After 39 week and 2 days of training as free style kick boxer.
Standing 20 ½ inches and weighing in at 9.9 pounds.
Holding his kingdom of dreams in close fists and hoping to win over the world by knock out is my son Stavya, born 5th December 2011 to first time parents Swati and Atit.
+1 is our contribution to the global population.
This is my confession. I am responsible for the death of two legends – Jobs and Ritchie.
[I acknowledge works of the photographers. I don’t have enough information to accredit them]
Well, actually I only killed Jobs, the aftermath of my actions that killed Jobs, killed Ritchie. Emotions were running high and with the fear of public retribution I deferred my decision of an immediate confession.
As I retrace the sequence of events around the 5th of October 2011, I will uncover my crime and tell you just how I killed Jobs and how it led to Ritchie.
Flash back: In 2009 I was issued my service laptop, a Dell Latitude 5500 running Windows XP. It is common knowledge; all Microsoft products have a standard mode of operation that includes the occasional blue screen of death and system freeze. I had a couple since 2009.
Monday, 3rd of October: My work laptop was acting a little strange. In my 8 hours at work, the laptop had 2 blue screens of death and 4 system freezes. I had to hard reset it every time.
Tuesday, 4th of October: Things got worse. In 8 hours at work, I had 4 screens of death plus 2 or 3 hard reboots. Performance slowed down to a sluggish pace – it felt like a typical Microsoft day. In the evenings after work I usually switch to my better performing 1st Generation MacBook. Worried of data loss, I switched on my work laptop to backup. It took me 2 hard resets to get the work done. Frustration took over and I left it at 50% - extracted personal data and left the work behind.
Wednesday, 5th of October: The fretful day of the murder. After only 2 hours at work and a few hard resets, my system crashed. It was infected and the infection started erasing software from my machine. It wiped out Skype, SVN and Eclipse. After some swearing, I went to Technical Operations and asked them to help restore and reinstall. This is when it happened. They asked me if I wanted XP or the 7? I thought for a minute and at last changed my mind to install Windows 7. I was a little excited and looking forward to Windows 7. It was very wrong for an Apple fan boy to be excited about a Microsoft product.
It’s a sin.
I committed this sin. I was pleased of having Windows 7 and all charge up to explore it. I installed Firefox, loaded Google news and there it was - Steve Job passes away. I didn’t believe it. I went to apple.com and saw the picture. It was true.
Steve Jobs was indeed unwell, but my excitement for Microsoft pushed him to the edge. I caused him a heart burn and pushed him to his death.
I ask for forgiveness…
A few days later, we lost Ritchie. My heart sank because I indirectly killed him.
Ritchie built C and I believe he must have felt accomplished through all of Steve’s success. He thought his life was worthy after he saw his language being the base for all the technological waves Steve created. On 5th of October he must have turned to the news and learnt about Steve. This made him nauseous. The imitator Bill gave the world zilch and the one other person who made him feel alive was gone. What was there to live for now? He gave up on living and move to another level on the 12th.
My actions killed him.
I cannot ask for forgiveness and I can’t be forgiven.
