Corrupted Heap Error :( Sigh.....hope tomm is little better....

-M

Believe it or not, it takes serious time commitment to write piece of text which is readable, especially by you in some near or distant future. If these words dont bring back the same thoughts which seem to be emanating when I put them down, whole exercise would be kind of futile.

This whole IM thing is getting to me without saying too much about SMS'es. I am not much of a (understatement of the year) SMS fan. Stresses my tiny little brain out 2 rd smting lk ts n mk nytin ot f it.

Blog are spaces where you don't have to mince characters, there is no hurry to press send, no serious bandwidth issues, no charges for extra words- musings by you; for you and if someone cares to indulge, yup for you too.

Randomly switching thoughts...

So in a few (to be precise 4) I will be back in corn-sville, and I am kind of looking forward to it. These past few weeks have been little occupied but also lot of fun but then its time to slip into cofortable, laid back, academic lifestyle.

But now, slumber-land is my calling...and dreams my abode...

-M

Last week (that was when I started writing the blog) I was in washington DC visiting National Institute of Standards and Technology and they had sort of museum of micro processors with oldest one being 486. Imagine that, 486 being the oldest. I still have my 8086 (I am getting older :( ) lying in the attic somwhere. A trip down the memory lane got us discussing the first ever computer we ever used.

It sounds archaic but surprisingly its only about two decades ago when popular computers did not even have a monitor, they had to be connected to TV. I remember our first ZX Spectrum 48..That 48 stands for 48 K of memory it had, and believe it or not; with no harddisk. One could use tapes (yes audio ones) to save your data via tape recorder. They had games even then, "go to hell" is the only one I remember :). Couple of my chinese friends got nostalgic over their Commodore which was release in 1982 (Thank you Wikipedia..) and Apple's, not very popular in India.

Then came our 8086, with 640K of memory and 30 MB of hard drive running on age old MS-DOS. But then, lets not get too geeky here....

-M

ps: spell check feature doesnt seem to work...and this is a Google product...Is anyone listening...

This day or rather yesterday surely deserves a place in my blog lest I forget it ;). Yesterday I happened to meet; the richest man in the world, chief software architect of Microsoft, Mr. Bill Gates or billg (his microsoft alias) as he his commonly known here.

It's an annual thing when interns go to his place for a Barbeque. His house though not quite an epitome of grandiose is a sight in itself. Situated next to lake washington, surrounded by dense foliage, greenhouses spread around, huge garage, wall mounted plasma screens displaying Van Gogh's and like.....well he is the richest man so this is expected what is unexpected is his nonchalantness about his position. Difficult to digest that he probably has the one of the largest legal division :). Avid reader....has read the entire enclyopedia (from horse's mouth...)..loves Math..did not take a CS class in Harvard....Bill G an icon on the technology warfront.

Its a day to look forward to by interns and for Bill G...well he atleast got a blog from me...

-M


These views are not in any way endorsed by Microsoft. (you never know....)

After long hibernation, here I am back to blogging..why..well way of communicating with friends who you would like to be in touch with.. plus I have always wanted to explore my writing skills and this seems to be it and lastly...reading your old blogs gives you sublimal pleasure not expressed in words...

so here's to blogging...cheers....

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children
- Mark Twain

Life certainly has turns and twists.."everday is a winding road"...but this is what makes the journey captivating..some people would disagree with me on that one..but to one his own and this is my Blog..;)

-M

"The most unfair thing about life is how it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time.
And what do you get at the end of it ?!?
A death.
What's that, a bonus ?!? I think the life cycle is all backwards.

You should die first, and get it out of the way. Then you go live in an old age home.
You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension,
and then, when you start work you get a gold watch on your first day.

You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement.
You drink alcohol, you party and you get ready for high school.
You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities.
You become a little baby, you go back and spend your last 9 months
floating with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap.

Then finally you finish off as an orgasm !!

Amen."

-George Costanza (Seinfield)

Well..its that time of year again..after finals..to describe it in one word- vacuum. Gotto kick ass before the inertia sets in... Summer always seems to get over before it starts..as Calvin woud put it:

"There isnt enough time in the word to do all the nothing you want"

True..but doing nothin is not the first thing on my agenda rt now.. probably the second I wud say :)... ok...randomly switching thoughs.... blogging sure doesnt seem easy...

playing with language
is not easy as it seems,

writer with a good phrase,
is child with beam on his face..

-M

I just wasted an hour doing nothin...:(