Thought Outflux | Anirudh Sanjeev

By some extremely strange coincidence which is too trivial to document here, I glanced across these two simple allitered words, which I saw a new diabolical solution to my frust relief.

Essentially, what I decided was that I gotta find someone new to talk to and what better way to do it than good old email. I wanted to do snail mail, but this would be very tedious. My people meeting(read as:girl meeting) skills have been diminishing exponentially by the day and whatever smart mix of good choicy conversation, and listening skills, and a set of witty comments which I once flaunted with ease. Rusty and unused, these skills are replaced by intiutive anti-politics and selective finger displays.

So essentially, I setlled for contacting someone, who’s details I shall not be revealing here. What surprised me more than anything else is how easy it was to find one. I’m hoping that we exchange written(typed) material frequently and this works out.

In other news, a lot happened today. A lot of it dough I cannot spill out at any costs, but some of it, which I must spill out at all costs. Well, it’s 4 in the morning. I gotta get some sleep.

Good night world.

Well, I’ve made a lot of changes to the site today. Most notably, I replaced the home page with the blog. I will no longer maintain three seperate blogs, but rather, one blog catering to most people. Anyways, I shifted the theme of the site to the minimalistic and hi-tech K2(kubrick2) theme for wordpress instead of the earlier durable 0.2 theme by andy keating, which was very pretty but sucked on usability. I’ll put on sidebars and other things.

I noticed this mainly because people who were clicking on the main homepage didn’t go ahead. the bounce rate was very high and the blogs didn’t recieve much readability. I decided that the front page ought to be dynamic. Also notable is that I removed the categories system and implemented ultimate tag warrior for a tagged system for the blogs, which I’m testing out now.

Overall, I hope that these changes make things better for the blog. In the works are a flash header and a small music player, along with a linked static area for the things like resume/etc.

Livewriter keeps getting better and better. It now has plugins for UTW and flickr which means a lot more pictures from now on.

Until next time.

tags: changes, wordpress, k2, technology, me, website

It all started with a little dream. I remember it was about a friend of mine, who’d shaved herself bald (on the head, thank you very much), for reasons which I’m not at liberty to mention. So then suddenly, everyone around me are telling me to install Linux. And then after some more craziness I won’t mention here, I woke up with only one thing in my head — Linux was the answer.

I have long been searching for digital convergence. I’ve been focusing all my efforts on having a simplified digital lifestyle and an easy day. My digital life till now was this:

7:00 wake up to the sweet sound of slayer
Brush teeth and was face etc
Check Mail/Mutter
Read news compiled through the various rss feeds
Listen to a little music, relax for a couple of minutes, and collect my thoughts
<CLASS/PAIN/COLLEGE/HORROR>
Check mail after coming back(via gtalk, don’t load up gmail)
Listen to a little music while checking design feeds and tech feeds/ digg
Play a game/watch south park/stumbleupon for about 40 mins
<ENJOY OFFLINE COLLEGE LIFE>
Listen to music when I do anything, ie study, goof off
Check Mail, catch up with friends via chat
Set alarm to some other trash metal for the next day
Sleep

Somehow this didn’t seem too exciting (but now that I list it, it does). I wanted to change my routine, so I must’ve subconscious wanted Linux, or more importantly, a change.

Another important reason why I wanted it was: choice. I suck when it comes to making choices. I can never make up my mind. I spent ages trying to get a theme for my site. It took me countless hours to even choose a Linux distro to go along with. But linux seemingly had a lack of choice. There’s one app to do something and it does it great. I evaluated about 12 blog writers before goping for this one, and I still haven’t gotten a concrete website template and am making my own.

 I decided to stick with suse. It was big, bloated, had eye candy and was buzzword compilant. I loved the artwork. I’ll leave the technical details in the tech blog. So I tried installing once and it got messed up. I thought I figured the problem out and got it running in an hour. Then came the hard part. I was helpless and lost. I won’t give details here but I was screwed big time. I found myself booting windows from time to time as if to come up for air. I seeked recluse and comfort in windows, I guess everyone tries to get into familiar territory whenever they can. After about six hours wasted, I thought “Why did I try installing linux in the first place: to save time, and now, I’m blowing precious time away.” and I decided to screw linux and gave up.

In retrospect, this entire episode taught me something. That my policy of goal oriented computing: make a goal, do it, and get your ass off that seat, works best. And also, change is not better, because as long as you don’t feel the need for it, there’s really no need. Give new things a shot, but don’t expect it to change your life.

That change, even if we want it is not all that important. If we don’t know what we’re chasing or what we’re running from, you will never know when you get there