when technology is a part of the whole!

Funny!!! I am blogging about why blogging is not for me... The list follows: 1. I have to be connected to the internet for the same. - Most of the times i am without a computer leave aside internet connection. 2. My friends don't blog.. and if i start talking about blog they look as if i am talking greek. 3. Blogging takes too much time.. in case ur interested in one's online personality, blogging is for you... otherwise if u r touchy feely ... nah nah.. I DON'T have time to blog.. 4. I feel like a preacher when i am blogging - I am not a preacher 5. I can't disclose my innnermost feelings on internet - I am shy!!! 6. I have nothing to talk about - not really but to invisible audience it is.. 7. I never maintained diaries growing up.. why should i now? 8. I feel naked while blogging.. 9. I vent out any emotion i feel in person.. there is nothing unsaid that i can write here.. no hidden thoughts.. - I am direct.. 10. Frankly, given an option between bloggi...

Today was Valentine's Day.. or so people said :) Today was the day i rediscovered my love.. my love for Flight Simulator that had borne the brunt of other personal hurricanes in my life. now that may sound uncool.. very boring... but people for lack of anything better rediscovering your love for something or someone is cool on Valentine's day.. guess that makes me a complete geek.. the process had started 2.5 years ago when i decided to join a computer firm instead of a bank that the whole of my campus seemed to be obsessed about. i played the cessna 172 flying lessons for half of the day and was rewarded by a student pilot licence by the end of the day.. now that is something i can feel good about.. if nothing else.. and to quote another stag friend of mine "spending time with a woman the whole day, you wouldn't be talking about anything accomplished by the end of the day" the valentine reminds me of a chapter in my life that was closed some years ag...

there is an interesting website that i came across today! it tells you in short what was happening on the day you were born.. http://www.dmarie.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Today was the first day of getting a flavour of the "shapeless" beast called community. Went about discussing the launch of new SIG within another user group. this is far from the exact equations of science. this is purely understanding the person in the front and get into his pants. needs a lot of patience and more so a lot of understanding. i am just getting at it!!! some excellent posts on how to carry the user groups forward i found on : www.ineta.org there is something interesting as well. linux costs more than windows... challenged??? take a look here: www.microsoft.com/mscorp/facts/default.asp i have always believed in this.. here is the proof that it actually made sense. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Well, today i got "active" enough to post the kodaikanal photos on web. they are available at : http://photos.yahoo.com/abhishekkant Kodaikanal is a hill station in south India. yes my friend there are other mountains in India apart from the Himalayas... took a bus from chennai and made an overnight journey to the "land of clouds" - well this is term i coined. The day we arrived walked up to coaker's walk.. just hung around a little and wasted time.. The funny thing is it was not as cold as we expected.. by evening it rained and finally kodai was a hill station.. The next day we went upto pillar rocks purely on foot.. yes sir, a total of 14 kms of walking... the best was yet to come.. The boating.. as with anything it started with a thud when we took the paddle boat.. The beauty of the thing came out when we started on a rowing boat.. and with it came the rain.. we got wet and kept rowing.. now if u have never done that before u should definitel...

This is my first blog ever. As I see it, this is a new year, new city (Bangalore, India), new job and great new opportunity to start learning all over again. This represents shift in my world as i start to move away from programming towards interacting with people. More value there defintely, as I firmly believe in the power of like minded people contributing to the same cause. The start from being an island to being the channel that feeds to the river of knowledge. You'll see more of me now. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.