I am going to invent a new language. Every sentence in this language will be composed of a sequence of numbers, and each number — or word — will be a cultural reference, a reference to a quotation, event, activity or just about anything that took place in the history of our world at some point in space and time. Each sentence in this language will carry an immense amount of information within a few, short, simple words.

Eventually, advances in technology will make knowledge ubiquitous, thereby condensing sentences into something as simple as a representation of a sequence of vectors in space-time.

I call this language “Pointerse”.

I now have a new blog called technoYak. Does that name sound vaguely familiar…?

For a long time now, I have wanted to maintain a separate blog for all things technical, especially the ideas I work with professionally, such as software and system design. This was motivated by a slight unease whenever I wanted to post an interesting idea to this blog — but couldn’t because I figured it wouldn’t make sense to the lowest common denominator of the audience. A new blog with a much more narrow focus seemed to be the right answer. That and a pinch of “seriousness”.

So why haven’t I done this before? To tell you the truth, I’ve been stuck in this vicious circle of inaction. Here’s how the thought-process works:

1. I just had this great idea! I think I should blog it.
2. Oooh! You know what, it would be great if I could have a nice serious blog about these ideas that I can talk about with authority, instead of mixing it up with all this random stuff that is unrelated.
3. Yeah, and it would be even cooler if I could do this on my own blogging platform (the one I’ve been meaning to release version 0.1 of for the last three years). Let’s do that first!
4. There’s this whole bunch of features I want to put into this code. It would be nice to have some kind of note-taking software to keep track of all of this stuff. Let me check if there’s awesome new software in the Gentoo repository for note-taking.
5. Nope, I guess not. I wish I could use something like OneNote on GNU/Linux…or perhaps I should invest in a really large whiteboard for my apartment? Will I find that online at Amazon.com?
6. [*] Maybe that’s not what I need. Maybe — just maybe — what I really need is a new laptop to do all this new cool stuff. *drool* Yes, that’s it…if I had a new laptop, all of these annoyances would go away.
7. Sigh. Let’s put this discussion on hold while I take care of all this work stuff. *several weeks pass*
8. I just had this great idea! I think I should blog it.

* If you’re struggling to find the logical leap to Step 6, I’m afraid I can’t help you there.

I guess I should be thankful for the 24-hour-open Subway store down Denny Mountain.

I guess I have excuses. Many things have changed since November last year, and yet, life is the same as before. Most changes in life are like re-arrangements of pieces on a chess board. You move some here, you move some there, but overall things remain in balance except for the occasional loss of a piece. It’s only towards the end of the game that things become exciting, but ironically, that’s the time when you have the least control over the board. Life is God playing chess with you; I suppose He likes to win.

The New Year came and went with a small burst of hope (purely my imagination, I am sure) that ebbed quickly and receded into oblivion. But February was a month of many changes, with January frantically getting ready for it. I have seldom seen a month packed with so many punches, but the punches were superficial, almost playful to an extent. There was a wedding to navigate through, a vacation to deal with, castles to look at, a workplace to be moved, an apartment to get out of , an apartment to move into and impossible things to be taken care of at impossible schedules.

But the truth is, life isn’t a game of chess — you shouldn’t stop to think after every move, you just power through, no matter what. Never stop, never give up, just keep going. Just keep going, that’s all…

The goal is to have a something “new” launched on the 1st of November. Quoting J R R Tolkien, “It’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.” So let’s begin.

And thinking about it, there’s a method to motivation and a wee bit of madness to every creation. I’m sure you have no idea what I’m talking about, but trust me on this one.

That’s alright, Comcast — I trashed your August 14^th email after barely a glance. No apology necessary.

Now that my 25th-week resolution is to play chess more seriously, I guess I should hunt for humans to joust with me. Any takers?

Now that I have a laptop with Windows 7 on it, I’ve decided to give Windows Live Writer a test-drive. Here goes nothing.

Gather some statistics and add a punchline, and I’m sure this will be a great xkcd strip.…