Life philosophy? Seek meaning! (Whatever that means!)
 

I think that the evolution (and it has been one very gradual evolution!) towards scientific thought has been mankind's greatest single achievement.
 

I love the Net, I love it's freedom! I love it's tremendous potential for goodness for the whole of mankind. E-mail is the best thing after the wheel. Whoever first said that the Net is like a central nervous system of the collective human race got it perfectly right. It from time to time gives me a warm tingly feeling as I get reminded of 'Gaia' from Asimov's Foundation Series.
 

My voyage to the magical and absolutely mystical land of the bits and bytes was kicked off on a Commodore64. (The C64 is a computer with ROM-BASIC.) That was circa 1987 AD. I was pretty much addicted to programming late into the night. I think "Passionate" would be a fitting term to describe the affair. Well, enthusiasm has the nasty habit of letting off without encouragement. There was nothing by way of encouragement in India. The C64 was about unheard of in India. After brief flirtations with earlier PCs (8086 and 80286), in the summer of '96, a 486 reignited the cinders and how!. Computers reentered -more like hijacked ;)- my life. This time round, there has been no looking back. I am in love. And all these years the love has just kept growing! I had never imagined the industry could change so much in so little time! My lady love, only personified in the highs and lows of small voltage levels at steadily increasing frequencies keeps leaving me mystified and awe-struck. I just got to be part of this revolution! I am so glad that it is also my means of making a living. I have this ambition to be able to tell the kids of tomorrow that I played a role in building this Utopia! (btw I do believe that *now* is utopia too! :D).

Here are some nice places on the WWW I like to be at:
 http://slashdot.org/
(Warning: slashdotting is a full time job!)
http://howstuffworks.com/
 http://rec-puzzles.org/