On my Job - 1

One word, boring. Developing applications for Android is like trying to juggle with half a dozen monkeys. Throw them around and make sure you manipulate them right. That's about all there is to it. There's no native graphing libraries for android, i had to make my own Pie chart class. And yeah, i'm writing this blog post waiting for the Emulator to load. Fun, eh? The Development cycle is SLOW, compiling the programs and running them is so slow that i lose interest half way through every cycle. Still loading, just checked. AND STILL LOADING. Yes, my system is not a high end system, but that doesn't warrant the time i spend on it waiting. Software development loses its sheen when things are this slow, and since i'm not too happy even otherwise about my job, this is just adding fuel to the fire. Enough bitching, off to work. Or bossman will Kill me?

Back... from the alive.

So, 750words a day is a good exercise, but this blog is going to be the anti thesis of that. I get to write quite a bit, and it has to be completely censored and audience friendly, writing for you, not me.

Check out hermiene.net . Awesome site, can relate a lot to that guy on the site. I should try harder and get my priorities right or i'll never get to a state where i can appreciate things like that enough. Yes, little petty funny things happen all during the day, but the effect never lasts. The lasting impact is never there. Now i'm rambling randomly until the heater goes off, and i'm to shower. A lot to write about, but no idea what it is. Staring at a blank wall can induce a lot of interesting lines of thought. I'm going to try doing that every day for a few minutes, write it down and blog about it here. Waste of time, i'd advise you to not read it, because that'll make me feel sad for you too.

Didn't work. As blank as the wall. Adieu.

Pre Exam Scuffle

OK! My exams are up in a coupla days. . . What do you expect? Hard day slogging the subject, sleepless nights [and the few hours' sleep, dreams of flunking in flying colors], exam-fever, light speed phone calls clarifying seemingly intractable doubts . . .?? Well, all that's so very NORMAL. Lets have a look at my own case. My sem exams' on november. And model exams start at college in a coupla days. We can, obviously, leave the college once the exam's over. So, 6 subjects, 3 practicals add up to 9days. And then, 6 days of actual semester exams. That's a total of 18 days. And then vacation till Dec26. That's more than two months from now. So more than half of the time, i'll be sitting home pretty jobless. So folks, learn to look at the bright side of everything, even EXAMS :).


PS: This post is, i know, horrible. Its just being written for whiling away time, and to waste YOUR time, if your reading this :D.

At The Speed Of Light

Light travels about 30000km a second. That might sound great for us earthlings, for light'l take only 0.051s to travel from Tokyo to London[i.e.20times back and forth]. Lets think outside the box, or rather the globe. It takes light 1.28s to travel to the moon....so NASA scientists had to wait for at least 3s before they could recieve replies to their queries to people on orbit around the moon. Half an hour for a light pulse to reach Mars!! And yeah, light rays from sun take two whole days to reach pluto! And if thats not enough, you travel at light speed for 4.3 years and only then can you reach the star nearest to the solar system, The Proxima Centauri!! 100,000 years to travel across the width of the galaxy, and 100 billion years to travel across the observable universe.So, face it.....the speed of light is snail's pace for the Universe is REAL BIG!!

The Case of the Missing B:

Ever wondered what happened to the B:?

I got curious about and decided to solve the Case of the Missing Drive. After a rather short session on Google, I hit upon the answer.
First, a bit of history. When computers were first making waves in the home market, they weren't supplied with native hard drives, as they are today. Instead, they had two floppy drives. Don’t forget, the time am talking about is when 640K of main memory was a luxury. So, back to the point, two floppy drives, A: and B:. While A: usually contained the disk with the OS on it, the second one was used to store other data and files. As technology caught on, hard disks became the de facto standard, having enough and more space to store both the OS and the users' files. Thus, the B: became outdated. The A: survives, as its still the default primary boot device on most systems, and it really helps in diagnostics. And naturally, 'C' would be the first letter that could be assigned to Hard Disk Drives, as A and B were reserved. Though the three coexisted for a while, a second floppy drive wasn’t at all necessary, and B: lost to the other two forever, and the letter B was probably left unused to attribute for its martyrdom and legacy =P.

Thus it all began. . .

ah. . . my next new endeavor! BLOG!! inspiration: satish[my senior at college :) ]

So first post, i'll start off with myself!
yeap. . . am the self proclaimed devil! its been quite an obsession. . . ev1's trying to act all goodie-goodie but live with all treacherous thoughts, and am trying to make a difference, jus being more honest![ookay, tat was one big DRONE]
i got a flashy grin, havent i?
That was in RSP's place! talking is so much fun! we also watched some stuff his PC[was it Mind YOur Language?]

so. . .about me? boring stuff, i spend half my awake time on the net. ppl are of the opinion that am only half as expressive as the smileys i use online!




To be Continued. . . gotta work on a gud template for this blog, for presentation is everything :)!

PS: Once am done with myself, its PAYBACK TIME! will put a pic and add a writeup on all gud frnds :)