Thursday, May 24, 2012

Dan Brown

   It's been a while since I wrote something here. The new job is keeping me quite busy. Dan Brown is the one who is making me blog even in this busy schedule. Yes, I am talking about the author Dan Brown. Of course, google made me do the previous post even before doing this :)  


   So I have been reading this book of Dan Brown called 'The Deception Point' and I realized how good an author he is!! I couldn't read a single line of this book without appreciating him. The thought about the amount of research he would have put in, to write the book, is amazing. This is the feeling that I got while reading his other two works too. 




   The first time I bought Dan Brown's was around 3 years ago. That day I was bored like hell and none of my friends were interested in going out. So, I just went to a book shop that is very far from my place, and bought some books, just to while away some time. 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels and Demons' by Dan were among the ones I bought. The others were Sidney Sheldon's if I remember it right. Being a great fan of Sheldon, I started with one of his' and I gave 'Angels and Demons' to a friend of mine, to read. She hardly read 2 or 3 pages and said that the book was more like a Physics text book rather that a novel. I remember one of my colleagues telling me that it was an awesome work. So, I was surprised as to which one was right. But when I started reading it, I felt just the way I felt when reading 'The Deception Point'. 
    
    The things he talks about in the novel, are really awesome. He talks a great deal about Physics and technology in 'Angels and Demons'. In 'Deception Point', he talks a great deal about astronomy, Oceanography and lot more. I realized how much work can be put into writing a book. You can find an example of this, in Chapter 51, when he describes how a person is killed. He talks a great deal about Computers, cryptography and encryption algorithms in 'The Digital Fortress'. 

     I really feel that reading Dan Brown's books increases our knowledge. I still have to 2 more of his books to read. On my visit to a Good Will Store last time, I got a few books. And I am so happy that I bought 'The Lost Symbol'. I am really excited to read that. But I would start only after reading some other book by a different author. I cannot read the same author's one after the other. The 'Da Vinci Code' I bought, disappeared through a friend long time ago, though. 


     I just feel like writing about a particular scene in which a girl asks an oceanographer, about where polar bears lived. If they lived in arctic circle or the antarctic circle. It could have been written by just saying that they live in the arctic circle. But he explains the etymology of the word to her. I just loved it. I just love reading Dan Brown's. 

Google disappoints me

    This morning I was just thinking about a few pictures I uploaded in picasaweb and I just logged in to see them. And damn!! Not a single album was in there. I really did not like this change by Google. 
    
    Usually I am not much excited about 'Change'. Change is something that frightens me and makes me very much uncomfortable. Google has been testing my patience for sometime now. They keep changing the look and feel every now and then. The first big disappointment for me was when the Gmail look was changed recently. I really hated to use the new look. But fortunately, there was an option which allows me to continue with the old look. I was happy to find at least that option. But that happiness did not last long. One fine morning, I realized that Google is not giving me the luxury of using the old look anymore. 
    
    Something similar happened with picasa too (wail). It is a big disappointment for me this morning. I don't know if I would be using picasa albums anymore. And, I am seeing a changed blogger interface as well. Just like in the other two cases, I have the option of using the old blogger interface now. I am sure sooner or later, that is going to disappear. I am not sure if I would be blogging anymore, after that happens! Or  may be I should make myself accustomed to accepting the so called 'Change'. With so many other options to do the same that I do with google now, I can actually switch to something else. But I don't know which one I would better accept - switch between the old and new looks of Google, or switch to an entirely different site!!