What have I been upto

Its been roughly three months since I blogged last. Well, I haven't been really that free to think of something to blog - and when some idea came to my head, I was generally too preoccupied to build up on it. So what have I been upto in the last three months?

Well, let me think over it! There was pretty much of work load, plus a few of my trips outside Hyderabad, and two releases of MM in DEShaw (for those who dont know me pretty well, I am presently working in DEShaw in the proprietary team, and MM is the proprietary application I am working on - and as you guessed it right, since its all proprietary I wont even tell you what MM stands for :-)) took almost all of my time that I could not think of updating my blog.

Although I didnt blog about many ideas that did come to my mind, let me re-iterate through them and put them here itself, so that later when I get some ideas on them, or feel very strongly about some of them, I would write a full fledged blog.

1. The scarcity of professors and academic staff in the field of Computer Science in India (well I wont take the full credit for it - a friend of mine actually suggested this to me. I guess he was trying to find out some meaning out of his MS/PhD program in UNC)

2. The pathetic act of Indian Govt blocking some blogging sites

3. Well, a few days back I was also planning of writing about user-generated content and its impact on our lives. Infact some time back I also came to know this interesting stat (though dont take it for true as I cant prove it) - that 20% of things that we read are generated by our peers!! Thats a very very strong indication if its really true!

4. I was also planning to do a review of 'The Tipping Point'. And this I am sure I will do in a few days to come in one of my blogs. I am about to complete the book, and so far I have simply loved the way Malcolm Gladwell analyzes. After this I will begin reading Blink by the same author.

So, Blogosphere, here I am!! Would be blogging more frequently, and definitely not go for a hibernation of 3months :-)