My last name gets me more ...

Wherever I go for signup, in the net, 'm sure I will not get a username with my firstname 'jerald'. Only exception to this was the mail id in AdventNet, where I was assigned jerald@adventnet.com which is no more alive for me.

What i do is, simply prefix the two letter initials of my lastname, before 'jerald'. Till now, at all the places, where I do this prefix, I got that for sure. My last name gets me than my name. Just puts smile on my face, on thinking this :)

Still, many friends & people, are invisible

In my 3 decades of life, studied with several friends, worked with several colleagues and moved with several people. Life is so fast, couldn't stay still. At each phase of life, have to travel with different set of people. Other than family, there could be only few who can come along long with you. The friends and the people that I leave at each phase will vanish in the world, leaving few memories. Only few will stay in touch by emails.

This was true in the past, and could be true for people who dont use Orkut. I was not an active member of orkut from its earlier days. Infact I was not aware of that for a long time. Recently, I joined orkut. For some time, I did not have any clue on how that social network will connect my friends to me. But then simply did a search with my School name, College name, Office Name etc. Wow, I was blessed with many of my old friends starting from my childhood to the present, who were invisible till this time.

Sad part is, still I have lot of people who still dont / couldnt use orkut, messenger or atleast email. They are still invisible to me.

Windows Vista Experience

I recently bought a laptop with Window Vista Home Premium as the default OS. At first sight I was impressed by the color schemes. But I couldn't resist to believe that this from MS and might be buggy. Anyway I bought it, after considering +s and -s abd its now more than 3 weeks, since I started working with it. Thing that was bit of my concern was the startup time. It usally takes, 2 - 3 mins max, to start). Other than that every thing else, I felt fine. The new explorer in Vista, was really good. May be the framework is the same as that of the XP, but I see a huge difference in the presetation layer of Vista explorer. Initially I found it little difficult working with Vista explorer, because of its new interface. But, now I'm comfortable.

Recently I had a nice experience with my Vista. My explorer.exe was corrupted and whenever I start my OS, explorer is loaded and after 1 min, it displayed an error message (APPCRASH...), and forced for a restart. When I did restart, again the same error, demanding me to restart. Since explorer is the application that brings up the desktop, taskbar and systrat etc, I was not able to work with the system at all. It really bugged me a lot and I was little irritated. I just killed the explorer task from the Task Manager and opened the help as a new process from the Task Manager and learnt about the System Recovery options available. I just followed the instructions and did reboot the system in the recovery mode and restored the system back to the orginal state as it was in that morning. Fortunately that morning, as auto recovery / restore point was created by the system. So I was able to bring the system to the same state of that morning. Wow, great. I was exited with this. My system started working very well. Then I ran the system protectors and made sure that every thing is fine.

I guess this recovery feature is available in XP as well. But I never experienced that. Its a cool feeling, to come out of that great system crash danger, just like that. Wow, Vista is good.