Clearing the dust
I finally cleared the dust that had settled on my tumblog. Thought I’d start off this renaissance with a bang. Changed the theme around. Started by creating my own theme, but when I saw these beautiful pre-created tumblr themes, I thought WTH. Why put in double the effort?! So I found this cool theme and customized it.
Among other reasons, the dust had settled ‘cause I was busy with a barrage of things. First of all there was a marriage in the family. It’s always a busy occasion. Secondly I was dealing with a storm of ideas in my head. Not easy articulating earth-shattering thoughts or dreaming of turning Googles into reality. Thirdly I was dealing with the bookish-endeavour-syndrome in a healthy way. That took out a bit of bandwidth out of me.
While there maybe gazillions of other reasons, I chose to rest my case here. I’ve blown away the dust. This tumblog is very much alive and breathing. Cheers to humanity.
9gag:
9GAG - LifePrecisely.
Yeah!! Now I can proudly say that I quit my job for a higher cause, which at the time being is nurturing Orbit Pulse.
Bookish Endeavours
How hard could it be to write a book?
My hunch is, it’s harder getting it published than to be able to compile one.
There’s a strong feeling in depth of my guts. I’m gonna try this one out.
My Gaming Rig (with tips on building your own)
While it’s not the fastest of the lot, it serves me the purpose. I bought it 5 months ago, so the prices were very different back then. Ok, here it is:
Intel DG41TY Chipset (I wanted on-board graphics support as a backup)
4 GB DDR2 RAM (DDR3 motherboards were expensive! Tip: To make the most of 4 GB RAM, you’ll need a 64bit OS. I highly recommend Windows 7 64bit)
Core2Duo E7400 clocked at 2.8 Ghz (I made sure the motherboard supports Quad CPUs for a later upgrade. I chose to splurge on graphics)
Palit nVidia GeForce GTS 250 with 1 GB GDDR3 (it cost me a BOMB! Was close to Rs.12,000..that’s around US$250). I did a lot of research for the GPU. I chose this over the Radeon’s, namely the Radeon 4830 and the 4850 because unlike the US markets, these were priced comparably to the GTX 250, severely overpriced! While the 4870 is its actual competition (due to the extremely fast 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM it sports).
Samsung HD322HJ 320GB hdd for storage. Had the best value for money back then. Hard-disk performance should never pose a problem, you can always buy two and put them on RAID!
Before I conclude, you would need a decent power-supply too. Buy that keeping the future upgrades in mind (like twin hard-disks, or a more powerful CPU). I’d say be safe and go for a 500-600W supply.
A new chapter
I feel I’ve started a new chapter in my life. One that required me to speak less, and do more. Alas, that would leave very little for me to post on this blog then. Which is exactly why I intend on turning this into a more conventional home-page. Static pages, with stuff about myself. The tumblog would remain, however I’m thinking of unlinking it from jagtesh.com. It may become blog.jagtesh.com. And of course, the content would change as well. No more menacing you with my heavy on the head life’s story. I’ll post more readable stuff. Stuff that I wanna talk about. And anyone would find it interesting. You don’t havta-havta be a geek, or an intellectual. But what I do guarantee you is that you’ll become an intellectual after reading what I’ve to write *wink *wink
