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In General Stuff on June 17, 2008 at 3:25 pm
What if your friend is seriously ill? What if all he needs is a favor… probably his last from you? What happens when life puts you in a tight spot? Answers are usually hard to come by. If you could relate a bit, read on!
Well, the reason why I’m striking this chord is primarily because of the incident that I’m about to tell you. One fine morning last week, wednesday or thursday I can’t recall, I recieved a call from my close friend. He sounded morbid. He told me that one of our close friends had suffered a serious accident. His car had crashed into a truck coming from the opposite side as he lost control on a wet section of the highway. He was admitted in a hospital in Noida. The condition was described ‘critical’ by his attending doctors. His parents were in a state of shock ever since they saw their son in a prison-cell of a room, with 2 tubes in the mouth for ventillation, two intravenous lines, a haphazard mesh of wires connecting to a machine which, for all it did, kept beeping at regular intervals and showed a wierd pattern on its green display.
Read on…
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In General Stuff, USA on June 13, 2008 at 4:35 am
Updated!!
Have I been racially discriminated in the United States? Well… I don’t really know but I’ll let you judge!
Well, since I’ve been getting a lot of hits to this post, I thought I should share my experiences in the land of dreams (for most Indians) with you.
As is the case everywhere, people tend to get apprehensive to find someone different than themselves in their own locality. No wonder that you see ‘goras’ and ‘goris’ getting chased around by an Indian crowd in the streets of Jaipur or Chandni Chowk in Delhi. It is very natural for them to get curious, get agitated, or even get annoyed with the ‘foreign’ presence. Keeping this background in mind, consider the events that I describe below.
A brown man stands out in a white and black crowd as much as the opposite. So, it is not surprising to get an occassional comment like ‘Oh! you’re an Indian… yeah… I thought so!’ Now, depending on the way it was said, this simple statement can be ajudged a comment, a complement, a simple observation or a racist remark! Mostly, what you can do is to ignore all of it if said with negative connotation. Avoid brawls to the best possible extent except if you are bigger, stronger and as they say, in a position of might (rare… very rare!) Please understand that this behavior is called discrimination… and if you don’t have an elephant’s memory, must I remind you that it is the same as what you do to other people while you go bossing around in India.
Now, most waiters and waitresses have a notion that Indians don’t tip well. Hence, expect a rough serving at any ordinary restaurant unless you walk in with the attitude suiting riches! Listen to this well… TIP atleast as much as the service tax on your bill or 10-15% of total bill amount. Yes, that would come to be around 2-5$ but it is a good habit. Saves people like me from getting remarks like ‘hey… you’re Indian and still you gave me a 5$ tip! Wow, thanks!’
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In Cool, General Stuff on June 10, 2008 at 4:19 pm
UPDATED!!!
As they say, everyone wants a piece of the best pie! When IT revolution happened in last decade, everyone wanted to become an IT professional and ride the wave of high-paying jobs with the coolness quotient. Most people I knew tried to learn as many computer languages as they could in order to get internships/jobs in IT sector biggies!
But then, as is the case in any field, some are professionals, some are newbies and some impostors… So, a breed of guys (mostly) and girls grew up downloading softwares from the internet and trying to attack or ‘hack’ a computer. Personally, I took the onslaught of these wannabes’ rather silently. Every person who came up to me and said that he/she was a hacker got an audience. I listened to them brag about how they performed ddos attacks on their friend’s computer and managed to get away with a few ‘classified’ pictures of him and his girlfriend. All I could say was ‘great work buddy!’
But as I got to know better, my understanding of this phenomenon improved. It is not hard to understand the psychology of a wannabe hacker. Also, it is equally easy to tell a hacker from a newbie.
Read on to find out:
- Who is a hacker?
- What makes the very word ‘Hacker’ sound cool?
- How is a hacker different from a wannabe?
- Tricks of catching a wannabe red-handed!
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