How to cure Insomnia

Since I can remember myself I have been having problems with sleep. These problems have manifested in various ways, the latest one: Insomnia. But! There is hope and I found the cure!

Mathematics! Everynight I solve problems until I cant tell the difference between the numbers. The numbers slowly hypnotize me. When I cant solve any more problems I start reading historical notes about maths and they slowly put me into sleep. I swear that mathematics is so utterly boring that your mind is going to fall asleep immediately, if that is the only way to avoid the torture of numbers.

And yet I have been reading some completely interesting semi-philosophical stuff related to maths, like the fibonacci sequence or the mathematical triangles, or the pythagorian mystical school. Mathematics, music and the mysteries of life are very closely related!

To Generalize..

I just read this quote that thrilled me. For reasons I really do not feel the need to analyze.

"To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess."
-- William Blake

It reminds me one of those discussions that a specific kind of men (sorry for ther rest of you guys) lead stating the great truths of the universe about mostly the sexual habits of the species of men. Limiting people according to any of their characteristics is a generalization to me, and maybe even paves the way for racism. Its like blaming a whole mass of people for the weakness of one (and yes this was refering to being unfaithful).

The Philadelphia Experiment

Area 54, Einstein's lost ship and the Philadelphia experiment were all terms I had heard but never really troubled researching into them. One of the reasons to that was the fact that they are favourite subjects of the esoteric branch. I might not have anything against esoteric but the Philadelphia Experiment myth refers to something purely scientific. Now after watching this pretty movie that dates back to 1984 I can understand why there has been so much talk about this experiment. The hole in the time-space continuum and the disappearance of the ship due to electromagnetic fields and nature's storms as a source of force, all seem like a possible scenario. The us navy rejects the Philadelphia experiment though, from what I read on the internet. The subject of the movie is intriguing, just like any good science fiction is. What makes this film particularly interesting is the fact that its very old and it is filmed in a very different way than modern sci-fi films. It has a particular charm in it and the love story that blossoms inside the mystery is convincing!

Google really knows everything?

I often look at my google ads on the sidebar; they can be very enterntaining sometimes. Other times the ads are completely dull. But this one made me laugh:

"The Secret To Happiness
Want more Joy? Experts Discover the One Secret to Joy and Happiness."

It seems that everything has entered the internet, even life's greatest mysteries. I hope they are not stored in a password protected site. I want access now.

The little fox

As I was driving home tonight I saw two bright and big spots on the road. "Too bright to be the eyes of a cat", I thought. I quickly slowed down and had to stop the car completely and quite suddenly. Luckily no one was driving behind me because he would have surely crashed on me!! :)) I didnt want to run over the poor creature. I expected that it would go away the more I aproached with the car, but it ran towards the lights and thats why I had to stop completely. When I stopped it raised its head and had a look and then disappeared in the bushes. I have no idea what that creature was. It was jumbing like a rabbit, it had a tail of a fox and ears in the shape of a triangle. But it was really small so I dont think it was a fox. Some other strange animal of the woods it must have been.

PS: I finally found out where this peculiar creature escaped from.

Hearts of Atlantis - My Film Review

Hearts of Atlantis. What a film! A poem! So true and natural like the way its actors performed. So beautiful and cruel just like life turns to be. Every moment of it is a sucess. The mood of the film is generally sad and nostalgic because it also stresses on the worth of the few moments of happiness. This contrast makes it particularly sad. It reminded me at times of the magic of my own childhood.

The story is about a boy who meets a mysterious man. He changes the boy's life in many ways, he is wise and mysterious, full of secrets and hidden abilities. He reads a lot and teaches the young boy to apreciate the value of books when his mother is lost in her own fake world, seeking worldly success and neglecting her son. But there is much more to it that the simple plot can confess.

When the film starts the boy is a grown up who comes to attend the funeral of one of his best childhood friends. There he gets to visit his old home and the story starts to unfold before his eyes, and our eyes as well!

Before watching this film and the beginning of it I was not sure I was going to enjoy it. The cover of the dvd is bizare, the old man in the film is also a weird person. The scenario does not clearly reveal who the man who didnt talk about his past was, but after the first half indications start to arise. It took me a long time to understand the meaning of the title "Hearts of Atlantis". In the end I was quite sure that this man had been a medium hired by the FBI during the "war against communism" as a newspaper in the film puts it. At times the film reminded me of another known film which is played by Sean Connery and an older young man whom he teaches to write I think. I just cant remember the title.

The old man is played by the great Antony Hopkins and the young talented actor is Anton Yelchin

Reinstalling Windows Adventure

The past week has been an endless effort to reinstall my windows system. For a few days I was looking for my bootable windows cd without any success. Then I burned a bootable cd and a bootable dvd but none of them worked. The reason? The reason was that my computer was set up in a way that it boots from the hard disk. So I had to change that setting in the BIOS. Thank god I still had the motherboard box around with some important manuals and cds inside, so I could read in there how to enter the BIOS World! There are two things in the computer that I fear the most : BIOS and the Registry of windows. Mistakes in them can prove fatal for the computer, although in the registry you can only mess your windows installation (which I have done!). I am not so sure how bad misconfiguration in the BIOS can be. Anyway, I had to enter the BIOS for the first time to change the sequence that the devices of the PC boot. I got great help from my friends at the antivir forum (amazing how these guys help) and I finally got to install windows! The installation was very quick, it only lasted 30 minutes and then I happily started to configure windows, change the settings, install drivers, programms etc. Until I installed the service pack 2. A disaster! The pc booted after the installation and could not open windows. I had no choice but to reinstall windows! Now I am downloading for the past 24 hours :P updates. I will create then an image of my system and try to install sp2 again in safe mode. No drivers installed yet but some programs. I hope it will work.

Secret Program Code : INTP Greece

This is so funny. The investigation of the greek scandal about the mobile phone spies has revealed something remarkable. It seems that the guy who killed himlsef knew all about the spies and was working along with 4 other members of vodafone on a secret program. This program had as its code-name the word INTP (Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving) which the most rare MBTI personality test type. Now me being an intp myself and having some intp friends as well, we set up a greek INTP forum some months ago. Now we all hope that this is going to boost our forums popularity since the Jungian Typology is almost unknown in greece.

Nothing more than computers

Stardate 239802394892 and my windows media player does not open. I try to beam in incomplete microsoft drivers and we had two victims.

Media Player dies on the spot, Spyware Guard goes on strike and deactivates itself.

More and more programs refuse to open in the devasted planet windows xp pro sp2 of the VIRUSWITCH quarter.

Time to change our course Scotty.

I am Root

Check out the Hacker Story I wrote last night in "Another Galaxy". I had a lot of fun writing it.

PS: "Root" is the most powerful user or access level in computer systems (mainly in linux). The dream of the hacker thus is to be "Root" to have unlimited access in a system. Another funny (to me and to everyone else definetely dull *LOL*) word game is that the whole hacker community is often called "underground" which really is the place for "Root"s :)).