Random Thoughts at midnight: It seems that in future it will be mandatory for everyone to own a blog! Though, it may sound weird, but, it might become true. Just a few years ago, the first thing people used to do, after familiarizing themselves with internet, was to sign up for an email account either on Yahoo!, hotmail or both! Even it is true today with a few more things to sign up for e.g Facebook and Orkut, though, now, i personally dislike both. But, to me, these web portals won't be too popular unless my browser's dictionary starts recognizing them. And it will take another half decade or so to see these words in dictionary! Nevertheless, dictionary.com has references to some of these terms and there might be many other online dictionaries too, containing those references.

Majority of the people today, who use internet, blog! Either it is a literature, photography, or a ghost blog, they own at least one. As an intellectual once said, ''just like the empty houses, blogs that are not updated for a long time become haunted too" And that wise man was no other than yours truly. Bogging is becoming mandatory and a necessity. Some blog for maintaining a personal diary while some use it as a powerful tool to advertise - either it's their own work or a paid promotional service.

If in America, a student of grade one is required to own a blog, our Desi's will also try to follow the trend. And the situation would be somewhat funnier Just imagine, summer vacations homework requires a child to sign up for a blog and write ninety blog posts, one per day, throughout the vacations. Funny but may be useful. People are happy to shift the working habits from paper and pen on to a computer. What if we don't have a single watt of electric power in the country five years later from today just because of the dishonesty and insane policies of our politicians? Some people might disagree at this as Obama takes oath as a 44th president.

No wonder, if a few years later, you see a 'blogspot points counter' at McDonalds or KFC. Got a blog at our website? Get one point every time you buy a meal worth 200 Rs. On fifty points you will get a blogger key fob, a free usb on next 100 points, on 2000 points enter into our lucky draw for a laptop and so on. Being desis' from inside these free things always attract us. Do you remember scratching the inside of caps, off from bottles of Pepsi and Coke for a bumper prize of five lakh and a Suzuki Mehran, bought from your schools' canteen for rupees five only? As we grow up things like scratching cards and inside of the caps for 'one or two rupees off' offers become less attractive than winning an iPod or a laptop.

Anyway, think about future, what if these services like blogger, facebook, emails etc are not free anymore just because of increasing security threat felt by Americans. What if they require many dollars and your passport number to sign up? Monopoly trends are not always the same. Doesn't matter if technology today is cheap and everywhere. And if you are using pirated software it's not cheap for you though you have access to it! Perhaps it is too common but not cheap. What microsoft and intel will do in future? Laptops today are more common than they were five years ago. So, to stop piracy they are selling you laptops! How many are there who buy a notebook without operating system and other necessary software? To stop piracy now they will sell machines with software through authorized dealers and otherwise they won't. You would like to remind me about unlocking, decoding, hacking etc. Yes, but what if they won't sell you their product? Bring your passport to buy a notebook, use your passport number to sign in on a computer in internet cafe.

I started writing the post with something else in my mind and i am ending it up with something totally different. I am a procrastinator by soul. I always fear starting work. I feel millions of units of resistance to start work. So i just prolong and waste time. I can't forget that in first year at college, just one night before paper, i was reading my notes for the very first time! But, those were the days, when just going through the text only once was sufficient for me to produce the ditto copy of notes! My mind is totally rusted now and i don't know what will happen to me in exam which is due in a few days in case i keep on publishing posts like these and watching pirates of dark water. I suspect, it might be the worst i have faced ever.

No sympathies dear readers. The comments on blogspot are still open, free and don't require an original passport to log in. So, have your say and drop a comment, you are free to say anything irrespective of the posts' topic, either it be a joke, a quotation, your phone numbers, prizes you won from Pepsi and Coke schemes, your mobile models, and believe me you can mention here without any fear that your laptop was a gift from the cousin of a cousin of your father and its' software are all legal, and you own a cat as a pet that too was a gift from ... and that after reading this post you suspect that i am totally insane. Locate the comment box yourself, technology isn't that automated at the moment! Between if you want to send some gift vouchers , please keep mind i will not accept these. Just send me cash - i'll buy a legal copy of MS Office as its' free trail is about to expire. Thanks for your patience finally you made it to the end of the post and below are a couple of links that might be of some interest, do check.

Pirates of the Dark Water on YouTube.

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