Archive for year 2009
Real Life > Orkut, Facebook etc etc
May 29th
I was going over my Orkut & Facebook profile today, & was thinking whether they even matter in today’s world? Sure Social Networking sites help us in meeting new people, I have myself met many people like that who are now my very good real life friends but here is the thing, they are now my real life friends…isn’t it.
Social Networking sites are no longer in between me & my friends. If I need to talk to them or communication I either use the Phone or IM/E-Mail them. If I want to share some pictures, I upload them on Flickr & share with them. If it is some Presentation Slide, I use SlideShare, if I want to share a Video, I upload them on Youtube or just mail them.
The only benefit of Social networking sites for me is to meet new people, get to know them a bit & then bring the Friendship to real world where it is better to have it. I just don’t like the concept of Online Friendship, it should be bought to real life as soon as possible. Many times I have met some people online on Social networking sites, who are afraid to show themselves in real, specially girls. Now I do understand the security concerns as one of my ex-friend also faced the same problem but simply, unless 2 people talk, they can’t know each other. Anyone can fake on a Computer screen about anything, trust is something only real life can create.
How many of you readers rely on Social Networking sites for communicating with your friends? Sometimes I check my Facebook or Orkut Profile after 5 or 6 days & there are not many updates on my Scrapbook/Wall. The communication is direct with them once we are Real life Friends.
Grafitti : C.P, New Delhi
May 19th
I am posting this cos I haven’t seen an art like this in Delhi anywhere. This doesn’t count all the wall drawings, posters, ads I see all over the walls of Delhi’s architecture.
First week at SlideShare ends
May 15th
Today marks the end of my first official week of work in SlideShare, New Delhi. Its going good so far. Since I took a home close to office, traveling isn’t much of a problem & I can even walk from office to home, considering its 5 KM from my home.
I haven’t finished setteling down in New Delhi yet. Most of my cloths, stuff isn’t here yet & we still have to buy a dustbin & another water bucket. I hope a trip to Amar Colony Market will solve these problems, over the weekend. I might have to go to Lucknow over the weekend next month to get my bike to New Delhi. Spending Rs 25-30 everyday one way on traveling is costly.
The first day I joined SliedShare I was told to give an Inaugeral speech on “How can geeks score girls”. Well, the team here is good, helpful & helps in learning a lot…. but comon, I am sure everyone is well versed in this area already. Oh! & we got 3 Saurav here including me, so we are having an Identity Crisis here. When Boss calls from Saurav, its confusing who he is calling. I told them to call me “GX” but then GX is not a professional name (it never was)… so I m still trying to figure out nick name. “Rake” might work out too.
First 2 days were used in configuring my workstation here only. I hope I will soon get a bigger LCD Monitor as reading text on a CRT is giving me headache as I am not habitual to CRT anymore. I might also get a laptop from SlideShare as my primary machine.
I started learning HTML, XHTML & CSS using W3schools & htmldog by the guidence of our Tech Lead, Kapil Mohan. He teaches good. I am not giving my ideas of UI here yet as that I would prefer to give after 1 or 2 months only.
I will be bringing my workstation here only after 3 months. Till then I will work on my phone only. It was a good decision to buy Nokia N79, it no less then a small PC itself.
Today is the weekend at SlideShare, but my week never ends.
Time to leave Infranix I.T Solutions
May 1st
This is to inform everyone that I am leaving for Delhi & will be working with Slideshere, New Delhi office now under the supervision of Amit Ranjan & Kapil Mohan from May 2009 onwards.
I will be out of touch of internet for some days till I am able to get a new SIM. I won’t be taking my PC with me so the only way of communication will be my new number & will be accessing internet through my Phone & GPRS.
I needed this job, needed a reason & way to get out of Lucknow again. This time I hope I won’t do the mistakes I did last time & life will be better. Compared to the last time when I was working in Delhi, I know about Web 2.0 , about 100% more which my work speaks.
I am over the relationship crap now. The emotions switch is off. I lost some people but gained few people too. Divy Prakash was right, there is no point crying for someone who treats you like shit, leave him/her & move on, I did & I sure found better people.
Its like a new beginning with new people, new job, new relationships which I am more serious about this time as being a Casanova will spoil my name only in the long run.
It was a pleasure working at Infranix with the fellow member & the team.
MCon Outdoor Advertising : Amalgamation of 3D & 2D in Web Designing.
Apr 21st
Few days ago I was given the job to design the website of a Mumbai based Outdoor advertising which was to be made all in Flash. Now, Flash takes lots of time to load but also gives us some interactivity which isn’t possible in JavaScript.
I made the concept for MCons by looking at one of my old 3ds Max renders of Urban Colony. I went with a 3d Perspective & made real boards on which ads are shown outside our home.
This is how the modified design of MCons would look like.
When the user clicks on the mailbox, it opens a slide out animation for this contact form.
We are also told to add cat & dog animation as they are the company’s trademark which will be added by Flash. My fellow ex-colleague at Infranix are working on it.
This is my last work in Infranix. Next work is going to be for SlideShare.
