I am a little late to this bandwagon, I think. Something I was idly thinking about for ages but never got around to doing.... like setting up my outloook account, which I did after owning a PC for over a decade. Not too surprising I guess, except for the fact that I could assemble a PC at home but found myself unable (unwilling?) to configure Outlook.

But finally the utter ennui of this conference I'm attending got the better of me and here I am, writing. And realising how used I am to MS Word's auto correct options. Christ, I never thought I was this bad at typing! 

It's a weird feeling, writing like this online. I've written a diary in my childhood, but this is publishing it for the whole world, or whoever bothers to check it out, to read.

Attending this conference gave me my first firsthand experience with how bad the economy is getting these days. It surely is a bad sign if the trade counters don't even have free pens to give out! Last year, there was everything from CDs to books to what have you. NOw all you had was toffees. Gifts are down from ipods to 2GB pen drives. Being in the field that I am, the economic downturn hasn't really affected me, nor did the upturn of the last decade or so either. So it's an eye opener to see how bad it is for the rest of the guys. I wonder how things came to this. I mean I know how it happened, but I wonder how it was allowed to fester till it reached such huge proportions. Did these guys think no one would ever find out? What were they thinking? And the biggest irony is that while the rest of the world is feeling the pinch, these "geniuses" are still getting big bonuses! It's a screwed-up world.