

I saw the ocean bleed into the sky,
the sons of Poseidon rising up high.

They form brigades, bond up with allies,
as their armies get ready to fling ,

On their conquest the world relies,
they march forth to drench the yonder hill !

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

So that your threads do not tangle..


I had never thought an application could crash of an unsafely handled label. But this did happen with me once when this exception popped up out of nowhere and said: InvalidOperationException : Control label1 accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on. As .Net developers, we usually assume that all such stuff is being taken care of by the framework or the visual studio. Hence this was something new for me. As I figured out, this is a compile time exception which occurs to warn the developer of a situation when more than one thread would try to access the same control and hence get locked. This exception usually occurs during compile time and reliably during debugging and sometimes during run-time.