as I see it

I am just too bored. I want to update my blog as well. So, I thought of writing about random things. Since it is not the kind of BAKK my friends expect and are interested in so I don't expect them to read it. Since there aren't going to be any lyrics of some song in this post, I don't expect hits from elsewhere as well. But still. Here we go.

1.) India wins Twenty20 World Cup

The best thing that happened in the last few days. Great matches, great teams, splendid fireworks. India turns out to be The World Champion. Personally, I didn't even expect India to get into Super 8 (Low Expectations ensure less pain when not fulfilled, I still remember the World Cup in March).

But then great matches, splendid performance against great teams - England, South Africa, Australia and then Pakistan. We had two winners per match + Rohit Sharma. He was impressive.

vs England - Hats Off to Yuvraj, in your face Flintoff, sorry Broad :(

vs South Africa - I dreaded Gibbs and Smith but :) hail RP :)

vs Australia - They have Gilchrist, Hayden, Symonds, Clarke, Hussey, Lee :phew: and more but then Yeyeyeyey we had Yuvraj and OMG did you people see Srisanth :O

vs Pakistan - Gulp !! India vs Pakistan that too in World Cup and that too a FINAL !!
Pressureeeeeeeeeeee !!
50-50 chance. Both teams were good. Danger men - Shoaib Malik, Afridi, Misbah, Misbah, Misbah, Misbah and Misbah. Then there was Misbah and yet another great striker of the ball who I had heard a lot about - Misbah.

After Indian Innings I thought we had 40-60 chance. When we got wickets, especially Afridi, I thought it was still 40-60 or even less because the man on the crease was Misbah. What he did in a matter of few balls was 40:60 India -> 30:70 -> 20:80 ->10:90 -> 1:99 and then.....
THERE IS SRISANTH UNDER IT.......HE TAKES IT....INDIA ARE THE WORLD CHAMPIONS !!!
YUHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!! It felt Great :)

Sandy, Modi you missed it !! You seriously missed it !!

2.) Movies

Why ? Why ? Why such movies ?
I am sorry if it feels bad, but I felt @#@$@#$ after watching them

where them = Hey Baby, Dhamaal and then Dhol

Trust me I enjoy these kinds of movies in general. I tried my best to laugh and enjoy in case of 'them' as well but :(, better still :'(

Dhol was :S. Got 4/5 stars in TOI, my friends enjoyed it, some watched it twice. HOW ? It was :( except for a few moments featuring Rajpal Yadav.

No more movies !! Maybe Bhool Bhulaiya, MAYBE.

I am not going to go by any reviews, word-of-mouth or anything else for that matter.
You want me to watch a movie, you sure its good, you sure I will like it ?
OK, you pay for my ticket, you pay for the auto fare, you get me Popcorn + Pepsi and if I don't like the movie, you treat me at Sardar Foods :X or else I pay you back for the ticket only.

3.) CAT !!

MOCKs, SIMs, MAXs, ACEs, AIMs, FLTs and don't know what all. Not me but others :P
Have been taking few of them but still have not been able to perform as I want to or as they(IIMs) want me to.

Staterjee !! Is there any ? Does it work ? Are you sure ? Is it a sure shot formula ?
Please tell me !!

4.) Sports

All went to IIT-K Sports Fest so No Football, No Basketball. And now when they are back, something or the other keeps me busy forcing me to miss Football. Maybe tomorrow :D

5.) Internet !!

Orkut is passe. Still good. But.

Facebook is or maybe was appealing. Fighter's Club is boring now. Zombies too. Scrabulous is ok.

Twitter can be good. I mean it is but if they could help me with my Phone Notifications.

Google Calendar doesn't support my Mobile Service Provider :(

Blogger is good for a change, specially, when I am just too bored. But I seriously wanted to write something (even when I know nobody is going to read it :P)

6.) Computer Hardware

My sound card is not working properly, stops playing sound whenever it wants too and plays back at its will as well. The only thing I can do is Restart to ensure sound until it stops again :(

My mouse behaves in a strange manner in an hour or so or even less at times. Restarting helps till it happens again.

Power Button itself has some problem. CPU doesn't start in pressing power button. I have to hit it, lift and leave for a slight bang, turn it, hit it, bang to see if it works. At times have to go out of my room to ensure I don't lose temper and throw it away.

My monitor has always been flickering like hell. Everyone notices it but I don't feel it any more :P Adaptation ;)

9.) Windows and MAC

MAC is good, better than...But change is good. Windows is nice.

8.) Internet Browsers

Opera is not good for my bandwidth I guess.
Safari renders well, makes things look better.
Firefox works with anything, supports everything.
And I heard someone saying Internet Explorer ? Well no idea. The only thing I know about it is that it starts up pretty quick.

8.) Music

Totally on my mood. :S playlist names e.g. bang, boom, crappy, zZzZzZzZzZ.., current.
At the moment I am listening to zZzZzZzZ..


:phew:
Long Post !!
Enough for now :)

After three years of hard work, finally came the placement fair. With one job each in their kitty and results of second yet to be declared, The Three Stooges (T3S) were all set for a third company. After clearing the written test, it was time for a technical interview and incidentally T3S had their interviews back to back according to the schedule put up.

(T3S were confident enough after having 1 job each and sure about the second whose result was yet to be declared).

Missing their daily dose of sports they were ready dressed up (fake 'we are gentle men look' :P), resumes and certificates in a file in their hands. Just before the start of their interviews they were a bit tensed and asked the same question to every one who came out from the interviewer's name, "Kya Poocha ? Kya Poocha ?"

A common answer was "Bubble Sort".

T3S knew it was easy and just to recall tried writing the code on paper. LOL. Third year B.Tech (ICT) students with decent CGPAs appearing for a Software Engineer post in a company(with decent repute) together couldn't figure out what the code should be like (but were disappointed, generally they laugh out loud when they sense trouble :P).

Interviews started and..and..and...LOL. Jinse Bubble Sort ka code nahi bana woh to kya hee karenge :P

T3S were screwed big time. With questions related to Linked List, Operator Overloading, Virtual Functions, etc. being thrown at them, what else do you expect (remember Bubble Sort :P ) ?

All had the same expression on their face -> :S
and the same line on their tongue , "gg, pata nahi kya pooch rahe the :S Jo aata tha woh to poocha nahi, kya tha yaar"

They were not comfortable with all this stuff like Linked List, Operator Overloading, Virtual Functions, etc.

Does it qualify to be HOI ?
LOL
ask the interviewer :P

HAHAHAHAAHA...

PS : After success kissing their feet :p they have shifted focus to CAT :)
GOD knows whats going to happen :P
Fingers Crossed !!!

Due to a very poor response to the polling last time, the results will not be displayed :P. Some PG got 71% votes out of a total of 7.
The post served the purpose it intended to though.

Let me now move on to the fifth episode of the HOI series : Samba !!

with advancements in technology, people want everything to be done by a machine, every work of theirs. E-Mails substituted postal mails, VOIP provides substitute to telephones and so on. Providing such services is no longer the only task. Enhancing the user interface, making services and application more user-friendly is what every service provider is trying to provide. And mind you it is not an easy task, you need sound skills in human-machine interaction (which is a vast subject).

Why do we need it ?

Well, there are many reasons. Firstly, there are usually more than one service providers providing a particular service. UI is one field where you can get past your competitor. Secondly, not every consumer is a techie. If a product is not user-friendly, how can you expect a lay man to use it. Lastly, expectations have increased. People want everything to be done with ease, a personal assistant to do all their work, so that they can release.

Consider the rotary dial phone, followed by keypads then touch screen with stylus.

It is the demand of the consumer that makes service providers to develop such products.

Any problems ?

Not problems as such, but people tend to get addicted to a particular feature in a gadget and try using it on others. Didn't get me ? I'll give you an example.
One of my friends was fascianted about voice dialling in his phone. You speak out a name and your handset calls that person. A month or two back he installed some new software on his computer and while configuring it there was some field where he was asked to enter his password.
Two of my other friends were also there in his room at that time (all fully aware of his VOICE DIALLING obsession). This person wants everything to be perfect yet simple to use (has also been fascinated about the idea of HUMAN COMPUTER interaction), so just for some fun all of us asked him to speak his password after a beep sound is played. Guess what ?

Ya, he looked into the screen and said "SAMBA" (his password). What makes it more interesting is that even the COMPUTER teamed up with us for some fun and GOD knows how, indeed played a BEEP sound.

How could he possibly do that ? With no microphone connected, with the software not claiming any such voice recognition why did he do that ?

Well, as I said, the reason is not one. Expecting the product to be USER-FRIENDLY and trying to use a feature of one gadget onto other. Guess there should be this universal set of features that should be present in every service and product so that such incidents do not happen in future.

Start polling !!

Previously on HOI, ordinary people reach extra ordinary HOI.
- Some PG who messed up with Print Screen key
- An ignorant conversation about a pilot incident
- A student who was not familiar with the RC rules

And now HOI continues

With "off-season" (as someone said) going on here at college, I chat a lot. This one is about a...err...not 'a' but 'quite a few' of the many online conversations I had with a friend. What makes these 'quite a few' conversations special is that in all these conversations I told my friend about some interesting picture online or a web page or some website (mostly hilarious) that I stumbled upon while surfing the net. So, in all such conversations I just gave imer (hope you remember the terminology : his/her shortened to imer) a link to a page which I want imer to see.

Expecting a positive reaction to what I thought was hilarious I wait after pasting the link in the chat window and after waiting for about half a minute what is the message that I get back

Tere paas firefox hai na ?

I am like huh ?? What does Firefox has to do with all this ?? In fact, where did this Firefox come from in this conversation or on that page ??

Still I reply

Yes

and hs (recall the terminology hs implies he/she) replies

mere paas nahi hai..

Action Replay : Again, I am like huh ?? What does Firefox has to do with all this ?? In fact, where did this Firefox come from in this conversation or on that page ??

me : so ?
hs : error aata hai yaar..

As I said before this didn't happen once but many times and I was all confused as to whats going on.

Lately, in some other conversation I got to know that due to some problem with the browser hs used someone adviced imer to install Firefox which hs didn;t like and trashed out from imer computer.

So, I kind of diagnosed the problem which I still think is the improper uninstalling of Firefox which for other applications had been set as the default browser, so whenever a link is clicked on, it tries to open Firefox which obviously it is unable to find as it is no longer installed and thus throws an error. (Too technical I guess)

And then, when "tere paas firefox hai na" thing happened again I tried explaining imer about this error but just when I type

I know wat the prob is..

I get the reply

nooooooooooooooooo....i dnt want 2 knwwwww.....

Ab kya hoga aise logo ka ? They don't want to get down the heights (HOI I mean) they have reached :P

PS : But quite surprisingly, on clicking start menu the top left menu item (which generally is Internet shows the icon of the default browser) has a "blue coloured icon" according to my friend, furthermore "it is always blue and never orange" according to imer (when I asked if it was orange in colour or blue).
Seems that even I diagnosed the problem incorrectly (HOI on my part too ?). Anyways, I can only be sure if I get hold of that computer.

You start voting !!