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Startup

There is this whole new revolution taking place with a sudden escalation in the use and making of software tools and products and the internet. There is so much one can seem to do and achieve nowadays. Almost every other person seems to be getting the next big idea and launching it to make decent wads of green. Well, many, like i did in the first statement of this post, are claiming this to be a direct effect of the explosion internet and software. But then again, there are other factors.

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The Marriage Code

While attending a typical south Indian wedding today, i got engrossed in the ceremony and its proceedings. Every hour there was a puja to be done and it was kind of maddening to be very honest. So, while this madness was going along it normal course, i started taking some interest in the prayers being offered to the Gods and started to ask people as to what they meant, (they were being chanted in Sanskrit), i noticed that every now and then the priest would ask for the bride's or the groom's name. Very so often he was also asking for the names of the parents. At places the priest was asking the couple to do a thing or two by giving them explicit instructions for the same.That is when a brain wave came to me, which might probably leave most of the priests unemployed when it comes to performing such ceremonies and prayers.

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An Early Draft: IC 2009

This was a portion of one of the 1st drafts I wrote with Kuldeep and Nagesh for our Mobile and Online Voting System, when we took part in the Imagine Cup 2009. We went all the way to the Semis of the Design for Development Award, after which we choose the University Exams over IC. I still have fond memories of those hours of intense brain storming, when the mind was free of technology and strong with ideas and concepts. Take a look at what we came up with. The ELECTION If every section of the society worked towards its own progress successfully then there wouldn't be anything to worry about, barring the conflict of interests between people which can be resolved through amicable means. However, that can never be true as, not all are fortunate in that regard. And thus the need for an unbiased governing body which can look to everyones' welfare. However, if this governing body isn't elected properly by taking everyone's opinion into account then there is bound to be some section of the country that will be left behind(in the race of progress and development.)

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Change the World or go home.

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The Blue Monster @ Microsoft
Scary? Don't be. This is what you will find on a few doors at the MS HQ. It can be interpreted in many ways. But, I chose to interpret it in a manner i will never be able to understand. Changing things is a very difficult thing to do. Changing the world is almost impossible. For most parts of our lives we end up trying to solve tough problems and manage to make the best sense of what life is, in our own context. To speak specifically about coders, they, we try to work out solutions for complex problems and feel elated about it. To be intelligent is good. But, what good is anything, if not met with true purpose. For me, true purpose is something that which brings change for the good. Something that makes lives better. Something that inspires me to do more, that which i am already doing, not because i am good at or need to be better at it. Instead because, it brought a smile to someone's face. While i was being an intent listener, someone today told questioned the point of doing research if one has to watch its results from one's grave. And i asked my self what would have happened if every great discovery or invention was viewed with such contempt. I do not hope or expect to effect direct change in some life in the poorest corner of this planet. I hope that what i do today, hopefully be used to change things in this world. It is with that simple idea that i wake up every morning. This was an abstract post meant to ask you one simple thing as a coder and a person of science and technology: What have you done to change the world around you? And how did you use technology to do it? Still thinking? Worried that whatever you have done was of no use but yo your own self and no body else's? Scared? Don't be. Because, it is ok to be like that. It is ok to be intelligent for your own next increment in pay. It is ok to be who you are. Change is difficult. Unless of course, you want to change and that is a start.