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COMPARTMENTALIZING …

This conversation was from a week ago with our dear Charlie. He got a new laptop. Anything new is extremely exciting and he was no different after receiving the laptop. I was asking some casual questions about display, battery etc, when he mentioned he wants to partition the drive. He wanted to call someone so that the drives could be partitioned because he wasn’t sure how to do that. I asked him…

BETWEEN THE DEMON AND THE SLOW POISON

My daughter was watching her favourite cartoon series on YouTube. Suddenly an advertisement popped up. It was a scary one. With demonic figures charging up, roaring at each other and inflicting carnage on everything and everyone, she got scared and came to me. I skipped the ad and consoled her. She gathered herself and asked me, “Mom are demons real?” I smiled and said “no darling that’s all…

THE SEARCH ENGINE SAGA

Do you know what is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis? Even I didn’t until I searched the web for the longest word in dictionary. Yes, and I am sure you will have googled it too! That’s what we all have been doing in the smartphone era and will continue to do so.  Search engines proved to be an easy access to all the information, that too on our fingertips. All information here…

WHEN LIFE HANGS FOR SOMETIME

We all have experienced the gruesome waiting time when our computer hangs or freezes. Haven’t we thought of throwing our system in the gutter or kicking it off our table? How many times we have banged our working table in sheer impatience? How many times we have pressed the reset or reboot button to restart our pending work? How many times we felt apprehensive about losing our unsaved data when…

I cut the norms,a shortie me;was drowning in it The gossips,I made it sleeveless,was not in its favour of doing the rounds My ego,I made it backless;didn’t want it getting the support of the wall & creeping all over My self-respect,I made it ankle length;wanted it to pick up & run, should anyone try to mangle it I put on a baggy smile,that way, it would be easier for my sorrows to be…

LET’S DELETE THE CURSE

Each child cries to go to school,Wants to study for future goal.Parents are circumstances-bound,Not a single way can be found. Though the situations are bit worse,Cries of stomach shows time coarse.He never stops himself from dreaming,nor left behind from the new beginning. Starts working for his daily chore,To connect with his painful hunger.At the tender age, starts labouring,As a bread…

I sit, and I typeByte by ByteMy processor is slowI got nothing to show My memory is fullI’m trying to pullMotherboard is outdatedAll content is R rated I empty Drive DBut all I can seeAre files I don’t needIt’s slowing my speed My head has no space.Says my DatabaseI look for the source codeto share some of the load My heart is a bruteI have to rebootI run such a riskof burning my disc I am…