Walk Alone

Or something like that. A combination of factors made me stay away from my PC for more than a week. And some re-arranging of stuff at my place, a bad result, SPACE fatigue (and disappointment), uneasy equations with friends… all contrived to keep me from plugging into the Internet as well.

The results hurt. I should ‘ve seen where they were going. Guess I had gambled too long on the 40 marks bit. And worst of all, I ‘ve just myself to blame for it. And the timing couldn’t have been more unsuitable - placements are around the corner. Ironically, when everyone has got stellar scores to bolster their placement chances, I’ve saddled myself with 2 KTs…

Now its barely a month away - submissions, KTs, orals and the 6th semester exams. Tough, but then, “To do the Unix philosophy right, you have to be loyal to excellence” from The Art of Unix Programming by ESR. Guess I get prove myself, hm?

Right on. Its on 17th of Feb. Have to get the site up and running. And sort out the problems that occurred in technobreak. Busy time.

Having problems on the Linux front too. Grrr… but then the final victory would be even better to experience.

Finished with our intra-college festival. Its a rehearsal of sorts for the inter-collegiate festival we’d be hosting in Feb. Learnt a lot of things - some good, some bad.

One, don’t suggest solutions or ideas if you don’t know the tools. The execution goes into someone else’s hands, you don’t have any control and the final product is always different from your concept. Thats why I’ve added MySQL and Perl to my “to learn” list right along with C/C++ and Qt. Python is out. Though not completely out.

Second, Mr. Murphy does exist and his laws are true. Lots of things got screwed up - just so that we were not doing anything on an enterprise scale.

Third, squabbling and fighting occurs everywhere - even in tech. Tech Team people are human after all.

I’m very angry. F****** day. Had an argument with an Admin guy. Whole bloody team thinks they got the college gifted to them by their fathers - except for one guy - who’s cool enough that he deserves to be named - Amey (not bhim). Rest are a bunch of shitholes worth nothing.

………..OK…………..step back………….take a deep breath………let it out slowly………….So be it. No mercy. No remorse.

I’m waiting for just so long before I bore anyone reading this with a long rant against the whole damn managemnt of the events.

PS: Shitty day continues. Forgot an LPT socket in the college and called the wrong room in the college - the guy at the other end teaches me the manners I forgot in my anxiety. Oh well… time to let it all go. From tomorrow, we recover. Thats a mission.

Finally, the team is meshing together. But I still believe in my ‘cutting loose’ theory, based on modular architecture. I had planned to divide the team cleanly into three parts - software, presentations and hardware. Software people would develop the specialized stuff needed for some events. Presentation guys would do the flash stuff for quizzes and so on. And of course, the hardware guys would look after hardware. But then things are following their own course. The software guys are working almost on a freelancer basis. The presentation guys (I’m one) are gearing up. And the hardware guys (I’m here too!) pop up when needed. But still, we have started working as a coherent whole - you can see chaos, but its the chaos of a soccer midfield - all players know their jobs, its only their execution (which depends on several factors) which appears chaotic or random… you get what I mean, I’m sure.

Another thing is the website - our college runs gnu/linux. So the entire project is being ported into php/mysql. It will be fun. I can setup the linux and apache. The rest is trial and error.