Questions asked from the within !!

Saw these questions in Utkarsh's latest post My attempts to answer them : Question 1 -> Why do I never blog about my parents .. If a blog is a way of expressing my feelings .. don't I have any feelings towards my parents. My Answer: I somewhat agree with his points that something are too personal to us that we don't discuss publicly, which generally includes our family, our love life and probably our ambitions... very true... but besides this I also think that their is this trend in the modern day youths and that includes me too that somehow we while trying to explore our own self, leave our parents aside. We take them forgranted and in the long run we start getting farther and farther away from them. We take time off for every damn thing on earth but we didn't manage to get one or two day off to see them. Question 2 -> Why do I Blog ? MyAnswer: Not really my answer..somebody has written it on his blog, which I found very true..just sharing it here Why Blog ? The urge to write! My literary pretensions and caprices bring me here. Like any writer I write to be read. All my posts, though fettered to my small world and trivially myopic, will live and yearn that somebody connects to them someday. Cognitive frenzies, sardonic musings, aimless banters, incoherent ramblings and trivial indulgences; this is simply an episodic narrative of my trivial world -- in a grain of sand… Smaller than Life. Question 3 -> Should we have expectations .. Is it fair to have expectations from people around you? MyAnswer: Is No !! Ideally we shouldn't have expectations from anyone around us and even from our work. Because if anything or any person comes even a little behind from our expectation, it hurts us, it feels bad and finally results in pain and frustration. That's why it's written in Shri Mad Bhagwat Gita in a generic context that "we should do our work without any thought of the outcomes". But as I said earlier this is an ideal case. Ideally we shouldn't have expectations. But the ordinaly peoples like us can't live without expectations. It gives us a reason to do anything and motivates us to go along. We study to get good grades, good job, handsome money, beautiful wife..every where there is some sort of expectation... It is our driving force... but I would again say that if we manage to get rid of the expectation we will be a lot more happier than what we are now. Tyaga of expectation is very difficult for us and it is not expected from us if we choose to lead our life in this society. The complete Tyaga of expectation can be expected and is possible only if we choose to leave this society and become truth seekers like Sannyasis and Saints... which probably none of us want to do. Question 4 -> What Does true love mean ? .. If I love someone does it mean that I give her the right to play with my heart by coming and going into and away from my life whenever she wants . MyAnswer -> Again this question supports my statements about the first question. Now a days we are too much envolved in ourselves that love has only meaning to us that between a boy and a girl. But isn't love more generic ? How about the love a father has for his child ? Anyway... True love... I think its just another vanishing species about which PETA people talk, express their feelings and essentially do nothing... True Love is always something which we guess and try to achieve but as in probablity nothing has a probablity of one, here also we never get to know about the real Love. About the second part of the question... I think its relative... from our side we should give our love a complete freedom, and shouldn't expect it to return it back to us.. if it returns back to us we shouldn't think that it was ever gone... and I think If you truely love her you will wait... its not because you expect her to be back...its becoz you don't need anyone else... We can compare it the love that we have with our parents... if by any chance we loose them.. we don't go on looking for another mom and dad... because we don't need anyone else... may be because no one else can be them... I think this is the feeling of true love...

Funday...

"Khane Khilane ka Pyar dikhane ka.." The Amul Ghee used to start its ad in the context of Sunday.. Our last Sunday started with the same spirit... just in the previous night Khare gave this idea of having a day totally for fun and Abhinav and Parivesh showed gr8 enthusiasm, chalking out the plan and arranging everything and finally in the morning the qualis was here in the hostel even before I woke up. We had Dhola-Ri-Dhani and Runway9 in our list. We were not sure where to go first. Finally we decided to go Dhola-Ri-Dhani First because none of us wanted to eat a crappy food of mess on a Sunday. So we left for DRD. The journy was quiet entertaining. As usually we played Antakshari. Thanks to Parivesh who kept the tempo going otherwise Poppy and Khare had done their best to ruin it with their God gifted voice :) Finally we reached DRD at lunch time. As everyone was hungry so we hurriedly headed towards the Rasoi. The ambience was too good. The food was too good.. with lots of delicious items like Moong Dal ka halwa, Malpuwa, Churma... the best thing about the food were the waiters (shall I call them waiters ?).. they were doing so much of Manuhar, every other time one of them used to come with one Malpuwa and if we say no .. he used to say.. "nahi bhaiya khana hi padega". I remember me saying to Utkarsh that "Lagta hai hum sab apni sasural main kha rahe hain" :) After lunch all of us had some rest and then we went for Boating and Camel riding. Before that we played volleyball for sometime. Some of us went to Jyotishi Ji (mostly to know about our love life and when are we gettin marrried :) ) As we had to go to Runway9 too wo we decided to leave but suddenly someone pointed out that we are missing something... Hukka.. Yeah ... we tried Hukka too... with Apple flavor, certainly a very refreshing experiece... After this we left for Runway-9 which was at a stone's throw away from there. We had loads of fun there ...I did many things for the first time in my life... I had never done Go-carting, Archery, Rock climbing and skating earlier... and even though I sucked in most of them.. I did reasonably well in Archery (got highest points amongst us) and in Rock Climbing.. I liked skating a lot, tried to learn it for more then one hour, fall a million times ,but all in vain... seems I have to take couple of lessons more.. Anyway ... I wanted to write about Utkarsh's questions.. but got carried away with the other things ... well its better to write it in another post now ..

Blogaholic !!

Seems I have become a blogaholic (hasn't anybody coined this word yet ??)... Well !! Its 3 AM in the morning and I wasn't able to sleep and guess what I decided to read blogs... Too much raa... After going through some blogs I have found some very nice topics for next posts and I wish to write atleast two posts one to the answer of questions which Utkarsh has posted in his blog and other .. which is gaining very popularty, about God...

Google cheat sheet

Today while surfing I got to see this cheat sheet of google... some of the things which I liked: OPERATOR EXAMPLE FINDS PAGES CONTAINING... vacation hawaii the words vacation and Hawaii . Maui OR Hawaii either the word Maui or the word Hawaii "To each his own" the exact phrase to each his own virus –computer the word virus but NOT the word computer Star Wars Episode +I This movie title, including the roman numeral I ~auto loan loan info for both the word auto and its synonyms: truck, car, etc. define:computer definitions of the word computer from around the Web. red * blue the words red and blue separated by exactly one word. I'm Feeling Lucky Takes you directly to first web page returned for your query. CALCULATOR OPERATORS MEANING TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX + addition 45 + 39 - subtraction 45 – 39 * multiplication 45 * 39 / division 45 / 39 % of percentage of 45% of 39 ^ raise to a power 2^5 (2 to the 5th power) ADVANCED OPERATORS MEANING WHAT TO TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX (& DESCRIPTION OF RESULTS) site: Search only one website admission site:www.stanford.edu (Search Stanford Univ. site for admissions info.) [#]…[#] Search within a range of numbers DVD player $100...150 (Search for DVD players between $100 and $150) date: Search only a range of months Olympics date: 3 (Search for Olympics references within past 3 months; 6 and 12-month date-restrict options also available) safesearch: Exclude adult-content safesearch: sex education (Search for sex education material without returning adult sites) link: linked pages link:www.stanford.edu (Find pages that link to the Stanford University website.) info: Info about a page info:www.stanford.edu (Find information about the Stanford University website.) related: Related pages related:www.stanford.edu (Find websites related to the Stanford University website.)

How did they get their names

One of the better forwarded emails that I have received. Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy'server -- thus, the name Apache Jakarta (project from Apache) - A project constituted by SUN and Apache to create a web server handling servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was name of the conference room at SUN where most of the meetings between SUN and Apache took place. Tomcat - The servlet part of the Jakarta project. Tomcat was the code name for the JSDK 2.1 project inside SUN. Apple Computers - favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock. C - Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'.He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie) C++ - Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then 'new C'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C' which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick Mascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C. CISCO - its not an acronymn but the short for San Francisco. Compaq - using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object. Corel - from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory. GNU - a species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humor associated with its pronunciation and was also influenced by the children's song 'The Gnu Song' which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with 'GNU's Not Unix'. Google - the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google' ! Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing. HP - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics. Java - Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was no other language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank. LG - combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar. Linux - Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). He thought the ame to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax(free + freak + x).His friend Ari Lemmke ncouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the name Freax.(Linus' parents named himafter two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling) Lotus (Notes) - Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Microsoft - coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on. Motorola - Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his Company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola. Mozilla - When Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace Mosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla).The marketing guys didn't like the ame however and it was re-christened Netscape Navigator. ORACLE - Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company. Red Hat - Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone ! SAP - "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM. SCO (UNIX) - from Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa Cruz. Sony - from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster. SUN - founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer. UNIX - When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version of the OS.They needed the OS to run the game Space War which was compiled under MULTICS.It was called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan. It was later shortened to UNIX. Xerox - The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry' (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying).The Greek root `xer' means dry. Yahoo! - the word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos. 3M - Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining the material corundum used to make sandpaper.