Googling

Google : Its my helpline.

Now, when i had first heard of this word, i was highly curious to know of its history and origin. So, I again turned to Google (yeah, right) for some help. So what i got to know was that it is a mis-spelling of the word googol which refers to the value 10<sup>100.

Now, this in itself is not a very interesting piece of information. :). But what i want to stress on is that the way Google has impacted our lives. (It has impacted mine atleast). So today whenever i have any doubts, i want to know about anything, or want to search for absolutely anything, Google is where i head to. Now, when i do not know anything, then without the embarrassment of asking anyone about it, u can find the answer. So, going with all this background, let me get to the main point here.

Last week, my company blocked some of the sites which they considered malicious and not confirming to certain standards. Among the blocked sites were crowd favorites, orkut and all the web - based emails (Including gmail, et al.). This caused a lot of inconvenience to many people. And the Information Security group were at the receiving end of lots of curses. So, all this led me to think about the day when maybe Google will be blocked. This thought scared me to my wits end. But then i reasoned that every software developer works only on help from Google. Blocking Google itself will in turn absolutely screw up the company's project schedules and deliveries. So, in ratiocination, i decided that this unthinkable may never happen.

But who knows, this is a strange world and worse things have happened.</sup>

The First Ever

Well my first post…

I have always been perplexed by the word “HYPOCRISY”. Most people when asked for one thing which they disliked say that its hypocrisy. So I decided to find the literal meaning to it. Some googling led me to this meaning. So as per my interpretation, it is something which you preach but do not follow it yourself. Now, when I had joined my current job, we had a soft skills session where the instructor asked us to introduce ourselves and state our likes and dislikes. So, as I expected (I ought to have good sixth sense ;-)), most people came up with the clichéd answers for their dislikes. Topping the list was – you guessed it right – “HYPOCRISY”. Now, one observation I made was that it was the representatives of the fairer sex who were very vocal in their dislike for Hypocrisy and hypocrites. (I am not a sexist… But this was just an observation). So, I decided to observe the behavior of these so-called hypocrisy haters unobtrusively. Now, I know this person who made very strong statements showing disapproval of certain people whenever he/she was conversing with me. So, I thought this person may be really dislikes those people. And yeah I forgot to mention, he/she had also mentioned hypocrisy as his/her most disliked characteristic. (Is it really a characteristic…? Now I am sounding like a chemistry lecturer ;-) ). Anyways, so continuing with my analysis –

A month later, I found this person being very friendly with the exact same people he/she had ridiculed. Now, this led me to the conclusion that may be the people who dislike hypocrisy are hypocrites themselves. Hell, this is also a kind of hypocrisy. (Saying you dislike hypocrisy and practicing it yourself).

So, in conclusion, I had like to categorically state that I really dislike hypocrites. Crap, I am turning into a hypocrite myself.