Thursday, February 23, 2006

Nightmare of loosing your source code

This is my second post and from now on you will find my blogs with a title attached to it. It was a very busy week, with good amount of research and TAing done. Believe me, the Monday after spending the entire weekend with your classmate from school, will really be hectic. After the weekend, I came back to find a huge pile of homework sitting in my mail-box, to be corrected. Well, I managed to correct them during my office hours.
Today I got some positive results in my research and felt really satisfied. I work on linux platform and use ‘nedit’ as the editor to type in my FORTRAN codes. To my horror, I absent mindedly deleted the source code. "rm *.f90"!! Man...for a moment though, I thought I had lost it. Fortunately for me, I had all the editor windows still open. All I needed to do was go to each one of them and then save them again. All the files were retrieved and a very horrible weekend averted. The funny part is that all this happened, just a couple of minutes after my Professor asked me to make backups all the files. He asks me to make backups and I go and delete the source codes.

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Another addition to the already existing vast blogging community. Coming to the formal introduction...
Name: Bhargav
What I do: Doctoral student.
Where: NC
State University, Raleigh, North Carolina-USA.
When I will complete: "Never ask this question!!"
There are three things you should never ask. First is the age of lady, next the salary of a man and finally the graduation date of a Grad student.
I have been procrastinating to post a blog since the day I created an url for myself. Well...what can you say? I am a typical Graduate student.
Now, coming to the title "Imagination". It’s so trivial I guess, but still leads to the very creative inventions and interesting discoveries that we find today. Trivial because, every time you close your eyes you think; you imagine, right? We all can imagine and any of it will be rendered useful only when they are transformed into action. Or else, it'll be like Ron staring into the "Mirror of Erised" imagining himself as a head boy and a quidditch champion. Let me stop at that.
The main reason to start this blog is to get a free flow of thoughts. This is very essential to everyone I guess. Let me see how successful I will be in bringing them out.
Bhargav