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This blog was originally started under the title, News and Some Views, after the requirements of my first job as a content writer got me introduced to the world of Blogosphere. Other than being an editor and occasional blogger, I am interested in discovering life…always chasing (and all possible efforts are made towards mastering) ‘new’ things. Spontaneity interests me. Drop your comments to let me know what you feel about some of the things I have written about. Most of these emanate from our day-to-day experience. Let me know your side too.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Track changes

Many of our serials have relied on this trusted plot- our dear character’s rival screwing up the office presentation just before the all important meeting, which could make or mar the hardworking character’s career. But gone are the days when such a thing could happen. Technology has taken that popular plot away from our serial makers. Reason for that is the computer.

Everyone now in the family now knows how to work on the computer, which has now become as indispensable as a refrigerator or TV. Not just the kids but the housewives are also learning to run this device. And while learning the MS OFFICE WORD, every learner comes across the special program (I hope that’s the technical word to describe ‘track changes’) in the tools menu, ‘protect document’. If you mark your document so, no one can mess with your document. Not just this, the maker of the document can also see what kind of changes has been made by the other user, in his/her absence, if the document has been marked 'protected'. one can also give a password to the file while saving, but that won't be fun at all.

Someone must in appreciation of the Microsoft show this plot happening in some serial. Imagine the villain opens the document to destroy the toil of our 'honest fellow' and instead of that sees the computer showing the changes made, though changes are also simultaneously being made. The evil fellow is busted on the spot. What a situation it would be:
A dramatic plot with loud background scores and zooming-in & out camera turned into a comic plot.

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