Darth Chatri

Just tried out the thunderbird mail client today at office. Its awesome. Some really cool features include reading RSS feeds as posts. I guess this is going to be my default for some time to come.

Dont have much time. Ironically, there is a shortage of bandwidth here. But to make it short, I'm having a real ball of a time :D

When it came, it was more a sense of relief than anything else. Infosys finally entered a final of a football tournament. We had been beaten in the semi-finals on the last 5 occasions. But today, finally, the jinx has been broken. The game went to sudden death penalties and Infosys beat Persistent 8-7.

I have been wondering why all this while we have been trusting historians. How can I be so sure that the events reported by history have actually happened. Contrast this with science. In science, things are stateless with respect to time. There is no 'event' which has 'happened'. Its all just there in front of you whenever you want it. You can test it whenever you want. Of course, one can argue whether you can trust your senses in the first place, but lets not get into that. Lets assume that the whole world is what you percieve with your senses. But even then history is just something that is fed into your brain so as to give you a basis on which you can justify your existence. The worst part is that you are taught to change your view of looking at the world and your way of interpreting information from your senses in way that is consistent with the so called history. For example, history has taught me that Hitler was cruel and he massacred a lot of Jews. How can I be s...

I was actually having fun at the embassy when I went for my visa stamping. The security check seemed so cool and it even beeped when I passed through the detector. It was something in my wallet. Then they asked for the documents, which I produced, all in order. Except that one was missing ... my passport. I experienced a kind of adrenalin rush that I have never experienced before. Then I calmed down and tried to remember where the hell it could have been! Finally I went out again, back to the car, opened my bag and there it was! Once again through the security checks and everything. The actual interview was very trivial. After a couple of questions the lady said something that I tried to interpret as a question but failed miserably. A second later it registered that the interview was over and I had been issued a visa. If there is anyone out here who has forgotten his/her passport while going for a getting a visa, please mail me. It will make me feel much better.

Please join me in welcoming to the club of people who have lots of time and nothing to do and hence think that spending time writing blogs is a pretty neat idea, a friend of mine - Manas Alekar (http://manasalekar.blogspot.com). Maybe he will blog regularly from now on and go on to become a prominent member of the club. Or maybe he will just stop like many other clever people who realise the truth do. What truth? That there is no blog! Then you will see that it is not your blog that people should be talking to ... but you. Urgghh ... that was a bad one.

The only thing I wish right now is that people respond to my mails! (Sigh).