January 2003 - October 2005

In fond memory of Jabberwocky, the best of computers and the most faithful of companions (whenever he was working properly atleast).

Jabber was a full-time member of the IITB LAN for the greatest part of his life, and it can be safely said - he liked it there. Many were the movies and sitcoms he downloaded and then selflessly played for others' entertainment. In what spare time he had left, he uncomplainingly made himself available for surfing the net, checking mails and so on. He occasionally dabbled in academic work as well, but any major cut-down in his regular entertainment diet, unfortunately, did not agree with his constitution. Pressure of work in Feb-March 2005 led to a stroke (read motherboard fault), and though the transplant operation was successful, Jabber never fully recovered. The stress of maintaining dual Windows and Linux personalities also started showing around this time, leading to further complications.

A complete removal from the nurturing IITB network in May 2005, eventually proved to be fatal. After struggling on for a few months in the heat and power fluctuations of Kota, Jabber finally succumbed to a total hard-disk crash on October 4, 2005 (the wuss that he was!). May he rest in peace (the crashed hard-disk atleast).