New website

I now have a new website at http://www.cs.utah.edu/~udipi

The Second Coming..

I realize this blog has been rotting for quite a while now. It's time for a new life for my blog, just as it is a new life for me, in more ways than one! I can remove the "-to-be" from the tagline and perhaps the name is getting stale. The "e-" in the address seems silly now too. Bottomline: My blog needs a makeover and some more attention.

Well, I've known all these things for a while now but somehow these thoughts vanished before they became actions. I've got down to it now finally. Thanks JK!

Ok you may or may not be wondering why JK needs to be thanked (you may or may not know who JK is) but I will answer anyway: she tagged me. Though I don't do these tag things, this time it was something that pushed me into actually writing after a really long time! The tag says I'm supposed to write 8 random things about myself. If you carefully look at my blog, the title says "the random thoughts"... So this time I have to think of randomer things and put them down; so here goes!

1. Four years spent in the wrong place have ruined my English. I hope a change of scene combined with more active blogging ( :D ) will take it to pre-SSN levels.

2. I find it hard to sleep before 1 a.m.

3. I love Gtalk. In fact, I love most things Google.

4. I prefer time displays in 24 hr mode.

5. I hate fish. Dead or alive.

6. $*##$#()$@#)_@#$

7. I don't belive anybody cares about what I've written so far or what I will write after this! This doesn't make me any less interested in writing.

8. And finally, at the end of a post mostly about random things, I must say I absolutely detest randomness in any form!

P.S. I have taken action on my thoughts above and started a new blog at http://ruddha.blogspot.com/

Censored!

As an active blogger, I must put on record that I find the ban on blog sites by the Department of Telecommunications outrageous, to say the least. It is a pointless and clearly undemocratic clamp down on the basic right of Indian citizens to say what they feel, whenever they feel it, wherever they want. That this will make any difference to the all new Indian "War on Terror" is evidently a specious argument. There can be no justification whatsoever for such a rash and irrational move by the Government. I will say what I want, whether the Government likes it or not. I once again state that I strongly condemn this move and urge the authorities to undo the damage as quickly as possible and apologize to the people of our country.

For Gods are human too...

So he made a mistake...So what? At the end of a super fast lap where he was trying to squeeze everything out of the car, seven time world drivers champion Micheal Schumacher braked a fraction too late, oversteered, almost hit the barrier and stalled in the middle of the track. By a complete coincidence, Alonso, who had set a blistering first section time on his last hot lap, happened to be behind the maestro and had to slow down for the yellow flags. He missed his pole, but what the hell, its all part of the game, accidents happen. Thats why they are called that, accidents! But no, the whole world is waiting to accuse Schumi, call him a cheat, a crook, an unscruplous, ruthless automaton. Give him a break man, he's human too. As Jean Todt rightly pointed out, this sets a terrible precedent. The very concept of driver error has been relegated to the sidelines. The only talk is of how Schumacher could make such an error. So its ok if someone else had done it? Or if the affected party was not Alonso? This is simply a publicity gimmick pulled off by Ernie, Mosely, the FIA and all the other lame people looking for a sensational story. What a sad day for Formula One...

P.S. I don't believe one word of what I've written. Why, Schumi, WHY??!

Street Cricket

They say three things are ageless in Chennai. Coffee, Cricket and The Hindu. Cricket, especially of the "street" variety, is something almost every boy in Chennai is almost guaranteed to have played. Read this interesting wiki on street cricket. Almost everything there seemed extremely familiar to me... Enjoy!

Thoughts..

Warning: May not make any sense. Read at your own risk.

I have been wanting to post something for a while now. One part of my brain wants to blog. The rest of it somehow refuses to cooperate. Roughly three weeks of preparation (??!) for the Anna University exams seems to have deadened my mind and senses. It all seems so pointless. I just cannot think. Time has lost meaning. Everything has become relative. I sleep at all odd hours. The actual time doesn't matter anymore. Its kind of like 'displacement' vis-a-vis 'distance' (Shit, look the example, I'm not even sure its relevant...where am I heading?). All that matters is sleep time + seven hours at night(?) or sleep time + one hour any other time of the day! Anyway, the bottomline is that I can't think of anything sensible to write right now. This post is just to tell the world (myself??) that I'm still an active blogger. If you think this whole thing is crap, please read the first line again.

No point bitching I guess. I have to go through it all and will do so, just like I've done five times already, and fairly successfully at that. Just three more to go. I can't wait! And then there are other things waiting after the exams. I think I'll leave those things to later posts, I need something to write don't I?

At the end of 200 odd words, if you still think I'm a loser with nothing better to do, you are free to think whatever you want, its a free country after all. You may even say what you feel wherever you want. Its a free internet after all. I have just four words for you: Read the first line.

Links

You can read "My friend, Mr. Mahajan" by Rajdeep Sardesai here. Rajdeep's blog also makes for interesting reading, check it out here.