Allow me to introduce myself

I've been blogging for a while, even before "blogging" became the buzzword that it is today.

My first blog was just an html page that I kept adding to, as and when I found something worth sharing. That wasn't even a "blog" by modern standards - no dates or timestamps, no catchy titles and certainly no tags or comments. But the idea was the same - things that I knew or found or had thought up that I wanted to share with the world at large.

My first "real" blog started out in the summer of 2003 as a way for me to keep people informed about my summer internship at Bloomberg, so I wouldn't have to send out emails or repeat stories - just point them to my blog. It evolved from that into a place I would rant and ramble, share links, post anecdotes; just like Every Other Blog. Around the summer of 2004, it became more of a 'pensieve' where I would vent to get things off my chest, articulate them so as to think about them more clearly and also just record them for posterity It was around this point that the blog became more personal and I stopped linking it everywhere. I was writing things that I didn't want shared with the world at large. There were a few people who still read the blog, but they were people close enough to me that I would probably tell them those things anyways.

For reasons not yet ascertained, the blogging wound down. I very, very rarely posted. It was usually reserved for severe introspection or extremely humorous links.

The idea for this new blog started fermenting when Hemant and I started talking about starting up a blog with a whole bunch of people that was sort of like a news magazine - we each wrote about our fields of expertise. It received a boost when Tarun and I were talking about how we 'consume' (figuratively, though in his case, literally as well ;-)) so much every day that we really should start documenting it. We use websites and software, hack OSes, read books, watch movies etc. etc. While many others may do or consume the same things, it is our perspective that makes our experience unique. Sure, there are thousands of people who probably tried to (e.g.) get a Radeon 9200 to work on a Ubuntu installation. But one's experience in doing it is as unique as onself - the Linux experience we have, the thought process we use, the base install that we did, so on and so forth. When we watch a movie, no two people view in exactly the same way. The impact the movie has on them is as different as their genetic code i.e. unique. The final straw that made me actually create this blog was a Joost invite. I figured that was as a good a time as any to start posting about my everyday experiences with everyday things.

I envision this blog to be just what the domain suggests - a day in my life. It's about things that many other people do or experience or read or see, but a thing that is also unique, since it was a part of a day in my life. My thoughts on an Obama speech, Joost's latest beta release, a movie I watched, a program I used, a lifehack I implemented, a route to Ikea that I took. Anything that other people do all the time, but that is made unique by my perspective and experience.

The title alludes to the fact that I couldn't think up a creative one, so I just blamed in on the CBSE (the schooling system I went through).