Category: Life

The past 30-days represent the first tentative steps in my life and work towards a different focus in both. As a result, both are undergoing massive changes, resulting in my dealing with more grassroots level technology and problems to start off with for the time being, than being bothered with queuing mechanisms, sharding and the usual fancy bits we use in the normal geek world.

After nearly ten-years of working in mostly big firms, that is a significant paradigm shift for me. More so because it forces you to optimize and not take any thing for granted since there is no big company support system to watch your back or even get routine things done for you. Of all the things I could have thought of, cleaning up Windows XP installs and doing basic networking were never things that ever crossed my mind and that is exactly what I have been doing for the past four days now.

The weirdest part, well, maybe not so weird after all is that I can still coexist in all the different worlds easily even now. It is also true that I have more or less lived that way all my life. But I do feel that a course has been charted, not out of fear, spite or a lack of direction, but because of a complete absence of it.

That said, it has not been easy. It is rather convenient to see those 30-days in isolation from the rest of the time since the passing of November. I lost the plot and was forced to make my way back to the drawing board numerous times in those days. It has been unbearably frustrating, painful and disheartening too at times. But it is still every bit worth it.

It has been over two years since I hung up my personal blogging boots there and kept blogging on elsewhere, but about business, technology and other 'official' things that caught my fancy. Honestly, till about a while ago, I have not missed it much and for the kind of writing that I used to do there, I still don't miss it and I am not even sure that I can write like that anymore.

The main reason behind this blog being set up is that over the past two years life has changed considerably for me. It all began around the time I stopped writing there and well over two years later, I think things have reached a stage where I comfortable with being able to write about personal things again.

Another reason is that it has never worked out well for me to mix both personal and work-oriented blogging. The audience mismatch is quite glaring and that is something I really want to avoid. I have tried it before too, but it has never quite worked, since I have not had the time or energy to keep two different sites updated. Hopefully, it should be different this time around.

One of my aims for this year is to travel a lot, hopefully off the beaten trail too. Two of the earlier entries have already been about travel, there will be more of it to come. There is also the intention to write about music and books more here. One of the good things about the past year is that I have rediscovered reading books and there needs to be a space for me to write about all that where I would own the data, than a random application on a social networking site.

So, sit tight and visit often if you like this kind of stuff.