Sorry, but there will be no "special" post that was promised to you last week. Having been left terribly busy by circumstances, I've barely been able to make time to type this out. After all, you wouldn't want me to be late to publish the 52nd part of this series. Okay, in case you didn't get the significance of that, it means that this conversation between us has been going on for nearly a year now. (1 non-leap year of 2014 = 52 weeks and 1 day)
Even though this conversation has been severely limited to an one sided communication in the online world, your feedbacks and inputs in the real world have kept this counter ticking on. Thank you for that. And over the past year, I realized something. If you talk out loud in the real world, you'll called mad. If you do the same in the virtual world, you are called a blogger.
The first words between us were on the 5th of April, 2013. My life was in a rut, and I had this unbearable itch to change it. And that's how, on the advice of my friend Mahavir, I started writing these posts. Summing up whatever has happened in that week in my life, all the things that I learnt, things about something special day that falls in that week; all things under the sun and beyond this universe has been discussed here in these pages.
A fellow blogger recently wrote something about why we bloggers find it hard to push that publish button. Extrapolating her thoughts, I reached at the conclusion that we are actually scared of you, the readers. We subject our creations to unnecessary scrutiny so that they won't be a waste of your valuable time.
But like Rinz pointed out in her blog, we have reached the stage where we understand that the blog is for us to write. Whether it is being read or not doesn't matter. All that matters is that we satisfy our urge to express ourselves through words.
And I believe this holds true for all creative personnel. So, if you have the drive to do something, but are afraid to act on it because of the social reaction, please stop thinking so much. As long as your interest is not illegal, I would recommend you to go through with it, with no forethought on the response.
That's all for now. The lecture will be continued at a later post. We'll go on to the 5 things for this week.
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1. Same wine, different bottles.
I had met a genius recently. For a project that we worked on recently, we needed to make a bike engine switch gears automatically as the speed increases. To make the gear shifting more visible, Midhunchettan sliced the engine; to make what you would call a sectional view of the engine, if it were to be on paper. And all this with the engine losing neither its working nor its stability.
And he gave us some gyan yesterday. He has performed similar operations on various bikes from Hero Honda and has found that most of the non-posh bikes use almost the same engine. Same engine, different exteriors.
2. Start from the beginning.
Consider you are working on a project. Consider that the day before its due it starts functioning weird. Consider that you are pulling off an all nighter to get it to work. Consider that even at 5am on the day of submission, it still doesn't work. In such a case, you should consider doing it from scratch. You have been looking at the same thing for hours that you are bound to skip noticing the error that's driving you crazy. This is NOT based on a real life incident that happened this week, especially within the past 24 hours. :D
3. "Man, I'm pretty."
"If you are kid from the 90s", you'll remember all these awesome cartoons. Even after all these years, they bring a smile to your face when you watch 'em. And you guessed it right. There will be a post exclusively for those cartoons - Dexter, Dee Dee, Centurions, Swat Kats, Powerpuff girls, et al will make an appearence soon.
4. Just $5995
I read somewhere that they sent men to the moon using a processor that was far more slow that those that we have on our phones these days. (It would be very helpful, if someone can send me a link to that) Anyways, the processing power at our fingertips is beyond most of our abilities. After all we use them to Whatsapp and play addictive games, instead of sending men to Mars. :P
5. google and the dot
This week, I met a friend of Midhunchettan too - Renju. And this information comes from him. There is a bug in Gmail. Try logging in with your username and password, but with any number of dots in the username. It'll still login. This is an issue, as if in an unfortunate twist of coincidence, if two people with the same username, bar a dot here or there, set the same password for their account, they could access each other's mails. Not so secure a connection after all, huh.
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That's it for this week.
You all have a great weekend.
'til next week.
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