With Bangalore traffic, some common sense is needed and its not really practical to blindly follow traffic rules every time, as long as it dosen’t put others to inconvenience or danger. The following is just an ad hoc incident, I don’t expect it to happen all the time. Recently I was driving home late evening….
This might look very silly, but one rather peculiar aspect of me: a lifelong VERY STRONG aversion to fruits. Any kind of fruit, tomatoes and lemons being the only exceptions (though my friends would say that it proves that tomato is a vegetable and not a fruit! ) Right from childhood days. It seems my…
Though many friends have encouraged me to keep writing, I doubt how many people regularly read this site. Anyway assuming that there might be some, you might’ve noticed the slow updates to this site so I’m giving an explanation…
Recently watched the movie A Beatiful Mind (Russel Crowe) for the second time, following it more closely. There’s an interesting scene of a blonde girl, where they’re discussing about famous economist Adam Smith’s theory that “individual ambition is for the common good”. When a blonde girl enters the scene, Nash comes up with a thesis…
Now there are a great deal of buses from different IT companies, that run from Electronics City to the main city. The journey is typically around 1.5 hours one way, and sometimes the road is bumpy (and that’s an understatement 😉 ). When another IT company bus passed me and I looked at the inmates…
I’ve come across a lot of fellow software engineers who seem to be really scared to ever admit that they don’t know anything. At different points in time, I’ve been in situations where I’ve failed to understand something that I needed to, or have ended up with colleagues whom I have to rely upon but…
We spend so many hours at work everyday – maybe at office or maybe at home, depending on our circumstances. I’d like to make a note here of many useful links that I’ve come across over the years… which I’ve tried to implement with varying degrees of success…
Relevant only if you work with XML… This is a pretty neat free XML Editor from Microsoft that I’ve used for quite a few years… as lightweight as Notepad. We can just draw XML and drag and drop nodes, and then view source to copy the XML source. XML Notepad offers an intuitive and simple…
Some general things based on noticing the indiscriminate carnage of trees (indirectly) whenever I collect a printout from the printer in office. Three very simple things…. * Don’t “print and forget” – dont *forget* to collect your printout! * Set your Default Printer Preferences to print on both sides of the paper. * Please think…
Just felt I must share this information with readers here – a brief note to say that yesterday evening I was able to give a gift to my one single girlfriend of this lifetime – a Kinetic Blazer scooter gifted from Radio City for answering where I live.
