Raves and Rants

Of late ive been experiencing bandwidth bliss and ive been downloading anythin that catches my eye.the internet is like one huge government office,everywhere u have to fill forms up....want JBuilder fill up a form,want JDeveloper fill up a form,want JWSDP fill up another form..this is another area where open source projects especially ASF rock.Project Liberty Alliance and Passport where are u??????

I just made a list of  MTKLL which stands for ''moves that can kill your love life''....u knows better than me abt MTKLL's..after all noone can argue abt the fact that experience is the best teacher.Ok so here i go

1)You see a hot babe sitting alone at a coffee shop and think "What would Bill Gates do in a situation like this?"

2)Have dinner together by the soft glow of ur computer monitor.

3)Spend an evening together playing ur mp3 files backwards listening for secret messages from Satan.

4)Try to drive her crazy by murmuring tender words of affection with the help of a French speaking voice synthesizer . 

5)Show her the components uve gathered to build your own nuclear reactor.

6)Tell her that her hair is nice and ' parallel '.

7)Show her ur microprocessor driven can opener.

8)You talk about the high resolution,TFT technology and Dolby noise reduction algorithms of your Home Theatre while watching Serendipity together.

OK OK cheer up,heres a move that will make ur love life bloom forever

FLASH THE BIG WADS OF FIVE HUNDRED RUPEE NOTES THAT U CREATED WITH UR COLOR LASER PRINTER AND TOP NOTCH GRAPHICS PROGRAM. 

Thats it for now ill fill u ppl in with more moves later...TATA

Its said that nothing stinks as bad as an unupdated blog,as it is jasz's spam fests have caused enuf of a stench and i dont want to add to it so here i am updatin my blog.

Today i saw a movie called the net which made me sit up and think abt how software and computers work in hollywood.heres how computers work in Hollywood

1)Word processors never display a cursor

2)All monitors display 2 inch high letters.

3)High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, have extremely easy to understand graphical interfaces.

4)Those that don't will have incredibly powerful text-based command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain English.

5)You can gain access to any information you want by simply typing "ACCESS ALL FILES" on any keyboard.

6)Likewise, you can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing "UPLOAD VIRUS."

7)Whenever an actor/actress looks at a VDU, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face.

All said and done Hollywood does make really good masala tech movies,
and i LOVE em.

YAWN!!!!!!!!!!!

Im immune to fairly large doses of C8H10N4O2,which expressed in words is 1H-Purine-2,6-dione, 3,7-dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl.

With loads and loads of time on my hands to burn I cant help thinking abt the good old days when gettin up early in the morning(11:00 o clock) and pondering about how to emulate a post or how to tunnel through the proxy at office kept me engaged for hours on end.It was during this period that i learnt and perfected percussive maintainence.In case you are wondering what maintainence is,percussive percussive maintainence is the fine art of whacking an electronic device to get it working again.My poor desktop cabinet was a victim of my then newly acquired skill as I would kick it(yes kick it!!) whenever the network connection got disconnected and voila i was on the LAN again.

I also ended up making a list of career limiting moves, CLM for short.Here are a few of em..... 

1.)hanging out at the coffee shop below office after uve called in sick .

2)your project leader unexpectedly walks into your cube, your screen, once hot-keyed, passes for a code-intensive IDE, and you bruskly announce, "Now what?" in your most annoyed guru manner when suddenly you realize the "My project leader sux" thread you'd actually been testing was set to interrupt in 10 seconds, 9, 8, ...  

3) just as u decide to do some serious work there is a call for a meeting..(Another meeting!!!!When are we supposed to write code around here???) and the boss explains another critical need: Status reports. Your project simply cannot move forward until u adopt the new status report and during feedback, your response is : "What's a status report?"
This time around these CLMs do not apply and hope I end up making a new set of em that can be applicable no matter which co u r doing a project for.

Udayan, here i come!!!!!!!!!! 

Just read this article on wired.com titled "The Kingmaker",its abt Walt Mossberg and the tech column he writes for The Wall Street Journal.Good to know that theres a force out there to remind megacorps that the customer is king but the future does seem bleak, i  believe that one day well be living on planet IBM and Microsoft would be competing on a galactic level with a blackhole as its interface with other galaxies.No im not suggesting that well have a Star trek kinda scenario,but well b living in an age where it wont take a million years for the process of fossilization to take place ,a few weeks or months wud b enuf for smaller megacorps to b fit enuf to b stacked one above the other in a tarpit just because they didnt INNOVATE fast enuf.

I know they should have taken me for the Sprite ad,I start off giving "gyaan" at the drop of a hat but what to do old habits die hard and i wont b able to go to sleep without giving someone a dose of gyaan.Getting back to the subject of my blog there is a lotta stuff out there that is pretty interesting,I particularly liked the idea abt phenotropic computing.Im just waitin to lay my hands on a huge huge software project so that i can get to see how badly written software falls down like a house made outta cards in the wind,Im very good at writing poorly designed code so achieving such a feat wudnt b tuf anyway.There are a lotta things that i need to learn b4 im off to trivandrum so i can still dish out gyaan otherwise ill die of insomnia.Till later.....ciao

Ive finally made up my mind to start blogging and as my blog is meant to be abt nothing i dont feel like writin anything.Everythin seems so borin these days even my usual cuppa cappucino seems to have got boring.I know Ill get bored of bloggin in a couplla days or probably weeks,I hope the google bot gets to this blog coz it does matter to have a considerable presence on google.have u guys ever tried searching for urself on google?

Today morning i was feelin extra geeky/nerdy and wanted to use a laptop so I went to my friends place to use his Toshibha laptop,its nice and small but somewhow i like Arvinds Thinkpad better.Being able to work without any wires anywhere u like is really cool and I envy Arvind for this simple reason and Ive made a mental note that my first laptop(which I should b able to buy in another 2-3 months) should b Wi-Fi enabled.Im just waitin to throw that stupid old whitebox outta my room and replace it with an ulta cool black Dell or IBM.Lets not get into a discussion abt which box or OS is good,Ive had an overdose of Linux vs Windows,UltraSparc,SGI boxes vs Wintel boxes of late and dont want to hear a word abt any of em rite now.Anyway enuf of writing abt nothing,its time for a beer...Goodbye