Hi Everybody, sorry I have not updated the blog for a few month, just know that I am alive, and will work on putting more of what’s going on my mind here, if any sudden overflow happens again (which can be put openly 
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Take care.
Long time no update…
February 24th, 2010My summer fishing trip video clip
September 22nd, 2009This video contained a great Greenday music synched to it beautifully, but unfortunately Youtube forced me to remove the music for copyright problems. If you wanted the original version tell me directly please.
Paymaan.
Michael Gray; aka KD7LMO is dead since April 2009.
September 22nd, 2009It is so sad to hear a legend of your dreams, somebody who you have learned alot from, or at least from his knowledge shared on his website, has died when you haven’t been looking at his site.
The story is about somebody who taught me a lot through his website, and his near space electronic projects, who showed me lots of what I know about electronic and hardware design.
I have been forgetting his site name (which was also his HAM radio sign), and I was trying to recall his code, and when I finally recalled and googled it, the page told he has been killed when bicycling back in April!!!
May he rest in peace, Michael Gray, AKA KD7LMO, KD7LMO.net a real professor and engineer.
His website is now archived at http://www.ansr.org/kd7lmo/www.kd7lmo.net/index.html
Fishing for Brown Trout, 2009!
August 9th, 2009
looking west south, in the middle of lake (a point of soil is out of water) is where I was fishing last year, when water level was so low!
For 3rd year on, I decided to go to Laar lake at Damavand peak foot fishing for the rare brownies, yes these are really rare, at least in Iran, where this lake is the only lake holding them.
Snow in Spring!
March 31st, 2009Something funny happend this morning, we have had a strange Noruz holiday this year. One day was so cold, one day was so warm, and today a close friend called in the morning and told me to look out of the window, believe me, we had not such a snow the whole winter! it snowed and snowed and I guess whitened all the mountains around Tehran and now a few hours later, there is nothing at least in our part of the city you could call snow. Of course it is still cold, so maybe it snows again tonight.
Overall, it is really strange in this time of year in Tehran to snow. Not that Tehran is a warm city, but we have had quite some not so cold winters in the past few years.
Cheers,
Paymaan.
Nowruz and Persian New Year 1388 Solar Hejri
March 19th, 2009
Hi Everybody,
Tomorrow is the beginning of a new spring, NowRuz (new day), and the day after tomorrow will be the first day of Persian new year 1388 Solar Hejri. So I use this opportunity to say a happy new year to all the friends and family and all those good people who read this, and I wish a happy and joyful and prosperous new year for all Persian, and a new spring for all the rest
I hope you enjoy your holidays, and be happy.
Paymaan.
Flash CS4, ActionScript 3.0, and I know Jujitsu!
January 31st, 2009For 2 weeks in a row, I was tryng to peneterate into the world of ActionScript 3.0 language, the one used in Flash CS3 and Flash CS4, to program the flash animation. It has never been easy for me to think and develope programs in the way Flash works, as it mostly conflicts with my methods. Till know, Flash to me has been an environment which you both have to set the objects manualy into the environment, and then program them individually or in groups, and you could not just start writing a program which does load the objects or creates them and use them to animate or whatever you like to do.
I still believe this system is very unusual, but with the introduction of ActionScript 3.0 language and huge changes they have made into its basics, Now it is like a real computer language, to me. Maybe I am wrong, but this is the way my brain works.
I tried two weeks and 5 books and lots of good hints on the web to find a point where I can understand the language and basically start the learning curve, which is the hardest point in learning a new language. 2 nights ago finally, I guess I did it.
Suddenly I had a feeling just like what Neo had, in the movie Matrix, where they upload the instructions to Jujitsu into his brain and he knows how to fight like a Jujitsu pro. And in the middle of the night, when my first pieces of ActionScript3.0 worked, I told myself; I know ActionScript3.0!
Believe me, aside from jokes, it is always very nice to know you have another language (or computer language) available in your brain. It feels you are a little stronger in understandings. It will take me a while before I’ll be using it like a pro, but I have already started using it for a project, and I know I will finish the project using this.
So, where to start? Try this books and sites:
1- OReilly Learning ActionScript 3.0 A Beginner’s Guide. This is a great book!
2- Flash CS4 for Dummies. I guess this one is a good one as well, although it talks too much.
3- The Flash Blog http://www.theflashblog.com lots of articles
4- GoToAndLearn(), http://www.gotoandlearn.com lots of video tutorial on flash!
And lots of other sites like Adobe itself, although Adobe is containing the worst set of information, they are actually useless for an starter unless you try seaching though google on their livedocs, and that is still no use to somebody who still doesn’t know where to start.
Try finding small samples on other people’s site and be careful as they don’t put most of needed headers and starter code on theirs, considering everybody knows what they already know. Find small, working demos and then read them and try to recompile them to get sure the code is complete.
Paymaan.
Update in life, projects, OS, Linux, and everything else!
January 2nd, 2009Hi everybody, and Merry Christmas and Happy new year and everything else. I wish joy for everybody out there, and peace.
Lots of things are going on here, and I have been under lots of stress in the past monthes, two heavy website and multimedia software design and development at the same time, and some other unpleasing life issues.
Of course I don’t claim only bad things are happening, I am also having many good things happen to me, but ok, let internal issues aside
While I am developing this two projects, I am also exploring new topics in software and web design. So far I have gone deeper into many languages, from deeper usage of Javascript, to CSS2, changing my priority web design language from HTML to XHTML and XML.
I am really going to like this change, XML is something I can not describe, but I feel enjoying using it, and for my other project, I am exploring things like Adobe Flash CS4, to Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex, to Pure Basic and even some VisualC++ of Microsoft, while almost everybody knows I prefer ANSI C/C++ over anything which involves some kind of work from Microsoft .
Some other changes in the past months have happened which I have really enjoied it. First, my daughter have gone to first grade and after almost 3 month now, she can read and write and I believe this is an evolution for every person. This is were we got our power to learn more.
Then I did something really relieving. My Windows were killing me after 4 years of not being re-installed, it would crash several times a day and you know how dumb WindowsXP is, and it can’t even keept itself clean. MY registery was 180 MB, can you believe that?! I tried every piece of junk software I found to clean up my registery and Windows, to no avail, and it got worse and worse, and in the past 7,8 years which I have been forced to use Windows I have always been unhappy, and missed my good old Amiga.
I have been downloading several versions of Linux since end of summer, planning to make a really big change, and to ease the life, and to get rid of Windows, finally.
I had Ubuntu Hardy Heron, Novell’s SuSE and Open SuSE, Linux Mint Elyssa, and afew others. I have been recently uninstalled my older SuSE as it was heavy and wanted to update it in whole, but my 160 GB hard disk was almost filled and I needed its space, but I changed my mind and got a new 320GB for more freedom and for those projects I mentioned in the beginning.
I wanted to chose one of those Linux so I habe another option on this machine in addition to WinXP, and suddenly I tasted this Linux Mint, I have played with all of these diferent linuxes on different machines and none is as great as Linux Mint. Some of Linuces can not read your Windows partitions. Some can only read it but can not write to it. Some have fonts very different than what a WinXP user have experienced with. Some are also very heavy, even being a Linux, consume your CPU power so hard your machine will actually work slower than with Windows!
But, Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu itself, which based on Debian itself, is almsot the fines of all I have ever experienced.
It is a Linux, who can read, and write to your Windows partitions so easily that I have shared all my pictures and music and video folders with it on windows partitions.
It is very efficient (I use the Gnome desktop on it and I am used to it very fast, it is very easy to use) and works much faster on my 4 year old machine, that I am relieved and feel no need for a new machine now.
Then its graphics power is so high, I actually have a much more fancy desktop effects on this machine using my old NVidia 6600GT than what you can see on most Vista machines. The Desktop is actually liquid, you can make ripples on it, you can trun it and see the other 3 desktops with your mouse or key combinations. It has some carousel like application chooser, a four side desktop cube etc. etc.
Then something really funny when you install it. It actually asks you if you want to import your windows accounts into it! It can migrate your windows to Linux without any hassles!
Ok, I am not affiliated with authors of Mint, and they also provide it for free so this is no advertising, explore the rest your self, using its live CD.
After I installed Mint (version 5 is called Elyssa), I simply migrated all my email from Thunderbird on WinXp to Mint, also my book marks from FireFox to FireFox on Mint (and almost every software there has a twin sister here on Mint). I also took a copy of my Windows main partition, formatted that partition, and reinstalled windows, just for when I need to play a windows only Game, or for when testing my web designs on IE, and for when clients want a Windows only software.
Now I spend most of my time on Linux, and have installed Apache 2 server as well as everything else on it, and when I am designing web sites, I design and run them on my machine and when evrything is fully tested, mirror them to the client’s web host.
I feel really free now, every tool you need, you go to package manager, search for the proper keyword, and when you find the proper program, you simply ask it to install, no money is going to be paid, and your software is ready in a few minutes.
And please don’t kill me before I say this, you have almost no virus there, although you can be extra careful and install a free virus killer like ClamAV, with just asking package manager to install it for you
Ok, enogh for now, my brain overflows are finished for now, I guess.
Paymaan.
Just a note
October 24th, 2008Hi Everybody,
This is a long time I have not written anything in here, but I am still alive (for those who prefer not 
) but just either not have been in the mood to post, or havn’t had time. Actually, as the name of the blog says for itself, this is the place for whatever which overflows from my brain, if any at all. Sometimes my mood is not that exciting and so it makes some kind of hibernation to my brain, and it prevents me from being creative or making new ideas (even if they seem crazy ).
Anyway, I’ll try to be better soon, and I am aslo planning to release one of my embedded processor board designs, for Microchip PIC18 CPUs containing 4 wire LCD output, power stabilizer, dual serial (RS232) ports, I2C interface and a very low noise design. If anybody has a need for this, let me know so I put it here sooner. I want to release it under GNU licence for free, although it first ment to be a source of funds for me
Send me your ideas.
Paymaan.
Smart Brown trouts!
June 16th, 20089th June 2008 was the beginning of the fishing season in the Laar reservoir at Laar dam, right at west of Damavand peak, and east of Tehran province, Iran. This year, I had the chance to go there to have a great adventure and fishing experience. The lake is native environment of an special species of fresh water fish; Brown trout. This kind of brown trout is called Red-Dot trout locally or in Farsi: “Khaal-Ghermez, خال قرمز”, because most of the fish are silver colored trouts with black and red dots on them (other varieties exist as well).
I tried to get some sleep the Sunday 8th June, as I didn’t get a good sleep for a few days before, thinking I needed to gather my strength and wake up very early and I was to drive about 90 Km to the Laar reservoir and Damavand peak.
