I’m sure some of these posts make me come off as a super-geek. It’s true to some extent and I can’t deny it, but if you really pay attention, you’ll see that while I appear to be a super-geek, I’m much dumber than the average super-geek. For some mad reason, I find it more sensible to do practical things rather than learn about the theory behind uninteresting subjects. That rebellious cog-wheel in my brain refuses to acknowledge the importance of a syllabus set by some institution. I mean, who are they to decide what interests me, or what I need to learn?. It’s hard for me to cope with college and lectures; to some extent, it’s against my practical-oriented nature, and most of what they teach is uninteresting rubbish.
As a kid, I had a theory (more of an excuse) that the brain has an information holding capacity, and as I read and learned more about things, it diminished my brain’s information holding capacity. My excuse for not studying hard was that it might cause my brain to fill up with too much information and force it to push out other very critical information, such as how to eat food and how to drink water! Of course, no one bought my theory, but everyone found it hilarious. Another theory was that it was bad luck to study after 10 PM. I’ve seldom studied in my school life after 10 PM. Citing a few crazy examples, the theory suggested that my mind was tuned to have dinner at 10 PM while watching TV and go off to sleep at 11-11:30 PM. I used to finish eating dinner pretty quickly and watch TV till 11. Anyway, according to the theory, any change in this routine would have severe effects on the morning after. Again, no one believed me; but I loved coming up with these crazy theories. Looking back, I always have a good laugh at my crazy childhood days. Building tents with bedsheets in my room with lots of soft pillows stacked in them; I’ve always been a fan of a comfortable, cosy life. I’ll do almost anything to get me one of those.
I try very hard to be an average student, and I also try very hard at NOT being an above-average student. It’s a modern theory I came up with in Junior College that’s stuck around for a long time. After the 9th standard, I’ve never showed up in the top 5, and I never wanted to. “The more the grades, the harder it is to enjoy life”.
Things that got done before the Jan 5th deadline -
- Released “FileLister”
- Created a Facebook-app-bar like JS bar.
- Code version control, SVN
- Worked on jQuery Selectable
- “Integrated” Wordpress posts into Joomla! (with AJAX loading)
- Fixed “Last.fm for Wordpress” plugin issues, and released my first ever open-source code. Good to be part of the open-source family.
- Wrote code to list out Wordpress’ recent private post titles
- Integrate Facebook feed into website and blog
- OpenID login for Joomla!
- Windows 7
Things that couldn’t get done -
- Ruby on Rails
- JDBC w/ MySQL
- Facebook Connect
Reason: Motherboard died. Say hello to the new Gigabyte motherboard!
Gigabyte EG-45M-UD2H