“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish……Stay Excited!”

Disclaimer: When I refer to ‘technology’, it includes almost everything that comes under these immensely broad categories… “Computers and Internet”

I love technology. I just can’t get enough of it. I desperately try to keep up with it, though it’s advancing at a ‘breakneck’ speed. But that never bogs me down. Infact, every new innovation gives me an increase drive every time to understand it with the hunger for being the one to innovate one day.

Steve Jobs said in a speech he gave at Stanford,

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”

This is what I have been doing. Ever since I recall, I have always had had an unusual sort of enthusiasm to work on or understand anything that is new and promising. I always want to get up to speed with all the new things on the horizon and all the current trends. I have this weird urgency in trying to get up to speed with anything, lest I fall behind in my race to catch up (and overtake) the technology on open throttle. Till date, I really haven’t been able to match that speed

As Steve Jobs puts it as “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”, and I would add to it, “Stay Excited!!”.

Anyway, being what I am, I always seem to be the ‘impatient‘,’over excited‘ sorts or even ‘Hyper‘ , to others. While I completely understand their feelings, I really don’t care beyond that. I am fortunate that I have that ‘Hunger‘, that ‘Foolishness‘ and that ‘Excitement‘ in me.

Signing off…

Siddharth Khimsara

All about penning down..or rather ‘keying down’…without thinking..

I want to start the 2nd post in my blog with a quote from Finding Forrester. (Note to myself: my first post is still incomplete)

“No thinking – that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is… to write, not to think!”

Well, this is what I am trying to do while I write this post.

Alright.. now what do I write about? This is the place that I always give up after trying really hard to think of something new to write about. Well, don’t confuse it with “writer’s block”. That is a place that most writers find themselves only after they have written something and then suddenly cannot think of what to write next. I am in a place much worse than that. I call it the “writer’s void”. I am always trying to find a way to fill that void with some interesting topic so that I can atleast reach “writer’s block” Oh wait..there is yet another thing I didn’t confess. There is a parallel process that starts in my mind, the moment I feel i want to write, which is cooking up a million topics that the subconscious mind feels I should write about. However, my conscious mind just doesn’t approve of any of the topics, rejecting each with either of these errors; ‘too insignificant’ or ‘in-depth know how about this topic not present’. So now I find myself in a place called the “writer’s dizzy”, caught up between my conscious and subconscious mind. This is a place where I am trying to formulate the opening sentences in my head for all those million topics, hoping that I will start writing something. It’s like the poor code in a continuous ‘for loop’, hoping to catch a break statement. :> I survive in that ‘dizzyland’ for a little while and then I find myself back in the place I originally started from; “writer’s void”

I am just happy that the continuous for loop of the human mind is not an infinite for loop!

Well, for those of you who have concluded that I will give up again….well you right.. I am back in the state of ‘what should I write about’.

Maybe you should scroll back to the 1st line of this post and start reading it all over again.

The alpha (not beta) version of my blog ;)

To start writing a blog is my first step into the world of Web 2.0. I have finally (after a lot of deliberation and procrastinated plans) stepped into the flowery world of web 2.0. Well, I come from the Linux world, so this anything that doesn’t involve writing C code in ‘vi’ is flowery to me

I am one of the fortunate ones (or unfortunate…maybe ??) who really didn’t have anything to do with web development related to the pre-web 2.0 era. I have currently started looking into the basics of web 2.0 programming. So most of my time these days goes in reading up and watching some video tutorials on .NET, AJAX , JavaScript, DOM blah blah… to be frank, just a month back I had no idea how it all worked, but today I am well up to speed with it. The only problem is that I haven’t really started coding as yet. Well, that won’t take much time. Getting up to speed with a syntax of a new language becomes really simple once you have coded in C and C++ for more than 2 years.

Anyway, to start blogging was my 1st step. To make my personal web site (and definitely not like the typical ones that you know as ’students’ homepages’ on any university/department website) This is one of the reasons why I say I am one of the fortunate ones. I never learned to make a site like that I would rather remain ‘homepageless’ than design a site like that.

Well, I took one little step towards it already. I registered a domain name of my last name form the Microsoft OfficeLive website for free! Well, it still holds the default webpage but I plan to change them very soon….

(Oh heck..i just remembered…it’s summer. This blog will remain incomplete until the end of summer …look out for the updated blog very soon)

Siddharth Khimsara