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Random post..

Status messages on IM services have become a scrap board.

The messages are mostly classified into the following categories:

1. Oh! look I am a genius kind:

Example:

“The glass is neither half full nor half empty, its twice as big as required”

2. The advertisement space:

Examples:

“Internships @ gigabucks- The Bla Bla Case Study Launch: Sep 20, Saturday, 6 PM, Outreach Auditorium”

“Need a pendrive ASAP”

3. People striving for attention:

Example:

“Check out my Blog: http://blogs.iamwilliwonka.com”

4. The Pseudo RSS news feed kind:

Example:

“XYZ company merged with LMN ”

5. Look I am working hard kind:

Example:

“2 assignments, 1 quiz and a 4 hour lab :(”

6. Yaay!…I got a new gadget kind:

Example:

“Wow, finally I am gonna get my hands dirty with raid/terabyte machines…. It should be fun… any suggestions which distro I should use?

7. I am here - Catch me if you can  kind:

Example:

“@ Hyderabad-Chiran Fort club”

8.Ooo… My computer plays music kind:

Example:

“♪ The-police-siren.mp3″

9.Random Rants:

Example:

“Very soon, people from hell will be sent to live with you for punishment(obviously their punishment not yours)… BTW ‘aamir’ and ‘a wednesday’ should have a genre of their own, what? disagree? I am not surprised, I can understand.”

10.The normal boring kind:

Examples:

“Away”

“Sleep”

“Idle”

“Food”

“Hungry”

Most of the example are taken from the status messages of people on my Google Talk.

Here is mine at the time of writing this post.

While(1){
   Sleep();
   IF(AWAKE){
      EAT FOOD;
   }
}
 
#after 40 minutes or so I realized that Sleep(); was not necessary :)
 
While(1){
   IF(AWAKE){
      EAT FOOD;
   }
}