July 16th, 2009. The last time I posted. About 5 months ago. I could make excuses and say I was busy, had a lot of work, and what not, but I know that’s not the case. Been a roller-coaster of a ride since July, a ride which has redefined the way I look at life. I stick with my policy of not discussing personal life on this blog, but hey guys, I’m back. Or something like that.

Its hard to believe three months have passed by since I last posted. Been stuck with work, and there’s been a awful lot of progress on that front. An eventful three months it has been! .

Spent a month and a half in the US on a company project in April-May 2009, and quite a a lot happened on the tech front, revolving around the US trip. Here is a chronological account of what transpired on the tech front.

I was pondering over buying a music player, that could have a backup of my music collection. Thought about the Creative Zen Vision, and even the Ipod, momentarily, but then had a brainwave. I really liked the Nokia 5800 for its music capabilities, and for the screen. The money I would invest in a standalone MP3 player would be better invested in a device that has GPS + Video + Audio + Internet connectvity + a touch screen, all for around Rs.5000 lesser than an Ipod Touch. True, I’d lose out on disk capacity, but then the prices of memory cards are falling like mad. Keeping this in mind, the Nokia 5800 was duly purchased, before I flew off to the States.

I was casually looking up Amazon one day, when I came across a Western Digital 2.5″ 400GB external HDD on offer, for $70 only. Needless to say, it was purchased. With that, my storage has finally exceeded 1TB.

The latest addition to my computing arsenal is an IBM (Lenovo?) Thinkpad T400, which technically is not owned by me, but by my company. Nevertheless, work now happens on the Thinkpad T400, with the Dell XPS primarily used only on weekends, and is a strictly personal laptop now.

Windows 7 has been preordered, the $50 and all, so I’m really looking forward to the October 22nd, and cannot wait to get there.

June 14th happened to be my birthday, and all I had was my ‘trusty’ Nokia 5800 for taking pictures. Turned out crappy. Very crappy. I really rued not carrying my Olympus FE-20, which would have for sure given me good pics. A couple of weeks later, the Nokia 5800 was duly exchanged with my brother for his Nokia N82, and that seems to have done the trick. I’m back on a top-notch camera phone, the phone features of which I’m hardly using, leaving my Nokia E63 to do that job.

I guess this is a good enough post to announce my return to the blogging world. More to come, hopefully.

Change, they say, is the only thing thats permanent. I was beginning to find my earlier job very monotonous. The same old train journey, the same old people, the same old office, the same old lunch, and the likes. Much more importantly, I was getting absolutely no time to myself. I was beginning to live a life that was becoming mechanical, not to mention I was not enjoying my earlier job even a bit.

Thankfully, an oppurtunity came by that allowed me the freedom I needed. It involved me leaving Mumbai, and get myself the much needed ‘me’ time. I know its too early to say it, but I’m liking whatever my new job has thrown at me until now. It looks very promising.

Besides, I’ve moved out of Mumbai. I’m a staunch Mumbaikar, and a proud one at that. However, the place is simply too crowded right now. Adapting to the new place is tough, especially considering I’m used to the ultra fast Mumbai lifestyle.

Considering I’m practically doing nothing post office hours, expect more posts on the blog in the immediate future.

A lot of under the hood changes, and the addition of Google Adsense to the blog. Slick theme, and the right level of of information integration.
Comments/ Opinions obviously appreciated, speaking of which, an updated comment form, that should send you an email when a comment is updated.

Here’s presenting the latest version of my blog. No, I’ve not designed this theme even one bit, and I’m not worth even one pence worth the guy who made this theme. I think I’m good at customising themes to my requirements,and thats exactly what I’ve done here. A small note, this site should display as exactly intended on Windows Vista, considering the primary font I’ve set is Segoe UI. There might be a few loose ends though, and I’m ironing them out as and when I find the time. Please drop in your comments, since I intend settling down using this theme for a long time to me.

PS :- Indian Sweetheart from New Jersey, happy with the theme?

As an aside, Intenet access to my blog from work has been partially restored, so frequent posts to come…