Seminar - a great success

Hey guys, just checked in to tell you that the seminar I had today was a great success ( atleast upto my best knowledge ). It was a seminar on Shell Sort as I had told in my last post.

You know what , it is a great experience you feel when you stand there and teach something , anything for that matter and make sure that everyone ( atleast most of the front seaters ) understand what you want to convey to them and the best part is one of my friends ( part of the audience for the seminar ) suggested me to become a teacher , which is what I want to be if given total independance of choice in my life.

Being Nervous - is it just me or is everyone like me

You know I have to give a seminar on Shell Sort on coming Tuesday i.e. on 29th of this month and when I am practicing for the same I try to think what am I supposed to say when I first go up there, what should I do if I forget something, what to do if I make a fool of myself, what should I do if someone asks me a question and I can't answer it properly , what if I make a fool of myself by going up there , what should I do up there since I will be pretending to know everything when in practice I know very little and try answering doubts just like picking my lucky hand in poker but then I get the feeling that out of all the successful seminars held 99% of them go to success in a similar fashion.

I really don't know what is in store for me on Tuesday but am sure I want it to go properly because it is my first ever seminar and it means a lot to me.

Well hoping that this feeling of mine being documented here is not inappropriate for my blog and hoping that I am a normal person , I hope that you all feel the same way in similar position and in saying you I mean those 'normal' people who are not an anomaly in themselves and to this society.

And before I go ,one last request wish me luck for my seminar.

Do you know why call centre professionals are paid so much

Take a look ,

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Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop."
Customer: "OK."
Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"
Customer: "No."
Tech Support: "OK. Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"
Customer "No."
Tech Support:: "OK, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"
Customer: "Sure, you told me to write 'click' and I wrote 'click'."
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Customer: "I received the software update you sent,but I am still getting the same error message."
Tech Support:" Did you install the update?"
Customer: "No. Oh, am I supposed to install it to get it to work?"
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Customer: "I'm having trouble installing Microsoft Word."
Tech Support:: "Tell me what you've done."
Customer: "I typed 'A:SETUP'."
Tech Support:: "Ma'am, remove the disk and tell me what it says."
Customer:: "It says '[PC manufacturer] Restore and Recovery disk'."
Tech Support:: "Insert the MS Word setup disk."
Customer:: "What?"
Tech Support: "Did you buy MS word?"
Customer: "No..."
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Customer:: "Do I need a computer to use your software?"
Tech Support:: ?!%#$
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Tech Support:: "OK, in the bottom left hand side of the screen,can you see the 'OK' button displayed?"
Customer: "Wow. How can you see my screen from there?"
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Tech Support:: "What type of computer do you have?"
Customer:: "A white one."
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Tech Support:: "Type 'A:' at the prompt."
Customer:: "How do you spell that?"
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Tech Support: "What's on your screen right now?"
Customer: "A stuffed animal that my boyfriend got meat the grocery store."
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Tech Support:: "What operating system are you running?"
Customer: "Pentium."
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Customer: "My computer's telling me I performed an illegal abortion."
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Customer: "You've got to fix my computer. I urgently need to print document, but the computer won't boot properly."
Tech Support: "What does it say?"
Customer: "Something about an error and non-system disk."
Tech Support: "Look at your machine. Is there a floppy inside?"
Customer: "No, but there's a sticker saying there's an Intel inside."
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Tech Support:: "What does the screen say now?"
Customer: "It says, 'Hit ENTER when ready'."
Tech Support:: "Well?"
Customer: "How do I know when it's ready?"

Small things in life make all the difference

The HoD of our department has forced upon us many rules and regulations like,

1. you shouldn't miss a single class without informing him in advance.
2. you shouldn't wander around in the college campus inbetween classes.
3. you shouldn't miss a single internals.
4. all your notes must be update , he can check them whenever he wants to.
5. for all those who stay at college hostel ,he can check their computer any time he wants

and many more.......

Even after all this I still don't like to miss a single day of my college , not because I miss the rules which he has set for us but because I cherish the small moments of my life where I break those rules right under his nose and still go unnoticed.

Life is full of surprises

Today all my family members ( my mom, dad, brother and also my cousin ) and myself had gone to our native place. We had hired a Tata Sumo ( transportation vehicle ) for our transportation purpose and the hero or the main character in this post is the driver who had accompanied us in this trip ( technically the term 'trip' doesn't fit here ).Let me tell you some things about our driver ( i don't know his name , so i shall call him Mr. Turtle : you will know why, shortly ).Mr. Turtle is a good ,jovial guy and a guy with lot of ( maybe unwanted ) patience .The only drawback with him is that he never at any circumstances drives fast.

I usually don't accept any changes that would occur in my regular schedule i.e. in short I don't like to bunk classes or miss my tuition classes for any reason ( not specific ).So , I had agreed to join this trip on the condition that I should be able to attend my tuition classes which were at 5:15 PM.

We left our house at 7:00AM against the scheduled 6:00AM (Since i woke up late).We reached the place at around 10:30AM and finally left at 2:00PM. Initially I didn't realize that with Mr. Turtle sitting in front of the steering wheel I would be late for my tution classes. As time passed I became conscious of it , I tried to hint him to go fast by telling everyone how important the class was for me and about negative effects of me missing the class. But that dumb ass kept on driving at 40/50kph which irritated me the most. I wanted to push him out of the driver's seat ,place myself there and drive at 60/70kph and reach my classes on time.

But fate has its ways and he did make me go to the classes 15 minutes late and when I finally did reach my tuition place I came to know that classes were postponed by around 20 minutes.At that time I just laughed at my attitude and ways in which our life gets filled with surprises.

I Hate Everything

Today I had my 1st internals Mathematics paper and in that there was a question involving Numerical differentiation i.e. to be specific the question was to extimate 4 succeeding values of y using MODIFIED EULER'S METHOD for the given Differential Equation and also compare the values obtained at each point with those obtained analytically.

I had to do 4 iterations at each point and each point depends on the value of the previous one.So , finally when I did finish finding the values of the 4 points I realised that I have made a mistake in finding the first value of y and hence all the subsequent values of y are wrong.

I looked at my watch which showed 2:55 and it flashed to me - exam ends at 3:00PM

At that instant I felt like I had stood in front of a nuclear bomb which just blew up tearing me into peices without even giving me a chance to feel the pain.

I did correct the 1st two values of y but couldn't change the last two values.When I came out of the examination hall I just hated everything and anything including myself.

How good a friend I am ?

When I tried to answer this question, the first thing that came to my mind was, to what extent can I commit to my friend and to what extent can I keep up those commitments.

If my friend asks for some money ( ofcourse within my limits ) for himself, would I give him the money without having second thoughts ?

If my friend called me at 8 AM and asked me to come to college ( 10 to 15 kms far) on a holiday to assist him in his personal work, like project work etc... , would I say yes or give some excuse for not being able to come or would laugh at him for asking me to come to college on that day ?

I have a friend named Aditya Bannadi, I have not seen a friend like him in my whole life.You can ask him to do anything ( I mean anything from which he will be least benefitted ) within his power and he will accept it without having any second thoughts ( with exceptions ofcourse ). I can't summarize his qualities in one passage, but untill now he has never refused to do anything which any of my friends have asked him to do.

Anyway my role model for becoming a good friend is Aditya Bannadi.

My 2nd Sem results are out !!

I got 91.7% in my second sem.

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Holiday

Well my holidays will be getting over soon.I had lots of fun during this time ,

Things i did:

• Played cricket
• Watched a lot of TV
• Played many computer games
• Listened to lot of Back Street boy - songs.
• Studied bit of Graph theory

Welcome to my blog

Yes, I have become a blogger ( atleast officially ) from today.

This blog will be about me and my views over various computer ( and some other controversial ) issues.

So read and comment .If you want to comment over my posts , you are free to do so but try to be bold not hard when you comment.