Lost in Dreams…

I happened to come across the “50 Book Challenge” in the blogosphere last month. It’s a kind of resolution where you hope to finish 50 books in a year. That is nearly one book a week. But since I found this in the last week of June, I kind of decided to go for half the challenge. I hope to finish 25 books by the end of 2008. I have been lazy for quite sometime and my literary intake is nearly zero. So I guess it’s time to change all that. So from July 1, I have finished two books. I am managing to read them during my  travel to office, just before hitting the bed. The first one to finish was John Grisham‘s “The Appeal” which was not all that appealing to me. The second one which was tough to put down was Jeffrey Archer‘s “False Impression“. It was quite a good read. Hoping to write a review sometime soon here.

2 down and 23 more to go…

When you are on the Titanic, you lower the lifeboats, you don’t stop to yell at the iceberg…

[Patricia Heaton : Everybody Loves Raymond]

Pleasures in life

• Getting up at 3pm in the afternoon
• The first thing you eat is Butterscotch Ice Cream
• The only thing you eat for next 4 hours is an entire tub of Butterscotch
• Fill up the leftover space in your tummy with Lindt Dark Chocolate
• Watch Star Trek till you fall asleep
• Repeat the above steps for 5 days
• Bunk the office for 5 days doing this

I can’t remember the first time I got attracted towards technology or science. But I would always remember the first time I got hooked to a computer. It was back during my 6th Standard when I first laid my eyes on  a 8086 PC in my school when I got a chance to play the classic DOS game “Space Invaders” and there was no turning back. The world of “Dangerous Dave”, “Hocus Pocus”, “Pac-man” was slowly replaced by their ever evolving counterparts. So when I passed out of the school it was “Knights and Merchants ” and “Age of Empires” which  slowly gave way to “Project IGI” and “Warcraft”. The last serious gaming I did and the only game  I played here in UAE was “Rise of Nations” when I joined work here some 4 years back. Games were not the only thing that kept me hooked to a computer. For a while it was BASIC, C, MATLAB, a little VB and loads of web programming. But after I came here, I had a whole playground called “Networks” to play with. Even though my primary role in the organization was something related to power systems, I found myself volunteering to  setup and troubleshoot the network and systems that were ever growing. With a server and DSL in my disposal it was good old college times for me. The best of all experiences was building a firewall from scratch using a Linux distribution called IPCOP with obsolete hardware and the great part being that it has been working for past 2 years. But all good things must come to an end. Until yesterday, one of the roles in the organization I work for was IT Manager/Administrator. Since I needed to concentrate more on something else and time was not something that was available in abundance, I had to give up this role which I had taken up voluntarily.

But somehow computers and technology keep calling and I decided to do something in return. I have created a separate blog called “bit Feed” which would be solely about technology, computers and internet. Here I plan to discuss about my experiences with different software, hardware, internet services, tips and tricks, science and technology.  In case any of you who is interested in becoming a contributor or author for this blog, please do contact me.