Fever 103.5

The title sounds like a FM radio station, its not... That was my body temperature when I was down with a viral fever last week. I couldn't think of any other topic today, so decided to write about the viral fever experience. Well... It started with slight cold and sneezing on Tuesday, so I took one sina-rest medicine and slept that night thinking that it will be fine by next morning. However, Wednesday morning was not fine, it was worse. I was having headache, body pain and high temperature. So I decided to take off that day and stayed home taking some paracetamol. By evening I was very tired and not able to bear the pain. So I called my sister and she took me to a nearby hospital. The doctor examined me and told that my body temperature was 103.5 degrees and that it was very high. I was asked to do a blood test, given an injection and loads of medicines and asked to take 3 days bed rest. The next three days were boring. I was fed up of sleeping and was wondering whether I had dengue as my platelet count was slightly on the lower side.I visited the doctor again on Friday, who examined my blood test result and told me that its a viral fever and nothing to fear. He asked me to take three more days bed rest. Now, the rest is over, the fever is none and now I miss my sleepy days ;)

Thank God It's Friday

Its was a friday night and my fiends wanted to go on a long drive to my new apartment.There was this buy one get one free offer celebrating the opening of TGIF on Bannerghatta road. So, the plan was made to dine at TGIF and take the nice road around Bangalore to my apartment. We started in a hurry from my house at 9:30 as the booking was for 10 pm, reached the place a little late. The food there was awesome and it was the first time I eat at TGIF. The pasta was good, the fish was great and the deserts were amazing. The pricing was on a higher side, so I would prefer my favorite wood stock for the same quality food at slightly lower prices. However, the ambiance was unmatchable, it has a retro american style interiors with kayaks hanging from the roof, disco lights and cubicle dining areas. It was when having dinner that I realized a big problem- I had forgotten to take the keys of my apartment :( . My friends were still insisting that we go there, but I felt it was better to go the next weekend. Finally we came back home with a small guilt that we were not able to finish the deserts :P.

Facebook application re-enabled

About a week back I had posted that my facebook application was disabled by facebook citing negative user feedback. In the same post I had mentioned how it was a bug in their mechanism for understanding user feedback. Today morning I got a mail from the facebook policy team that my app has been re-enabled and that they apologize for the inconvenience.

"Hi,
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> Your app was temporarily disabled by our automated systems, but it seems to be up and running properly now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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> Thanks,
> Platform Policy Team
> Facebook"

How I killed my own facebook application

Last weekend I had developed a Facebook application which will analyze the movies liked by all the friends of the user and then find the three most popular movies and will publish an image into the users album having the cover images of those movies along with the profile pictures of all the friends who like those movies. The same image would be published on the user's wall as well.

Just about two hours after I made my app live and available to the public, I got a mail from Facebook that my app has been disabled because its automated system detected that there was negative feedback regarding my app. I was wondering how this can happen, The only users who use my app were me, my sister, my cousin and a friend and I am sure non of us had given any negative feedback. I was slightly disappointed that my first ever Facebook app was disabled, but was glad that I have learnt to develop Facebook apps and that I can make several more. However, one question was not answered, who gave the negative feedback?. Turns out that it was me. When developing the app, I used it several times to test the app, and when i found that there were some error, I would correct again and then try using the app again. Finally, when my app was completely ready, I made it available to the public. I then thought of cleaning up the extra images from my album which my app had generated and put into my album and wall during my testing of the app. I wasn't aware of Facebook's logic of collecting negative feedback. It seems that when an user deletes the post/image published by an app, Facebook considers it as a negative feedback and I had more than 20 of them deleted from my album and Facebook thought people are not liking the app and that they deleting the posts generated by it and thus disabled my app.

New Interests in Horoscope

I had never believed in Horoscopes. I didn't even know that they were based on planet's positions at the time of birth relative to the birth place. But now here I am doing extensive research on that subject. From my younger days, I was a kind of person who won't even read the subjects which I hated especially history and geography. I felt they were useless and that it was a waste of time studying them. I was interested in science as it was useful and the subject was exciting. It was the same with horoscopes when my parents started looking for a match for me. Whenever I felt that a girl could be a good match for me, the horoscopes wouldn't match. Hence, horoscopes were something useless in my view and I never used to show interest in them. So high was my disinterest in horoscope that even my parents had started getting some influence of my disinterest.

But, Now things have changed. For the first time in my life I am so interested in a subject which I feel is useless and I am spending hours studying and researching the subject collecting bits and pieces of scattered information from all over the internet. It may be that I am showing such interest in this subject because it can't be considered useless now as the path which my life is going to take in near future actually depends on the ancient rules and formulas defined in this subject. So vast is the information that many local astrologers won't have a hold on all the rules, formulas and exceptions. So, I have decided find every available information to be able understand these rules and formulas and especially the special exceptions which are very important but less known and used.

Though I don't believe in horoscopes, I do believe in God and feel that God is always there looking after and taking care of me and God will make sure that my wishes and prayers come true.

Pace of Life

About a month back I had put this quote as my face book status: "Life keeps changing so fast that, by the time I start realizing what's happening around me, things change....." . And its continuing to happen, By the time I slowly start understanding and absorbing the changes happening around me, things change and again I take my own time to understand and absorb these changes and yet again, things change. I wonder whether it’s just me or everyone else as well. Can our minds and emotions be agile enough to instantaneously adapt to change? I guess it’s not humanely possible. I think I’ll continue my slow way of absorbing the changes as usual.

On resonance, frequencies and wavelength

According to wikipedia, resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate with larger amplitude at some frequencies than at others.

One familiar example is a playground swing, which acts as a pendulum. Pushing a person in a swing in time with the natural interval of the swing (its resonant frequency) will make the swing go higher and higher (maximum amplitude), while attempts to push the swing at a faster or slower tempo will result in smaller arcs.

Which means resonance happens when two waves of same or different wavelength act upon each other in such a way that one wave supports the other to reach the maximum amplitude.

This also applies to human thoughts and feelings. Two people are said to have good wavelength or lambda when their wavelength helps each other to achieve the resonance resulting in larger magnitude of happiness.