One fine day staring at the mirror
I will see the life has gone a long way.
There will be so many different things around me,
But one thing will be unchanged!
Staring at the mirror I will realize
All my hairs are gray,
My skin is old and a high power glass will help me see.
But there will be one feeling unchanged.
There will be you beside me,
You will be holding my hand to pray.
Pray to the God so that we can live the life together
And our love for each other remains unchanged.
One thing that will remain unchanged is You,
One feeling that will remain unchanged is my Love for You.
I am with you now and will be with you forever, Let’s grow old together!
The Download Day for Mozilla’s Firefox 3 is officially over and the total downloads of Firefox 3 at 3.16PM ET on 18th June 2008 was 8,587,342 despite the initial hiccup. Due to the technical problem Mozilla had yesterday the official start time of the Download Day was moved to 3.16PM ET of 17th June 2008.
Mozilla will now wait for Guinness to review the attempt. It may take few days before we all know if the record was officially entered as Guinness World Record.
Finally, all seems to be stable on Mozilla’s side. The sites are running fine now, both Mozilla and Spread Firefox sites. I used FF3 for around 2.5 hours while I was in office, and it didn’t give any problem. No crushing, no hiccups of any sort. The experience is better than FF2, which used to crash every now and then at the beginning.
After I returned home, took dinner and turned on my Mac, I downloaded FF3 for Mac OS X 10.5.3. Sweetly enough, it has not given any problem on my Mac either. When I went to Spread Firefox site, I found a new link to “Fluant It!“. You can enter your name and print a certificate that tells says you’ve successfully downloaded Firefox 3 to help set the record.
Last I checked at 9.04PM ET, total download counts 2,418,235. Around 1.7 million people pledged to participate in the record setting attempt. Total download has clearly passed that number. Exactly 15 hours and 56 minutes to go before the Download Day is over. Mozilla targeted 5 million downloads in 24 hours to set the Guinness World Record, which I think is well within the range and total may as well pass the targeted number.
It was kind of an excitement to participate in Download Day for Firefox 3. The download was scheduled to start at 1PM ET on 17th June 2008. The hype was so huge that it basically overwhelmed the web server. The main or parent Mozilla site was out of reach for about 20 or 30 minutes after 1PM ET, and the Spread Firefox site is still down (at 3.10PM ET) since the official release time.
I was able to go to Mozilla site to download the latest version. I installed it without any problem, although many have reported that FF3 crashed after installation and had to roll back to FF2. I subscribed to participate in Mozilla’s attempt to set a Guinness World Record. I received the email notification to download FF3 at 3PM. Although I’d already downloaded FF3, I wanted to see if there’s anything different at the link provided in the notification email. The site was unreachable for few minutes, but when I finally got into the page it was showing FF2 logo and link. I downloaded FF3 from the same link, about 15 minutes before I clicked on the link again from the email. The page rolled back to the FF2 download page. I could not stop myself from hitting refresh and the page that loaded after 2 minutes of wait time had Firefox 2 logo, link to download FF3, CSS was broken and all sort of messed up information.
I am sure Mozilla have planned for scalability to adopt to the load, but unfortunately that wasn’t enough. Spread Firefox site is still down. I saw on that site that Mozilla had download parties page, encouraging people to help set the record. I think that has also gone down. I had the feeling this will happen, but was really hopping it wouldn’t.
I hope Mozilla can set the record. If it does, I would know I was part of it.
Here I’m, finally, off to Québec City. Tithi and I planned this trip at the very last minute. Today is Friday and we decided to have this trip on Tuesday. Anyway, both of us were looking forward to this day to start our trip. We didn’t have much time to prepare as Tithi has her class to attend and I’m dead busy with office work. But we managed to get it all together. Packed up, woke up early (although I was hopping to have a good sleep over the long weekend).
Yes, it is long weekend in Canada. For Easter we’ve Friday as vacation followed by Saturday and Sunday. Anyway, this is our first trip to somewhere after we got married. Well, that’s not quite right. We traveled to Canada. Anyway, I’ve always heard that Québec City is a beautiful place. I hope the weather will be good. I’m connected to internet with the train’s on-board WiFi service. Just enjoying the views outside and writing this article.
I really needed this break. Both Tithi and I actually. It feels great to finally go out for a long trip. We’ve thought about it many times but never had a chance to do it. Here are some photos taken from the train so far….I’ll keep posting as my journey continues.
On one side it is the joy of the day and on the other side is the sorrow of loosing another precious year from my life.
When I was in Bangladesh I used to take this day off to spend the day with my family and Tithi. In the morning I would have gone out with Tithi, may be buy a cake and cut it in my car. Celebrating the time together. Later in the day my mother used to cook some nice dishes for everyone. Last year, in Canada, I spent all day in office – my new job at that time. Later in the day I cut a cake at my brother’s house.
This year my parents and Tithi are with me. Last night at 12AM we all ate a cake bar. Today my mother and Tithi will be cooking Biriyani which we will eat after Iftar. I am now in the office. Writing this blog entry. I have some documents to prepare for my office project. Growing old every minute. The feelings are not same as it used to be. May be I have changed over last year, the way I look at life.
Somewhere I read that the life is like a chocolate. It is tasty and more you taste it the more it will finish. As soon as it is all gone you will feel “Oh I wish I had more!”
I don’t know how long I shall live. I hope as long as I do, I will make everyone around me happy.
Now I lay me down to sleep Pray the lord my soul to keep If I die before I wake Pray the lord my soul to take – Enter Sandman (Metallica)
I treasure every moment of my life and I would like to thank every person I have come to know so far in my life. I hope next year I will be still be here to share my thoughts with you all.
At my mid twenties….I’m one step closer to the eternity….
First of all I would like to thank you for what you have done for our team. I know your effort and hard work deserve much more than that but that is only I can convey. I know that you are a great coach and with such profile as yours you will be one of the top choices for other countries to have you as their coach.
Being a Bangladeshi I believe our team has a great potential to be one of the best team in near future. Our players are very comfortable to have you as their coach. From what I feel Bangladesh team will need you to be there with them for as long as possible and it will be really sad to see you leave, especially at the time when our team is starting to evolve. I will really hope that you will continue your service for our team and guide us towards a bright future in Cricket. I also believe Bangladesh Cricket Board will be keen to renew your contract and will be more than happy to do so.
This post in my blog is a very small effort to reach out to you. But I hope, if somehow my message gets to you, you will consider extending your stay with us.
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