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Did you hear the one about the programmer who outsourced his own job? A pseudonymous poster on slashdot wrote, “About a year ago I hired a developer in India to do my job. I pay him $12,000 to do the job I get paid $67,000 for. He’s happy to have the work. I’m happy that I only have to work 90 minutes a day, talking code. My employer thinks I’m telecommuting. Now I’m considering getting a second job and doing the same thing.” From This months Wired issue The Noodle cup is too hilarious.

Late evening yesterday with sun hitting her face on one side.

Lot of friends attrition lately. My good friends ashwinb and puttu left for their MS to USA this week (Good luck guys). My late night pool partner krishi quit yahoo yesterday. He is joining IISc later this month. My batchmates at work Nandu and (who can forget him) have moved to the sunnyvale office this month and tejaswi quit to pursue his Mtech at IIT. These folks pretty much make up the last bunch of people who have joined yahoo along with me straight out of college. Good luck for all you fine folks.

Except for the not-so-nice train journey, the trip was pretty good. I had to take a 4 hour stink of shit on the railway platform, sleepless night thanks to all the people snoring loud around me and the lack of people to talk to as everyone around me spoke only bengali. Decided to fly back and I’ve decided not to make any more long distance train journeys. Met all the “good” relatives with whom you can actually have a decent time and not the ones who annoy you like shit. Ate all the yummy home made sweets and visited all…

Leaving for Vizag tomorrow on a 4 day trip to attend a family function. I am visiting my home town after almost 2 years and hopefully this time it will be less sweaty. Once you spend couple of years in bangalore, you just don’t feel like staying anywhere else in India. I for one sweat a lot and its a nightmare for me when I visit coastal areas. Also the one-way train journey to Vizag is close to 20 hours (atleast I can catch up on all the half read my books I have lying around) The bright side is…

http://in.news.yahoo.com/040701/43/2epu5.html Scores of gay rights activists marched in Delhi on Thursday demanding the removal of a colonial law which makes homosexuality illegal. Shouting slogans and waving banners, dozens of gays, lesbians and transvestites walked around the Jantar Mantar observatory demanding a change in section 377 in the Indian Penal Code. The section bans homosexual activity, calling it “against the order of nature” and makes it punishable by a fine and a prison sentence up to 10 years. … Passers-by stopped to look at the group demonstrating in favour of gay rights just four days after a similar march drew wide…

Looks like Gmail is having a tough time catching up with loads of new users (It was expected). I currently get the following error when I hit gmail. Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We’re sorry for the inconvenience. Hey, at least they have a sense of humor. Their Ad system seems to work quite well. In an email to someone, I called the person a ‘Fatty’ and google showed him 3 ads about weight loss programs right next to the email. Also Userfriendly.org is on gmail theme this week.

The trip was *Amazing*. 3 days ,3 people and 1000 kilometers in a great car. Experienced the best of monsoon, best of kerala and came across come really nice kerala people. Seriously monsoon is the best time to visit kerala. The places are lovely, greenery everywhere and prices in all the amazing resorts are dead cheap. I plan to visit kerala at the break of monsoon next year and follow it up inland. Pictures from the trip are up here. and the trip itenary.

In couple of hours I’ll set out on a road trip with yathin and fus over the weekend to experience the best of Indian monsoon in Kerala. We shall drive down the kerala coast as far as we can reach till monday morning and then we head back. Off for now.

I needed to pull some info from a mysql DB and I ssh to the remote box and do $ select * from foo where foo=bar; and I get the following error bash: syntax error near unexpected token `from’ I break my head for 10 min trying to figure out what the heck was going wrong and then I realise I was still on the bash shell and never used the mysql client to login to the DB. I never realised there was a command line version of the select syscall. I think I should go sleep now.