Fooling around pool

Youngsters of our time have a lot more access to a variety of games. And as a surprise, I have been playing a lot more kind of sports and games than I ever was, after I have begun my career as an engineer. Fooling around with a lot of sports gives you a chance to know what's your league of games. And believe me, doing what you are really good at and what you enjoy makes life happier to live ;)

Relationship status : committed

My cousin told me that by changing one's relationship status to committed, the number of scraps one gets on orkut increases by an enormous amount. It did for me. I got a lot of calls, messages and scraps from 50 odd people in a short span of time.

Moral of the story: people are really interested in love life of others. They simply are. They want to know who is going out with whom, specially if they were your peers at some point in life. And when almost all your peers have had a relationship, and you haven't, that's when you realize that its high time to hook up with someone!

Why translations cannot be done by machines

One of my colleagues sent me this link. Its a translation of a kannada poem by GK Adiga. I was immediately bowled over by the lovely translation. The translation reflects the inner subtleties of the original so well, that it made me understand and perhaps gave me more perspectives about the original song. And it is clear as a programmer, that with the current state of things, it is not possible to make such a translation mechanically. It would require a poetic heart filled with enough Josh and the right words flowing into at the right time.

There is actually a new field emerging called human computation. It deals with those things that humans can do, but current computers cant and probably never will. Like the captcha, for instance. Google for it, and you stumble upon some interesting theories and ideas. At least, you will feel proud that you are a human. Though a computer will find 2^19834 faster than you, only you can translate a poem with all its context and inner meaning. Because current computers cannot yet read between the lines!!

Just another Blog

Its very difficult for one to keep blogging regularly and frequently, especially if one has a more serious job at hand. No offense at any serious blogger, but, this is what I felt.

I have resisted all my instincts of procrastinating my blogging here and have sat up. Blogging is turning out to be a commercial interest for many who loved to write, but did not have a medium. I read somewhere about an IITan who gave up his software job to become a mainstream blogger.

So, what is it in a blog that will make people visit it?

1. Its your friends blog.

2. It has stuff about what you care a lot, and is rarely available on the web - like a blog written in Kannada would interest me.

3. It has some really useful information - like local prices of things, reviews, travel information, piece of code, interview questions etc.

4. Its beautifully written or has amazing pictures with it.

With all these said, I am thinking on what can be done to make myself more read. Suggestions are welcome (through comments) !!