About

Well, I can only wish to be an astronaut! I am actually a day-dreamer/husband/dad of two kids, working on some random projects, trying to find solutions to the equations of life using technology. Few years ago, I bought myself a bike and love riding all over the town. Read about it here.

I love Science Fiction stories, believe that Earth is not the only planet which has life and know for a fact that ‘Back to the Future’ is the greatest trilogy of all times!

I like to help people and share my knowledge in best ways possible. World is filled with some amazing stuff. It doesn’t matter how much I discover, it never seizes to surprise. This place on the web is just a medium to express some of my discoveries and an attempt to consolidate and share my views and knowledge with the world. I hope you will find it useful.

You can also call me Vyom. The name’s inspired from a science fiction show that use to air on TV in 1990s, about someone who use to capture the prisoners and flying across the whole Universe, to do so. As a child I was always fascinated by the vast and limitless expanse which the universe always seemed for. And then, the theory of Multiverse came along, and my life was never the same. But more on that later.

I like to help people and share my knowledge in best ways possible. So social communities provided by forums are the best place to hangout for me. I like creative things and like to make myself busy writing, reading and watching things that surprises me.

Here on this page I have documented some of the excerpts from my life:

My areas of Interests: #

Non technical: #

Reading: #

I love reading. But lately I have doing most of the reading online and PDFs. But I also have a collection of books that I love. Stories from HG Wells, Jules Verne and Issac Asimov are my favorites. But lately I have got myself a Kindle and have vastly more collection in the form of ebooks.

Watching Movies: #

My favorite director while growing up was Steven Spielberg. is movies like Artificial Intelligence, Jurassic Park and Minority Report have made me fall in love with Hollywood. While later I found respect in the works of directors like Stanley Kubrick, Robert Zemeckis and Christopher Nolan. You can have a taste of the movies I recommend in this list.

Riding: #

Recently when I bought my first bike, I realized that I love riding. I think I don’t need therapy when I just need to feel the wind to calm down. It’s absolutely enthralling.

Technical: #

Writing: #

I love to write articles and blogs about the things I love to do. So I mostly end up writing technical articles about Android, WordPress and also reviews of movies and show that I would like to discuss my views on. Writing is a very technical process and hence it’s under the Technical section.

Painting/Photographing: #

I use to love painting when I was a child, and if given the chance I would absolutely love to pick it up again. Alas, didn’t paint for a very long time now. The love for painting have been overshadows by the hobby of photography. Needless to say that taking a good photograph requires immense amount of technical skills, something I am still trying to learn.

Video editing: #

I love to edit videos. Since I have appreciated the art of movie making since the time I first lay my eyes on TV, I have been constantly investing time to learn Adobe Premiere and love to upload random videos on my Youtube channel. Well, editing is a very time consuming process. Something that has a very steep learning curve, and which I can never have enough of it.

Programming: #

It’s something I knew I always meant to do. Even before I learnt my hobby of photography and video editing. I use to love studying C++ in school. Making something out of nothing and watching it executing, taking inputs from user and performing actions that was intended successfully was always a rewarding experience. Of course when it didn’t perform actions that was intended, it was equally frustrating, but then there are only two kinds of code in the world. One that starts pathetic and remains pathetic, while the other starts pathetic and grows better as time progresses. It’s the persistence and patience that is needed to achieve what you require, is what makes programming a rewarding experience.

Here are some of the experience in programming that I have had over the course of years:

Programming Languages #

C and C++: #

I thought I could take over the world using C++ at the time I was studying it in school. I created a whole project as a hobby and when it was time to submit a project for the boards I just submitted that hobby project and it got me a distinction. C++ is what triggered the love of programming inside me. Later I studied C and came to appreciate the roots of the language even better.

I learned the basics of programming with C++, including command line parameters, learning to use libraries, making graphics in BGI and the basics of OpenGL. It was fun while it lasted.