no more secrets!

its final. I've decided that I will no longer be posting on my secret blog (yeah, the one with the nuclear and world domination ideas), but instead I will start using this blog more often.

Frankly it gets a bit tedious when you are writing 5 blogs (and the secret one), so I made a bold decision to boldly go where no other blogger has gone before. Get all the blogs on one blog. Actually this was an idea that occured to me in fall last year but you know technology!

So, I am back now in Jakarta after a short trip to Singapore ( spent the weekend there). Also on a slightly different note, I was going through some blogs and found that a lot of people post pics, and actually made an online travelogue with their blogs. Neither am I a Shutterbug, nor do i like to write a travelogue, however i still do like the idea. So i will start making an effort to post something of a journelogue (thats a word i made up!).

evolution?

circa 1997 a.d.
a young student in bangalore gets interested in the internet. The power to make yourself known to millions. many a night are spent creating a web page, its design etc.

circa 1999 a.d.
more tools arrive. interest revived in the website design. now lots of sites offering free webspace. Also wins a contest and gets a free domain name.

circa 2000 a.d.
the power of publishing from the desktop. More design- powered by photoshop.

circa 2001 a.d.
the power of flash

circa 2004
Blogging. Finally a cool effective solution to millions to see your message.

circa 2005
Podcasting. This is the definitive solution to making yourself heard by the millions

circa ?
maybe the millions are not worth enough to hear me after all.

a day in the life of....

9.00 a.m : arrive at work
9.10 : set up laptop. get coffee.
9.15: check email. start up yahoo messenger, skype & msn.
9.20: reply emails.
9.30: get another coffee.
9.35: news reports from IHT,NYT, CNET, BBC, CNN, Zenit, REUTERS, REDIFF.
10.00: Busy look as CEO walks in. ( news updating continued.)
10:45: Done with morning news.
10:50: Update Podcast & Rss feeds.
10:55: Fiddle with photoshop, itunes, and icons.
11:00: Found out coffee was actually mocha coffee. no more coffee for the day.
11:01: Check email.
11:04: Check email. ( my default mail application checks my mail only every five minutes)
11:05: Apple Dashboard.
11:08: Update Antivirus software.
11:45: thinking about lunch
12:05: Order Lunch
12:40: Lunch arrives.
1:30 : Done with Lunch
1:35 : Another round of news updates.
1:55: Blog updates.
2:10 : another cup of mocha.
2:15 : Check mail.
2:30: Some new mail arrives.
2:35: Reply to mails.
3:00: Phone call to Singapore.
3:35: Done with phone call.
3:45: Brag about versatility of the apple to colleagues.
4:10: Write blog post.
4:25: Read some technical stuff ( about blogging, podcasting etc.)
4:45: Check email.
4:50: Open a can of coke.
4:55: Fill up travel expense report of past trips.
5:25: Count days upto end of month and next paycheck.
5:35 : plan holiday.
5:46: check no of visitors today at the blog.
6:00: check email.
6:05: download some applications.
6:35: decide to go home after hectic day.

Fwd: this!

Today I got one of those hoax mails, claiming that there was a play being staged somewhere that depicted a particular religion in a bad light. And they needed me to add my list to 400 already on the mail to do something about it.

Why do people ever believe such things? why are they so naive? and more importantly why don't they for once use their minds to figure out that their putting a signature and sending it to everybody in their address book is not going to change a thing about the problem (if there was one) apart from making a few more people aware of their stupidity.

Anyways here are a couple of links to check out on these hoaxes.Truthminers is a good site to start of with checking for a hoax and this link shows shows how much it costs, everytime you are gullible enough to be fooled by one of these mails.

Remember, you have one unique ability that you can use if you want to. Its called common sense.

The real war on terror!

I don't know if this guy actually rehearses to give this constipated look every time he talks to the media. I am no fan of politics and like discussing it either, but this guy makes me do otherwise.

"When they are constantly on the run they can't plan attacks, so we and our allies will stay on the offensive," was what he said at the FBI academy today.

Read that as, we are busy trying to bust them in iraq & afghanistan that those guys have now moved onto America and Europe where they are having all the time they want to plan more attacks.

I do think that its high time bush stopped this nonsense of what he calls the war on terror. What he (or the people behind him) don't realize is that for every civilian that the american forces take out in the middle east, there is gonna be a blood cry. For that family, Bush sure is the terror, and it just gives rise to another individual crying out for justice. And mind you these are people who have felt pain close to their heart, that they are no longer fundamentalist terrorists, but people who believe they have been wronged.

They do not do it for religion or for beliefs, but for a personal sense of being wronged. What America is doing is spawning a new breed of individuals who just need an opportunity to get revenge. And the so called terrorists are not missing out on them either.

Face it we do not live in an era, where everybody forgives and forgets. Maybe they would if the feel its gonna make a difference, but with Bush's persistence on the war on terror, every human taken down will beget another baying for America's blood.

Life is precious to every man. And every man and woman does have the right to protect it. And no man or woman has any right to take however he/she might justify it. Period.

Freeeloaders!

well somebody's got to stop the freeloaders.

recently i just so happened to notice that the creamer just stopped getting refilled in the office. then it was the sugar. but when the hot water dispensing machine started dispensing cold water........ well thats a great way to send a cool message.

gotta get a coffee though. i think i see some creamer & sugar in the next office. wow!

In case you were wondering what i do, to have my coffee privileges illegally withdrawn, well heres my desktop screen. hope you get the idea!