Vijay Narayanan on June 24th, 2005

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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Vijay Narayanan on June 23rd, 2005

A friend mourns the demise of one of the most important inventors of all time.

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Vijay Narayanan on June 21st, 2005

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 [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on June 21st, 2005

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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Vijay Narayanan on June 18th, 2005

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?” [...]

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