Trembling Ambition

Waiting for my departure,
There's a place that I haven't been.
Waiting for the words to finish,
There's trembling in novocaine speak.

What did I see?
The world did turn and shed a tear.
Where did I dream,
The relic of a time only we could see?

And when I wailll...
By recognition and ample time,
Oh I don't refrain,
We've recovered from a trembling ambition.
And there's time to make haste.

It doesn't take years to uncover,
But many to build it up.
To see what's yet to come,
By forgetting what brought us here.

And when I trail...
I go on and on at you.
But don't let me fail,
It's ok that we are here.
It's ok, we're making memories.

(C) me, 2011

Lyrics: Bob Dylan - My Back Pages

I feel a breeze, the air it carries a sweet tenderness about it. It is not that which compels me to proceed, rather that which tells me how. There be many tales which remain untold, that require to transcend time. But it is the words of a well known man, which cite the reasons not to be bold (insert more appropriate word here).

Bob Dylan - My Back Pages

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin’ high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
“We’ll meet on edges, soon,” said I
Proud ’neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
“Rip down all hate,” I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now

Girls’ faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now

A self-ordained professor’s tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
“Equality,” I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now

In a soldier’s stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I’d become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now

Copyright © 1964 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1992 by Special Rider Music

Yeah...so as you can tell I've found lyrics, and they have imprinted on me. Nevertheless, I will see how many people I can share them with.

Ciao!

md5sum for Ubuntu USB Installer

Hey all! Just a quickie to explain the importance of md5sum checking.

When using the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator, making bootable USB thumb drives is straight forward. The .iso file which is used to make the thumb-drive however must meet a data integrity test using the md5 algorithm. Essentially, if you decide to download a Linux distro, you should (and up until now, I haven't been) check the md5sum and that it matches the string defined on the Ubuntu Website.

The method is quite simple and will save time in the longrun. A description and method for use of md5 checksum can be read here.

To check the integrity of the data via md5, open terminal, goto the location of the linux-distro.iso, and enter the following:

$ md5sum linux-distro.iso

This may take some time depending on your computer, but I'd say no longer than 2mins. Here is an example showing the output when checking the md5sum for the distro Ubuntu 10.10:

$ md5sum ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso
59d15a16ce90c8ee97fa7c211b7673a8  ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso

And if you cross reference with the Hash Site, you will see that there is consistency.

This post was made because I have just tried to boot Ubuntu 11.04 Live on my friends laptop and was getting SQUAHFS read errors.

A seemingly n00bish mistake, but we gotta learn somehow.

Until next time. Ciao!