bid chronicles

*sigh* The post below was the last one that Vulture (my laptop) will see. Something happened and now it doesn’t seem to want to start. It could be a mass number of reasons. One of the reasons that came up thru comparisions is that the hard drive might have failed. But it was working fawlessly it until I turned it off on Sunday morning. *sigh* I dunno what’s going on, why it had to happen at this time. But it sure does suck. I mean, it sucks bad.

If the hard drive is dead then I don’t know if I want to get it fixed. I mean, it will take big bucks to do that. I can’t afford to now! I’m moving and all that stuff. I guess I just might salvage the parts and wait a bit and then get a lighter laptop when I can afford a new one. Luckily, though I have backup for most of the sensitive data in that laptop. *sigh* Life.

Yesterday while surfing the web after actively chatting with a more than 2 people after a long time, I came across Rising Stars. This weekly newsletter has been an important part of my life thru high school. Though it wasn’t the first place where I got my stuff published, it was the first place where I would have gotten a column if I didn’t come to USA right around them.

Back in the day, when I was a complete geek hatching out of his shell, I realized that one thing that sucked in Bangladesh is the way they teach computer stuff. So me and a very geeky friend of mine, Sifat decided that we need to give the new generation a heads up. We decided on a string of arcicles that would talk at the teanager level and walk someone who doesn’t know anything about computers to something that they can at least do the day to day office work and may be even troubleshoot small things. After three articles we were requesting a column when I got admitted to Georgia Tech and everything just changed.

Actually come to think of it, I think my biggest motivator then was my first crush. We used to flirt around a lot of the phone and she knew nothing about computers. So I decide why not. Heh, I think it was taht which also put me in the lime light at my friend’s father’s institution. It was fun going back a year later and walking thru that institution as if I owned it. I need to do that again, though I doubt this time I’d have similar results.

Anyways, before I jump my thought train again, I’ll go back to work.

And once again, I’m at the horror circle of life. A point of time when my mind wants to wander but the circumstances suggest otherwise. Some say I’m running after the sun, while some thinks I’m head over hills into this trance. I dunno what exactly is going on. But I know I’m back in that situation. Well I don’t really know what to do about it.

On another note, I send Dune to a friend of mine. I wanted her to read it becuz I think she might enjoy it. I have been telling my sister to read it but she can’t even find time to buy the book. Well I hope K likes the book. Then I’ll stress the book to my sister once more.

Not that I expect myself to be bombing this place with a lot of journal entries. But I just thought I’d open it up becuz the interface looked pretty good. May be when I’m at work sometimes and I am bored, I just might work on it. Don’t count on it though. Things aren’t always what they seem.

Work is being hectic already and I just went thru the second day. It’s hard to work those long hours. But I am looking forward to the weekend and a new book “The Choice of the Cat”. Which reminds me, I should write the author an email. should be cool.

That’s all for today. I need to go to sleep now. Gotta wake up in 6 hours and be all happy to go to work. Or pretend to be at least.