Since my last b!@#$ing about people (a.k.a. friends) not reading my blog, some of them actually did read (one of them somehow managed to read a two month old entry) and few of them even found enough time to leave comments. Guess I should do it (i.e., b!@#$ing) more often. I have come to realize that there are four types of people who usually read my blog, viz:

1. those who don’t read if there is any technical content
2. those who don’t read if there is no technical content
3. those who read just about anything, irrespective of content
4. those who don’t read at all, irrespective of content

How easy is it to write something that meets the taste of all four (technically first three) aforementioned categories of people? I learnt it the hard way that it’s not so easy but it’s not too difficult either. So, part of my last weekend was spent in adding more categories and re-categorizing (most of) the previous entries. What I also re-realized is the fact that I am Geek/Nerd - which means much of my time is spent in research/computer related fields and as a result, most of the things that happen in my life are technical. This (directly / indirectly) implies that majority of my blog-entries deal with such things.

Does it mean that I don’t have a life beyond sciences/computers? Certainly not. Other things that I am interested are the following, with a description of why I seldom make them the subject of entries:

1. Reading: I used to be voracious reader (reading just about anything and everything that I could find) before my passion for computers was reborn a few years ago. I still read some books (and read them over and over again) - most of them are either manuals or user-guides, etc. Outside of computers/science, I read books like Mankuthimmana Kagga, Samskruthi, Jeevana Dharma Yoga (you probably would have guessed by now, DVG is my favourite writer - well, if you know about him) and so on. These may not be of interest to people of my age-group (I clearly remember my parents refusing to buy me these books), but now that I think about it, I should write about my understandings of these works.
2. Sports: I guess I do write about sports - that I watch (on TV and live) and play..
3. Music: I do listen to variety of music but my musical talent ends at listening. Well, that’s not entirely true - I did take violin classes last year and learnt how to play couple of simple songs. I even managed to have a fan club for my playing of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star number and that’s where my playing instruments stopped. About singing, I can confidently say that myself and Sonu Nigam (or Phil Collins) started singing in the bathroom. They have gone on to be great singers and I remained in bathroom
4. Movies: I am not a big fan of movies and you probably wouldn’t believe if I tell you that I watched Mission Impossible (not part III, but I) few days ago or Lagaan in 2004! Personally, I think watching TV, except for sports and some good documentaries, is a waste of time. It doesn’t mean, again, that I don’t watch movies at all - but the ones I watch somehow belong to the geeky/techno/sporty class. For example: Beautiful Mind, Dangerous Minds, Dead Poets’s Society, Italian Job, Oceans’ Eleven, Replacements, and so on…
5. Photography: I am an amateur myself and I have neither expertise nor experience to write about it.

So, in an attempt to please everybody, I have decided to concentrate on one given subject per entry, instead of mixing everything up… Oh, one more thing - I found the following on couple of my friends’ pages. A method to figure out what type of writer one is and I thought it wasn’t a bad description of myself… It said,

You Should Be a Science Fiction Writer
Your ideas are very strange, and people often wonder what planet you’re from. And while you may have some problems being “normal,” you’ll have no problems writing sci-fi. Whether it’s epic films, important novels, or vivid comics… Your own little universe could leave an important mark on the world!

Though I am not entirely sure of my Sci-Fi writing capability, I am very certain about first sentence and half of the second! If you are interested, you can try this page. So, let me see how many people (remember to) read this entry (and possibly comment on it)…