After giving a lot of thoughts I finally decided to go online. Though I was never a computer geek, I always felt that I was quite updated with all the technologies and advancements that we incur in our daily chores. So I decided to create a website, more like a forum, especially for people in science like me.
When I was in Nepal, there was a huge buzz about Information Technology (IT). For me, and I bet some of you too, IT was just a CAN INFOTECH, organized by computer professionals once every year at BICC. At that time I found it pretty cool, I could get a pass from my dad’s office and it was the best damn place for Eve watching. Frankly speaking, I never understood what IT really was. Majority of vendors in the INFOTECH were there for selling their machine, may be having a PC was the first step towards the IT revolution.
Long after moving abroad for my higher studies, I started to feel and understand the power of IT and web. Now, I can’t imagine a single day without the use of web either for my work or for my personal purpose. Last time I created a website, it was my personal website hosted by my grad school’s server. All I had to do was create some templates using FrontPage and put it in the folders assigned by the school. That website had my information, my resume, classes I was taking, and links to other relevant websites. Well that was nice and easy and I felt very happy about it. Hurray, I finally had my own website though I never felt compelled to update it again. After graduating from the school I lost my privileges to host that site. Now I am among few people who don’t have a website. Do I really need to have a website or does anyone really need a website? The answer depends on what you want to serve your website for; one thing is for sure, I don’t need to have a website showing just my resume, pictures, and personal information. Then suddenly from nowhere, why did even a thought of creating a website came to me? What do I want to have in my website? Whom will this website serve? I am still seeking for answers.
My life has changed since graduating and resuming work. After the scheduled hours at work, I have tons of time remaining where I have basically nothing to do besides watching TV or roaming around. One of my colleagues at work suggested me to pick up a hobby to kill time, so I started reading books, lazily sometime go for a workout, and even so I still have a lot of time to kill. I really wanted to use my time for something meaningful, and my desire for creating a website might be a result of it.
So what do I want in my website? I narrowed down some possibilities: it will be similar to a blog, a forum to be precise; it will contain views based on the real life facts on science professionals (not only big guns but lower tier professional like me too), information on relevant discoveries and resources, information on job opportunities and grant/funding for schoolwork etc. The ideas seem vague but I believe I can definitely deduce them to more specifics later as I start working.
Who will be browsing through my website? Personally, I work in a prestigious agency and some of my other friends too, and some are undertaking schoolwork in good universities. If I can have them all communicating then I can build a strong resource for a good job networking, higher abroad studies opportunities, and vital information’s on excelling in your current jobs. I may have missed much more advantages out of it, like one of my cousin mentioned to me that guy’s who eventually made Napster, in their college days had developed a sharing tool for themselves and had never imagined how big the sharing of resources will ultimately be. Well I definitely don’t have high hopes comparing my site to Napster, but that is certainly a good story to draw your inspiration from.
Like I mentioned earlier about how and where I created my last website, now for me to create a new one I unquestionably have to purchase a domain name as well as the web hosting. Although, I have made some advancement since my last CAN INFOTECH, I still found my self lacking. So I called my cousin, who now has a pretty accomplished website, for a help. The information and resources that I obtained from him was very overwhelming for a first day. So after a long tinkering with him I finally settled for a blogsite instead of a website to start with. Thinking of something and putting it to words are completely different facets. So this blog, at first, will serve as a test for me whether or not I can do justice to my penmanship. That will lay a foundation for me to migrate to the website that I am dreaming of in the future. I am not sure if I will ever be able to make that leap but one thing is for sure, I have come a long way from CAN INFOTECH.
