Traditionally, if anyone saw white peacock,
your fortune just turned better!!
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
FireFox Plugins
If you needed any more reason to switch to FireFox, let me point you to an excellent article by Quinn Norton. In “The Firefox Hacks You Must Have”, he refers to some excellent plugins which can prove to be quite useful.
Here is the link:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69781,00.html
Some excerpts I found nice:
“allows you to download little snippets of code that act as the software equivalent of small consumer electronics devices, only they are free”.
Yes I like free stuff.
“DownThemAll is a bulk downloader that allows you to copy everything you want from a website at once. Whether you need to grab handfuls of thumbnails from a picture album or a page full of interesting MP3s, this tiny app gets them all with a single click.”
Lovely !!!
“With this baby installed, you just right-click over virtually any popular website's login form, and the plug-in will tap BugMeNot, find a usable name and password donated by an existing user, and log you in.”
The BugMeNot extension.
Over all there are quite a few plugins available and you can just go on downloading till either the Brower or the Harddisk crashes.
Apart from these I found some other extensions which will be usefull to specefic groups of users
SearchStatus
http://www.quirk.co.za/searchstatus/
A toolbar extension designed for the highly specialised needs of search engine marketers. It lets you view a site’s Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN - all in one place.
View Rendered Source Chart
http://jennifermadden.com/scripts/ViewRenderedSource.html
Here is the link:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69781,00.html
Some excerpts I found nice:
“allows you to download little snippets of code that act as the software equivalent of small consumer electronics devices, only they are free”.
Yes I like free stuff.
“DownThemAll is a bulk downloader that allows you to copy everything you want from a website at once. Whether you need to grab handfuls of thumbnails from a picture album or a page full of interesting MP3s, this tiny app gets them all with a single click.”
Lovely !!!
“With this baby installed, you just right-click over virtually any popular website's login form, and the plug-in will tap BugMeNot, find a usable name and password donated by an existing user, and log you in.”
The BugMeNot extension.
Over all there are quite a few plugins available and you can just go on downloading till either the Brower or the Harddisk crashes.
Apart from these I found some other extensions which will be usefull to specefic groups of users
SearchStatus
http://www.quirk.co.za/searchstatus/
A toolbar extension designed for the highly specialised needs of search engine marketers. It lets you view a site’s Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN - all in one place.
View Rendered Source Chart
http://jennifermadden.com/scripts/ViewRenderedSource.html
- Creates a Colorful Chart of a Webpage's Rendered Source Code
- Charts Dynamically Generated HTML and Static HTML in Concert
- Great Visual Aid tool for Learning Environments
I will add more as I come across..
Monday, December 19, 2005
Inferiority complex
Every techy person has a little bit of inferiority complex... So do I.
I am constantly in doubt of my capabilities and am constantly searching for a little appreciation from every one. Now that person may or may not be capable himself (as per my inference) but I will anyways look for approval from them… I have noticed this for quite some time but don’t know how I can get rid of this. Or if I should get rid of this… this characteristic of mine.
I guess I have always had so many detractors that invariable I am almost always proving myself to someone or the other… Now either my knowledge lacks something or the knowledge of my critics has some excessive deficiency… I feel that there are more chances of the former as I have almost always been able to prove myself right to them. I feel that there are more chances of the former as I have almost always been able to prove myself right to them.
But today something happened which has given a huge boost to my ego and the general state of my happiness. Ask my colleagues, I have been talking about the event for the whole day and I guess they are just about to shout with frustration… So I deduce that this is the idle blog content for the day for me.
To cut a long story short, today, a piece of my code was opened by a few *important* *knowledgeable* people… (2 of them from Microsoft, which I guess is the Utopia for a programmer) and they were… simply… stumped.
Some of the comments before seeing my code were:
- This cannot be done
- This can be done in this way but the logic will create a humungous amount of data (in tune of terra bites) and the resultant application will be way too slow...
Some of the comments after seeing my code were:
- Pause!!!
- Silence!!!
- Have *you* written this code?
Cant tell more about this... Cause anyways that will be too technical for you guys…
But Today was a good day!!!
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Tomorrow is a new day
Tomorrow Is a New Day
Sometimes we do not feel like we want to feel
Sometimes we do not achieve what we want to achieve
Sometimes things that happen do not make sense
Sometimes life leads us in directions that are beyond our control
It is at these times, most of all that we need someone
who will quietly understand us and be there to support us
I want you to know that I am here for you in every way
and remember that though things may be difficult now
tomorrow is a new day
- Poem by Susan Polis Schutz
Tomorrow's A New Day
As we travel the road ahead
Choices will have to be made.
Sometimes they seem so difficult,
And answers just seem to fade.
Sometimes the best that we can do
Is try to let go and move on.
Look for courage, search for strength
And let go of what's already gone.
If our lives weren't complicated
And answers were easy to find,
Then we could look for tomorrow
And leave our troubles behind.
I know there's sun beyond the cloud,
Look closer is what I must do,
Think positive and keep my faith
And God will see me through.
I'll put one foot in front of the other
And take life day by day,
I'll not look back to sorrowed times,
Tomorrow's a brand new day.
Sometimes we do not feel like we want to feel
Sometimes we do not achieve what we want to achieve
Sometimes things that happen do not make sense
Sometimes life leads us in directions that are beyond our control
It is at these times, most of all that we need someone
who will quietly understand us and be there to support us
I want you to know that I am here for you in every way
and remember that though things may be difficult now
tomorrow is a new day
- Poem by Susan Polis Schutz
Tomorrow's A New Day
As we travel the road ahead
Choices will have to be made.
Sometimes they seem so difficult,
And answers just seem to fade.
Sometimes the best that we can do
Is try to let go and move on.
Look for courage, search for strength
And let go of what's already gone.
If our lives weren't complicated
And answers were easy to find,
Then we could look for tomorrow
And leave our troubles behind.
I know there's sun beyond the cloud,
Look closer is what I must do,
Think positive and keep my faith
And God will see me through.
I'll put one foot in front of the other
And take life day by day,
I'll not look back to sorrowed times,
Tomorrow's a brand new day.
Early morning
Tomorrow is gonna be tough. I am going to have to get up at atleast 6:30 in the morning. Some of you might think its not such a big deal, but for me it is. Especially since I get up at 9-9:30 usually. I mean its still midnight at 6:30. arrrggghhh !!
I have to take my grandmother to the hospital to get her eyes checked up. She will have her cataract removed and get a brand new lens in her right eye in jan and this is a preliminary check up.
My aunt is a nurse in a hospital and her hospital is somewhere after ITO… some kadkaddooma place… sounds like a lightening strike ;)
Will be driving there and trying to give the morning traffic a miss...
And oh !! The place preet vihar is just next to this kadkaddooma lightening strike place… and preethi lives there… maybe we will bump into each other… and she is a bit round so I will have to be careful during the bump or I might just get kadkaddoomaed ;)
I have to take my grandmother to the hospital to get her eyes checked up. She will have her cataract removed and get a brand new lens in her right eye in jan and this is a preliminary check up.
My aunt is a nurse in a hospital and her hospital is somewhere after ITO… some kadkaddooma place… sounds like a lightening strike ;)
Will be driving there and trying to give the morning traffic a miss...
And oh !! The place preet vihar is just next to this kadkaddooma lightening strike place… and preethi lives there… maybe we will bump into each other… and she is a bit round so I will have to be careful during the bump or I might just get kadkaddoomaed ;)
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Poetic Resignation
Employee Resignation
The name is good, the brand is big
But the work I do is that of a pig
The work or the brand; what is my way?
I don't know if I should stay.
To work, they have set their own way
Nobody will care to hear what I say
My will be NULL, they wont change their way
I don't know if I should stay.
The project is in a critical stage
But to do good work, this is the age
This dilemma is killing me day by day
I don't know if I should stay.
The money is good, the place is great
But the development is at a very small rate
Should I go for the work, or wait for pay
I don't know if I should stay!
The managers don't know what they talk
The team doesn't know where they walk
That's a bad situation, what say?
I don't know if I should stay.
I can go to any other place
But what if I get the same disgrace
I can't keep switching day by day
I don't know if I should stay.
The -ves are more, the +ves are less
Then why have this unnecessary mess
No more will I walk their way,
It's all done, I won't stay.
Thanks & Regards
Employee
Manager Response
Reply: What I want to say? (Manager)
The decision is good or decision is bad
Only God knows still I am glad
Keep moving in life that is what I can say
If you feel right go in the same way
May god give you the work, the challenge you want
Anyway there is always a second chance
Chances are there, grab them snatch them
That is what I can say
Keep on jumping companies to get more and more and more....
That will keep you always a fore (Even to me)
From my experience I can tell you
Being in software development is like taking hell out of you
You are frustrated since you have no quality work
And you were frustrated because you had quantity work
It's always like that previous job was better than the current one
And expects the new job will be much better than this one
But what you get is a frustration level up to sun
Than you will again send the resignation like this one
This is all what I want to say
Have you completed all the formalities?
Filled the form and got it signed from department humanities (HR)
Once done you can take all your cash
But don't refer others as they will follow you're a*s.
At last I appreciate your contribution to the company
Even though there was not any....
You will keep a copy of this with you for FYI
Don't feel shy
As I also got it some time back from my old manger say Hi....
That is all what I want to say.
Thanks & Regards
Manager
The name is good, the brand is big
But the work I do is that of a pig
The work or the brand; what is my way?
I don't know if I should stay.
To work, they have set their own way
Nobody will care to hear what I say
My will be NULL, they wont change their way
I don't know if I should stay.
The project is in a critical stage
But to do good work, this is the age
This dilemma is killing me day by day
I don't know if I should stay.
The money is good, the place is great
But the development is at a very small rate
Should I go for the work, or wait for pay
I don't know if I should stay!
The managers don't know what they talk
The team doesn't know where they walk
That's a bad situation, what say?
I don't know if I should stay.
I can go to any other place
But what if I get the same disgrace
I can't keep switching day by day
I don't know if I should stay.
The -ves are more, the +ves are less
Then why have this unnecessary mess
No more will I walk their way,
It's all done, I won't stay.
Thanks & Regards
Employee
Manager Response
Reply: What I want to say? (Manager)
The decision is good or decision is bad
Only God knows still I am glad
Keep moving in life that is what I can say
If you feel right go in the same way
May god give you the work, the challenge you want
Anyway there is always a second chance
Chances are there, grab them snatch them
That is what I can say
Keep on jumping companies to get more and more and more....
That will keep you always a fore (Even to me)
From my experience I can tell you
Being in software development is like taking hell out of you
You are frustrated since you have no quality work
And you were frustrated because you had quantity work
It's always like that previous job was better than the current one
And expects the new job will be much better than this one
But what you get is a frustration level up to sun
Than you will again send the resignation like this one
This is all what I want to say
Have you completed all the formalities?
Filled the form and got it signed from department humanities (HR)
Once done you can take all your cash
But don't refer others as they will follow you're a*s.
At last I appreciate your contribution to the company
Even though there was not any....
You will keep a copy of this with you for FYI
Don't feel shy
As I also got it some time back from my old manger say Hi....
That is all what I want to say.
Thanks & Regards
Manager
Fidgety
I guess every company has gone through this phase... and maybe for some this is the norm rather than the exception... but for me... its making me fidgety.
I guess the industry I am in suffers from this a lot more than others...
There has been a prolonged series of resignations from my firm... From my team even (40 in the beginning) as many as 15 people have resigned in the past 3-4 months. And this is the same with other departments… And to make matters worse, these departments are considered to be management. And many of these people were in the organization since the inception and some were as new as 3 days.
All this has shaken me up somewhat…
There have been some nagging issues in the organization with deadlines being missed on a daily basis, with wrong information being circulated, with notional losses being made, with clients raising issues which caused lots of problems…
Many projects were launched to try and rectify the problems but as soon as the project was completed and the members facilitated, nothing was heard from then on…
The people who wanted to do something good, were shunned off and …
Interestingly in one of the workshops which a very very senior manager gave, he mentioned that when you have a pitcher full of different types of pebbles, and there is no more scope left to add any, you need to shake the pitcher. After a good shaking, the lighter ones will come up on top. Then you just take them and throw them away to make the space for the newer brighter marbles.
I guess this is what they are doing right now… and the lighter marbles have been the first ones to leave.
But if you think about it, you shake a can of milk, the cream comes up on top… have we thrown away the cream?
I guess change is always painful and change is inevitable.
I guess the industry I am in suffers from this a lot more than others...
There has been a prolonged series of resignations from my firm... From my team even (40 in the beginning) as many as 15 people have resigned in the past 3-4 months. And this is the same with other departments… And to make matters worse, these departments are considered to be management. And many of these people were in the organization since the inception and some were as new as 3 days.
All this has shaken me up somewhat…
There have been some nagging issues in the organization with deadlines being missed on a daily basis, with wrong information being circulated, with notional losses being made, with clients raising issues which caused lots of problems…
Many projects were launched to try and rectify the problems but as soon as the project was completed and the members facilitated, nothing was heard from then on…
The people who wanted to do something good, were shunned off and …
Interestingly in one of the workshops which a very very senior manager gave, he mentioned that when you have a pitcher full of different types of pebbles, and there is no more scope left to add any, you need to shake the pitcher. After a good shaking, the lighter ones will come up on top. Then you just take them and throw them away to make the space for the newer brighter marbles.
I guess this is what they are doing right now… and the lighter marbles have been the first ones to leave.
But if you think about it, you shake a can of milk, the cream comes up on top… have we thrown away the cream?
I guess change is always painful and change is inevitable.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Love is...
Love is a game
just meant to be played.
Love is a phrase
just overly clichéd.
It's dominated by cheaters,
players, and rule-breakers.
Where three words often said
are lies spoken by fakers.
Love is an emotion
and hormones are the cause.
Love is perfection
that brings out your flaws.
Young ones are swayed
into believing that it's real.
Soon concious of mistakes,
next fear is what you feel.
Love is a wish
desired by so many loners.
Love is a sight
shown off by its owners.
It's a sad pathetic world
when love is only wanted,
for the sake of having it,
and for it to be flaunted.
Love is a drug,
addictive and strong.
Love is a toy.
and you're strung along.
The endings are painful,
yet again you will start,
to end with more lies and tears,
and another cruelly broken heart.
Love is a reason
to be treated like dirt.
Love is an excuse,
an excuse to get hurt.
just meant to be played.
Love is a phrase
just overly clichéd.
It's dominated by cheaters,
players, and rule-breakers.
Where three words often said
are lies spoken by fakers.
Love is an emotion
and hormones are the cause.
Love is perfection
that brings out your flaws.
Young ones are swayed
into believing that it's real.
Soon concious of mistakes,
next fear is what you feel.
Love is a wish
desired by so many loners.
Love is a sight
shown off by its owners.
It's a sad pathetic world
when love is only wanted,
for the sake of having it,
and for it to be flaunted.
Love is a drug,
addictive and strong.
Love is a toy.
and you're strung along.
The endings are painful,
yet again you will start,
to end with more lies and tears,
and another cruelly broken heart.
Love is a reason
to be treated like dirt.
Love is an excuse,
an excuse to get hurt.
Friday, December 02, 2005
Winter cold - It has begun
it’s December 3rd and a nice Saturday morning... but oooh so cold out there...
I personally prefer the not so blistering cold from the ever so scorching heat of Delhi... If you haven’t experienced, either, you are missing something.
When you get up in the morning, there is nothing you can do to get me out of the bed, because it’s warm inside and then the hot cup of tea is simply the best thing in the world... Your own private igloo in the comforts of your home.
And then the fact that I wear glasses. Now I don’t know if I should be pleased or pissed off about this, But it sure creates some interesting situations... The Delhi winter brings along with it a huge amount of fog and at times the visibility is reduced to even 1 or 2 meters. Now if you have to go anywhere like your office, even a 30 minute distance might take hours and that even if there is no traffic.
I remember a couple of years ago, we (my family) decided to celebrate new years at connaught place... This is a prominent landmark in Delhi with lots of shopping, eateries, cinema, parks and fun. Sort of old age version of a modern day mall. Except that it is spread over a huge area (you can spend days in there) and sometimes you get great deals.
There was a popular band playing live there in connaught place and we had decided to have some Ice Cream in the gardens (Ice cream in winters?)... So we thought that 8 pm should be a good starting time... It’s about an hours drive and if we get into bad traffic we will get there latest by ... what ... 10? We will be right on time for some dinner and enjoy the band?
We reached the out skirts of connaught place after midnight and couldn’t go any further cause it was jam packed upto there and you couldn’t go up any further... so we had our party right there on the road.
Then we just turn back and reached home around 3 in the morning...
On the road we tried following the tail lights of the vehicles ahead and had a couple of close calls as well.
Now this winter, the Met office has warned of ground frost in many parts of Punjab and Mariana during the next two nights. In Delhi also, fog and mist has been predicted in the days ahead even as the entire region was in the grip of a severe cold wave. The temperature is 4 degrees below normal...
But the say its gonna warm up after 2-3 days...
Happy winters
I personally prefer the not so blistering cold from the ever so scorching heat of Delhi... If you haven’t experienced, either, you are missing something.
When you get up in the morning, there is nothing you can do to get me out of the bed, because it’s warm inside and then the hot cup of tea is simply the best thing in the world... Your own private igloo in the comforts of your home.
And then the fact that I wear glasses. Now I don’t know if I should be pleased or pissed off about this, But it sure creates some interesting situations... The Delhi winter brings along with it a huge amount of fog and at times the visibility is reduced to even 1 or 2 meters. Now if you have to go anywhere like your office, even a 30 minute distance might take hours and that even if there is no traffic.
I remember a couple of years ago, we (my family) decided to celebrate new years at connaught place... This is a prominent landmark in Delhi with lots of shopping, eateries, cinema, parks and fun. Sort of old age version of a modern day mall. Except that it is spread over a huge area (you can spend days in there) and sometimes you get great deals.
There was a popular band playing live there in connaught place and we had decided to have some Ice Cream in the gardens (Ice cream in winters?)... So we thought that 8 pm should be a good starting time... It’s about an hours drive and if we get into bad traffic we will get there latest by ... what ... 10? We will be right on time for some dinner and enjoy the band?
We reached the out skirts of connaught place after midnight and couldn’t go any further cause it was jam packed upto there and you couldn’t go up any further... so we had our party right there on the road.
Then we just turn back and reached home around 3 in the morning...
On the road we tried following the tail lights of the vehicles ahead and had a couple of close calls as well.
Now this winter, the Met office has warned of ground frost in many parts of Punjab and Mariana during the next two nights. In Delhi also, fog and mist has been predicted in the days ahead even as the entire region was in the grip of a severe cold wave. The temperature is 4 degrees below normal...
But the say its gonna warm up after 2-3 days...
Happy winters
The month gone by
A full month has gone by since I last wrote. And believe me when I say this, either I didn’t have the time, or when I did, I didn’t have a topic to write about. Preethi advised me to take a sabbatical whenever I have a block and just read what others are writing. I guess I took her a bit too seriously.
The whole month has been pretty hectic, with both work and home front being demanding. Had to migrate a server and that happened smoothly. But there was a sudden drop in the system's speed. Now this was strange as the new server was ..... NEW and with faster processors. So we discovered that the server just had 1 GB RAM and so requested the IT to upgrade the RAM. The stupid guy deleted some data. So I had to go dig up the backups.
On home front, 2 of my uncles and their aunties are coming over for Christmas and new years this year. One of them has their 25th anniversary this time so this will be a gala family event.
Then today was the birthday party of one of the colleagues. We smeared the poor guy with all of the cake. He was happy as a peach.
Okes. Cheerios
The whole month has been pretty hectic, with both work and home front being demanding. Had to migrate a server and that happened smoothly. But there was a sudden drop in the system's speed. Now this was strange as the new server was ..... NEW and with faster processors. So we discovered that the server just had 1 GB RAM and so requested the IT to upgrade the RAM. The stupid guy deleted some data. So I had to go dig up the backups.
On home front, 2 of my uncles and their aunties are coming over for Christmas and new years this year. One of them has their 25th anniversary this time so this will be a gala family event.
Then today was the birthday party of one of the colleagues. We smeared the poor guy with all of the cake. He was happy as a peach.
Okes. Cheerios
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