Most of my work is done on MacBook these days and I am typing this on Ubuntu machine. All that said, it still is tough to get away from Windows world. Every electronic footprint all around us is most likely to be a windows based one.
So it was natural for me to ensure that I have options of windows on my Macbook when it came to me, thanks to generousity from Brij. I used parallels and kept windows running on my machine. Slowly i kept using less of windows and soon it became irritating space hogging entity. Last week to my horror i realized that I was reduced to 2gb of balance space on my Macbook. Little did I realize that i had racked up almost 6000 photos on my iPhoto!!
So it was now survival of the fittest for digital entities on my machine. First casualty were freely downloaded stuff which didnt help me much. Now there was a toss up between 20 gb locked up space for my parallels virtual machine for windows XP and my multimedia assets. It wont take much to guess what happened next!!
I did this partly with the knowledge that I have windows machine at arms length in office and other places if I need to bow down to Billy the kid again. But its a long way to road to freedom still :)
Just wish for the day when our accessories wouldnt be tied to a platform circa windows days!!
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Bombs and us
In last 2 days We have been jolted by serial blasts. This time the new set of people are dedicating themselves to make these blasts really serial in nature.
It is dreadful but somehow the impact of the blasts doesn't seem to register in our minds. As long as it is a news we watch on tele, we dont seem to get affected by the shock and grief of it.
The slack law and order gets away every time behind this propaganda about spirit of the city and spirit of people. Why we get these bomb blasts almost every year now? Why people are not vigilant and above all why the police of our states is not vigilant at all.
I remember my early days in Delhi when we were reeling under the Punjab problem, everytime we used to board a bus we would sure look under our seats just to ensure that there was no strange thing lurking out there.
The day Bangalore blasts happened I called my friends and relatives in the city and to my surprise none seemed to be shocked or scared.. have we learnt to live with Bombs.
Is it that like all other ills that plague our nation.. be it potholes on the road or mockery of democracy..bombs have become just another thing to avoid and live with??
It is dreadful but somehow the impact of the blasts doesn't seem to register in our minds. As long as it is a news we watch on tele, we dont seem to get affected by the shock and grief of it.
The slack law and order gets away every time behind this propaganda about spirit of the city and spirit of people. Why we get these bomb blasts almost every year now? Why people are not vigilant and above all why the police of our states is not vigilant at all.
I remember my early days in Delhi when we were reeling under the Punjab problem, everytime we used to board a bus we would sure look under our seats just to ensure that there was no strange thing lurking out there.
The day Bangalore blasts happened I called my friends and relatives in the city and to my surprise none seemed to be shocked or scared.. have we learnt to live with Bombs.
Is it that like all other ills that plague our nation.. be it potholes on the road or mockery of democracy..bombs have become just another thing to avoid and live with??
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