[This is a direct lift from Thejo’s blog! Friend, you can claim a trackback.]
An oft-repeated line from a 60s Tamil song roughly translates to “there are crores of people who are worse off; consider that, and seek solace.” This is a part of those solace-seeking measures. There are 5,139,715,394 people in the world who draw […]
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[This post is a blatant boast… an expression of my conceit… a vent to my vanity]
Yesterday, we had a team meeting - a kick-off meeting for a really crucial release that is coming up in a few months’ time - so critical, it is considered a make or break. After the initial formalities like context […]
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Let me start by stating some facts and opinions. Microsoft is a phenomenon. I use Windows; though I’m quite comfortable with Linux, I won’t use a Linux-only PC for many years to come. Microsoft Office is just too good. Let me accept that I live in a Microsoft universe. I respect Microsoft for bringing the […]
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Joe Anderson is essaying a history of Google right from its days as a fledgling. Makes for some interesting reading.
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Britain’s numero uno, Tim Henman, was knocked out of Wimbledon on Thrusday. Personally, I could never have thought of him as a champion - not an addition to names like Connors, McEnroe, Becker or Sampras. Probably he was never meant to be.
A dejected Henman leaves Centre Court
Some news channel commented that it was time […]
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Just like everyone else, I’m a music freak. On the road, at home, at work, I keep humming some tune; if not, I keep tapping my fingers (thanks to two years of formal training in percussion). I love almost any music that is rhythmic and not noisy; melodies, I adore! My favourite genre is Tamil […]
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A friend mourns the demise of one of the most important inventors of all time.
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I received a simple two-line forwarded mail yesterday.
In olden days, if people wanted to become hermits, they used to leave behind their homes, their friends and relatives, and such other things and go to the Himalayas.
These days, they join a software company!
I was on leave today… for two reasons: I had some work to attend […]
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This past weekend, some of my project members went to Vishakapatnam to attend the marriage of a colleague. As they returned to work yesterday, most of them were sporting an undesirable tan! At more than 45 degrees C (113 F), the sun was merciless. On an average they should have imbibed 10 litres of fluids […]
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There is an old anecdote (possibly even apocryphal) about how a woman proposed to George Bernard Shaw telling him that if they married, their progeny would be blessed with her beauty and his brains. The inimitable GBS is known to have shot back, “But what if he inherits my uncomely countenance and your stupid intellect?”
Who […]
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Created by Siddhartha Elangovan
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Created by Siddhartha Elangovan
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The following strip was created by a colleague. I liked it because I found it down-to-earth, direct and simple. If you liked it too, you may post your comments here, or mail him directly.
The Ring Series… by Siddhartha Elangovan
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Right out of the blue, Sun Microsystems decided to send me a mail today announcing the “opening” of Solaris. Wow, that was so nice of them do it - both the “opening” and the mail.
Such promo mails stay in my inbox only for a few seconds. They are then lost into cyberspace forever. But this […]
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This is one of the worst PJs I’ve received in quite some time. Crappy but it makes you smile anyway!
Presenting the real Bun, Tea aur Bubbly…
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At the time of writing this piece, the number of hits my blog has received is not 100 yet. I would prefer a low (even lower) readership to ending up behind bars. Bloggers in China have been directed to provide their full details to the government by the 30th of June. There is a choice, […]
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I’ve never read a single comic strip nor followed a cartoon series in my life. The only things I know are that Tom is a cat, Jerry is a mouse, Dennis is a menace and Hobbes is a tiger (or is Calvin the tiger?).
However I ended up liking the “Arbit” Choudhury series of cartoons hosted […]
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jarring Pronunciation: ‘jär-i[ng]
1 : having a harshly disagreeable or disconcerting effect
2 : packing compiled Java classes into one single .jar (Java archive) file
The past three nights were really exciting! I returned home successively at 2:40 AM, 1:45 AM and 4:35 AM. The not-so-very likeable (yet predictable) part about all this is that I was working […]
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A couple of days ago, my project mates and I had a rather hilarious discussion about project life cycles.
We were returning back to office after lunch when someone started cursing about the time frame he was given to complete his module. He said that the estimated time was much less compared to the actual effort. […]
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Some months ago, the Government of India allowed the retailing of petrol by private players, breaking the monopoly held by state-owned oil companies like IndianOil, Bharat and Hindustan Petroleum. Some companies got the requisite license for the same, two of which are Reliance and Shell.
Shell put up one of its first petrol filling stations in […]
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