If someone close to us is sharing his grievance with us, are there different ways to empathize? We can take the side of this person, really sympathize with him (or her), console and comfort her agreeing that the situation is so shockingly bad, what has the terrible world come to, and that offender who caused…
[TODO: open a new site for technical posts or revamp this one so that they don’t get mixed up…!!] After a long time, thanks to the lovely spirit, opportunity and encouragement I received from my fellow spiders @ spiderlogic, I actually managed to contribute something however insignificant to the GRAILS open-source community. For a has-many…
More tyred than this guy? 😉 Kichu Krishnan had asked this question – when you reach home in the evening, how tired are you? And he talked about a typical scene that I could at that time easily relate to. I used to be a workaholic, and when I went home I was so tired…
[an article written several years ago from my old website] Answers from different people to this question may be "yes", "maybe", or "no, I just dont have the talent for it". Let us try to take a closer look at the question, by starting with the idea of Beauty, and considering the ability of other species to identify it….
[This is from my drafts, something that happened quite a while ago] While returning home in the afternoon afternoon, I was coming on the busy Tumkur Road, driving alongside a truck on the left side, when in the distance, in the distance, on the temporarily empty road, I saw a small puppy crossing the road….
Right now I don’t have internet connection at home yet, so except for occasional posts from my browser using Scribefire, its not very convenient for me to be very responsive on this site for the time being – please excuse any ignored comments. This is due to an attempt to simplify my life and hopefully…
This is a letter to my colleagues, and I thought I’d share it here as well… Dear all, Can you guess where this photo was taken… Around 18:20 just a few minutes’ walk fromour office! 🙂 This facility has just happened to be provided to us by coincidence so if you like you could…
This is a technical post, I should probably create another site for such things. Just want to document some problems I came across while trying out some examples from The Definitive Guide To Grails… class Bookmark { static hasMany = [tags:Tag] URL url String title String notes Date dateCreated = new Date()} class…
My wife was expected to be at my house to receive my sister, and usually she’s pretty punctual but today she just wasn’t around. Maybe she’s left her mobile behind. Try to forget it and get back to work – either she’ll get back to me seeing my missed calls, or my sister has anyway…
Recently someone from America had come on a visit to India. She has two granddaughters in the US, elder one she has brought up with more attention in her own way, compared to the younger one. And there on the phone was her elder granddaughter, wailing away and completely miserable not able to eat properly…
