A new set of resolutions people seldom keep. A new beginning which ends gracelessly fading into obscurity. A so-called new life which makes you go DeJaVu never really doing anything new. I bet this is how most of you would have started off your new year today.
But PLEASE, can we make this year different ? I mean, for a change, why can’t we atleast be more realistic ? This year is hardly any different from the one gone by. The global economy is still recovering from its near meltdown the year before last. Some old giants have had huge falls and some old dwarfs are seeing raise in a short span of time. Many things which we took for granted are no more.
So many things have been lost: companies during the recession like Lehman Brothers & Sentinel, people who include legends like Michael Jackson & Les Paul as well as the numerous victims of the latest epidemic, Swine Flu, and other not-so-easy-to-mention things, like the hair on the head of the guy whom I talk to often.
So many things have been gained too: the world is wiser thanks to the recession. Science has been progressing faster than ever and newer technologies keep rising trying to solve the problems we have. The economy had a meltdown but it also had a new energy inforced into it to make it more robust than before, so that when it recovers finally, it will have a harder time failing like it did before. On a personal note, I turned legal last year. Yeah I’m an adult now by definition.
But it never really STOPPED at 2009. NO SIR, it continues into 2010 and the change in year is of no significance to the entity which we call time. And in spite of all this it’s still a “new” year. A time when the calendar asks you to make a fresh start just to make the date seem special.
But regardless of what has been happening in the past, lets march into this year’s end with a new outlook. Let the ghosts of the years gone by guide us to make this one of our best so far. Our good times shall inspire us to work for more while our bad times shall make us sadder but wiser, steering us away from paths which lead to ill. Lets welcome 2010 with a warm applause: It’s not always that you get an excuse to make a change as big and yet so simple. Lets finally think for a change. Before any action, let us not be guided by animal-like instincts and hunger for power and short-term gains but by long-term planning, an all-inclusive outlook, humanitarian values and a smart mind.
In a nutshell: I wish all my readers a Happy New Year 2010 !!! 
So here is the news of the event I have waited 1 year for – I finally got my upgrade and replaced my old junk of 256MB RAM with a brand new Hynix DDR 400MHz 1GB RAM stick. 
Performance has gone up a lot, and I am able to benchmark several apps and several desktop environments more comfortably now. Most notably, I am using KDE 4.2 on archlinux (I ditched KDEmod, which is hardly different from KDE vanilla at the moment, for good till it becomes as strong as KDEmod 3.5.9).
Here is a pic for you:
Not the neatest, but I guess the comic strip explains that part more than anything else 
Today is the day I never expected to come. I have decided to shift to WordPress.com after lots of considering and reconsidering. Blogger is looking too weak for me to use. I want more pages, but I am not able to get them. I need to organise my content better and provide more features. But blogger can’t do much unless and until I edit css, while I am a css n00b. Hence, I decided to shift to wordpress atlast.
Continue reading ‘Shifting To WordPress.com – GoodBye Blogger !’
Introduction
I think it will be safe for me to get slightly personal in this little post of mine. Here I am going to describe how my life, as a geek and power user, goes on everyday with this computer of mine, which means anything but power. All this because I was never really a geek once, I was just a semi-backward guy who turned geek out of his own actions.
Continue reading ‘The Swordsman who fights with a Paper Sword – Me and My PC’
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Its a really long story indeed how this blog came up. I am a born writer, but blogging and website designing are completely different from “standard” writing. I am a guy who is used to posting tutorials and articles on different forums. I have no idea how to use HTML. T have a spare blogger blog now, which was my first blog and it was a huge mess. After it, I used to experiment with some websites like freewebs.com and googlepages before. Nothing turned out right. I considered getting myself paid web hosting. I also considered a wordpress blog. But finally, I am back to blogger for good and I intend to stay.
Edit: Hey, I just moved to WordPress… DeJaVu ?
Then comes the blog’s name. I thought many different names, but none could reach close to the current one, which flashed into my mind by chance. The Smaller Bang. Sweet. Most of what I post in here are intended to help and make a bang. But not as big as the big bang. So that’s it, the smaller bang. I initially considered the bigger bang, but neither was it modest enough nor was it available.
So whats in such a first step ? Well, nothing really. Its just that some things take time to happen, and despite looking rather simple, can be immensely complex. Very well, let me resume blogging.
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