Geeky – Who? Me?

That's what I was called by a couple of my colleagues! Why? You may wonder would an HR person be termed as a Geek... Well the answer lies in the following facts that came out during our conversation yesterday evening – one fact being that I had just bought my very own, my very first domain name and with assistance have managed to route it to my blog :-) Also the fact that I have started to self learn Ruby - No No it’s not a jewelery course but a software language! Yes they too thought I was bonkers to do something like this! :-) But hey why not? Why let only the s/w guys have all the fun! Just don't expect me to do this overnight that’s all!

A look of surprise crossed their faces when I also mentioned that I too had read Isaac Asimov – is that surprising?? I didn’t think so but they definitely did…;-) After discussing the various books written by Asimov, we moved onto other topics when a team member of mine joined our group. During the conversation the topic of reading technical updates came up and I casually mentioned that I had recently read about and shared with my team the subject of “Semantic Web” and carried on by explaining the concept of the new search that will be available on the Web. This was greeted with exclamations of wonder and seeing my questioning look they said that this was something they hadn’t expected me to know!! And in unison they said – Geek!!! While I giggled away at their enthusiasm I told them the source of my knowledge – PC Quest and PC Home, which gave way to a few more amused looks ;-)

So, I enjoy reading about technology, about things that surround me and interest me and if that make me Geeky – so be it!! :-)