Construction work has started for the proposed DCE Class of 2002
website. Almost 1.25 man-hours and 0.3L of coffee have already been
invested in this singularly ambitious, labour-intensive project. This
has been a long-cherished dream for all of us. We need your support,
cooperation, and encouragement for our noble cause.
Our public relations and tech support departments receive close to
400 telephone calls a day (on good days). Here's a randomly-ordered
listing of the most frequently asked questions:
Q. What's this website about anyway?
The general idea is that people graduating from DCE in 2002 can
throw their group photographs, memoirs etc. at us, and we'll file
all of those for them. They can then browse through all this stuff
10 years from now and get all nostalgic about the good old
days. Everyone can join in this Grand Unification Plan. No
distinction will be made on the basis of caste, creed, sex,
religion, branch, hostel, last-semester-ke-number, GRE score,
student branch post, or which-fest-you-worked-for.
Q. I'm graduating in 2002. Can I put my buddy snaps on here too?
Of course. You can mail us the image files or a web link, or you
could hand us your scanned snaps at college. You could also ask
K. Vivek (EE, VIII sem) to click a few snaps of
your group with his shiny new digital camera. You'll have ask him
real politely and swear your unquestioning allegiance to him.
Remember, he doesn't do this for personal benefit.
Q. Wow! That is ambitious. You guys are serious
about doing all this?
Actually no. We're just building this site to dump our Auli trip
photographs. And to unwind before we graduate. We've been in DCE long
enough to know exactly how enthusiastic people are going to be,
about the alien concept of a `Class of 20XX' website. We're not
too enthusiastic ourselves about having too many lingering memories
of Bawanaland.
Q. Gosh... what a lame way to unwind! Anyway, what's that oh-so-sexy
pic? Is it a Monet?
Not quite. It was developed in-house one year back. It has been used
and overused in random and remote places, wherever the need for visual
communication was felt. Apologies to those who've got bored looking at it.
And to those who never liked it anyway. This image is special to us
because:
If you look hard, you'd see the DCE Computer Center / T&P
department. It doesn't always look this eerie or phosphorescent,
but we have scary memories of it. Spending endless hours perched
on the parapets in our chauffeur-whites, chirping cautiously in
nervous anticipation. Our hearts well up at all the nostalgia.
It's the last (and only worthwhile) bit of graphic design wizardry
that our team has done in a long time. The evaluation version of
Corel XaraX expired one fine day. Desperate attempts at CPR
with downloaded cracks were in vain. Our beloved XaraX could not
be revived and all creativity was quelled. This website is the
only vaguely arty work we've done since then.
The image has decent levels of sex-appeal.
All of us are too lazy to bother looking around for some other pic.
Q. Yaa..awn. Who're the idle people behind this lousy project?
Right now there's just me. The `we' and `us' addressing convention
has been adopted to make things easier for future expansions, mergers,
and acquisitions.
Q. Saale Mohan! Yeh sab kya arbit bakwaas likh rakhi hai? What is
this AyeDee-ocacy? Max vela insaan hai tu. Auli trip snaps kahan hai??
Mind it! Certi ki ummeed kiye bina kaam kar raha hoo.
Trip snaps are right here.
