Random thoughts in March
Just decided to blog. Was enthused by a few things: saw a few nice blogs, felt my own blog was becoming overtly political from being such a nice travelogue before, and because I will not be blogging for a little over a month.
So, I have very strong beliefs which I still very much hold, but have had a major transformation within me for quite awhile - I have become extremely tolerant; tolerant of all sorts of views and attitudes and doings. Just makes for a better place, at least in my mind. Lets me imbibe in so much and learn so much which I was missing out on being fixated and insular in my beliefs.
Life is treating me rather good these days. Extreme pressure (or pleasure?) of software release at office done, am basking is doing more higher level learning cum designing; and mostly outside strictly office hours, bringing my long drawn-out thesis writing to a logical conclusion.
Which brings me to the reason of the last post for a month - finally fixed up a date - 25 april - for my phd thesis defence. Had a hard time finding a date with my extremely busy 4 committee members and was pretty much the only date available in 3 weeks. So, final preparations going on in full-swing. And enjoying it quite a bit too; doing pure will-never-come-in-use research after a long hiatus. Also got a dream project at work. Learning a lot. Learning a lot of linux and madwifi drivers too. real-world stuff. soooooooo cool. i wish i had...nah...nothing. i am happy.
Very recently re-discovered this very cool social networking tool of orkut. Had come to know of it more than a year back when a friend was utilizing the social networking graph as a sort of trust network for security research. And then know a lot of friends who use it purely as a dating website. While not still quite used to publicly posting the private comments, it's kinda cool in the sense that amongst close friends you get to know whats happening. One functionality which is missed is a kind of common posting board though for a group of friends. Kind of a egroup style posting board. Anyways, explored it quite a bit and had loads of fun as well as flaming. Updated dada, boudi, ma on the inner workings of it, who promptly dismissied it as childish. Orkut is: A abysmally public display of an intensely private emotion. But, so is marriage. :-)
so, thats all. adios amigos (and amigas). back to cool work now.