College student Lara Hayhurst was not prepared to let officials treat her little pet like Osama ‘fin’ Laden http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03362/255283.stm Personally I think the US gov is using F.U.D to convience people that they are keeping america safe
Is it just me or does weekend television really suck ? Decided to laze around and watch some TV all day and not even a single program/movie turned up. Ended up doing some work from home. Took some pics with the camera. will post them up soon. Watched “The last samurai” last night. Very good movie and the directors have managed to depict the samurai culture very well. (They could have done without the tom cruise long hair – it really does not fit in .. how does one fight with hair all over his face)
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