Kedar's Blog

Everyone comes to this world, with a handful of invisible sand of life and like the sand in a sand clock, the grains of life keep slipping away from our hand. Hardly does one realize when and how the sand he brought with him slips away from his hand..

When you talk about lifetime changes, you tend to think about getting married, having a kid, buying a house, getting divorced.. well, you know what I mean😁 I went for a change in my life recently with the same bit of seriousness, as I would for all of the above, and it makes sense that I call it a “Lifetime change” too… The change was simply that I finally dumped Windows for a Mac after about 16 years! For the non-savvy and non-technical, this may sound trivial. But having spent almost every day of my life, for the last 16 years, in front of different types of computers, I think they too, deserve to claim a piece of my life. You know, I have ‘dated’ a lot of them.. a weird one called ZX Spectrum back in 1988 that ‘claimed to be a computer’ with a Cassette tape (!), the oldie PC XTs, the ATs, Honeywell Unix terminals and many other Unix terminals whose names I have forgotten, the IBM mainframe terminals, PC 286s, 386s, 486s, Pentiums xxx, Dual cores… bla bla bla. And I have seen th...

I am experiencing a temporary bachelorhood right now with my wife and kid in India.. My friends invite me to spend my weekends with them. So here is an email I sent to them as a Thank You.. Thought it might be worth a read:

It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. –Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Terre des hommes, 1939

 If you think experts are expensive, wait until you see what amateurs cost you! Anonymous

 Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic –Arthur C. Clarke

 Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. –Susan Ertz (Quoted in ‘The Infinite Book’ by John D. Barrow)