Guess this place is dead..

So,

Where did all the people go? Is everyone busy caught up with their lives? Or is everyone job hopping? Whats happening folks?

In true compsci style may I ask, with very little knowledge, what do you think is the future for IT? Whats in it for us as Indians? Will another country bite a larger share of the offshoring/outsourcing? Will the technology change? What about the brain gain happening? Is higher studies going to get much more importance in the future?

Ramble, ramble you lazy folks, over here. Lets stop a minute to think in this frenzy of life. It may very well sort the road ahead..

the birthday, the coffee and the (d-uh) pickle!

Feb 14th is coming up and a bangalore guy doesn't want to be seen as so much of a loser that he actually is. This desparate man (read posts below to find out who) was thinking of help and just then the yahoo groups post came in: its someone's birthday on 11th!! Nothing could be so aptly timed than this one! So not missing the chance, this person known for his timing calls up the hotline number (Chids) and gets the coveted phone number. And now, well armed, the man is ready to make the call. After bowing to the cupid-lord, he calls up. Luckily the connection gets him through. And in a flustering jiffy, he is through with the wishing(or-so. the wires weren't properly tapped to find more out)! Now he asks for the treat (read valentines day out!). Since this guy aint really a man to ask the person out alone, he asks for a 'group' treat. Well, its no more like in the college where you could catch hold of somebody to accompany you to the juicy eh! So he searches around and there in the corner he finds an unsuspecting victim - Agent Zero!! He asks the bday gal to treat them both!! how sly :)

Well, we've named agent zero oorgai (pickle in tamil) - on request due to this incident :)

Now thats a cover report on the page 3 gossip that's been running around bangalore lately. First witness reports are expected any time soon. Or do we really have to wait for Feb14th? I'll bet whose waiting to reply !!

p.s: this post takes a dig at a lot of people. Though it was intended, it wasn't meant to be taken seriously!

Compsceez 24x7....... blogger exposed !!

It feels great to act as a reporter for compsceez for the first time. It seems there is something to the anonymity comment Mithra made about one of our class-mates after all. I don't want to spoil the fun of discovery , so here's the link for you all to explore. And according to reliable sources, there are others of the same genre which remain unrevealed. So coming back to the question of ....... Why the mask of anonymity !!

http://infinite-circle.blogspot.com/

Preetha,
Acting reporter ....Compsceez 24x7.

Fun post for the day (01/25)

Off-topic:

Ever since I heard of Google Videos, I loved it! Now here's something I'm posting just for the fun of it.. nothing really very interesting, but hey thinking about it, would you ever dare to do such a thing however 'high' you get ;-)

These guys ARE daring; dunno what really drives them to do such stunts - we strive all life to avoid such situations :-)

Check out the video here..

Finally got Mama!

Today's only (stupid) statement I got to welcome him:

"thats one small step for man (maybe another for some woman), but a Giant step for Mama" :D

Total individual contributors on our blog so far: 7 (Adwait, Bush, Chid, Girish, Hari, Mithra, Preetha)
Newest member: Mama!

Can we expect some fundoo ramifications & discussions by our expert panel on those.. (some spice from the member who knows neither shall be dutifully added :p)

Good day, folks!

Analyse this

Know what? Top companies which were once considered core-compsci are also opening up for non-circuit branches in some colleges from the coming year!! All they look for are some programming language knowledge and good analytic skills. It doesn't matter if you know Dijsktra's algo or not, if you can solve a given problem interestingly, then you're in!!

Have we all wasted our time, energy and money? We could have very well goofed in our high school got lower entrance rank and taken up non-circuit branch and enjoyed - we'd have ended up in the same place here!!

Hope this trend wouldn't depress the MS folks and aspirants though..you would definitely have your own interests..don't scream at yours truly :D

On a lighter note..talking to some of our college seniors out here (which there are plenty in number in my company), we discussed about batch gettogethers and stuff. Coming to the topic of keeping in touch, I think we are the first batch&branch having a blog?! Well others may have yahoo groups, but we have a blog eh?

Why this blog?

Well, this blog is still in its diaper stage and we are in the process of identifying a baby-sitter. All its members are yet to come out of their shells to start off..including yours truly...until this happened:

Chithu pro-actively questioned me about this place's relevance. He mailed this to our group:

hey Mr. Guyrock (well now from where did he find that name, 'twas supposed to be my secret internet name d-uh!) and all,

The blog is a great initiative.. yes.. definitely.. but then there are ppl like me.. (sorry for adding more ppl to my group :-P.. I hate to be alone ;)) who are not exactly in favor of blogging.. mainly because it requires a lot of attention, daily updates etc which we (plural again :)) cant do.. I would prefer to login as CS100S :).. But yes.. people who are decent/good/great bloggers.. please do blog and notify all of us too.. We surely will read even if we cant write (Thats one more reason for our not-blogging attitude :-D)

And, btw, this mail is for a different purpose.. there are a few guys who start off things, but disappear later.. If I remember, there this guy called hari ... a.k.a. RP (you can ask him what that means :-P) who started off this thing of writing the experiences in 1.5 years or whatever.. may I ask where that great reviver is? When are we expecting the write up from him?? and there are lots of others who were promising to write.. Girish.. why dont you start off too?? (You can post the same in your blog too.. that saves you one update on your blog, doesnt it?? ;)) Lets see who starts this time around!

And finally, before I sign off.. here's me wishing you all a very happy pongal and yes.. as nag said in one of his mails... happy mattu pongal too!!

Luv,

Chidambaram.

Happy Pongal folks and Nag - Happy Mattu Pongal...How's your 'Save the Cattle Campaign' going? :p

Now back to the mail, here's what I thought of as an answer!

1. Who's asking for daily updates, attention and all? :-) Its an informal activity. Besides with 64 people contributing as and when they like, it'd be easier to have an up-todate blog!

2. The more interesting aspect with the blog is it chronicles our communication well and can be interspersed with pictures and other multi-media to enhance or better describe our experiences, don't you think so? It tells the story of one class, which 50 years down the line would still have photographs being put up..and when we look back at older photos, we would still be able to identify others..lol!

Well, now coming to starters and droppers, I have no comments cos I am in the latter league - I very well know, but folks have some sympathy on me - I am trying :-D I would also try my best at the blog.

Now, the ball (Hari -the 'ball' that you asked :D ) is in my court haha..ok I shall start off..dunno what..maybe the above points itself..but I shall. Keep checking it out.

What say folks..??

Have a super Pongal folks from Down South..!