Mayank

Heights I go to ensure that the person at the other end of the chat is irritated!

Both me and Mayank were equally jobless and……..

me: dude!
Mayank: i’m no dude
me: then?
Mayank: I’m Mayank
me: heh? ok buddy
Mayank: no buddy. Mayank!
me: ok pal!
Mayank: no pal! Mayank
me: ok chum!
Mayank: You suck!

After knowing Mayank for the past few months and reading Ganesh’s blog posts for an equally long period, I decided to give open source a try. After dabbling in gimp, Open Office and a few other software, I decided to give linux a go.

And thanks to Mayank who suggested me Ubuntu, I am now writing this blog post through Ubuntu. Luckily for me, Mayank decided to lay all our differences aside and decided to help me out after all!
So, after a spew of long distance calls to Gurgaon (Gee! All the BPO training was of some use to Mayank after all!) I installed Ubunt finally.

And the verdict - I am loving it!

1) It gives me a geek feel! (As Mayank always says!)

2) Its free!

3) There’s no guilty feeling of using pirated software.

4) Fresh feel after years of working in Microsoft Windows.

5) The graphics are not great, but as good as Windows XP.

6) Light on the system performance.

7) I have not tried Wine yet. (No No! Not the beverage!) But it sounds promising.

Mayank is back in Gurgaon.

I spoke to him yesterday and he is missing Chennai already. And he came up with a big confession at the end!

Mayank: You have time to visit Landmark and blog about it! But dont have the time to write for Reviewsaurus?

Me: Hi Mayank. How is it to be back home?

Mayank: Ya. Its good to be back. But I miss Chennai now.

Me: Ahaa!

 Mayank: Anyway, you answer my question. You dont have time to write reviews for us and you have time to comment on somebody’s blog. 

Now, Mayank had clearly mentioned the name of the blog’s author. I am refraining from naming the person here because I am a perfect gentleman! *Applause* 

Me: Hey hey hey. Just a minute. What did you just say? Was it a casual statement or something sinister? 

Mayank: Well… 

Me: I presume you followed the link to her  blog from Sagaro’s blog and saw the comments I had written. 

Mayank: Hmm… Yes. 

Me: And may I ask why is that you did not notice the comments I leave on other blogs in Sagaro’s blogroll like Planemad, Jammy, TUDinesh? 

Mayank: Its like… 

Me: And any person who reads sagaro’s blog will go on to read this person’s blog after all the traffic he generates for her! 

Mayank: What are you trying to say? 

I cut short this conversation here as it went on for half an hour more and included many other things not related to this topic. 

A note to Sagaro:This has nothing to do with you. I will still have the remote!  

A note to Mayank:This has nothing to do with my salary.  

A note to that person:I know I could have named you as it is quite bvious who you are; but I am a gentleman!   

Epilogue:At the end of the conversation, Mayank came up with a big secret. Any guesses?