Republic (half) day in Train

As usual, a long weekend and I travel from Hyderabad to Bangalore. This time it is the Republic day. I leave Hyd in the night 21:15 train and by the time I get to home in Bangalore it is usually 11:00 AM the next day.

Off late I have been so accustomed to write bogs. I just sit back and think, why I have become so used to it? After moving to Hyd, I have been staying alone. And this is the only means I talk to others and myself. Another good thing is, I can talk on and on and on; the blog never complains of it. There have been so many instances when I have hys typed the blogs to tell out all the things that I have in my mind and just closed the word document even without saving it. Hmmm.. Yes, I type it on a word document so that I have the formatting and done automatically and then I post and publish the blog. I feel its easy to do like this rather to directly type it on the blog text field.

I actually started writing blogs to read it again and refresh my memories. And then, I thought I will write about some technical stuff, but then ended up writing mostly about my experiences. Hmmm.. Technical.. I got a new assignment at work this week. It has been very very very challenging. You won’t believe it, its been so challenging that I have been going back home the last three days only by 00:00 hrs or even one day, late than that and still, I haven’t finished my work. I dunno whether to laugh at myself or feel proud of it though. You know what, I got a spot award last week at work. Its something like, they spotted my work and awarded me.

Hmm.. Back to the half day in Train. Since, I wrote my last blog, I guess I have started to be a little more lucky (regarding chicks in my coach). Since then, I have atleast one girl.. I mean it.. ATLEAST.. and luckily ATLEAST one in my adjacent compartment. Now I see why it feels so good to have a girl in the neighbor rather than in our own compound. Its easy to look across rather than looking straight. Because, there are less chances that you get caught while looking across. I am sure all the guys will concur with me on this.

Its still 09:00 AM and atleast 1 hr more to go to reach Yeshwantpur. Republic Day and Independence Day has been so much of joy especially when we were at school. Those parades, the enthusiasm. But now, its just another public holiday for most of us who work. And for people who work in a different city, it is more of an awaited holiday, which is planned atleast 1 month early to book tickets to travel home.

So many young people (of course including me) in the train. You would not believe it, I booked my tickets almost a month back. When I checked the availability online a week back, the waiting list had grown to WL150. That is very rare. To satisfy so much of the public, there are 2 extra coaches added to the usual set.

I was reading a blog last week written by a professional blogger. He writes reviews regarding the many products right from laptops, desktops to products like antivirus and Operating System. Blogging now has become professional as we can understand and its all about building trust in people. For example: You trust me. (lest assume.. I know you do not). I have been testing/reviewing a product. If I were to recommend it to you, I am sure you would buy it. Because I would also show a demo of the product.

The long awaited Windows Vista has been into so much of criticism. Some of the Professional Bloggers are upset for the basic fact that MS tried to bribe them by providing them a Ferrari laptop (I wish I could get one for me.. a die-hart fan of Ferrari I am) with Windows Vista installed. Later the MS sales in-charge came up with a press statement that the Laptops were given only for reviewing and after that, they had to either sell it off (which I think no one would) or return it to MS (which most of them did).

Vista, a long wait for almost 7 years. Though MS claims that it is only 3 yrs since it is been in full-fledged development. No one would deny the fact that MS has announced its plans of releasing another version of Windows by name Longhorn. It is history now that it was jus incorporated into the XP and 2k3 server later. There is a lot of debate also going around whether the Vista code originates from the XP or the w2k3 server code base. MS claims that it is been done from scratch though.

After using Vista at my labs for testing, I am of the impression that, this is jus another addin / plugin to the XP. I do not think Vista would replace the current XP professional that has been a huge hit especially among the corporate community. Only the look and feel of the OS has been changed and the corporate community actually expected a lot from Vista. Maybe, one more significant change is, it come with a Ipv6 and Ipv4 stack inbuilt. But it is not difficult to download a Ipv6 stack for Windows XP and install it. It will actually very long for the transition to happen from the current Ipv4 to Ipv6. As the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) has itself proposed many stages from the current “Ipv4 only” environment to “Ipv6 only” environment. It is atleast 6 to 7 yrs from now that we will be stop using the conventional 32 bit Internet address and switch to the Ipv6 addressing.

Awrite! I guess I have written a too very big blog now. Its spanned almost 2 pages on my word document. Lemme stop here and continue in my next blog regarding the various aspects involved in the transition.

Wish you all a very very Happy and Cheerful Belated republic day.

Cheers,
Srikanth