England Provisional 30 man squad for the WC Finals

Goalkeepers: Joe Hart (Manchester City), David James (Portsmouth), Robert Green (West Ham).

Defenders: Leighton Baines (Everton), Jamie Carragher (Liverpool), Ashley Cole (Chelsea), Michael Dawson (Tottenham), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United), Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Ledley King (Tottenham), John Terry (Chelsea), Matthew Upson (West Ham), Stephen Warnock (Aston Villa).

Midfielders: Gareth Barry (Manchester City), Michael Carrick (Manchester United), Joe Cole (Chelsea), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Tom Huddlestone (Tottenham), Adam Johnson (Manchester City), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Aaron Lennon (Tottenham), James Milner (Aston Villa), Scott Parker (West Ham), Theo Walcott (Arsenal), Shaun Wright-Phillips (Manchester City).

Forwards: Darren Bent (Sunderland), Peter Crouch (Tottenham), Jermain Defoe (Tottenham), Emile Heskey (Aston Villa), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United).

The dirty, murky, world inside the Apple

Steve Jobs has been in limelight recently, for his letter against Adobe. As if that wasn’t enough for his ‘My Company’, ‘My Money’ like stand, He was again found locking horns against FSF (Europe) guys. This time in response to their Open Letter for his views on Apple’s adoption of H.264.

Mr. Jobs seemed to have a really hard mood, he says

A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other “open source” codecs now

I’m really amused by his double stand!

Physics

Its so pleasing to read (yet again), go back from the Basics to the thrilling phenomena that can be explained so beautifully in this branch of science, Physics.

I don’t have to learn the equations or bear the load of the oncoming exams. But just simply enjoy… Physics.

I’m reading the book Physics: Classical and Modern by Keller and Gettys

Shinedown – Lost in the crowd Guitar chords

This entry is part 23 of 41 in the series Guitar

Thanks to Danny (Dinesh) I heard this song, Its a very simple song to play on the guitar 😛

Strumming Pattern

D D U U D U

Just play easy and slow, during the chorus, you can add a little movement via F or C (as u’d like)

Chords

Should I offer up my hand
Dm                G   Dm
And save a wish for once
Dm                  G      Dm
For aaa.. aall of us
Dm  C             Dm

And should I offer up my hand
Dm                    G    Dm
And lay the guilt on myself
Dm                   G      Dm
So it's easier , to not stay, to not stay
Dm      C        F        C   F        Dm

[Chorus]
Because I found you in your corner
Dm                          G      Dm
I pulled you out of the clouds
Dm                      G       Dm
You left in such a hurry
Dm                 G      Dm
Your face got lost in the crowd
Dm                        G           Dm

Should I open up my eye's
Dm               G      Dm
or just ignore who you are
Dm                     G   Dm
And what you could have been
Dm       C              Dm

And should I open up my eye's
Dm                   G     Dm
and make believe you will change
Dm                        G      Dm
So it's easier to not stay, to not stay
Dm      C      F      C     F       Dm

[Chorus]

 

Subversion, Mercurial … ?

The master from joelonsoftware.com, Mr. Joel Spolsky has written an absolute cream on SVN and Mercurial.

Hg Init: Mercurial Tutorial

I always wondered why new versioning systems come up, like Mercurial. Joel has really helped my damaged brain to de-toxify everything and have a cleaner approach.

Here is a quote from it

Almost every Subversion team I’ve spoken to has told me some variation on the very same story. This story is so common I should just name it “Subversion Story #1.” The story is this: at some point, they tried to branch their code, usually so that the shipping version which they gave their customers can be branched off separately from the version that the developers are playing with. And every team has told me that when they tried this, it worked fine, until they had to merge, and then it was a nightmare. What should have been a five minute process ended up with six programmers around a single computer working for two weeks trying to manually reapply every single bug fix from the stable build back into the development build.

KDE 4.4

Just yesterday had an update on Fedora 11 for KDE 4.4. I expected from KDE 4.x legacy that the overall product would be a bit tacky. But opposed to my original thoughts it turned out to be an extremely well polished ‘Desktop’.

The settings were very easy to navigate, with lots of Compiz settings available easily without a lot of ‘extra’ installations as in GNOME. The overall stability of the desktop too was strong. I’m considering to run KDE 4.4 for atleast a week as suggested by one of my sysadmin friends.

This edition reminds me of the good old stable days of KDE 3.x

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