Email Spamming

Today in every part of the world, millions of internet users are checking their inbox every second. And these people must be aware of most effective internet problem. Can you guess it?

No!
Its Ok.
I tell you.
The problem about which I am highlighting here is of receiving mails from unknown person or organization. In internet language, such mails are termed as SPAM.
Spam is basically message that is related to earn quick money, winning a jackpot and travel trip, advertising different products or some sex-related materials. Such mails are really unwanted and those who send them are called spammers.

Why the name ‘SPAM’?
‘SPAM’ was the first canned meat product that did not require refrigeration introduced in 1937. But why these unwanted mails are termed as spam is unknown. Or, it may come when some Vikings of Monty Python, highly influential team of British and American television comedians who later branched out into films, overshadows other words by shouting the word ‘spam’ excessively. Actually, internet spam do the same task, it overshadows other mails in the inbox and thus occupy unnecessary bytes.

Programming and Girls

So what happens if you-the-geek goes up to your girlfriend (wait! a geek who has a girlfriend? ahem!) ? She says "Ya [your_name_here_o_geek_god], I know it's good for me. But I don't know anything!"

Hmm. Don't worry, it's the same ol' story everywhere and let me tell you; people, all the world over, are debating about how to get more women into computer science. So what steps can we take to bring our favorite girls (comeon, you can't leave me out just because I don't have a girlfriend!) to the fantastic world of programming and computer science in the real sense of the word. Let me forewarn you, the journey is tough and filled with terrors unforseen; of missing (mis-placed?) semi-colons and strange un-decipherable (un-compilable?) code.

So how did we become good programmers? Ofcourse I know the code runs with the blood, and the neurons function in harmony to move our fingers on the keyboard. And the code? what code? it's a direct brain-se (like dil-se) to the computer. Oops, I just got carried away. Flashback...yeah girls and programming. It's something like language and mathematics. You need to learn the nuances of the lingo and become expert enough to be able to express the delicate and precise balance of a mathematical equation. You miss a plus or a minus and it does not compute. You forget to place the equals sign and the stupid compiler can't understand a thing. It's like teaching a child to stand on his/her feet, to walk, to run. We practiced hard enough day and night to reach this kind of dexterity and everybody else must do the same.

It helps an awful lot if you're good at language (an area where girls are better than us, and don't kill me for saying this boys). And it helps an awful lot if you're good at mathematics (no boy, you're looking at the wrong place for a compliment). And remember, 'Practice makes a woman perfect'.

Ok, it's late at night and I need some sleep (yes, geeks do sleep sometimes). I'll wait for the first non-male (ofcourse I mean female by that) comment on this post to continue this geek-talk. And she'll also get a cadbury's eclairs from my side if possible :-)

Coming up next:

• A survival guide to programming for newbies.
• What will I get from a programming contest (I can never win against those #*#$)?
• ... (that's a secret)
• ... (will tell you about this only if you sign a non-disclosure agreement with me)
  

Disclaimer: If you're a girl, please don't mind; and If you do, please try to find a way to forgive me. After all all this is just some crazy geek-talk, right? ;)