Posts by: Kalyan Varma

Bangalore Beats Silicon Valley I guess it was bound to happen eventually. I expected everyone to do the Bangalore/India bashing on slashdot. surprisingly they haven’t ( not till now anyway). But I guess bangalore beats the valley in terms of number of jobless s/w engineers too. Out of the big numbers in bangalore more then half of them work in call centers and that is just cheap labor and not really a s/w job. I just hope the number of decent software development/research jobs to call-center jobs ratio goes up in bangalore. That will be the real sign of success.

I work with this certain army dude, who always points me to this link whenever I ask him some dumb/confusing question. Though I did not follow them initially, they make a lot of sense and correlate a lot to the software engineering principles. Applied these partially for my current project and I can see good results. http://www.atsc.army.mil/itsd/comcor/cg1281s.htm At one point in your life, one has to move from the hacker programming style ( scribble random things ) to s/w development style.

It had to happen. I should not try to change my sleep cycle out of the blue. Even though I slept just an hour before my usual sleep time, I was rolling on the bed for 2 hours and then slept for 2 hours and then I’m back to rolling now. Could not stand the feel of my body touching the bed anymore and finally jumped off the bed. Its amazing all the things that go through your mind when you are not getting sleep.

Happy new year one and all 2003 has been a very eventful year. I went through few of the highest and lowest points of my life’s and few things have made me change my point of view about loads of things. The coming year will be one hell of a ride.. loads of changes in my life… time to plan my future and not to forget , lose weight 🙂

ashwinb filled in for derherr Ashwin’s terrace is pure bliss

I hate the arrogant fucked up relatives who think they know it all. One of them living at my place this weekend

Last night my office year end party happened. The venue was club cabana and I jumped into the pool as soon as I landed there ( about 3pm). Had loads of activities and loads of awards. congrats and smokediceman for winning the best employee award. There were bunch of informal awards as well, in which I managed to win highest number of awards. I won nocturnal employee and Most eligible employee ( I have no clue how I managed to win this ). The prizes for each of them were very funny. I won the book “Nudist in the night…

noelladsa‘s first pic using my new camera. She just set a very high bar for me 😀

I think I just heard one of the Worst speech ever given by an American president. Bush can’t talk for nuts. He was going too fast for the text scrolling in front of him, so he would pause after everyline, wait for the text to scroll and meanwhile look like a total idiot. And the lines were straight out of some war movie.( Ofcouse I presume the guy who wrote the script watched too many movies).

Second time this week, I have left my keys inside the car and locked myself out. To make matters worse ( maybe its a good thing ) my car ( 800) cannot be broken into using the regular “Slide a metal ruler” method. Last time I actually went back home to get the spare keys. Today I had to get a locksmith to get it open. Its pretty amazing. His tool was just a simple thin metal wire. While he was breaking into my car, I has a small chat with him and he said he could make a duplicate…