Why I hate TurboC?

After a long time I decided to code something(in C) for personal use, the last time I remember was an auto-shut down timer which was meant to save on some download time(Yup, we don't have unlimited download). Code was just for some online game(which I've actually been taking a bit seriously) and we had to monitor some sort of pattern in it.
Coding in C is something which I have been doing for a long time, but this time it was a bit different. Unfortunately I didn't have linux installed in the system, so I had to code in windows. When I began thinking it couldn't get worse I realized I had to code in TC, me and my big mouth.

Well to cut the long story short, it was one of the weirdest coding I've done in months. I looked like a joker coding with three windows, one for sciTE(only thing which beats this is vi), one for the TC(which I used only for compiling, and by compiling I mean just Ctrl+F9) and one for an open C library(this is one of my best finds, whole of C library in a single HTML file). Just to make it worse, I couldn't stop thinking how easy this would've been in unix all the time...

Why I hate TC?
That is because currently I am stuck with a 'Null Pointer Assignment' error, which mysteriously makes TC compile perfectly and run only parts of the code and execute successfully without performing certain actions, I mean the output. Execute successfully without the output, I know I pity myself too.
The agony, AAEEEE

Statutory Warning:
This post will make sense only to those with basic knowledge in programming.
Oops I guess I should've put this in the beginning of the sections :D

One word

How would you define a typical software professional in one word?
Huh..? Ok , from the beginning.

There is this funny thing I saw on the office leave application.
Please avoid using characters like semicolon(;), greater than(>), less than(<), asterick(*), pipe(|) in the fields
and I was just wondering what kind of stuff they had to face for THAT to be there..
$> grep home contact* | cat > Contact_when_Off.txt ; \r - in contact field??


THAT wouldn't be pretty. :P

It was then that I faced the question.
How would you define a typical software professional in one word?

Nerd?
A person with limited social, but advanced technological skills and interests. - Close but not close enough.

Geek?
one who eats (computer) bugs for a living, an asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. - That's more of an insult than a definition.

Well, I am bad at one word definitions I guess. I couldn't even get one for me, the closest one was 'Lazy' which is actually not bad. It atleast it explains why I don't post blogs frequently.

Hah, it's finally 2007.
I am not wishing new year to anyone now, it's way too late.

Hey I got my bike from Bangalore a few days back, now I tell myself
"Bachelors crave for only three things - Money, Bike and Girlfriend, you have one now. What are you going to aim for next?"
Nah, I am happy for now.

What's new in 2007?
Well I did take a resolution.
I will minimize my idle time. I will utilize my time for more constructive things and stop wasting it.
What constructive things?
I am not going to waste my time thinking about that. :P

My GTalk status message for many days has been
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. - Robert Wilensky
I had heard this before but hadn't understood it's essence until I became an active member of orkut and mylot.

My best weekend

This is surely by best weekend in Hyderabad till date.

Huge gang of my friends from Bangalore landed in here on Saturday morning. We had a lot of fun in Snow World, Golkonda Fort and Prasads IMax(Open Season which is my very first 3D movie).

Secondly I managed to crack into top 20 in a russian defrag contest.
My aim was top 10 but still it is a good start. Screenshot inline.

Oh Captain, My Captain!

This was said by Walt Whitman but I am talking about 'Dead Poet's Society'. It shows us what poetry and innoscence is, just like 'School of Rock' shows us what is rock n roll.
The first thing I told Mechi after watching the movie was "I didn't have any issues with Mohabbatein, untill I watched this movie".
The movie makes you feel like a kid again.

I had a similar feeling last weekend when me baby n manchi were shopping in the toystore. I realised two things
1. Now, at 22 I am slowly realizing things I should've done as a school kid.
2. By the time we begin to get a idea about what we want to achieve and what we would love to do for the rest of our lives we area already in our final year of graduation or are already working.

May be these are the reasons I spend so much time playing computer games like romanduels and defrag. Defrag.ru is holding some competition recently, hopefully I'll be able to crawl into top 10.
Carpe diem.

Waste(day)++

Yes. Yet another day wasted. Well, what's new.
I can so easily be convicted of killing time. Good thing is I can't be framed for it twice :D

Well today in metacafe I saw a dude who posted a lame shutdown shortcut thing get a 'Producer prize'. He didn't even assign it a keyboard shortcut, what's the world coming down to?

One of the most interesting thing I saw today was this

"Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin

The part
"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen

Yes there are two paths you can go by
but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on"

When played backwards
"Oh here's to my sweet Satan.
The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan.
He'll give those with him 666.
There was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan."?

I had heard of it before but never got to hear it.
It is demonstrated in this site. very neat.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/stairway.php

After a long time

After a long time, a long time indeed.

I would suggest men to discover the magic of shopping, you'll see why ladies spend so much time on it.
Warning: Men tend to spend more, a lot more than ladies when it comes to hard earned cash on stuff and that too at an alarmingly short time. So Beware.

After watching 'The Departed'(it is a masterpiece) yesterday evening, I remember my friends commenting on the climax of the movie and it not being in good taste. I admit that I was pretty shocked too. But the movie is Martin Scorsese's creation, I am sure he had his reasons for it to be that way. To demand the movie or a part of it to be something else changes the movie and I certainly wouldn't want it. What people don't get it is that 'Changing any part of something.. well.. changes it, it ceases to be the same'.

One more thing caught my attention very recently. It is a comic strip. I seriously have no idea why I liked it so much.
Source: http://www.xkcd.com/c167.html